Stone Wall
Defensive - FeudalBase values, before building technologies. Masonry and then Architecture each give buildings "+10% HP, +1/+1 Armor": late in a game, the real numbers are higher.
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"Strong defensive wall made of stone. Available from the Feudal Age, it provides solid protection against most attacks."
Strategic Analysis
Strategic Role
Stone Walls are your primary long-term defense. They are extremely durable and require siege weapons to destroy efficiently. Essential for defensive civilizations.
Key Tactics
Full Stone Wall
Transition from Palisades to Stone Walls in Castle Age for a much more durable defense.
Hybrid Walling
Use Stone Walls for critical sections (gold, Town Center) and Palisades for less important areas.
Tower Support
Combine Stone Walls with Guard Towers for a complete defensive system. Walls protect towers from melee.
Second Layer
Build a second layer of Stone Walls behind your first. If the first falls, the second buys more time.
Warning
Stone Walls consume stone, which is also needed for Castles and Town Centers. Balance your stone usage carefully.
Stats Analysis
Stone Walls have 7 times the HP of Palisades and high armor. They require siege to break efficiently.
Hit Points
1080 HP
Massive HP pool. Takes significant time for most units to destroy.
Melee Armor
8
High melee armor reduces damage from attacking units significantly.
Cost
5 Stone
Stone is valuable. Use strategically rather than walling everything.
Placement Tip
Build Stone Walls at key chokepoints and around your most valuable resources. Save stone for critical walls.
Timing Tip
Start building Stone Walls in Castle Age when you have enough stone income.
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Context & meta
The Stone Wall is a Feudal Age defensive building that costs 5 stone and takes 10 seconds to build. Each segment has 1,080 HP, 8 melee armor, 10 pierce armor, 2 line of sight and no garrison space. The official help describes it as difficult to breach without Siege Weapons, a structure that slows enemies and warns of their approach, and one that enemy Monks cannot convert. Those values make it a time-buying tool rather than an attacking unit: the wall does not kill the army, but it forces the army to spend movement, damage and attention before it reaches the economy behind it.
History & balance
Stone Wall is the durable defensive step after lighter early barriers: the building data makes it available in the Feudal Age, while the official help explains why players keep it as a long-term boundary. It does not need a special attack or garrison to matter. Its 1,080 HP, 8 melee armor and 10 pierce armor change the tempo of a raid, and its no-conversion rule removes a Monk shortcut. Civilization context can change the investment: the Mayan data lists walls at -50% cost, while every civilization still has to choose which resources deserve stone. The wall's history is therefore spatial—chokepoints, layers and warning time—rather than a damage race.
In pro play
Build Stone Walls where they buy a response window: around a key resource, across a choke or between a wall and a defensive building. The 10-second build time makes short sections practical, while the 1,080 HP gives a second layer meaning when the opponent must commit Siege Weapons. Do not spend stone on a decorative full enclosure if the same resource is needed for your next defensive building; protect the critical path first. Use gates and staggered layers so a breach does not open the whole economy at once, and keep units behind the wall ready to punish the siege that appears. A wall is successful when it turns an immediate raid into a visible, delayed problem.
How to counter it
The classic mistake is sending ordinary Infantry to grind through a Stone Wall while the defender gets free warning time. The official help gives the category clearly: Siege Weapons. In practice, Siege Rams and Trebuchets are the direct breach tools because their unit data gives them explicit strength and explicit Building bonuses; Petards specialize in Walls and carry an explicit Wall bonus. Bring an escort. Break one critical section, exploit the opening immediately and do not waste the wave on every segment. If Stone Walls keep delaying your push and you do not know what to build or when, AoE Coach reads your match-up and gives you the counter composition and timing.