City Wall

The first thing an attacker meets. There are three of them — the City Gate, the Western City Wall and the Eastern City Wall — and they count as one defender between them, so raising any of the three strengthens the whole.

Each levelA higher wall holds more troops, and holding more troops is what makes it hit harder. What raises the wall troops themselves is quality, not level: the upgrades that cost Blueprints put them a tier up, the same way Guardsmen climb.

They fight like a unit of their own — 11 base initiative, and counters against every troop trait there is: flying, melee, ranged and mounted — but they never leave home. And they can be walked straight past: an enemy coming through one of your portals on the Kingdom Map ignores the walls entirely and meets your army, or an empty city.