Covered Wagon

In the game's words

How to use it

Covered Wagons construct Town Centers. Each wagon is capable of building one Town Center. Sent from the Home City after reaching the Fortress Age, the Covered Wagon has a good line of sight and a lot of hitpoints, but is slow and cannot fight. Some maps may even start all players with a Covered Wagon, but no Town Center. Covered Wagons are useful when expanding a colony. Sending one or more allows Town Centers to be built across a given territory, spreading out control, or to strongly defend a single area.

History

Covered wagons were so full of food and other supplies that settlers who traveled west could rarely expect to travel inside them. These wagons were so uncomfortable and bumpy that more than a few settlers were happy to walk. The ride could be so bumpy that a butter churn filled with milk at the beginning of the day would have produced butter by the end of the day. Covered wagons traveled about two miles per hour. Until steam-powered trains could reach the frontier, the West was won very slowly.

From the game's History encyclopedia (Special).

Trains and researches

Every unit and technology the game lists at this building; each civilization sees only its own.

Town Center

Home City cards that ship it

2 Covered Wagons2×2 Town Center Travois2×2 Town Rickshaws +1 Villager2×1 Covered Wagon1×1 Covered Wagon +3 Uhlans1×1 Town Center Builder1×Hausa Kingdom1×Huanka Support1×Missouri River Expeditions1×Oneida Support1×Resettlements1×TEAM Conestoga Wagons1×TEAM Louisiana Purchase1×TEAM Nuevo México Territory1×Town Rickshaw1×Town Rickshaw +1 Villager1×Town Rickshaw +5 Villagers1×

Cards and technologies that change it

Land Reformsbuilding rate +50%

Land Reformsbuilding rate +50%

Cree Textile CraftsmanshipWagon: Wood cost −10%, Coin cost −10%, Food cost −10%

French AlliesWagon: gathering Mill rate +5%

Inuit SledsWagon: speed +20%

Oregon TrailWagon: hit points +25%, speed +25%, Wood cost −25%, Coin cost −25%, Food cost −25%

Tupi Forest BurningWagon: Wood cost −20%

WanderlustWagon: speed +5%

Ignatian SpiritualityUnit Class: hit points +5%

AcupunctureUnit: train time −25%

Cult of the Supreme BeingUnit: XP for building +10%, XP for kills −10%

Feudal ArmiesUnit: train time −15%

Gadaa SystemUnit: hit points +5%, damage +5%

Golden LibertyUnit: Coin cost −5%

Mapuche Ad-mapuUnit: Coin cost −10%

Tar KilnsUnit: hit points +5%

TEAM Shivaji's TacticsUnit: damage +5%, hit points +5%

Torii GatesUnit: XP for building +60%

Torii GatesUnit: XP for building +60%

Torii GatesUnit: XP for building +60%

Torii GatesUnit: XP for building +60%

WampumUnit: XP for building +35%, train time −20%

Western ReformsUnit: damage +8%, hit points +8%

Winter CountsUnit: XP for building +40%

End RelationsEconomic Unit: line of sight −7

Ottoman AlliesEconomic Unit: line of sight +7

TEAM Spanish InquisitionEconomic Unit: line of sight +10

Town WatchEconomic Unit: line of sight +3