The City Wall (named Tall Wall in The Age of Kings) is an unconstructable wall in Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. City Walls are only available in campaign scenarios and in the Scenario Editor.
Campaign appearances[]
Genghis Khan[]
- The Promise: A Keep in the center of the map is defended by walls containing two city walls. (Stone Walls before the Definitive Edition)
Vlad Dracula[]
- The Night Falls: Poenari Castle is surrounded by City Walls in the northern corner, and a single City Wall is in the Wallachian town.
Francisco de Almeida[]
- The Old World: The city of Toro is partially defended by City Walls in the north. There are also City Wall sections located around the map.
Pachacuti[]
- Like Father, Like Son: City Walls make up the outer segment of the water cisterns, with normal walls as corner pieces.
Battles of the Forgotten[]
- York: A Wessex Castle along the southern English coast and Mercia's Cathedral are protected by City Walls.
Edward Longshanks[]
- Of Castles and Kings: Llewelyn's city in western regions of Gwynedd is protected by City Walls and City Gates.
The Grand Dukes of the West[]
- The Wolf and the Lion: Jean de Bourbon's base has a few segments of City Wall in the otherwise normal Wall surrounding his Castle.
- Unholy Marriage: Otherwise normal wall of Namur has in its southern section City Walls as corner pieces.
Algirdas and Kestutis[]
- No Man's Land: A couple corner pieces of the Teutonic Order's wall at the eastern river crossing are made of City Walls.
- A Worthy Opponent: City Walls make up a portion of the wall around Vladimir Monument. Kremlin Fortress' wall has City Walls as its internal layer of wall.
Jan Zizka[]
- The Golden City: The enemy Fortress to the south of Prague overlooking the Vistula is surrounded by City Walls and City Gates.
- Warrior of God: The Fortress south of Prague is again surrounded by City Walls and City Gates.
Thoros II[]
- Caught in the Crossfire: Simon de Raban's fort is fortified with City Walls.
Trivia[]
- City Walls use the same sprites as Fortified Walls looked like in the Central European architecture set from the 1998 pre-release builds for the original game.
- Originally, City Walls were inaccessible without modding in the standard versions of Age of Empires II, or without already having a Scenario Editor map file which contained these objects and could be copy-pasted to new maps. The Forgotten added the City Wall to the Scenario Editor buildings list, and the Definitive Edition added City Gates, which were previously absent.
Gallery[]
City Walls and City Gates in the Definitive Edition.
A City Wall in the original game.
The City Wall resembles the West European Guard Tower (the one on the left).
