Lord of Ultima: Crossbowman Military City Layouts

I have two crossbowman military city variants. Please note that I favour crossbowman over guardians due to their mobility for two reasons:

1. Mobility allows you to redeploy defense rapidly, and that can be the difference in stopping a plunder or saving a city.
2. For times of peace, crossbowman farm dungeons a lot better.

The first variant is a defense configuration for a contested continent. Here is the Defense Crossbowman Military City Layout which you can see in the LoU Flash City Planner.

Max Units: 35,000 crossbowman

Recruitment Speed: 8s

Storage: 2,175,000 wood/food, 575,000 stone/iron

Food Deficit: 14,583 per hour (need to restock every 6.21 days)

As you can see, it is designed for maximum troop strength and reasonable recruiting speed. Being on a contested continent, this is not castled of course. Only your offensive cities are castled.

Thus, there is no food production, ship it in via the trade minister.

I have kept the design simple, without deviation from the conventional military city layout in the middle. This allows for easy conversion to the farming configuration once the continent is conquered.

For towers, I use:

• Lookout Tower x2 to give 20 hours of attack advanced warning. I find 1 tower/10 hours is not enough.
• Ranger Tower x 22, given I do not use guardians.

The second variant is a farming configuration for a controlled continent. Here is the Farm Crossbowman Military City Layout which you can see in the LoU Flash City Planner.

Max Units: 88,000 crossbowman

Recruitment Speed: 3s

Storage: 2,975,000 wood/stone/iron/food

Food Deficit: 36,667 per hour (need to restock every 3.38 days)

Shipping Capacity: 4000 carts

Given this is for a controlled continent (off water), the city is castled to maximize troop strength. You lose out on a lot of troop strength if not castled.

There is no food production needed as you will have surplus food from dungeon raids. If there are no dungeon raids for whatever reason, ship in food via the trade minister.

There is a good amount of storage but not too much, as you will be shipping out the surplus with the trade minister anyhow.

There are a lot of marketplaces as shipping capacity is key:

• You will be farming resources at a high rate, and need to be able to ship it to your warehouses/new cities.
• Rapid shipping to palaces will be needed once palace building gets to higher levels.

The moonstone tower is there if you need some resource purification.

For towers, I would use:

• Lookout Tower x2 to give 20 hours of attack advanced warning. I find 1 tower/10 hours is not enough.
• Ballista Tower x22 as the most risk is someone catapulting your city.

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