For other uses of the term, see Arsenal.
The Arsenal is a type of artillery chain building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
The sword must be kept sharp, the powder dry.
An arsenal allows the training of artillery units. An arsenal is a store and manufacturing centre for all manner of large weapons and stores needed by a modern army. It was in the middle of the 19th Century that the great arms makers of Europe really industrialised the business of making and selling guns. The great arsenals at places like Woolwich in England continued to be important, but it was the engineering works of men like William Armstrong and Alfred Krupp that revolutionised the building of guns. In 1847 Alfred Krupp of Essen, Germany, made his first cast steel gun. Four years later, he was exhibiting weapons at the Great Exhibition in London. The French, as is so often the case with new technology, had been masters of artillery for years; their Gribeauval system of standardised barrels and carriages had contributed to the success of French artillery a hundred years earlier. It had also helped Napoleon Bonaparte nearly conquer the whole of Europe.
General Information[]
Requires 10,000 koku, 8 turns, Artillery Academy, Modern Army technology, iron resource.
- Recruitment capacity (units in training): +1
- -2 to happiness from modernisation
- Enables Wooden Cannons, Parrott Guns, Armstrong Guns, and Gatling Guns
Clan Effects:
- +3 to modernisation (clan development)
Arsenals unlock gatling guns, alongside all other artillery. Arsenals are rarely worth the time and expense required to build them: they unlock only gatling guns, which are less effective than other types of artillery, and their happiness penalty means that more money is needed to keep regions they are built in happy.
Unlike the other final-tier recruitment buildings, the Legendary Dojo and Army War College, arsenals are not limited to one building per faction and they can be built as many times as funds allow. They are considered military buildings, and therefore benefit from events that reduce the construction times and costs of upgrading them.