Cobbled Roads are a type of road in Napoleon: Total War.
Description[]
These well-built roads, surfaced with stone, are able to carry much heavy traffic, including military forces.
Making a cobbled road is an incredibly laborious business. Each small paving stone must be shaped, placed and mortared into position. If done properly, the road also requires foundations, a carefully judged camber to carry away rainwater, and drainage. The end result is a fine road that is extremely durable, but not very comfortable: cobbles can be hellishly bumpy!
In practice the expense of cobbling a road, and the attractive finish that cobbles produced, meant that the surface was only used where the nobility or propertied classes were likely to see or use it. The great and the good could hardly be expected to wallow along in the mud and horse dung like common folk! The poor did, however, find a use for cobbles: lifted from the road, they were a perfect fist-sized lump of rock for hurling at the unpopular representatives of law and order. In his later years, the Duke of Wellington, by then the British Prime Minister, was not called the "Iron Duke" for his military qualities, but thanks to his carriage's iron shutters, there to protect him from the many rocks that were chucked in his direction!
General Information[]
Cobbled Roads double the town wealth growth provided by basic roads, but at three times the cost. The town wealth bonus is still worth it in the long run, but in terms of pure wealth creation cobbled roads are not nearly as potent. Still, the combination of the better movement range and extra replenishment rate can prove crucial or at least helpful. Like other roads, cobbled roads cannot be destroyed or damaged.
Like all roads, cobbled roads are a double-edged sword when it comes to movement: while they allow the player's armies to reach destinations more quickly, the same goes for hostile armies, allowing them to attack deeper into friendly territory.
Pays for self after 43-56 turns, depending on tax rate.
The Peninsular Campaign[]
In The Peninsular Campaign, cobbled roads require 750 gold and 6 turns to build.