Industrial Iron Mining Complex is a resource building in Napoleon: Total War.
Description[]
Mining on an industrial scale significantly increases the wealth of a region but at the price of unhappiness in the lower classes.
Mining is only part of the process of extracting wealth from the ground. On the surface the ore must be processed and smelted. Because iron production is easier, a mining complex also makes the recruitment of all land units a good deal cheaper.
For a mine owner to make as much money as possible from his investment, the ore has to have every scrap of usable metal taken out of it. This meant that a large number of processes had to be carried out on an industrial scale: the ore had to be washed, sorted by hand to extract worthless spoil, then crushed, and finally smelted and ingots cast. All of these tasks required a large number of workers, and women and children did some of the lighter work while their men laboured in the mine. Even away from the shafts, the work was dangerous and deaths and injuries were not uncommon. It was unhealthy work too: dust was ever-present and the fumes from smelting works were often poisonous. Pouring molten metal with little care for safety killed men in all kinds of horrible ways.
General Information[]
The Industrial Iron Mining Complex provides the greatest cost reduction to training troops. Unlike its predecessors, it also grants a global cost reduction bonus, though it is very minimal.
The Peninsular Campaign[]
In The Peninsular Campaign, industrial iron mining complexes require 3,000 gold and 8 turns to build.