Masonic Lodge is a type of building in Napoleon: Total War.
Description[]
A lodge improves the happiness of all and increases the chance that a spy will be created.
A Masonic lodge is an ideal meeting place for like-minded people to discuss many important and secret matters. Although primarily for the upper and middle classes, a Masonic lodge does improve the happiness of the lower classes. Perhaps they are pleased that their betters are too busy to be regularly horsewhipping them for impudence...
The first Grand Lodge of the Freemasons was established in England in 1717, when four lodges came together at the Goose and Gridiron Ale House in St Paul's churchyard. Just a few years later in 1723 James Anderson wrote 'The Constitutions of the Free-masons', and laid out the rules by which the fraternity would be governed. In this document he traced the history of "the craft" all the way back to the Old Testament. Whatever its origins, Masonry spread across Europe with some rapidity during the Age of the Enlightenment, prompting warnings from the Catholic Church and suspicion from both revolutionaries and arch-conservatives.
General Information[]
Requires Dialectics, Secret Society, 2,000 gold, and 9 turns.
The Peninsular Campaign[]
In The Peninsular Campaign, masonic lodges require 1,000 gold and 8 turns to build.