For other uses of the term, see Military Academy.
The Military Academy is a type of modern military chain building in Fall of the Samurai.
Description[]
Good breeding is a start, but thought is also useful.
A military academy allows the recruitment of modern units in a province. Modern warfare is a highly technical business, and an officer needs far more than good breeding and a samurai ancestry to get the best from his men, although those do help of course.
Western armies were, haltingly, in the process of making their officer classes into professionals rather than the sons of gentry and the aristocracy. Not all great generals appreciated the benefits of military academy education: Robert E. Lee, the greatest general of the American Civil War, is reported to have said his military education was the worst mistake of his life. It was also possible to send the sons of titled gentry to an academy and leave them utterly immune to any intellectual process. Indeed, the British staff college at Camberley was so poorly regarded that it had only a handful of pupils in the 1850s. Certainly, the backgrounds (and mixed performances) of British commanders during the latter years of Victoria's reign suggest that social class and connections were far more use in a successful career than an excess of thinking. Academies were nice to have, but that didn't mean commanders had to attend them.
General Information[]
Requires 6500 gold, 6 turns, and Modern Rifles art. Can be upgraded to Army War College.
- Recruitment capacity (units in training): +1
- -2 to happiness from modernisation
- Enables Vermilion Bird Force, Black Bear Infantry, White Bear Infantry, Yugekitai, Carbine Cavalry, Shogunate Infantry, Imperial Infantry, Republican Infantry
- Spawns Garrison Infantry (3) in defense of province capital
Clan Effects
- +3 to modernisation (clan development)
The game erroneously states that military academies can only be built in Kyoto; however, they can be built anywhere with a barracks.
Military academies unlock Yugekitai for the Jozai, superior skirmishing units. They also one of the requirements for unlocking carbine cavalry, though these units require additional research before they really become available. Most importantly, military academies unlock Shogunate/Imperial/Republican Infantry, which are the best unlimited line infantry for all factions. Military academies are considered military buildings, and therefore benefit from events that reduce the construction times and costs of upgrading them.