In the interface of the level three castle, an upgrade command appeared, grayed out.
"Upgrade to a level four royal city to unlock new buildings and units, requiring a population of one million."
Level four royal city!
This was beyond Galen's understanding. In Warcraft, each race's main base only had levels one to three, with level three being the maximum. Now, an upgrade to level four command appeared, catching Galen off guard.
However, this was a good thing. The buildings and units of a level four base would definitely be stronger than the current troops, and Galen eagerly anticipated it.
First, he issued commands to the blacksmith shop and various buildings to research new technologies, especially the animal warfare technology unlocked by the barracks. This was a good way to strengthen the combat capabilities of knights.
Then, Galen went to look at the two newly appeared buildings.
Build Shipyard
Requirements: 1600 units of gold, 800 units of wood
Main naval production building, capable of producing transport ships, battleships, destroyers, and submarines, as well as technology upgrades such as high-energy furnaces, nautical charts, and torpedoes.
Cathedral of Holy Light
Unique
Requirements: 1800 units of gold, 400 units of wood
A place of prayer for Holy Light believers, a land blessed by the Holy Light, where Holy Light Knights can be trained.
Awesome!
As expected of a building that can only be built with a level three castle, the shipyard filled the gap in Galen's navy, and the cathedral could actually train Holy Light Knights. Wouldn't that be paladins?
Thinking of the Silver Hand Knights, so powerful, the elite of the elite, capable of fighting, tanking, and healing, now I, Galen, can have such a powerful knight order in advance!
It's a pity that only one can be built, otherwise, what's the point of barracks? Just build all cathedrals and train Paladins, directly forming the Holy Light Legion of Azeroth and confronting the demons with Holy Light.
The shipyard will be arranged. Both Trollbane Harbor and Southgarde can build shipyards.It just so happens that a group of craftsmen recruited from Southshore have already arrived with ten battleships, so they will be stationed in Trollbane Harbor to build a local shipyard to house them.
Galen plans to place the construction site of the cathedral in Minas Tirith. This holy white city will be Galen's most important city, and he wants to build it into a political and religious center.
After the cathedral is completed, he plans to invite Archbishop Alonsus Faol of the Holy Light to attend the ceremony. He is the greatest figure in the history of the Holy Light Church in Azeroth. This kind old man once formed the Silver Hand Knights, famous in later generations, during the Second Orc War.
Why is he said to be the greatest? Because he surpassed his predecessors, and no one in later generations has surpassed him. His successors have all defected to the Old Gods and become followers of the Twilight's Hammer. That's right, the next Archbishop of the Holy Light will degenerate into a cultist, and so will the one after that.
But at this time, the Holy Light Church, under the leadership of Alonsus, is deeply trusted by the people and will reach its peak in the future Orc War.
The Silver Hand Knights are actually the armed forces of the Holy Light Church. As a member of the Alliance, the Silver Hand also pledges allegiance to King Terenas, the leader of the Alliance.
The purpose of inviting Alonsus is to officially certify that the cathedral in Minas Tirith is the general diocese of the Holy Light Church in the Arathi Highlands, and at the same time establish Aragorn as the bishop of this diocese.
In exchange, Galen can reveal some information about the Paladin profession to the Archbishop. I believe the Archbishop is already thinking about how to integrate the two professions of warrior and priest.
Galen plans to reap a wave of prestige from the Holy Light believers.
Now that the development direction of Minas Tirith has been decided, this emerging city located in the southeast of the Arathi Highlands needs to be planned.
Galen built the cathedral in the very center of the third ring of the city. The third ring area was originally the farmland area. When the fourth ring area is built in the future, the third ring area will be the buffer area between the Origin system buildings and the local residents.
The gryphon cage and workshop in the second ring area were demolished by Galen. These two buildings are no longer suitable for training combat units here.
Now, the remaining system buildings in Minas Tirith, in addition to a large number of defensive arrow towers, farms, and arcane vaults, also include a castle, two town halls, a cathedral of the Holy Light under construction, four barracks, and four newly planned arcane temples dedicated to training priests.
With the gryphon cage removed, gryphons can now be trained. This building is essential and was rebuilt by Galen in the city.
The city currently has two barracks, two new arcane temples, a total of four to train wizards. There are also two gryphon cages to produce gryphons. Two workshops, one producing new unit steam tanks, and one producing mortars and shells.
Hamerfall in the northeast is a food production base. The planned 50,000 immigrants have all arrived, and here, in addition to a town hall, there are only a few thousand farms. Currently, food has begun to be processed into goods such as wine and flour for trade, earning Galen a lot of gold coins.
The stronghold in the east of Hammerfall is one of Galen's military bases, with two barracks and two workshops specializing in the production of aircraft.
The farms here, in addition to supplying the garrison, also feed a large number of kobolds. Their number has increased to 10,000, and with them mining, the farmers of this city have also been liberated.
After Witherbark Village was renovated, the rebuilt Isengard on the ruins was half the size of Witherbark Village. Galen rebuilt the city walls and farms near the mine.
After the trolls surrendered, Galen took the troll prisoners back again and placed them in the mines of Isengard to mine. This operation directly left Thoras speechless. You were the one who gave me the prisoners, and you were the one who wanted the prisoners back. You reaped the reputation, you got the Duke title, so you ate your fill, while the king got nothing?
So shameless, he has the potential to be a politician.
The troll women and children who were relocated before were also resettled in Isengard to do some logging work. In the evening, all the trolls were arranged by Galen's multi-talented and multi-functional farmers to teach them Common and the history of the trolls.
In the future, when fighting trolls again, all captured prisoners will be sent to Isengard to undergo a new type of ideological transformation, hoping that they can regain the glory of the ancient times and fight for Azeroth.
Trolls are very good combat troops, strong and with strong recovery abilities. Galen hopes that in the future he can have a troll army under his command.
In order to guard the trolls, Galen specially built double barracks here. Since the reconstruction, more than 6,000 soldiers have been trained and stationed here.
The above is all of Galen's forces in the Arathi Highlands. He also has four newly built branch bases, all on the coastline on the east side of the continent.
Trollbane Harbor, the easternmost side of the Arathi Highlands, has a large number of farms, ten blacksmith shops producing weapons and equipment, a town hall, two workshops producing aircraft, two gryphon cages training gryphons, and a shipyard under construction.
This is a military base and food production base, a weapons and equipment arsenal, a multi-functional port town, mainly used for export trade.
Cloudsdale, northeast of Northshire, has a town hall, a barracks training musketeers. Galen is already trying to contact the goblins of Booty Bay, wanting to get from them the technology and equipment to extract Azeroth crude oil. There are rich offshore oil fields around Cloudsdale. It would be a pity not to exploit them.
Thoras Harbor (Menethil Harbor) is located on the West side of the Northshire Highlands, at the mouth of the Thandol River. This is also an open city. In addition to farms, there is only a town hall and two barracks. The others are ordinary residences and planned shops.
Southgarde is located in the southeast sea area of Northshire, built on a small island, mainly used as a sea fortress, radiating the southern area of Northshire, with two barracks, two arcane temples training mages, and a shipyard under construction.
Currently, of the base's 100,000 population, farmers and soldiers each account for about half. There are more than 50,000 farmers, including more than 5,000 pixies.
There are more than 40,000 soldiers. A dozen barracks are not training soldiers in full sequence. The main reason is that resources have not kept up. Also, after the blacksmith shop researches the three attack and three defense technologies, replacing equipment for too many soldiers is a lot of money. Otherwise, the population could have exceeded 100,000 a month earlier.
In addition to the garrison and the already established Scarlet Flame Legion, Silver Legion, and Tidefury Legion, there are three more legions of troops waiting for Galen to establish a designation. Galen is still waiting for Omar and the others to successfully complete their training, and there have been no recent battles, so there is no rush.
Now, he is just waiting for the construction of the Cathedral of Holy Light and the shipyard to be completed. Galen wants to see what powerful units these two new buildings can provide him.
Currently, Galen's forces have taken shape. What remains is the accumulation of time. The human soldiers under his command will continue to grow.