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Research · Defense

Curtain Walls

A second ring behind the first — raises troop defense further.

Entity ID
curtain_walls
Branch
Defense
Stat buffed
defense — Defense
Bonus per level
+1.2%
Maximum level
8
Bonus at maximum level
+9.6%
Power per level
82
Power at maximum level
656
Base study time
35 seconds
Study time at maximum level
9m 58s
Prerequisites
Portcullis at level 5

Cost, time and bonus at every level

Curtain Walls runs to level 8, adding +1.2% to defense and 82 power each time. Studying it out costs the four soft resources — the same amount of each — and takes 9m 58s for the final level alone. Gems are only ever the optional instant finish; the study itself is bought with what your fields already make.

Curtain Walls: what each level costs and what it grants.
LevelTotal defensePowerStudy timeEach resourceGems to finish
1+1.2%8235s3,00050
2+2.4%16453s4,20070
3+3.6%2461m 19s5,88098
4+4.8%3281m 58s8,220137
5+6%4102m 57s11,520192
8+9.6%6569m 58s31,620527

Taken from nothing to level 8 that is 28m 45s of raw study and 103,140 of each of food, wood, stone and iron — 412,560 resources in total.

Where it sits in the tree

Curtain Walls belongs to the Defense branch — the walls line — what an attacker has to get through before they reach your granary. It stays locked until Portcullis reaches level 5. Studying it opens 1 further tech.

Techs gated behind Curtain Walls.
TechBranchRequires this tech at level
GatehousesDefense5

The road here: Weaponry to level 3 → Armor to level 8 → Fortification to level 5 → Stonework to level 5 → Battlements to level 5 → Portcullis to level 5 → Curtain Walls. That is 6 studies standing between a fresh Academy and this one.

What Curtain Walls costs before its own first level: the prerequisite chain, at the levels it demands.
PrerequisiteLevel requiredEach resourceStudy time
Weaponry313,08012m 40s
Armor8103,1402h 11m
Fortification532,82035m 10s
Stonework532,8206m 36s
Battlements532,8207m 42s
Portcullis532,8207m 42s
Total before you may begin247,5003h 21m

What it eventually opens: 1 study sits downstream of Curtain Walls, counting every remove.

Everything gated behind Curtain Walls, directly or at a remove.
StudySteps outBuffsAt its capStudy time at cap
Gatehouses1defense+9.6%11m 23s

Guide: Research & the Academy · Research Priorities. Studied at the Maester's Academy. Index: all 66 studies · the whole database.

Rest of the Defense branch: Fortification · Siege Craft · Palisades · Stonework · Watchtowers · Moat Works · Battlements · Portcullis · Barbicans · Gatehouses · Counter-Siege · Murder Holes · Arrow Slits · Siege Engineering

Every figure above is generated from the shipped game code — the same constants and formulas the running game uses — and regenerated whenever the balance changes. Nothing on this page is hand-typed.

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