Hunters

3 levels, each replacing the one before it: you upgrade in place rather than building alongside.

Hunting Grounds (Rural) → Fur Market (Rural) → Wild Animals Supply (Rural)

Levels at a glance

	Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to		Level	Cost	Build time	Minimum settlement	Upgrades to
	Hunting Grounds (Rural)	800	2	town	Fur Market (Rural)		Fur Market (Rural)	3,500	3	large town	Wild Animals Supply (Rural)
	Wild Animals Supply (Rural)	10,000	5	city	—

Costs in denarii, build time in turns.

Hunting Grounds (Rural)

The wild whispers, but only hunters hear. A place for those who pursue prey and the thrill of the chase.

Hunting, an art so ancient it’s practically prehistoric, older than farms, fences, and possibly even fire, if you believe the old tales.

Long before crops were sown, wild game filled the pots of those brave enough to chase it down. While most city folk now prefer the plough to the spear, there remain those who take to the woods, honouring their ancestors’ ways with each quarry they bring back.

Bringing the wilderness straight to your dinner table, for a price!

For the Romans, it’s a tribute to Diana, the huntress; for the Greeks, it’s under Artemis’s watchful gaze.

Out here, the deer don’t just leap; they bound to escape hungry hunters! The thrill of the chase, the reverent silence (or boisterous shouts), it’s the wild calling, and only a true hunter answers.

The religions of the barbarians were generally more nature-oriented, as they hunted far more than their 'civilised' neighbours. It is possible that the Celtic god Cernunnos, the 'horned god', was connected to the practice, as he shared many traits with other pagan hunting deities.


Cost	800 denarii	Build time	2 turns	Minimum settlement	town	Upgrades to	Fur Market (Rural)

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

The region has Wild Animals
Only one rural industry building allowed
Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

Show 2 effects that apply only in some circumstances

+1 trade income, only when you play a Roman, Iranian, Egyptian, Western Hellenistic, Eastern Hellenistic, Indian, Phoenician, Anatolian (other than Paphlagonia) or Greek (other than Greek City States) faction, or Paeonia, Bithynia, Cabyle, Odrysian Kingdom, Kush, Timbuktu, Armenia, Armenia Minor, Colchians, Iberians, Sophene, Commagene, Carmo, Asta, Arse or Chorasmia
+1 population growth, only when you do not play a Roman, Iranian, Egyptian, Western Hellenistic, Eastern Hellenistic, Indian, Phoenician, Anatolian (other than Paphlagonia) or Greek (other than Greek City States) faction, nor Paeonia, Bithynia, Cabyle, Odrysian Kingdom, Kush, Timbuktu, Armenia, Armenia Minor, Colchians, Iberians, Sophene, Commagene, Carmo, Asta, Arse or Chorasmia

Fur Market (Rural)

Pelts, bargains, and a wild tale (or ten). A lively place where wit and pelts are worth their weight in coin.

Trading fur is both profitable and entertaining; a marketplace where the pelts are almost as prized as the tales that come with them.

Here, merchants haggle over wolf hides and hares, spinning stories that make the simplest hunt sound like a Herculean labour. Soldiers stock up for warmth, citizens for fashion, and the merchants laugh all the way to the coin purse.

From sleek fox pelts to shaggy wolf hides, and from warm cloaks to outrageous hats, every fur has its value, and a price only the clever can negotiate.


Cost	3,500 denarii	Build time	3 turns	Minimum settlement	large town	Upgrades to	Wild Animals Supply (Rural)

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

The region has Wild Animals
Government Building (Dependency, Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

+2 trade income
+1 public order (happiness)

Wild Animals Supply (Rural)

Pelts, bargains, and a wild tale (or ten). A lively place where wit and pelts are worth their weight in coin.

Trading furs and other pelts is both profitable and entertaining; a marketplace where the pelts are almost as prized as the tales that come with them.

From sleek fox pelts to shaggy wolf hides and exotic panther skins, and from warm cloaks to outrageous hats, every fur has its value, and a price only the clever can negotiate.


Cost	10,000 denarii	Build time	5 turns	Minimum settlement	city

Requirements: all of these must hold before this level can be built.

Forum or a higher level is built here
The region has Wild Animals
No Wild Animals Supply (Rural) is built anywhere in your empire
Any Government except Dependency (Indirect Rule, Direct Rule or Homeland)

What it does

+3 trade income
+2 public order (happiness)

Show 1 effect that apply only in some circumstances

(Faction) Additional happiness bonus for arena's (tier 3-4)(can stack with slave trade bonus), only when you play a Roman faction

Traits and retinue

Retinue

Member	Building	Chance	Member	Building	Chance	Member	Building	Chance	Member	Building	Chance
Beastmaster	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	1%	Carpenter	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	2%	Hunting Dog	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	3%	Master Hunter	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	2%
Priest of Abnoba	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priest of Anahita	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priest of Aram	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priest of Leipoxais	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%
Priestess of Artemis	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priestess of Bast	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priestess of Bendis	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priestess of Diana	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%
Priestess of Holle	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priestess of Neith	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%	Priestess of Trebaruna	Hunting Grounds (Rural) or above	7%