Best Military Buildings In CK3

Summary

Camelry Advanced Breeders offer niche bonuses, boosting cavalry and economy.
Stables Stud Farm enhances cavalry with boosts to toughness, damage, and movement speed.
Warrior Lodge Visitors Quarters and Permanent Barracks provide infantry and levy boosts.

Crusader Kings 3 from Paradox Development Studios is the hit sequel to the long-running Crusader Kings 2. Shipping with a massive array of different customization options for characters, realm titles, religions, and cultures, Crusader Kings 3 offers players a phenomenal level of choice in how to build their very own medieval dynasty - including how to develop their realm.

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By Ewan Selmes

But choosing just which buildings to build in CK3 can be a difficult task as there are many, and they all do great things. Some are wholly economic, others offer bonuses to realm management, but the buildings many players are really interested in are the military buildings. Here are the best buildings to construct for a military-focused ruler.

Each military building below lists a few select stats that players may find useful.

1 Camelry Advanced Breeders

Niche But Great Bonuses

+425 Levies
+0.6 Monthly Tax
+120% Camel Cavalry Toughness
+160% Camel Cavalry Damage

The Camelry building chain is only available to a select few cultures, but these niche buildings offer some very nice bonuses - and not all of them are military.

The final level of the Camelry, the Advanced Breeders, offers players a +0.6 to Monthly Tax, and +20% Hostile Raid Time, along with a wide range of bonuses to cavalry Damage, Pursuit, Toughness, and Screen. Although niche, camelry buildings are worth it for their bonuses to both horse and camel cavalry as well as their economic bonuses.

2 Stables Stud Farm

Excellent Boosts For Horsemen

+120% Light Cavalry, HeavyCavalry Toughness
+80% Light Cavalry, Heavy Cavalry Damage
+8% Army Movement Speed

The Stables building chain is a great choice for cavalry-focused cultures as it includes some really good bonuses to cavalry, such as a +8% increase to Army Movement Speed.

But as well as the more utility-focused bonuses it offers fantastic boosts to Toughness, as well as great boosts to Pursuit and Damage too. And it reduces the costs of holding a Grand Tournament, which is pretty nice, especially if players enjoy hosting those sorts of events.

3 Warrior Lodge Visitors Quarters

Fantastic Military Building

+80% Heavy Infantry Damage
+20 Man At Arms Pursuit
+625 Levies

The Visitors Quarters upgrade to the Warrior Lodge offers a slew of great bonuses to Heavy Infantry, Spearmen, and Skirmisher Toughness and Damage.

But it doesn't stop there as it also grants a +625 to Levies, and -8 Danger. A great choice to build and upgrade for those who can afford it, as it's only able to be constructed in certain mountainous or hilly parts of the map.

4 Permanent Barracks

Bigger Barracks, Better Bonuses

+30% Levy Reinforcement Rate
+4% Levy Size
-8 Danger

The Permanent Barracks upgrade for the Barracks building is a fantastic choice of military building, offering massive +160% boosts to Heavy Infantry and Spearmen damage. But it also offers a great +4% bonus to Levy Size, along with a +30% boost to Levy Reinforcement Rate. The Permanent Barracks is well worth paying for.

5 Cast Iron Blacksmith

Mixed Economic & Offensive Building

+32% Holding Taxes
+45% Levy Reinforcement Rate

The Cast Iron upgrade to the basic blacksmith building is a fantastic choice of building for players who want a little something extra from their military buildings.

Not only does it offer bonuses to damage and toughness, but the Cast Iron Blacksmith grants a massive +32% bonus to Holding Taxes. It boosts the Levy Reinforcement Rate by +45% and increases the quality of sponsored Inspirations.

6 Levying Squares

Best Militia Camps Upgrade

+625 Levies
+25% Control Growth
-6.4% Man At Arms Maintenance

Levying Squares offer major bonuses over the base form of the building, including a whopping +625 to Levies, +25% Control Growth, and -6.4% to Man At Arms Maintenance. All this is on top of the bonuses to Archer and Skirmisher Damage and Toughness. This is a great building well worth upgrading to the maximum level.

7 Fortified Outposts

The Best Defense is A Really Fort

+0.1 Monthly Control
+15% Monthly Control Growth
+5% Garrison Size
+16 Defender Advantage

Fortified Outposts is the final level of the Outpost building chain, and it offers some fantastic bonuses for players who invest the effort into building. +0.1 Monthly Control, +15% Monthly Control Growth, +5% Garrison size, and a massive +16 to Defender Advantage.

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Fortified Outposts don't offer much in terms of increased damage to Man At Arms regiments, nor does it offer boosts to income, but its realm management boosts and the massive bonus to Defender Advantage make it well worth the gold.

8 Expanded Grounds

Major Upgrade to Regimental Grounds

+1000 Supply Limit
+1025 Levies
-1% Army Gold Maintenance

An upgrade to the Regimental Grounds building, the Expanded Grounds offer huge bonuses to players willing to shell out the gold for them. A +1000 bonus to Supply Limit, +2% to Levy size, along with -7.2% Man At Arms Maintenance.

The Expanded Grounds is a strong offensive building offering many great boosts that apply generally rather than to specific troop types.

9 Powderhouses

Excellent Bonuses For Bowmen

+1.7 Monthly Tax
+20% cultural fascination progress
+0.4 Stationed Man At Arms Siege Progress

This military building is an excellent choice for players wishing to power up their bowmen and provide nice boosts to various types of Man-At-Arms damage. This building is a great all-rounder, with a boost to tax income, archer maintenance, and even a boost to stationed Man-At-Arms damage for archers and skirmishers.

10 Wind Furnaces Iron Ore Processing

Indian Exclusive, But Very Good Bonuses

+2.6 Monthly Tax
+160% Stationed Man At Arms Damage
Increased quality of sponsored Armor and Weapon Inspirations

Wind Furnaces are a powerful blacksmith variant available to cultures from Deccan India. These buildings can be constructed only in certain provinces or if the ruler shares a realm with the owner of Vemulavada, but offers powerful bonuses.

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The final upgrade to the Wind Furnaces, Iron Ore Processing, grants increased monthly tax income as well as a strong bonus to stationed Men At Arms damage and toughness, making them an easy pick for any ruler who can build them.

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