Renaissance Walls are an advanced defensive building in Civilization VI. They are built in the City Center and require Medieval Walls (or one of their replacements).
- Effects:
- +100 Outer Defense Strength
- +3
Combat Strength (total of +9 Combat Strength from previous Walls) - Becomes obsolete with Steel, which automatically builds defenses in every city.
- Cannot be purchased with Gold.
- +1 Housing (with Monarchy, total of +3 Housing from previous Walls)
- +3 Tourism (with Conservation, total of +6 Tourism from previous Walls)
- +2 Science with Military Research policy card
- +2 Diplomatic Favor (with Monarchy)
Strategy[]
Renaissance Walls are the last upgrade stage of pre-modern defenses in Civilization VI. They represent the elaborate defense systems which Renaissance engineers were forced to devise when gunpowder started to invade the battlefield, and the hitting power of modern weapons became too much for simple walls to withstand.
Renaissance Walls can withstand serious sieges from gunpowder-armed units, such as the Musketman (even when accompanied by siege equipment), for some time, but the Bombard will quickly wear them down. If you see an army with this type of unit, do your utmost to prevent them from using it!
As of the Summer 2017 Update, Renaissance Walls provide 
Tourism and have no maintenance cost.
Civilopedia entry[]
When cannon came to combat, those old, high, straight city walls didn’t stand up very well. Thanks to the unrelenting warfare in Italy during the Renaissance, military engineers there devised the “star fort” (more properly, the trace italienne) in the mid-15th Century AD. The design of a star fortress is evident from any sketch: a flat, low- and thick- and slope-walled structure composed of many triangular bastions, so positioned as to provide covering fire for each other, all surrounded by a glacis to deflect cannonballs and a ditch to deter infantry. Star forts were used by Michelangelo in his defensive designs for Florence, and later the concepts were refined by the engineer Peruzzi (for Siena) and by the author Scamozzi. Against the oft-invading French and Hapsburgs, Italian cities soon dispensed with traditional fortifications and surrounded their cities with star forts. The efficacious design spread out of Italy in the 1530s and 1540s to become the standard across Europe by the time of the great military engineer Vauban.
See also[]
- (Renaissance) Walls in other games
