This mod adds the ability to build coastal turrets freely on land, complete with new ground decals textures.

Take some potshots at those pesky ships from the safety of your island, fortify strategic choke-points, and control pirates more effectively! Which islands you choose to settle now has additional depth—even a small, strategically-located island can become a thorn in your enemies' sides, with a few well-placed turrets disrupting their crucial trade routes and harassing their fleets.

This mod also reintroduces an unused Big Betty (now named the Big Belinha) to the New World session. These new land defenses can be found in their corresponding unlock population tiers, as well as in the City construction category.

The cost and stats of the land turrets is identical to the coastal turrets, but to compensate for the increased placement flexibility, the influence cost has been slightly rounded up—Gun Towers now cost 5 influence, Cannon Towers 10, and Big Bettys 20. Conversely, these turrets also contribute no morale, just to ensure avoid cheesing the system with turrets that ships can't reach.

GU16 Update: Thanks Jakob, Hier0nimus, Hackner, and shane868 for updating these mods due to my busy schedule! This update includes new translations as well.


List of Land Turrets

• Old World - Gun Tower, Cannon Tower, Big Betty
• New World - Gun Tower, Cannon Tower, Big Belinha
• Enbesa - Gun Tower, Cannon Tower
  

Building Info

• Gun Tower - 3200 Base Hit Points, 72 Tiles Base Range, 23 Base Damage
• Cannon Tower - 4800 Base Hit Points, 50 Projectile Reload Time, 95 Tiles Base Range, 150 Base Damage
• Big Betty - 7000 Base Hit Points, 150 Projectile Reload Time, 108 Tiles Base Range, 850 Base Damage
  

Installation

• You will need the anno1800-mod-loader installed, or at least an alternative version.
• Place into your mods folder.
• If you are experiencing issues with the graphics not appearing, place the moddinggraphics folder inside the Anno 1800\data folder.
  

Notes

Ships can still attack your turrets if they are in range of their guns.

The range of the guns is the same no matter where you place them.

These turrets should be affected by similar influence bonuses as the normal coastal turrets.

This mod should be savegame-safe, and if you remove it the buildings should just disappear.

There is a slight unfixable clipping for the ground decal under the Big Betty on rougher terrain, but it is mostly unnoticeable during normal gameplay.

I did not add land versions of the Arctic turrets, since there is so little gameplay in the region and the islands are so far apart.

Thanks to Jimbom14 and blitz_buggy_two for playtesting this mod, and also thanks to MAUG for the original concept, which was used as an inspiration for this mod.

Enjoy!