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Communes is the unique technology for the Mississippians that is researched in the Castle Age. Once researched, Villagers can be created in Houses.

Strategy
With Communes, rebuilding or relocating a base is simple. A player simply needs to build one or more Houses and start creating Villagers.

Alternatively, a player could build a House right next to a collection of resources and start creating Villagers to that collection. Although they will still need to build a drop-off building, it is much easier and more efficient than sending Villagers from the comparatively-far away Town Center.

For game balance reasons, Villagers take twice to create from Houses than from Town Centers, at 50 seconds instead of 25. However, since Houses are far cheaper than Town Centers, they can be built more easily.

Team bonuses

 * A team containing Berbers: With Kasbah researched, researching Communes is 25% faster.