Community Plaza

Community Plaza
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Type	Special
Civilization	Native Americans
Age	Exploration Age
Use	Perform ceremonies which provide special bonuses when Villagers (and Warrior Priests/Priestesses for the Aztecs/Incas) are tasked to the Community Plaza
Construction
Wood	100
Max. builders	10
Build time	20 seconds
Build limit	1
Statistics
Hit points	1,500
Line of Sight	12
Max. gatherers	25
XP build bounty	20
XP bounty	40

“	Task Villagers on the Community Plaza to perform powerful ceremonies.	”
—In-game description

The Community Plaza (Fire Pit before the Definitive Edition) is a special building in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Native American civilizations (Aztecs, Haudenosaunee, Incas, and Lakota). It grants a choice of "ceremonies" which provides special bonuses when Villagers are tasked to the Community Plaza, which can hold up to 25 units; the more units tasked to the Community Plaza, the more powerful the ceremony becomes. The percentage-based ceremonies use the final amount as base, instead of the unimproved amount, which means that the ceremonies are much more powerful than they would otherwise be in later Ages.

The Aztec Warrior Priest and Inca Priestess can be tasked to the Community Plaza, where it is counted as 2 and 1.5 units respectively. This makes the Aztec and Inca ceremonies have superior bonuses than others.

Ceremonies

Age	Ceremony	Effect	Civ.
	Fertility Ceremony	Increases unit train rate	All
	Gift Ceremony	Trickles XP
	War Chief Ceremony	Increases War Chief hit points and returns him to the Community Plaza when collapsed
	Alarm Ceremony	Spawns Warriors
	Water Ceremony	Increases all ships' hit points and attack; requires Water Ceremony Home City Card	All except Lakota
	Founder Ceremony	Spawns Travois	Haudenosaunee
	Holy Ceremony	Spawns Healers (Warrior Priests for the Aztecs; Priestesses for the Incas)	All
	War Ceremony	Increases all units' melee and ranged attack
	Town Ceremony	Increases all buildings' hit points and attack; requires Town Ceremony Home City Card	All except Incas
	Healing Ceremony	Units regenerate hit points while idle	Aztecs
	Earth Mother Ceremony	Increases population	Haudenosaunee
	Moon Ceremony	Trickles wood	Incas
	Fire Ceremony	Increases all units' siege attack	Lakota
	Garland War Ceremony	Spawns Skull Knights	Aztecs
	Supay Ceremony	Spawns Macemen	Incas
	Tokala Ceremony	Spawns Tokala Soldiers	Lakota

Technologies

Age	Technologies	Cost	Effect	Civ.
	Founder	50 food, 50 wood, 50 coin	The Aztec War Chief's aura triples XP bounty from nearby units' kills	Aztecs
	Secret Society	200 wood, 100 coin	The Haudenosaunee War Chief can use Heal	Haudenosaunee
	Royal Festival	300 food, 400 wood, 500 coin	Ships 2 Macemen immediately, and ships 1 Maceman for every 4 minutes of the game time, up to 30 minutes	Incas
	Battle Anger	300 wood, 600 coin	The Lakota War Chief gets +9.0x multiplier against artillery	Lakota

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Community Plaza

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team French Card Description Age HC level TEAM Cheap Church Church and Mosque costs -80% and their improvements (except unique ones) cost less; Field Hospitals cost -50%; Monastery costs -30%; Community Plaza are free 10 Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Native Americans Card Description Age HC level Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Town Ceremony Town Ceremony available at the Community Plaza 10 Old Ways Big Button improvements cost -50% 40 Water Ceremony Water Ceremony available at the Community Plaza 1 The Improved Buildings card is available at a level 1 Home City for the Lakota. The Water Ceremony card is not available to the Lakota.

Changelog

The WarChiefs

• The building is called Fire Pit.
• The Fire Pit's in-game description is "Task Villagers on the Fire Pit to perform powerful dances."

Definitive Edition

• The building is called Community Plaza.
• The Community Plaza's in-game description is "Task Villagers on the Community Plaza to perform powerful ceremony." With update 9476, the Community Plaza's in-game description is "Task Villagers on the Community Plaza to perform powerful ceremonies."

History

The WarChiefs

“

For the aboriginal peoples of North and Central America, spirituality encompassed all the routines of daily life. Worship was not something that happened according to some arbitrary schedule. Hunting, cooking, meeting - all of life's activities had spiritual and ceremonial significance. Long before recorded history, Native peoples have celebrated the mysteries of life, death, and the universe through the medium of dance. Many complex dance ceremonies emerged over the centuries, each with their own meaning and purpose. The ceremonial dance served as a way to unite people to face the day's challenges, while at the same time linking with the honored traditions of generations past.

”

Definitive Edition

“

Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have inhabited North America, Mesoamerica, and South America. When European settlers first arrived in the Americas, there were an estimated ten million Native inhabitants in North America alone, speaking more than 300 different languages. Some were nomadic like the Lakota who followed the bison across the Great Plains. Others were sedentary like the Haudenosaunee of the Northeast Woodlands who, along with the Aztec (Mexico) and Inca (Peru), built permanent settlements and grew staple crops. One thing that the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas shared was a strong sense of community—working together and sharing natural resources. The Community Plaza is a symbolic representation of these interdependent communities of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.

”

Gallery

The WarChiefs Fire Pit in-game

An in-game Aztec Fire Pit in The WarChiefs