Longhouse (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires III. For the building in Age of Mythology, see Longhouse (Age of Mythology).

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“	Iroquois Longhouse. Supports 15 population.	”
—In-game description

The Longhouse is a unique Iroquois version of Houses in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs.

Overview

The Longhouse costs more and has a lower build limit (14) than Houses, but less than the British Manor, costing just 125 wood. But the feature that makes it easier to build up Longhouses without spending much resources is that the Iroquois have Travois which can construct most buildings for free. The Longhouse can research certain Arsenal improvements with the New Ways Home City card and gains the ability to shoot enemies with a weak attack with the War Houses card.

The Longhouse is quite useful to the Iroquois to expand their economy and military quite quickly, due their ability to hold more population, and is also an option to wall a small town with only Longhouses and the card that gives to them the ranged attack, although they deal low damage. It shares a lot of similarities with the Chinese Village, in that it can attack with the War Houses card, but the Village can spawn sentries and Irregulars (with Village Defenses card) and train livestock, while the Longhouse can only research Arsenal improvements. An other difference, when the cards have been sent, between those two is that the Village can garrison villagers, and it only shoots if villagers have been garrisoned, like the Town Center, as opposed to the Longhouse, which can always shoot, but has a much weaker maximum attack.

The Earth Mother Dance can help to expand the population room a little bit without Longhouses, but it is not enough to room a lot of units.

Improvements

Age	Improvement	Cost	Effect
	Woodland Dwellers	250 food 250 coin	Ships 500 wood for every 10 minutes the game has passed, up to 30 minutes
	Infantry Breastplate	200 wood 200 coin	Tomahawks and Aennas get +10% hit points; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Counter Infantry Rifling	200 wood 200 coin	Forest Prowlers, Cherokee Riflemen, Cree Trackers, Klamath Riflemen and Navajo Riflemen get +0.75x multiplier against Template:Icon heavy infantry; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Cavalry Cuirass	100 wood 300 coin	Kanya Horsemen get +10% hit points; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Ranged Cavalry Caracole	200 food 300 wood	Musket Riders get +10% attack, +2 LOS and +2 range; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Heated Shot	150 food 150 wood	Light Cannons and defensive buildings get +50% anti-ship attack and +1.5x multiplier against Template:Icon ships; requires New Ways Home City Card

Home City Cards

As the Longhouse is exclusive to the Iroquois, only other civilizations' TEAM cards that affects them are listed here.

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Longhouse

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team British Card Description Age Home City level TEAM Fast-building Houses House, Manor, Longhouse, Shrine and Village build time -90% 1 Iroquois Card Description Age Home City level New Ways Provides Longhouses with the Infantry Breastplate, Counter Infantry Rifling, Cavalry Cuirass, Ranged Cavalry Caracole and Heated Shot improvements 10 War Houses Longhouses get a ranged attack 1 Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Old Ways Big Button improvements cost -50% 40

History

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Houses in the New World displayed varying styles, from the Cape-style houses of New England to the claim shanties in the West to the ranch houses of Texas and Mexico. Often the house style reflected the cultural heritage of the people who settled the land. The Iroquois of the Northeastern forests lived in longhouses. These communal dwellings had frame structures covered with elm bark and averaged about 60 feet long and 18 feet wide.

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Gallery

In-game Iroquois Longhouse

A Longhouse before the Industrial Age