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).

Longhouse
Building information
Introduced in	The WarChiefs
Type	Civilian
Civilization	Iroquois
Age	Discovery Age
Population	15
Use	Provides population
Construction
Wood	125
Max. builders	8
Build limit	14
Statistics
Hit points	1,800
Line of Sight	12
XP build bounty	25
XP bounty	50
Ranged attack
Damage	10
Range	12
Rate of Fire	3.0
Notes
Ranged attack only available with the War Houses Home City Card

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

The Longhouse is a civilian building in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that is unique to the Iroquois and replaces the House. It supports more population than Houses, but costs more and has a lower build limit.

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 shorter range and higher damage with Town Dance.

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.

Technologies

Age	Technology	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	Melee infantry and archers get +10% hit points; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Counter Infantry Rifling		Forest Prowlers, Cherokee Riflemen, Cree Trackers, Klamath Riflemen, and Navajo Riflemen get +1.0x multiplier against heavy infantry; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Cavalry Cuirass	100 wood 300 coin	Heavy cavalry gets +10% hit points; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Ranged Cavalry Caracole	200 food 300 wood	Light cavalry gets +10% attack, +2 LOS and +2 range; requires New Ways Home City Card
	Heated Shot	150 food 150 wood	Artillery and defensive buildings get +1.5x multiplier against ships; requires New Ways Home City Card

Further statistics

As Longhouses are unique to the Iroquois, only technologies that they have access to are shown in the following tables:

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing (short-ranged units with War Houses Home City Card)
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Attack	Heated Shot (+1.5x multiplier vs. ships)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)

Home City Cards

As Longhouses are unique to the Iroquois, only their cards and other civilizations' TEAM cards are shown in the following tables:

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 HC level TEAM Fast-building Houses House, Manor, Longhouse, Shrine, and Village build time -90% 1 Chinese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Provincial Administration Houses and Longhouses get +50% hit points; Villages, Shrines, and Manors get +33% hit points; all of them supports +10 population 1 Indians Card Description Age HC level TEAM Improved Buildings Buildings get +25% hit points 10 Iroquois Card Description Age HC level New Ways Provides Longhouses with the Infantry Breastplate, Counter Infantry Rifling, Cavalry Cuirass, Ranged Cavalry Caracole, and Heated Shot technologies 10 War Houses Longhouses get a ranged attack 1 Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 Old Ways Big Button technologies cost -50% 40

History

“

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.

”

Gallery

In-game Iroquois Longhouse

A Longhouse before the Industrial Age