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This article is about the building in Age of Empires III. For the building in Age of Mythology, see Longhouse (Age of Mythology). |
In-game Iroquois Longhouse
A Longhouse is a unique Iroquois building in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs. It gives +15 more population, can research technologies, and can gain the ability to shoot enemies with a weak attack if a special Home City card is sent, unlike the normal Houses which it replaces.
Overview
The Iroquois 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 shoot after a card shipment, but the Chinese Village can spawn sentries and irregulars with use of a card and train livestock, while the Longhouse can only research Arsenal or utility technology. An other difference, when the cards have been sent, between those two is that the Chinese 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 Iroquois Longhouse has a build limit of fourteen. It costs more 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 player can ship some Travois from the Tribal Council or age-up (the Iroquois' travois can build every building for free, the Iroquois receive free travois every age-up). It can also be summoned from the Fire Pit.
The Earth Ceremony Dance can help to expand the population room a little bit without longhouses, but it is not enough to room a lot of units.
Technology
The Longhouse can research some technology. At the begging, the player can research Woodland Dwellers, but can also research handful arsenal upgrades if the card New Ways is sent.
- Woodland Dwellers: (250
, 250 
) delivers huge braces of 500 wood for every ten minutes of game time, up to 30 minutes.
- Infantry Breastplate: (200 , 200) increases the hit points of ranged and hand archaic infantry by +10%. This technology is only available at the Longhouse if the card New Ways is sent.
- Counter-infantry Rifling: (200 , 200) light ranged infantry gains +1 damage bonus against heavy infantry. This technology is only available at the Longhouse if the card New Ways is sent.
- Ranged Cavalry Caracole: (200 , 300) increases attack and range for ranged cavalry units by +10%. This technology is only available at the Longhouse if the card New Ways is sent.
- Cavalry Cuirass: (100 , 300 ) increases hit points for hand cavalry units by +10%. This technology is only available at the Longhouse if the card New Ways is sent.
- Heated Shot: (150 , 150 ) increases the damage inflicted to warships by 50% for artillery units and ×0.5 more damage for defensive buildings. This technology is only available at the Longhouse if the card New Ways is sent.
Upgrades
- Improved buildings: available at the Tribal Council after the level 10 is reached and can be sent in the Discovery Age. All the longhouses get +40% hit points.
- Town Dance: available only at the Fire Pit, increases the hit points of the buildings according to the number of villagers dancing the Fire Pit. If you task more villagers to dance, more hit points will acquire your buildings and they wiil be more harder to raze. For the Iroquois, the Town Dance must be unlocked at the Tribal Council after the Colonial Age is reached.
- Flying Buttress: when allied with a Jesuit Mission settlement, you have the chance to research this technology at a price of 250 and 250 , increasing the hit points of the buildings by +20%.
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. | ” |