Manor (Age of Empires III)

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

Manor House
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III
Type	Civilian
Civilization	British
Age	Exploration Age
Population	10
Use	Provides population Train Settlers (with "Estates" Home City Card)
Special ability	Spawns a Settler (Longbowman with The Logistician Commerce Age politician) when built Heals injured friendly units (5 hit points per second, 12 AOE) (with "Florence Nightingale" Home City Card)
Construction
Wood	135
Max. builders	8
Build time	20 seconds
Build limit	20
Statistics
Hit points	1,200
Line of Sight	12
XP build bounty	27
XP bounty	81
Notes
Cannot be deleted

“	More expensive than a normal House. Supports 10 population.	”
—In-game description

The Manor, also known as Manor House, is a civilian building in Age of Empires III that replaces the House for the British. It is similar in function to Houses, but are 35 wood more expensive and spawn a Settler when built. Manors cannot be deleted; this is likely to prevent spawning extra Settlers by deleting and rebuilding the Manor repeatedly.

Manors have continually been a part of British strategy due to the extra Settlers that they spawn, in excess of those trained by the Town Center. This gives the British a strong economic advantage in the mid-game until the opponent can establish multiple Town Centers.

The "Florence Nightingale" Home City Card gives Manors the ability to slowly heal friendly units in an AOE of 12 around it at a rate of 5 hit points per second, similar to Field Hospitals but weaker.

In the Definitive Edition, choosing The Logistician to advance into the Commerce Age make Manors spawn a Longbowman instead of Settler when built.

Units

Age	Unit	Cost	Pop.	Limit
	Settler	100 food	1	99
	Revolutionary*			∞

• Units with an asterisk (*) are added in The WarChiefs.
• The Settler can only be trained from Manors with the "Estates" Home City Card.
• The Revolutionary replaces the Settler for a revolting British player, except if they revolted to Canada or South Africa (in the Definitive Edition).

Further statistics

As Manors are unique to the British, only technologies that have access to are shown in the following table:

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
Improvements
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%)
Sight	Gas Lighting (+4)
Construction cost	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25% wood) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)

Home City Cards

As Manors are unique to the British, 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 Manor

Green: TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team British Card Description Age HC level Florence Nightingale Manors slowly heal nearby friendly units 40 Improved Buildings Buildings get +40% hit points 10 TEAM Fast-building Houses House, Manor, Longhouse, Village, Shrine, Torp, Kancha House, and Hut build time -90% 1 Virginia Company Manors cost -35% 10 Estates Manors become Estates which can train Settlers, but Settler train time +100% 10 Chinese Card Description Age HC level TEAM Provincial Administration Houses, Longhouses, and Huts get +50% hit points; Manors, Villages, Shrines, Torps, and Kancha Houses 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

Changelog

Age of Empires III

• Manors have a destroy bounty of 54 XP.

Definitive Edition

• Manors now have a destroy bounty of 81 XP.
• The Logistician introduced.

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 in Texas and Mexico. Often the house style reflected the cultural heritage of the people who settled in the land. Of course, Native Americans also had a wide variety of housing, including the tipis of the Plains tribes and the wattle-and- daub houses of the Cherokee.

”