| “ | Trains healers, provides town improvements and trickles XP. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
The Meeting House is an economic building in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition that is unique to the United States and is available once the Commerce Age is reached. It functions identically to European Churches, but trains Surgeons instead of Priests.
Units[]
| Age | Unit | Cost | Pop. | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 Surgeon
|
300 coin | 1 | ∞ |
 Spy
|
125 coin | 2 |
Technologies[]
| Age | Technology | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
|
 Medical Science
|
200 food 200 wood |
Imams, Priests, Healers, Missionaries, Surgeons, and Warrior Priests get +35% hit points and +15% speed; Field Hospitals get +15% hit points and are built 15% faster |
 Town Watch
|
150 food | All units get +3 Line of Sight | |
 Gas Lighting
|
75 food | All buildings get +4 LOS | |
 Bill of Rights
|
750 coin | Ships 500 XP for every 10 minutes of the game time (up to 30 minutes) | |
 Pennsylvania Pound
|
Free | Gives a trickle of 2.5 coin/sec. but coin gather rate -10%; requires the "Philadelphia Convention" Federal Home City Card | |
 1st Pennsylvania Rifles
|
625 food | Ships 5 Sharpshooters; requires the "Philadelphia Convention" Federal Home City Card | |
 Pennsylvania Cavalry
|
625 food | Ships 5 Carbine Cavalry; requires the "Philadelphia Convention" Federal Home City Card | |
 |
 Redoubts
|
400 wood 600 coin |
Walls get +200% hit points and -20% cost, but increases Wall build time by 40% |
 |
 Standing Army
|
350 coin | Infantry train time -25% |
 Mass Cavalry
|
750 coin | Cavalry train time -35% |
Further statistics[]
| 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 (-10%) Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood)
|
Home City Cards[]
- Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Meeting House
| Some cards are highlighted with: | |
| Green | TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team |
French[]
| Card | Description | Age | HC level |
|---|---|---|---|
 TEAM Louvre
|
Gives a trickle of 0.1 XP; Town Watch, Gas Lighting, Standing Army, Mass Cavalry, Medical Science, and Mission Fervor cost -50%; Kebra Nagast, Book of Axum, and Solomonic Dynasty cost -10% |  |
10 |
Indians[]
| Card | Description | Age | HC level |
|---|---|---|---|
 TEAM Improved Buildings
|
Buildings get +25% hit points | |
10 |
Federal[]
| Card | Description | State |
|---|---|---|
 Philadelphia Convention:
|
Ships 1 Meeting House Wagon and Pennsylvania Pound, 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, and Pennsylvania Cavalry available at the Meeting House |
Pennsylvania |
Trivia[]
- The sign in front of the Meeting House reads "Wololo", the conversion sound that Priests chant in the original Age of Empires.
- Meeting houses are the official houses of worship in the Quaker religion.
- The Industrial/Imperial Age Meeting House is based on the Old South Meeting House in Boston.
History[]
| “ | Many of North America's European settlers were groups fleeing religious or political persecution in their European homelands. Particularly in New England, the meeting houses that they constructed initially often filled a dual role as places of worship and centers of administrative function. However, the philosophical Enlightenment greatly changed the relationship between secular and non-secular affairs, with many influential figures advocating for a full separation of Church and State. While certain fanatical religious organizations resisted this initiative, the majority of America accepted it and it became a foundational tenet of the young nation. | ” |
Gallery[]
Meeting House image from the Compendium section
An in-game Meeting House in the Commerce/Fortress Age
An in-game Meeting House in the Industrial/Imperial Age
See also[]
- Church – European and Ethiopian equivalent
- Mosque – Ottoman and Hausa equivalent
- Cathedral – Mexican equivalent
- Basilica – Italian equivalent
