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
Ship 16 Minutemen; when destroyed by enemies, your buildings spawn a number of Minutemen equal to 1.5% of their cost rounded up
"The Alamo" is available to the United States upon selecting the TexasFederal State and Mexicans upon revolting to Texas, and spawns 2 Minutemen when a House is destroyed.
Indian Houses cost 70 wood and have 1,000 hit points.
Trivia[]
There are four additional architectural variations of the House which correspond to the compass rose: House West (British, Dutch, and French), House Mediterranean (Ottomans, Portuguese, and Spanish), and House East (Germans, Russians, and Swedes).
Indian Houses were originally supposed to be able to heal friendly units similar to BritishManor Houses with the Florence NightingaleHome City Card, although this was never implemented. However, Indian Houses with this capability can be found in the Scenario Editor.
History[]
Europeans[]
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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 in Texas and Mexico. Often the house style reflected the cultural heritage of the people who settled 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.
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Aztecs[]
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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.
For life in their relatively dry climate, the Aztec built their homes as simple structures made from adobe (a mixture of water and dirt), with a thatched roof.
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Gallery[]
An in-game European Houses in the Discovery Age
An in-game Western European Houses in the Industrial/Imperial Age
An in-game Northern European Houses in the Colonial/Fortress Age
Southern European Houses in the Colonial/Fortress Age and below in the Industrial/Imperial Age
An in-game Indian Houses in the Exploration Age
An in-game Indian House in the Industrial/Imperial Age
Unused Indian House portrait
Aztec House image from the Compendium section
An in-game Aztec Houses in the Exploration Age in the Definitive Edition. The model is also used by Maya Houses after sending the Jungle Villages Home City Card
An in-game Aztec Houses in the Commerce/Fortress Age in the Definitive Edition
An in-game Aztec Houses in the Industrial/Imperial Age in the Definitive Edition