Game systems

Founder Ceremony

Founder Ceremony is an Exploration Age Haudenosaunee Community Plaza option that spawns free Travoises. It can continue until the train limit of ten is reached, turning Villager time at the Plaza into mobile construction capacity.

APPLIES TO The WarChiefs; also in Definitive Edition
Founder Ceremony in Age of Empires III
Founder Ceremony
IN-GAME VALUES

Recorded values

Effect
Produces Travoises for mobile construction
Production rate
1 Travois every 13 sec with 25 Villagers assigned
Train limit
10 Travoises

Effect & access

With 25 Villagers working at the Community Plaza, the ceremony produces one Travois every 13 seconds. The Travoises can move to a legal building site and establish structures away from the main settlement, but they need protection while traveling. The ceremony does not directly produce combat units or gather resources.

When to perform it

Choose Founder when an early forward building, expansion or defensive position will support the Haudenosaunee plan. Use the maximum workforce if the goal is to reach the Travois quickly, then send them to a site the army can protect. Stop at the ten-unit limit and switch Plaza focus when additional construction wagons are not needed.

Convert Plaza time into forward construction

Founder Ceremony is most valuable when the player already knows what the Travoises will build. A new production site can shorten reinforcement routes, while an economic building can extend a protected base. At 25 Plaza workers, each Travois arrives every 13 seconds, so a sustained ceremony can quickly reach the ten-unit cap. Escort the wagons through contested territory and avoid creating more than the economy can place and defend.