Houses spawning rifleman - Economic or defensive building?

[witCat]

With Tubman completed houses will spawn rifleman which means it should now classified as a defensive building. Any views?

 

[King Crimson]

I think it will stay an economic building - it just so happens to span troops if it's destroyed. If a troop (eg: saboteur) walks past the house on the way to a tower, the house won't attack that troop.

 

[sponge]

I think it will stay an economic building - it just so happens to span troops if it's destroyed. If a troop (eg: saboteur) walks past the house on the way to a tower, the house won't attack that troop.

Yeah, no. That's not how it works. Houses spawn riflemen just like garrisons spawn infantry.

 

[Cannibals]

Similar to Command Post then ... another resource building that spawns troops?

 

[SomeRandomPlayer]

Economic. This question came up during the release (on twitch) and was answered by developers.

 

[King Crimson]

But a house wasn’t originally designed to spawn troops, yes?
A Garrison is designed to ‘activate’ when it senses troops - a house isn’t.

 

[sponge]

It doesn’t matter what it was designed to do. Once you research Conductor, houses spawn defenders just like other defender producing buildings. And they activate when troops are nearby. Infiltrators do trigger them. They don’t spawn anything when destroyed.

 

[King Crimson]

I see. I thought it spawns when destroyed - like so many other buildings.

 

[Ask97]

Just like Farms which remain economic though they can spawn troops with Kremlin.

 

[Wicked Lord]

Does anybody know for sure whether these defenders are nation specific or not?

 

[sponge]

Just like Farms which remain economic though they can spawn troops with Kremlin.

Not really, farms with Kremlin spawn defenders once, when destroyed, like factories, barracks, armory, etc., houses spawn defenders continuously just like garrisons or tank depots.

 

[sponge]

I will in about 2 months lol.

 

[witCat]

sponge you are correct in saying that Kremlin, factories etc spawns houses when destroyed, however, houses spawn continuously like garrisons and infiltrators or any other troop do trigger the spawning, in my opinion ‘Houses’ should be considered a defensive building.

 

[Ask97]

Not really, farms with Kremlin spawn defenders once, when destroyed, like factories, barracks, armory, etc., houses spawn defenders continuously just like garrisons or tank depots.

Good point.

 

[Tomik]

Does anybody know when finishing Thurman research the houses will spawn riflemen till they are destroyed or do they spawn them just once? From my point of view if they are spawned once, could stay like command posts if they spawn riflemen continuously should be military building.