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Overview

Egyptians

Economy

For beginners: Approachable

Strengths

Armed Slaves have a low resource cost and short base training time.
Temple Guardians provide strong infantry defense per unit.
Waterworks can improve annexed oasis bonuses after its prerequisites are met.

Weaknesses

Low-cost troops still consume crop.
The starting unit has little attack power.
Waterworks is a developed-village investment, not a free starting bonus.

Romans

Balanced

For beginners: Intermediate

Strengths

Parallel resource-field and village-building construction helps develop infrastructure.
Specialist infantry and several cavalry options allow a varied army.
The City Wall and Horse Drinking Trough offer distinct development paths.

Weaknesses

Parallel queues require enough resources to keep both productive.
Heavy cavalry costs substantial resources and crop.
A varied roster can tempt you to fund too many plans at once.

Teutons

Offense

For beginners: Demanding

Strengths

Clubswingers offer inexpensive attack power and short base training.
Spearmen provide an infantry answer to cavalry threats.
Large merchant loads support bulk transfers.

Weaknesses

Clubswingers have particularly weak defense against cavalry.
Merchant journeys are slower than those of the other six tribes.
An offensive opening needs attention, information and replacement resources.

Military

Highlights show the best of the selected tribes. Lower is better for cost per attack point; higher is better for the other summary rows. Equal values share the highlight.

Bars use the maximum across all seven tribes, even when only two are selected. Cost efficiency uses the inverse ratio (best cost ÷ cost).

Military	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Highest attack per combat unit	Royal Chariot 110	Equites Caesaris 180Best	Teutonic Knight 150
Highest average defense per combat unit	Royal Chariot 135Best	Equites Caesaris 92.5	Paladin 70
Fastest combat unit	Chariot 15Best	Equites Imperatoris 14	Paladin 10
Largest combat-unit carry	Royal Chariot 70	Equites Imperatoris 100	Paladin 110Best
Lowest resource cost per attack point	Egyptian Fighter 14	Imperian 8.57	Clubswinger 6.25Best

How to read the data

Summary records exclude scouts, siege and expansion units. Average defense is (infantry defense + cavalry defense) ÷ 2. Role representatives below are derived from the roster: highest anti-cavalry defense among infantry, highest attack among cavalry, and highest average defense among cavalry. One unit can appear in more than one role; this does not imply a special bonus.

Strengths at a glance

EgyptiansRomansTeutons

Attack = highest combat-unit attack; defense = highest combat-unit average defense; speed = fastest combat unit; logistics = merchant capacity × merchant speed. These four axes are percentages of the seven-tribe maximum. *Beginner friendliness is an editorial 1–5 rating, scaled to 100; it is not an engine stat. The table provides the same values in text.

Axis	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	47.8	78.3Best	65.2
Defense	100Best	68.5	51.9
Speed	78.9Best	73.7	52.6
Logistics	66.7Best	44.4	66.7Best
Beginner friendliness*	80Best	60	40

Role-by-role comparison

In the role tables, lower resource cost, upkeep and training time are highlighted; higher attack, defenses, speed and carry are highlighted.

Starting infantry

Egyptians

Armed Slave

Romans

Legionnaire

Teutons

Clubswinger

Starting infantry	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	10	40Best	40Best
Defense vs infantry	30	35Best	20
Defense vs cavalry	20	50Best	5
Speed (tiles/h)	7Best	6	7Best
Carry	20	50	60Best
Total resource cost	165Best	400	250
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	640Best	1,600	720

Best anti-cavalry infantry available

Egyptians

Temple Guardian

Romans

Legionnaire

Teutons

Spearman

Best anti-cavalry infantry available	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	25	40Best	10
Defense vs infantry	110Best	35	35
Defense vs cavalry	80Best	50	60
Speed (tiles/h)	6	6	7Best
Carry	35	50Best	40
Total resource cost	650	400	340Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	1,760	1,600	1,120Best

Espionage

Egyptians

Horse Scout

Romans

Equites Legati

Teutons

Scout

Espionage	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	0Best	0Best	0Best
Defense vs infantry	20Best	20Best	10
Defense vs cavalry	10Best	10Best	5
Speed (tiles/h)	16Best	16Best	9
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	380	360Best	360Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	2	2	1Best
Base training (seconds)	1,360	1,360	1,120Best

Offensive cavalry

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Teutons

Teutonic Knight

Offensive cavalry	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	110	180Best	150
Defense vs infantry	120Best	80	50
Defense vs cavalry	150Best	105	75
Speed (tiles/h)	10Best	10Best	9
Carry	70	70	80Best
Total resource cost	1,800	2,170	1,525Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	3Best	4	3Best
Base training (seconds)	3,120	3,520	2,960Best

Defensive cavalry

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Teutons

Paladin

Defensive cavalry	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	110	180Best	55
Defense vs infantry	120Best	80	100
Defense vs cavalry	150Best	105	40
Speed (tiles/h)	10Best	10Best	10Best
Carry	70	70	110Best
Total resource cost	1,800	2,170	1,005Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	3	4	2Best
Base training (seconds)	3,120	3,520	2,400Best

Ram

Egyptians

Ram

Romans

Battering Ram

Teutons

Ram

Ram	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	55	60	65Best
Defense vs infantry	30Best	30Best	30Best
Defense vs cavalry	95Best	75	80
Speed (tiles/h)	4Best	4Best	4Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	1,990	1,830	1,720Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Base training (seconds)	4,800	4,600	4,200Best

Catapult

Egyptians

Catapult

Romans

Fire Catapult

Teutons

Catapult

Catapult	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	65	75Best	50
Defense vs infantry	55	60Best	60Best
Defense vs cavalry	10Best	10Best	10Best
Speed (tiles/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	3,250	2,990	2,760Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	6Best	6Best	6Best
Base training (seconds)	9,000Best	9,000Best	9,000Best

Chief

Egyptians

Nomarch

Romans

Senator

Teutons

Chief

Chief	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	40	50Best	40
Defense vs infantry	50	40	60Best
Defense vs cavalry	50Best	30	40
Speed (tiles/h)	4	5Best	5Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	160,000	140,450	114,300Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	4Best	5	4Best
Base training (seconds)	90,700	90,700	70,500Best

Settler

Egyptians

Egyptian Settler

Romans

Settler

Teutons

Settler

Settler	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Attack	0	0	10Best
Defense vs infantry	80Best	80Best	80Best
Defense vs cavalry	80Best	80Best	80Best
Speed (tiles/h)	5Best	5Best	5Best
Carry	3,000Best	3,000Best	3,000Best
Total resource cost	21,000Best	23,800	25,000
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	24,800Best	26,900	31,000

Economy & special mechanics

Economy & special mechanics	Egyptians	Romans	Teutons
Merchant capacity (resources)	750	500	1,000Best
Merchant speed (tiles/h)	16Best	16Best	12
Merchant throughput (capacity × speed)	12,000Best	8,000	12,000Best
Base simultaneous construction jobs	1	2Best	1
Cranny protection, level 10 (each resource)	1,000Best	1,000Best	1,000Best
Wall troop bonus, level 20 (%)	80.6Best	80.6Best	48.6
Hospital recovery share (%)	40Best	40Best	40Best
Wounded storage per hospital level	30Best	30Best	30Best
Base chief loyalty reduction	20–25	20–30Best	20–25
Tribe-specific buildings	Stone Wall Waterworks	City Wall Horse Drinking Trough	Earth Wall Brewery

Merchant values exclude the Trade Office and other bonuses. Cranny values are per resource, before the Teuton attack modifier. Wall values use the rounded troop multiplier in battle resolution. Construction counts exclude Plus and master queues. See each tribe guide for special-building effects. Chief ranges are highlighted by their maximum base reduction.

Egyptians

Waterworks

Waterworks increases the annexed oasis bonus by 5% relative per level: a 25% resource bonus becomes 50% at level 20. It requires a level 10 Hero’s Mansion.

Romans

Horse Drinking Trough

The Horse Drinking Trough improves cavalry training. It reduces upkeep by one for Equites Legati at level 10, Equites Imperatoris at level 15, and Equites Caesaris at level 20. The table above shows upkeep before these reductions.

Teutons

Brewery

While a capital festival is active, the Brewery adds its level-based attack bonus across your villages. It also halves chief persuasion and makes catapult targets random. Plan conquest separately.

Against a Teuton attack, Cranny protection is multiplied by 0.8 in this server’s battle resolution.

Source files and calculation notes

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