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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.

Spartans

Defense

For beginners: Intermediate

Strengths

Homoioi combine substantial infantry attack with useful defensive values.
Spartan Riders offer strong defense at a high movement speed.
The Big Hospital provides a larger recovery share and storage than the standard Hospital.

Weaknesses

Several core units require a significant resource investment.
Homoioi move slowly compared with the faster infantry options elsewhere.
The Big Hospital requires advanced infrastructure and does not prevent losses.

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.

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	Spartans	Romans
Highest attack per combat unit	Royal Chariot 110	Hippeis 195Best	Equites Caesaris 180
Highest average defense per combat unit	Royal Chariot 135Best	Spartan Rider 105	Equites Caesaris 92.5
Fastest combat unit	Chariot 15	Spartan Rider 16Best	Equites Imperatoris 14
Largest combat-unit carry	Royal Chariot 70	Spartan Rider 110Best	Equites Imperatoris 100
Lowest resource cost per attack point	Egyptian Fighter 14	Homoioi 8.37Best	Imperian 8.57

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

EgyptiansSpartansRomans

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	Spartans	Romans
Attack	47.8	84.8Best	78.3
Defense	100Best	77.8	68.5
Speed	78.9	84.2Best	73.7
Logistics	66.7Best	38.9	44.4
Beginner friendliness*	80Best	60	60

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

Spartans

Spartan Hoplite

Romans

Legionnaire

Starting infantry	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	10	50Best	40
Defense vs infantry	30	35Best	35Best
Defense vs cavalry	20	30	50Best
Speed (tiles/h)	7Best	6	6
Carry	20	60Best	50
Total resource cost	165Best	440	400
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	640Best	1,700	1,600

Best anti-cavalry infantry available

Egyptians

Temple Guardian

Spartans

Homoioi

Romans

Legionnaire

Best anti-cavalry infantry available	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	25	95Best	40
Defense vs infantry	110Best	80	35
Defense vs cavalry	80Best	75	50
Speed (tiles/h)	6Best	5	6Best
Carry	35	50Best	50Best
Total resource cost	650	795	400Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	1,760	2,200	1,600Best

Espionage

Egyptians

Horse Scout

Spartans

Perioikoi Scout

Romans

Equites Legati

Espionage	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	0Best	0Best	0Best
Defense vs infantry	20	25Best	20
Defense vs cavalry	10	12Best	10
Speed (tiles/h)	16Best	16Best	16Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	380	445	360Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	2Best	2Best	2Best
Base training (seconds)	1,360Best	1,360Best	1,360Best

Offensive cavalry

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Spartans

Hippeis

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Offensive cavalry	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	110	195Best	180
Defense vs infantry	120Best	55	80
Defense vs cavalry	150Best	80	105
Speed (tiles/h)	10Best	9	10Best
Carry	70	80Best	70
Total resource cost	1,800Best	2,315	2,170
Upkeep (crop/h)	3Best	3Best	4
Base training (seconds)	3,120Best	3,450	3,520

Defensive cavalry

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Spartans

Spartan Rider

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Defensive cavalry	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	110	55	180Best
Defense vs infantry	120Best	120Best	80
Defense vs cavalry	150Best	90	105
Speed (tiles/h)	10	16Best	10
Carry	70	110Best	70
Total resource cost	1,800	1,440Best	2,170
Upkeep (crop/h)	3	2Best	4
Base training (seconds)	3,120	2,600Best	3,520

Ram

Egyptians

Ram

Spartans

Ram

Romans

Battering Ram

Ram	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	55	65Best	60
Defense vs infantry	30Best	30Best	30Best
Defense vs cavalry	95Best	85	75
Speed (tiles/h)	4Best	4Best	4Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	1,990	1,995	1,830Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Base training (seconds)	4,800	4,600Best	4,600Best

Catapult

Egyptians

Catapult

Spartans

Catapult

Romans

Fire Catapult

Catapult	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	65	60	75Best
Defense vs infantry	55	55	60Best
Defense vs cavalry	10Best	10Best	10Best
Speed (tiles/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	3,250	3,130	2,990Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	6Best	6Best	6Best
Base training (seconds)	9,000Best	9,000Best	9,000Best

Chief

Egyptians

Nomarch

Spartans

Ephor

Romans

Senator

Chief	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	40	45	50Best
Defense vs infantry	50Best	50Best	40
Defense vs cavalry	50Best	45	30
Speed (tiles/h)	4	4	5Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	160,000	127,730Best	140,450
Upkeep (crop/h)	4Best	4Best	5
Base training (seconds)	90,700Best	90,700Best	90,700Best

Settler

Egyptians

Egyptian Settler

Spartans

Spartan Settler

Romans

Settler

Settler	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Attack	0	10Best	0
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	21,540	23,800
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	24,800Best	26,900	26,900

Economy & special mechanics

Economy & special mechanics	Egyptians	Spartans	Romans
Merchant capacity (resources)	750Best	500	500
Merchant speed (tiles/h)	16Best	14	16Best
Merchant throughput (capacity × speed)	12,000Best	7,000	8,000
Base simultaneous construction jobs	1	1	2Best
Cranny protection, level 10 (each resource)	1,000Best	1,000Best	1,000Best
Wall troop bonus, level 20 (%)	80.6Best	73.7	80.6Best
Hospital recovery share (%)	40	50Best	40
Wounded storage per hospital level	30	60Best	30
Base chief loyalty reduction	20–25	20–25	20–30Best
Tribe-specific buildings	Stone Wall Waterworks	Defensive Wall Big Hospital	City Wall Horse Drinking Trough

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.

Spartans

Big Hospital

Spartans and Vikings use the Big Hospital instead of the standard Hospital. Its recovery share and storage are larger; it still needs surviving infrastructure and resources to heal troops.

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.

Source files and calculation notes

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