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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.

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.

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

EgyptiansTeutonsRomans

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

Teutons

Clubswinger

Romans

Legionnaire

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

Best anti-cavalry infantry available

Egyptians

Temple Guardian

Teutons

Spearman

Romans

Legionnaire

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

Espionage

Egyptians

Horse Scout

Teutons

Scout

Romans

Equites Legati

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

Offensive cavalry

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Teutons

Teutonic Knight

Romans

Equites Caesaris

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

Defensive cavalry

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Teutons

Paladin

Romans

Equites Caesaris

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

Ram

Egyptians

Ram

Teutons

Ram

Romans

Battering Ram

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

Catapult

Egyptians

Catapult

Teutons

Catapult

Romans

Fire Catapult

Catapult	Egyptians	Teutons	Romans
Attack	65	50	75Best
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	2,760Best	2,990
Upkeep (crop/h)	6Best	6Best	6Best
Base training (seconds)	9,000Best	9,000Best	9,000Best

Chief

Egyptians

Nomarch

Teutons

Chief

Romans

Senator

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

Settler

Egyptians

Egyptian Settler

Teutons

Settler

Romans

Settler

Settler	Egyptians	Teutons	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	25,000	23,800
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	24,800Best	31,000	26,900

Economy & special mechanics

Economy & special mechanics	Egyptians	Teutons	Romans
Merchant capacity (resources)	750	1,000Best	500
Merchant speed (tiles/h)	16Best	12	16Best
Merchant throughput (capacity × speed)	12,000Best	12,000Best	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	48.6	80.6Best
Hospital recovery share (%)	40Best	40Best	40Best
Wounded storage per hospital level	30Best	30Best	30Best
Base chief loyalty reduction	20–25	20–25	20–30Best
Tribe-specific buildings	Stone Wall Waterworks	Earth Wall Brewery	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.

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.

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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