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Overview

Huns

Offense

For beginners: Demanding

Strengths

Four combat cavalry choices offer several offensive options.
Elite Riders carry the highest attack value in this seven-tribe roster.
The Command Center provides the Hun route to expansion.

Weaknesses

The Makeshift Wall has the smallest troop multiplier of the seven walls.
Cavalry development requires a substantial resource and crop commitment.
A single combat infantry type limits infantry specialisation.

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	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Highest attack per combat unit	Elite Rider 230Best	Hippeis 195	Equites Caesaris 180
Highest average defense per combat unit	Elite Rider 77.5	Spartan Rider 105Best	Equites Caesaris 92.5
Fastest combat unit	Horse Archer 16Best	Spartan Rider 16Best	Equites Imperatoris 14
Largest combat-unit carry	Steppe Rider 105	Spartan Rider 110Best	Equites Imperatoris 100
Lowest resource cost per attack point	Horse Archer 7.46Best	Homoioi 8.37	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

HunsSpartansRomans

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	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	100Best	84.8	78.3
Defense	57.4	77.8Best	68.5
Speed	84.2Best	84.2Best	73.7
Logistics	55.6Best	38.9	44.4
Beginner friendliness*	20	60Best	60Best

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

Huns

Hun Warrior

Spartans

Spartan Hoplite

Romans

Legionnaire

Starting infantry	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	35	50Best	40
Defense vs infantry	40Best	35	35
Defense vs cavalry	30	30	50Best
Speed (tiles/h)	6Best	6Best	6Best
Carry	50	60Best	50
Total resource cost	290Best	440	400
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	1,120Best	1,700	1,600

Best anti-cavalry infantry available

Huns

Hun Warrior

Spartans

Homoioi

Romans

Legionnaire

Best anti-cavalry infantry available	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	35	95Best	40
Defense vs infantry	40	80Best	35
Defense vs cavalry	30	75Best	50
Speed (tiles/h)	6Best	5	6Best
Carry	50Best	50Best	50Best
Total resource cost	290Best	795	400
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	1,120Best	2,200	1,600

Espionage

Huns

Scout Rider

Spartans

Perioikoi Scout

Romans

Equites Legati

Espionage	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	0Best	0Best	0Best
Defense vs infantry	20	25Best	20
Defense vs cavalry	10	12Best	10
Speed (tiles/h)	19Best	16	16
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

Huns

Elite Rider

Spartans

Hippeis

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Offensive cavalry	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	230Best	195	180
Defense vs infantry	90Best	55	80
Defense vs cavalry	65	80	105Best
Speed (tiles/h)	13Best	9	10
Carry	70	80Best	70
Total resource cost	2,390	2,315	2,170Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	4	3Best	4
Base training (seconds)	3,520	3,450Best	3,520

Defensive cavalry

Huns

Elite Rider

Spartans

Spartan Rider

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Defensive cavalry	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	230Best	55	180
Defense vs infantry	90	120Best	80
Defense vs cavalry	65	90	105Best
Speed (tiles/h)	13	16Best	10
Carry	70	110Best	70
Total resource cost	2,390	1,440Best	2,170
Upkeep (crop/h)	4	2Best	4
Base training (seconds)	3,520	2,600Best	3,520

Ram

Huns

Ram

Spartans

Ram

Romans

Battering Ram

Ram	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	65Best	65Best	60
Defense vs infantry	30Best	30Best	30Best
Defense vs cavalry	90Best	85	75
Speed (tiles/h)	4Best	4Best	4Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	1,820Best	1,995	1,830
Upkeep (crop/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Base training (seconds)	4,400Best	4,600	4,600

Catapult

Huns

Catapult

Spartans

Catapult

Romans

Fire Catapult

Catapult	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	45	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	2,910Best	3,130	2,990
Upkeep (crop/h)	6Best	6Best	6Best
Base training (seconds)	9,000Best	9,000Best	9,000Best

Chief

Huns

Tribal Chief

Spartans

Ephor

Romans

Senator

Chief	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	50Best	45	50Best
Defense vs infantry	40	50Best	40
Defense vs cavalry	30	45Best	30
Speed (tiles/h)	5Best	4	5Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	117,600Best	127,730	140,450
Upkeep (crop/h)	5	4Best	5
Base training (seconds)	90,700Best	90,700Best	90,700Best

Settler

Huns

Hun Settler

Spartans

Spartan Settler

Romans

Settler

Settler	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Attack	10Best	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	20,900Best	21,540	23,800
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	28,950	26,900Best	26,900Best

Economy & special mechanics

Economy & special mechanics	Huns	Spartans	Romans
Merchant capacity (resources)	500Best	500Best	500Best
Merchant speed (tiles/h)	20Best	14	16
Merchant throughput (capacity × speed)	10,000Best	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 (%)	34.7	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	Makeshift Wall Command Center	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.

Huns

Command Center

The Command Center replaces the Residence and Palace for Huns. It handles expansion troop training and capital administration.

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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