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Overview

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.

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.

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.

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

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

RomansSpartansEgyptians

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

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

Romans

Legionnaire

Spartans

Spartan Hoplite

Egyptians

Armed Slave

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

Best anti-cavalry infantry available

Romans

Legionnaire

Spartans

Homoioi

Egyptians

Temple Guardian

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

Espionage

Romans

Equites Legati

Spartans

Perioikoi Scout

Egyptians

Horse Scout

Espionage	Romans	Spartans	Egyptians
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	360Best	445	380
Upkeep (crop/h)	2Best	2Best	2Best
Base training (seconds)	1,360Best	1,360Best	1,360Best

Offensive cavalry

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Spartans

Hippeis

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

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

Defensive cavalry

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Spartans

Spartan Rider

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

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

Ram

Romans

Battering Ram

Spartans

Ram

Egyptians

Ram

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

Catapult

Romans

Fire Catapult

Spartans

Catapult

Egyptians

Catapult

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

Chief

Romans

Senator

Spartans

Ephor

Egyptians

Nomarch

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

Settler

Romans

Settler

Spartans

Spartan Settler

Egyptians

Egyptian Settler

Settler	Romans	Spartans	Egyptians
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	23,800	21,540	21,000Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	26,900	26,900	24,800Best

Economy & special mechanics

Economy & special mechanics	Romans	Spartans	Egyptians
Merchant capacity (resources)	500	500	750Best
Merchant speed (tiles/h)	16Best	14	16Best
Merchant throughput (capacity × speed)	8,000	7,000	12,000Best
Base simultaneous construction jobs	2Best	1	1
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	20–30Best	20–25	20–25
Tribe-specific buildings	City Wall Horse Drinking Trough	Defensive Wall Big Hospital	Stone Wall Waterworks

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.

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.

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.

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.

Source files and calculation notes

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