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Overview

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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.
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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.
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Gauls

Defense

For beginners: Approachable

Strengths

  • The Phalanx offers a practical defensive foundation.
  • Theutates Thunder gives this roster a fast raiding option.
  • Enhanced Cranny protection and the Trapper support a guarded opening.

Weaknesses

  • Starting infantry has low attack power.
  • Fast cavalry still needs research, infrastructure and resources.
  • Traps and protected resources do not replace an army or allies.

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).

MilitaryRomansTeutonsGauls
Highest attack per combat unitEquites Caesaris
180Best
Teutonic Knight
150
Haeduan
140
Highest average defense per combat unitEquites Caesaris
92.5
Paladin
70
Haeduan
107.5Best
Fastest combat unitEquites Imperatoris
14
Paladin
10
Theutates Thunder
19Best
Largest combat-unit carryEquites Imperatoris
100
Paladin
110Best
Theutates Thunder
75
Lowest resource cost per attack pointImperian
8.57
Clubswinger
6.25Best
Swordsman
8.23
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

Radar comparing five dimensions, including an editorial beginner ratingAttack = 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.AttackDefenseSpeedLogisticsBeginner friendliness*
RomansTeutonsGauls

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.

AxisRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
78.3Best
65.2
60.9
Defense
68.5
51.9
79.6Best
Speed
73.7
52.6
100Best
Logistics
44.4
66.7
100Best
Beginner friendliness*
60
40
100Best

Role-by-role comparison

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.

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

Starting infantry
RomansLegionnaire
TeutonsClubswinger
GaulsPhalanx
Starting infantryRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
40Best
40Best
15
Defense vs infantry
35
20
40Best
Defense vs cavalry
50Best
5
50Best
Speed (tiles/h)
6
7Best
7Best
Carry
50
60Best
35
Total resource cost
400
250Best
315
Upkeep (crop/h)
1Best
1Best
1Best
Base training (seconds)
1,600
720Best
1,040
Best anti-cavalry infantry available
RomansLegionnaire
TeutonsSpearman
GaulsPhalanx
Best anti-cavalry infantry availableRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
40Best
10
15
Defense vs infantry
35
35
40Best
Defense vs cavalry
50
60Best
50
Speed (tiles/h)
6
7Best
7Best
Carry
50Best
40
35
Total resource cost
400
340
315Best
Upkeep (crop/h)
1Best
1Best
1Best
Base training (seconds)
1,600
1,120
1,040Best
Espionage
RomansEquites Legati
TeutonsScout
GaulsPathfinder
EspionageRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
0Best
0Best
0Best
Defense vs infantry
20Best
10
20Best
Defense vs cavalry
10Best
5
10Best
Speed (tiles/h)
16
9
17Best
Carry
0Best
0Best
0Best
Total resource cost
360Best
360Best
380
Upkeep (crop/h)
2
1Best
2
Base training (seconds)
1,360
1,120Best
1,360
Offensive cavalry
RomansEquites Caesaris
TeutonsTeutonic Knight
GaulsHaeduan
Offensive cavalryRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
180Best
150
140
Defense vs infantry
80Best
50
50
Defense vs cavalry
105
75
165Best
Speed (tiles/h)
10
9
13Best
Carry
70
80Best
65
Total resource cost
2,170
1,525Best
1,965
Upkeep (crop/h)
4
3Best
3Best
Base training (seconds)
3,520
2,960Best
3,120
Defensive cavalry
RomansEquites Caesaris
TeutonsPaladin
GaulsHaeduan
Defensive cavalryRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
180Best
55
140
Defense vs infantry
80
100Best
50
Defense vs cavalry
105
40
165Best
Speed (tiles/h)
10
10
13Best
Carry
70
110Best
65
Total resource cost
2,170
1,005Best
1,965
Upkeep (crop/h)
4
2Best
3
Base training (seconds)
3,520
2,400Best
3,120
Ram
RomansBattering Ram
TeutonsRam
GaulsRam
RamRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
60
65Best
50
Defense vs infantry
30Best
30Best
30Best
Defense vs cavalry
75
80
105Best
Speed (tiles/h)
4Best
4Best
4Best
Carry
0Best
0Best
0Best
Total resource cost
1,830
1,720Best
1,910
Upkeep (crop/h)
3Best
3Best
3Best
Base training (seconds)
4,600
4,200Best
5,000
Catapult
RomansFire Catapult
TeutonsCatapult
GaulsTrebuchet
CatapultRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
75Best
50
70
Defense vs infantry
60Best
60Best
45
Defense vs cavalry
10Best
10Best
10Best
Speed (tiles/h)
3Best
3Best
3Best
Carry
0Best
0Best
0Best
Total resource cost
2,990
2,760Best
3,130
Upkeep (crop/h)
6Best
6Best
6Best
Base training (seconds)
9,000Best
9,000Best
9,000Best
Chief
RomansSenator
TeutonsChief
GaulsChieftain
ChiefRomansTeutonsGauls
Attack
50Best
40
40
Defense vs infantry
40
60Best
50
Defense vs cavalry
30
40
50Best
Speed (tiles/h)
5Best
5Best
4
Carry
0Best
0Best
0Best
Total resource cost
140,450
114,300Best
144,650
Upkeep (crop/h)
5
4Best
4Best
Base training (seconds)
90,700
70,500Best
90,700
Settler
RomansSettler
TeutonsSettler
GaulsSettler
SettlerRomansTeutonsGauls
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
25,000
22,700Best
Upkeep (crop/h)
1Best
1Best
1Best
Base training (seconds)
26,900
31,000
22,700Best

Economy & special mechanics

Economy & special mechanicsRomansTeutonsGauls
Merchant capacity (resources)
500
1,000Best
750
Merchant speed (tiles/h)
16
12
24Best
Merchant throughput (capacity × speed)
8,000
12,000
18,000Best
Base simultaneous construction jobs
2Best
1
1
Cranny protection, level 10 (each resource)
1,000
1,000
2,000Best
Wall troop bonus, level 20 (%)
80.6Best
48.6
63.9
Hospital recovery share (%)
40Best
40Best
40Best
Wounded storage per hospital level
30Best
30Best
30Best
Base chief loyalty reduction
20–30Best
20–25
20–25
Tribe-specific buildings
  • City Wall
  • Horse Drinking Trough
  • Earth Wall
  • Brewery
  • Palisade
  • Trapper

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.

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.

Gauls

Trapper

The Trapper captures attacking troops in available traps. It is a defensive tool to support your army and diplomacy.

Source files and calculation notes

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