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Overview

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.

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.

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	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Highest attack per combat unit	Teutonic Knight 150	Royal Chariot 110	Hippeis 195Best
Highest average defense per combat unit	Paladin 70	Royal Chariot 135Best	Spartan Rider 105
Fastest combat unit	Paladin 10	Chariot 15	Spartan Rider 16Best
Largest combat-unit carry	Paladin 110Best	Royal Chariot 70	Spartan Rider 110Best
Lowest resource cost per attack point	Clubswinger 6.25Best	Egyptian Fighter 14	Homoioi 8.37

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

TeutonsEgyptiansSpartans

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	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	65.2	47.8	84.8Best
Defense	51.9	100Best	77.8
Speed	52.6	78.9	84.2Best
Logistics	66.7Best	66.7Best	38.9
Beginner friendliness*	40	80Best	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

Teutons

Clubswinger

Egyptians

Armed Slave

Spartans

Spartan Hoplite

Starting infantry	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	40	10	50Best
Defense vs infantry	20	30	35Best
Defense vs cavalry	5	20	30Best
Speed (tiles/h)	7Best	7Best	6
Carry	60Best	20	60Best
Total resource cost	250	165Best	440
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	720	640Best	1,700

Best anti-cavalry infantry available

Teutons

Spearman

Egyptians

Temple Guardian

Spartans

Homoioi

Best anti-cavalry infantry available	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	10	25	95Best
Defense vs infantry	35	110Best	80
Defense vs cavalry	60	80Best	75
Speed (tiles/h)	7Best	6	5
Carry	40	35	50Best
Total resource cost	340Best	650	795
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	1,120Best	1,760	2,200

Espionage

Teutons

Scout

Egyptians

Horse Scout

Spartans

Perioikoi Scout

Espionage	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	0Best	0Best	0Best
Defense vs infantry	10	20	25Best
Defense vs cavalry	5	10	12Best
Speed (tiles/h)	9	16Best	16Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	360Best	380	445
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	2	2
Base training (seconds)	1,120Best	1,360	1,360

Offensive cavalry

Teutons

Teutonic Knight

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Spartans

Hippeis

Offensive cavalry	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	150	110	195Best
Defense vs infantry	50	120Best	55
Defense vs cavalry	75	150Best	80
Speed (tiles/h)	9	10Best	9
Carry	80Best	70	80Best
Total resource cost	1,525Best	1,800	2,315
Upkeep (crop/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Base training (seconds)	2,960Best	3,120	3,450

Defensive cavalry

Teutons

Paladin

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

Spartans

Spartan Rider

Defensive cavalry	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	55	110Best	55
Defense vs infantry	100	120Best	120Best
Defense vs cavalry	40	150Best	90
Speed (tiles/h)	10	10	16Best
Carry	110Best	70	110Best
Total resource cost	1,005Best	1,800	1,440
Upkeep (crop/h)	2Best	3	2Best
Base training (seconds)	2,400Best	3,120	2,600

Ram

Teutons

Ram

Egyptians

Ram

Spartans

Ram

Ram	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	65Best	55	65Best
Defense vs infantry	30Best	30Best	30Best
Defense vs cavalry	80	95Best	85
Speed (tiles/h)	4Best	4Best	4Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	1,720Best	1,990	1,995
Upkeep (crop/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Base training (seconds)	4,200Best	4,800	4,600

Catapult

Teutons

Catapult

Egyptians

Catapult

Spartans

Catapult

Catapult	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	50	65Best	60
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	2,760Best	3,250	3,130
Upkeep (crop/h)	6Best	6Best	6Best
Base training (seconds)	9,000Best	9,000Best	9,000Best

Chief

Teutons

Chief

Egyptians

Nomarch

Spartans

Ephor

Chief	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	40	40	45Best
Defense vs infantry	60Best	50	50
Defense vs cavalry	40	50Best	45
Speed (tiles/h)	5Best	4	4
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	114,300Best	160,000	127,730
Upkeep (crop/h)	4Best	4Best	4Best
Base training (seconds)	70,500Best	90,700	90,700

Settler

Teutons

Settler

Egyptians

Egyptian Settler

Spartans

Spartan Settler

Settler	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Attack	10Best	0	10Best
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	25,000	21,000Best	21,540
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	31,000	24,800Best	26,900

Economy & special mechanics

Economy & special mechanics	Teutons	Egyptians	Spartans
Merchant capacity (resources)	1,000Best	750	500
Merchant speed (tiles/h)	12	16Best	14
Merchant throughput (capacity × speed)	12,000Best	12,000Best	7,000
Base simultaneous construction jobs	1Best	1Best	1Best
Cranny protection, level 10 (each resource)	1,000Best	1,000Best	1,000Best
Wall troop bonus, level 20 (%)	48.6	80.6Best	73.7
Hospital recovery share (%)	40	40	50Best
Wounded storage per hospital level	30	30	60Best
Base chief loyalty reduction	20–25Best	20–25Best	20–25Best
Tribe-specific buildings	Earth Wall Brewery	Stone Wall Waterworks	Defensive Wall Big Hospital

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.

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.

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.

Source files and calculation notes

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