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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.

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.

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	Teutons	Romans	Egyptians
Highest attack per combat unit	Teutonic Knight 150	Equites Caesaris 180Best	Royal Chariot 110
Highest average defense per combat unit	Paladin 70	Equites Caesaris 92.5	Royal Chariot 135Best
Fastest combat unit	Paladin 10	Equites Imperatoris 14	Chariot 15Best
Largest combat-unit carry	Paladin 110Best	Equites Imperatoris 100	Royal Chariot 70
Lowest resource cost per attack point	Clubswinger 6.25Best	Imperian 8.57	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

TeutonsRomansEgyptians

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

Teutons

Clubswinger

Romans

Legionnaire

Egyptians

Armed Slave

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

Best anti-cavalry infantry available

Teutons

Spearman

Romans

Legionnaire

Egyptians

Temple Guardian

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

Espionage

Teutons

Scout

Romans

Equites Legati

Egyptians

Horse Scout

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

Offensive cavalry

Teutons

Teutonic Knight

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

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

Defensive cavalry

Teutons

Paladin

Romans

Equites Caesaris

Egyptians

Royal Chariot

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

Ram

Teutons

Ram

Romans

Battering Ram

Egyptians

Ram

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

Catapult

Teutons

Catapult

Romans

Fire Catapult

Egyptians

Catapult

Catapult	Teutons	Romans	Egyptians
Attack	50	75Best	65
Defense vs infantry	60Best	60Best	55
Defense vs cavalry	10Best	10Best	10Best
Speed (tiles/h)	3Best	3Best	3Best
Carry	0Best	0Best	0Best
Total resource cost	2,760Best	2,990	3,250
Upkeep (crop/h)	6Best	6Best	6Best
Base training (seconds)	9,000Best	9,000Best	9,000Best

Chief

Teutons

Chief

Romans

Senator

Egyptians

Nomarch

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

Settler

Teutons

Settler

Romans

Settler

Egyptians

Egyptian Settler

Settler	Teutons	Romans	Egyptians
Attack	10Best	0	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	25,000	23,800	21,000Best
Upkeep (crop/h)	1Best	1Best	1Best
Base training (seconds)	31,000	26,900	24,800Best

Economy & special mechanics

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

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.

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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