Troops

Troops are built in the Barracks. They require idle Population and Resources in order to build.

For troop training tips see War tips.

Troops consume Food on an hourly basis. The "Food Upkeep" column in the table below shows how much food a single unit of that troop type requires every hour. Please understand that when you have a large number of troops in your city and not enough Farms to feed them, your hourly food income will be negative, and you will lose food from your stores.

Lots of people say that you need to cheat and use bots to be able to uphold large amounts of Might. This is wrong, however. You can manage a 30 million+ negative food per hour without using auto barbs. It isn't easy, but it is possible.

If you run out of food, your army will start to desert. You will lose approximately 10% of each of your troop types at a time until you can feed your troops again. How often this happens is not well understood. Whether you are online or offline, it appears to be 30-120 minutes between desertions. All desertions will be reported in your Messages section under Reports. Each report will tell you when the troops left, and how many went of each type.

If you are hosting allied troops in your Embassy, your city is responsible for feeding those troops. If you run out of food in this case, the allies will be called back to their parent cities. Allies' troops will not desert their owners in this case.

Troop Types

Picture	Name	Attack	Defense	Life	Speed	Range	Load	Cost Food Wood Stone Ore	Pop	Might	Food Upkeep	Construction and Research Requirements
Infantry
	Supply Troop	10	3	200	180	10	200	50 150 0 15	1	1	2	Lv1 Barracks
	Supply Troops are not very good at fighting but can carry resources to your other cities or friends or carry loot back when you plunder enemy cities.
	Militiaman	100	13	400	200	20	20	80 100 0 50	1	1	3	Lv1 Barracks
	Militiamen are citizens of your city who have some military training. They are a good beginning for your army but no match for troops with true training.
	Scout	6	1	20	3000	20	5	120 200 0 150	1	2	4	Lv2 Barracks Lv1 Eagle Eyes
	Scouts move quickly, and bring back information about enemy positions and numbers but are not strong fighters. See Using Scouts and Eagle Eyes.
	Pikeman	300	33	600	300	50	40	150 500 0 100	1	2	5	Lv2 Barracks Lv1 Poisoned Edge
	Pikemen are the most basic heavily trained troops. Their long pikes are very effective against horses.
	Swordsman	200	63	700	275	30	30	200 150 0 400	1	3	6	Lv3 Barracks Lv1 Blacksmith Lv1 Metal Alloys
	Swordsmen are well armored, and are the strongest melee troops. Their shields make them effective against Archers.
	Bloodthorn	1300	45	2100	900	150	250	9000 6000 4000 6000	13	12	300	Lv1 Druid Barracks
	Born of the wilderness, the Bloodthorn unit is an elite warrior that specializes in dealing quick, deadly blows to its enemies.
	Executioner	1700	70	4200	500	120	500	18000 5000 8000 30000	24	24	450	Lv1 Fey Barracks
	Born of Ice and Steel, the Executioner is an elite unit that specializes in overwhelming its enemies with massive force.
Ranged
Picture	Name	Attack	Defense	Life	Speed	Range	Load	Cost Food Wood Stone Ore	Pop	Might	Food Upkeep	Construction and Research Requirements
	Archer	240	25	500	250	1200	25	300 350 0 300	2	4	6	Lv4 Barracks Lv1 Fletching
	Archers can destroy the enemy's troops from a distance but are vulnerable up close.
	Ballista	900	40	640	100	1400	35	2500 3000 0 1800	5	9	38	Lv8 Barracks Lv2 Stable Lv5 Workshop Lv5 Geometry Lv6 Fletching
	Ballistae fire huge arrow-like bolts at long ranges. They are effective against other siege weapons.
	Flame Archer	1700	40	800	140	1600	50	1000 2000 0 750	18	15	150	Lv11 Barracks Lv10 Metal Alloys Lv11 Fletching
	Flame Archers are extremely adept at slaying troops from a distance. Their flame-tipped arrows wreak extra damage when attack Dark Forests. Skills +10% Attack against Dark Forests
Horsed
	Cavalry	500	45	1000	1000	100	100	1000 600 0 500	3	5	14	Lv5 Barracks Lv1 Stable Lv1 Alloy Horseshoes
	Cavalry troops move very quickly on horseback and have devastating attacks.
	Heavy Cavalry	700	87	2000	750	80	80	2000 500 0 2500	6	7	27	Lv7 Barracks Lv5 Blacksmith Lv5 Stable Lv5 Alloy Horseshoes
	Heavy Cavalry are far more armored than regular Cavalry. This armor provides them defense and more power to their attacks but costs them some speed.
	Sidhe Corruptor	10000	2	800	3500	190	1	1000 2250 0 1000	5		200
	These unholy riders pulled from the Dark Forests possess and consume the very souls of your enemies but are destroyed in the process.
Siege
Picture	Name	Attack	Defense	Life	Speed	Range	Load	Cost Food Wood Stone Ore	Pop	Might	Food Upkeep	Construction and Research Requirements
	Supply Wagon	20	15	1400	150	10	5000	600 1500 0 350	4	6	8	Lv6 Barracks Lv1 Stable Lv3 Workshop Lv1 Featherweight Powder
	Supply Wagons are heavily fortified to carry anything you need through a raging battle and not lose the cargo.
	Battering Ram	500	40	10000	120	600	45	4000 6000 0 1500	8	9	75	Lv9 Barracks Lv5 Blacksmith Lv3 Stable Lv7 Workshop Lv8 Metal Alloys Lv7 Geometry
	A Battering Ram is a large log-like object, used for knocking down the enemy's defenses.
	Catapult	1200	50	960	80	1500	75	5000 5000 8000 1200	10	10	188	Lv10 Barracks Lv2 Stable Lv9 Workshop Lv10 Geometry Lv10 Fletching
	Catapults throw large rocks from a huge distance. They are most effective against the enemy's defenses.
	Siege Wall	200	140	8400	775	120	500	8000 5000 18000 30000	24	13	400	Lv1 Briton Barracks
	The Siege Wall guarantees advancement on the battlefield for its army.
Spellcaster Picture Name Attack Defense Life Speed Range Load Spell Power Cost Food Wood Stone Ore Pop Might Food Upkeep Shield Sorcerer 400 20 300 225 15 5 260 1500 1000 0 1500 15 150 Shield Sorcerers use their magic to protect your units from harm. While active, the shield will absorb damage and allow your army to advance on the enemy. Skills: Creates a shield based on the caster's own Defense to protect your army from damage Toxic Conjurer 250 20 1000 190 1100 10 250 1200 800 0 800 13 100 The Toxic Conjurer creates a caustic cloud that will damage all enemies that pass through it. Skills: The acidic cloud deals damage to enemy units based on the Toxic Conjurer's remaining Life Rot Familiar 180 30 900 400 60 5 250 1200 1000 0 1300 15 120 The Rot Familiar saps the spirit and will of any person it attacks, lowering the targets defense. Skills: The Spellcaster lowers enemy units' Defense based on the Rot Familiar's Attack.

Rare Troops

• Hussar
• Halberdier
• Saboteur
• Heavy Onager
• Swamp Witch
• Null Mage
• Duelist
• Talon Archer

Alliance HQ-exclusive troops

• Longbowman
• Foot Soldier
• Five Fingers
• Mangonel
• Dragoon

Training Training Speed (TTS)

The time to train a batch of troops is determined at the time you add them to the queue and depends on the following factors:

• The number of barracks in the city. Two barracks will train troops in 1/2 the time that it takes one barracks.
• The level of each barracks: each level above 1 increases the training speed by 10%.
• Research level in Geometry increases the training speed of Siege Engines by 10% per level
• Each level of the Stable increases the training speed of horsed units by 10%.
• Each level of the Workshop increases the training speed of wagons and Siege Engines by 10% per level.
• The Combat level of the Knight assigned to the role of Marshall in the city increases the training speed of all troops.
• The level of the Stone Guardian of the city, when active (note 1)
• Equiped Throne Room items that have a "Troop Training Speed" line (note 2).

Note 1:

Each level of the Stone Guardian increases TTS by 10% up the the maximum of level 10. If you have all 4 guardians unlocked the Stone Guardian's bonus will ALWAYS be active. If you happen to have all 4 guardians unlocked AND the Stone Guardian is Active, then the bonus per level is raised from 10% to 15%.

Note 2:

The total "buff" (bonus value) of all of the TTS lines on all equiped TR cards is combined to give the total bonus for troop training, up to a maximum of 4000 %. When this bonus is at high enough level it overwhelms all the other TTS factors and leads to an alternative strategy for fast troop building, have only 1 Barracks and as many cottages as possible to maximise idle population available for troop building.

Base Training Time Table

This table gives the base training time for each unit, which is the time they would require for training in a single, level-1 Barracks with no other modifiers |-

Unit	Time to Train One Unit (secs)
Supply Troop	50
Militiaman	25
Scout	100
Pikeman	150
Swordsman	225
Archer	350
Cavalry	500
Heavy Cavalry	1500
Supply Wagon	1000
Ballista	3000
Battering Ram	4500
Catapult	6000
Flame Archer
Shield Sorcerer
Toxic Conjurer
Sidhe Corruptor
Rot Familiar
Siege Wall
Bloodthorn
Executioner

Cancelling Training

If you cancel a queued unit training assignment you get back 50% of the resources the unit had cost, as well as 50% of the population initially consumed in the queue.

Training Time Formulae

Barracks Speed Modifier

BT = Base Training Time, as found in the table above

NB = number of barracks in the city

TBL = sum of the levels of all the barracks in the city

BM = total speed modifier for barracks

BM = 0.9 * NB + 0.1 * TBL (or if you prefer, BM = NB + (TBL-NB) * 0.1 )

Speedup Factors

MCS = Combat Score of the Knight assigned to the role of Marshal in your city

MF = Marshal Speedup Factor

GF = Geometry Speedup Factor

SF = Stable Speedup Factor

WF = Workshop Speedup Factor

MF = MCS / 200

GF = Geometry Level / 10

SF = Stable Level / 10

WF = Workshop Level / 10

Bonuses

SGB = Stone Guardian Bonus (example: 15% = 0.15)

TRB = Throne Room Bonus (example: 194% = 1.94)

Training Times

Training time for Infantry Units (Supply Troop, Militiaman, Scout, Pikeman, Swordsman, and Archer)

Time = BT / ( BM * (((1 + MF + GF) * (1 + SGB)) * (1 + TRB)))

Training time for Cavalry Units (Cavalry and Heavy Cavalry)

Time = BT / ( BM * (((1 + MF + GF + SF) * (1 + SGB)) * (1 + TRB)))

Training time for Machine Units (Supply Wagon, Balista, Battering Ram, and Catapult)

Time = BT / ( BM * (((1 + MF + GF + SF + WF) * (1 + SGB)) * (1 + TRB)))

* Note that there appears to be a bug in the Geometry code, and that speedup currently applies to all types of troop training as seen above.

The Stable speedup applies to all non-infantry units: cavalry, wagons, and siege engines.

The Workshop provides an additional bonus to wagons and siege engines.