Troops

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

Food Upkeep

Troops consume Food on an hourly basis. The "Food Upkeep" column in the table below shows how much food a single unit of that type requires every hour. 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.

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. If you are offline, it appears that troops desert maybe once per day. If you are online, it seems to be 30-120 minutes between desertions. All desertions will be reported in your Messages section under Disaster Reports. All the report will tell you is when the troops left, not how many went.

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

Troop Types

	Name	Attack	Defense	Life	Speed	Range	Load	Cost Food Wood Stone Ore	Pop	Might	Food Upkeep	Construction and Research Requirements
File:Unit 1 68.png	Supply Troop	10	3	200	180	10	200	50 150 0 15	1	1	2.1	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	1.1	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	5	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	6	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	7	Lv3 Barracks Lv1 Blacksmith Lv1 Metal Alloys
Swordsmen are well armored, and are the strongest melee troops. Their shields make them effective against Archers.
	Archer	240	25	500	250	1200	25	300 350 0 300	2	4	9	Lv4 Barracks Lv1 Fletching
Archers can destroy the enemy's troops from a distance but are vulnerable up close.
	Cavalry	500	45	1000	1000	100	100	1000 600 0 500	3	5	18	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	9	35	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.
	Supply Wagon	20	15	1400	150	10	5000	600 1500 0 350	4	6	10	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.
	Ballista	900	40	640	100	1400	35	2500 3000 0 1800	5	9	55	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.
	Battering Ram	500	40	10000	120	600	45	4000 6000 0 1500	8	9	100	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	250	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.

Training Speed for Troops

The speed of training is determined at the time you add troops to the queue and depends on a number of factors that will vary from player to player:

• How many barracks in the city: training is split up among all of the available barracks. 2x level-1 barracks will train 100 supply troops in 1/2 the time that it takes a city with only 1 level-1 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 increases the training speed of all troops.

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

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Cancelling Training

If you cancel a queued unit training assignment you get back 50% of the resources the unit had cost.

Training Time Formulae

Greenman has provided a javascript calculator using these formulae here: KoC Troop Training Calculator

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 )

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

MF = Marshal Speedup Factor = MCS / 200

GF = Geometry Speedup Factor = Geometry Level / 10

SF = Stable Speedup Factor = Stable Level / 10

WF = Workshop Speedup Factor = Workshop Level / 10

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

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

Training time for Cavalry Units (Cavalry and Heavy Cavalry):

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

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

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

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.