Elf A/m Strategy

No specific personality. Assuming 10% housing and tools. MP on 24/7. This can be easily adapted to A/t by moving 10% from guilds to thieves’ dens, and it can be changed to pure attacker by moving that same 10% to training grounds, stables, and forts in roughly the same proportions given here. As a pure attacker you could also build more guard stations or dungeons.

8 farm
20 guild
11 rax
20 arm/bank
11 tg
11 stable
13 fort
6 gs

10 peasants, 7.45 dspecs, 6.05 ospecs, 1 thief, 3 wizard
NW = 138
47.3 opa = .343 opnw
48.3 dpa = .350 dpnw

Gnome A/t Strategy (all specialists)

No specific personality. Assuming 10% housing and tools. MP on 24/7.

8 farm
10 guild
9 tower
5 rax
20 arm/bank
16 tg
6 stable
16 fort
10 td

10 peasants, 7.8 dspecs, 8.45 ospecs, 3 thief, 1 wizard
NW = 148
62.5 opa = .422 opnw
51.8 dpa = .350 dpnw
5.1 mod tpa

Dark Elf A/m Strategy

No specific personality. Assuming 10% housing and tools. MP on 24/7.  This can be easily adapted to A/t by moving 10% from guilds to thieves’ dens, and it can be changed to pure attacker by moving that same 10% to training grounds, stables, and forts in roughly the same proportions given here.  As a pure attacker you could also build more guard stations or dungeons.

8 farm
20 guild
11 rax
20 arm/bank
16 tg
4 stable
15 fort
6 gs

10 peasants, 7.5 dspecs, 6 ospecs, 1 thief, 3 wizard
NW = 141
52.5 opa = .372 opnw
49.5 dpa = .351 dpnw

Dictionary

Let me know about any word or abbreviation that needs to be defined.

Another good list is found here. 

dpa – defense per acre

dpnw – defense per net worth

dspec or d-spec – defensive specialist

FL – fertile lands spell

MP – minor protection spell

opa – offense per acre

opnw – offense per net worth

ospec or o-spec – offensive specialist

QF – quick feet spell

tpa – thieves per acre

TW – town watch spell

wpa – wizards per acre

Human A/t Strategy

No specific personality. Assuming 10% housing and tools. MP on 24/7.

7 farm
10 guild
8 tower
11 rax
10 td
20 arm/bank
12 tg
12 stable
11 fort

6.7 dspecs, 6.9 opsecs, 3 thieves, 1 wizard
NW = 144
53.4 opa = .371 opnw
50.5 dpa = .351 dpnw

Dwarf Stategy

Disclaimer:  This is a non-freak, pure attacker strategy.  I didn’t optimize or even summarize economic buildings and numbers.  I did assume minor protection would be cast 24/7.  Fog and animate dead 24/7 are also a good idea especially in war.  I was surprised that stables didn’t help, but I’m just going by the numbers.

Assuming 200% pay rate, 10% alchemy, and 10% housing science.  (Tools would be wise as well but is not assumed in BE and building numbers here.)

27.5 pop/acre
10 peasants – 100% BE (low estimate)
7.5 dspecs
8 ospecs
1 thief
1 wizard

7% Farms*
17% Armouries or Banks*
16% Training Grounds
9% Barracks
14% Forts
10% Guilds
7% Towers*
20% Watchtowers
*economic numbers unoptimized

This gives a war attack time of less than 12 hours and 40% catch thieves.

143 nwpa
50 dpa = .351 dpnw
56.4 opa = .396 opnw

A better result than I expected.  Some tools science would allow some land to be taken from maybe farms, armouries, banks, barracks, or towers and put to military use.  I don’t know about the thieves.  Scrap them altogether?  These numbers aren’t bad at all.  Maybe I missed something.  Tell me if you see it.  Even if these numbers are correct, I prefer the flexibility and thieves of a Gnome.

T/M Strategy

I don’t like playing T/M. I don’t much like thinking about T/M strategy. That said, this will be a very basic skeleton of a T/M build. It is race/personality generic, and assumes no elites or improved specialists. Housing, Crime, and Channeling science are key.

Someone else will have to make whatever improvements are needed to this outline.

Choosing a Race/Personality Combination

Race and personality are the two most important decisions in the game. Some players like the sound of a certain race or personality, but my advice is to weigh the actually strengths and weaknesses and see which combination suits your play style best.

Orc Elite Attacker Strategy

+25% Gains on Attacks
-50% Draft Costs
-50% Military Wages
Spreads & is Immune to the Plague
No Bonuses from Honor
-15% Science Effectiveness

8/2 Elite – $800

Orcs are best as pure attackers. This will just be a general sketch of the strategy I recommend, assuming 75 bpa in each science.

Why Gnome Freak Full-Elite A/t

  ALL THIS COULD BE CHANGING SOON.  I’M SEEING POTENTIAL FOR A FULL-SPEC ARMY I MISSED PREVIOUSLY.

Gnome
+40% Thievery Effectiveness
50% Cost Thieves
+10% Population

-15% Birth Rates
No access to Hospitals

5/5 Elite – $300

Freak
Large randomness in all attacks.
Every 7 Elites take up the population space of only 6 peasants

If the only bonuses for Gnomes were the +10% population and elites, that would be enough.