Troops

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Contents 1 Troop Types and Ratings 2 Notes 3 Networth 4 Training and Research

Troop Types and Ratings

This is a list of the available troops; each one has specific attack rating and cost. Read more about how they behave in a war in the War Room

Troop Type	Attack	Defence	GC to train	Time to train	GC to maintain	Food	Comments	Additional net worth per unit
Peasant	.25	.25	N/A	N/A	0	6 food/hour	Can be trained to become any other unit.	0.1
Foot Soldier	2	2	100 GC	5 hours	6 GC/hour	6 food/hour	Chance to become Elite soldiers.	0.2
Pikeman	3	3	200 GC	12 hours	12 GC/hour	6 food/hour	Gives bonus against cavalry.	0.3
Elite	15	15	300 GC	N/A	6 GC/hour	6 food/hour	See note 1.	0.4
Archer	1	5	200 GC	18 hours	6 GC/hour	6 food/hour	Gives bonus against foot soldiers.	0.3
Crossbowman	2	3	150 GC	12 hours	6 GC/hour	6 food/hour	Gives bonus against foot soldiers.	0.25
Light Cavalry	6	6	200 GC	18 hours	12 GC/hour	18 food/hour	Gives bonus against bowmen.	0.3
Heavy Cavalry	7	7	300 GC	18 hours	18 GC/hour	24 food/hour	Gives bonus against bowmen.	0.4
Knight	10	10	1,000 GC	18 hours	48 GC/hour	24 food/hour	Gives bonus against bowmen.	1.1

Notes

1. Elite soldiers are veterans of combat are essentially battle-hardened foot soldiers - if a foot soldier survives a battle and the result of that battle is a Stalemate, a Minor Victory or a Victory, there is a chance they will become an Elite troop. Elites have a very good cost to effectiveness ratio (the best of all the troops). They do not cost anything to train, but the training cost shown above is their effective training cost for calculating net worth.
2. In order to increase the effectiveness of troops, the player also has the choice of incorporating siege engines to counter the defensive bonuses of castles.
3. Wine can be employed to give your troops an offensive bonus
4. iron can be used to make armour to improve troops defensive capability.
5. GC to Maintain is used up even during training.
6. The defined food consumption increase is only after training is complete

Networth

The NW numbers above take into account that each Peasant also has a base NW. The training NW is added on top.

The training NW is 1.5 times the gold NW for training + Peasant NW.
So for archers, the cost is 200gc. The gold NW is 0.02. So Archer NW = 1.5 * 0.02 + 0.1 = 0.13 NW

This means that your kingdom will gain 0.5 times the gold NW for training when you start training. Some thing to look for in the NW over time charts.

The trained, ready to use troop NW is 10 times the gold NW for training + Peasant NW.
So for Archers, the cost is 200 GC, which is a NW of 0.2 (10*0.02), is added to the 0.1NW of a peasants for a total NW of 0.3 which is listed in the table.

Training and Research

Training is very useful to improve the effectiveness of these troops.

Some skills improve attack ratings, some improve defense ratings.

In addition to all the skills under the training yard, the War Horse skill in the university improves the attack ratings of cavalry and Clergy skill in the church studies increase attack ratings of all units.

Skill	Type	What it does
Improved Weapon Design	University	Increases Attack Ratings of All Troops +1% each level
Advanced Weapon Design	University	Increases Attack Ratings of All Troops +1% each level
Improved Armour	University	Increases the Protection Armour Gives by 4% of your Armour Bonus (requires you to have armour issued)
War Horse	University	Increases Cavalry Attack Ratings by +1% each Level
Roads	University	Decreases Return Times on Attacks by -2% each Level
Lance Formation	Training Yard	Increases Cavalry Bonus against Footsoldiers/Pikemen by +1% each Level
Leadership Training	Training Yard	Increases Elite Attack Points by +1% each Level
Loose Order Formation	Training Yard	Gives Footsoldiers/Pikemen a Bonus Against Archers by +1% each level
Phalanx	Training Yard	Increases Footsoldier/Pikemen Bonus against Cavalry by +1% each Level
Sharpshooter	Training Yard	Increases Archery Range units DEF and ATT by +1% each Level
Military Encampment	Training Yard	Increases the Max Bonus of All Troops against others by +1% each Level
Tactics	Training Yard	Decreases Battle Casualties by -0.5% each Level
Herbalism	Church	Decreases Battle Casualties by -0.25% each Level
Medicine	Church	Decreases Battle Casualties by -0.5% each Level
Hospitals	Church	Decreases Battle Casualties by -1% each Level
Clergy	Church	Increases Attack Ratings of All Troops +0.25% each level

There is also a Training & Research Chart which can be found at: http://kingdomgame.net/Images/KG-skills.png

Unofficial Training & Research Cost/Timeline Spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pc9WuHcJ6_cBsSruWRXBCFA