Romans
Key points
- Suits patient, experienced players
- Powerful troops
- Long and expensive training
Details
- Troops – slow speed, high build costs, slow time to train
- Merchants – medium speed (16 f/h), low capacity (500 resources)
- 100 ‘fighting strength’ hero points per skill point (rather than 80)
Special buildings
- Horse Drinking Trough – reduces feeding cost of cavalry
- City Wall – High in Defense, but easy to destroy
Simple strategy
- Extra construction slot to build up village quickly
- Good defense from combining Legionnaires and Praetorians
- Strength and carry capacity of Equites Imperatoris is good for raiding
Advanced strategy
- Strengths in offence and defense
- Patience is required to build large armies
- For defense, produce large numbers of Praetorians
- If defending solo, keep villages close together
- Senator is more powerful than Gaul and Teuton equivalents
- Use Trade Office to compensate for low capacity of merchants
- Use Horse Drinking Trough to reduce feeding troops of cavalry
For a list of all troops visit our Roman Troops page.