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.

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