Units - Efficiency (costs) comparison

EFFICIENCY (COSTS)

These rankings represent efficiency of the units. All previous rankings focused on effectiveness while here we are more economy oriented and are looking how many resources we need to pay for 1 unit of attack or defense.. During long conflicts or when attacking a bigger enemy, efficiency is the key to success. Sometimes endurance is more important than pure strength. You can learn more about it from my guide Total war - resources.

Total Resources / Attack (TR/A) 

Efficiency of your attacking forces (how much 1 Attack cost in resources).

The smaller the number the better.

Total resources represents a sum of all resources needed to produce army units and ships divided by the Total Attack value of the transported units. This is a great way to see how much we pay for 1 unit of attack for each type of units. For example Slingers are so great because they provide 1 attack for the lowest price (except Manticores but for these you need also Favour Points).

 

Defensive units will have much higher TR/A than offensive units.

Naturally defending units are useless in offensive tasks and all resources spent on constructing them would be wasted if they were used in that role.

For example if you send 760 Slingers you will pay 12,3 resources per 1 attack but if you send 760 Swordsmen you will pay 53.7 resources per 1 attack. Slingers are more suited for attacking because of their high attack value. 

You may also wonder what is more efficient - investing 1000 FS in Transport Ships and Slingers or  Erinyes? In this scenario Erinyes cost 13,6 resources per 1 attack, so are slightly more expensive than Slingers (not mentioning Favor Points). Erinyes are not only weaker than Slingers (lower distance attack strength) but also more expensive.

Divine Envoy - the cost shown in the Sea column is basically the cost of transporting ships.

How is it calculated (Sea*)?
Sea - Total Resources (Wood+Rock+Silver) used to construct ships and build units divided by the Total Attack value of the transported units.

		Sea*	Land
1	Manticore	11.4	11.4
2	Griffin (HW)	12.2	12.2
3	Slinger	12.3	8.5
4	Harpy	12.6	12.6
5	Erinyes	13.6	9.3
6	Cyclop	17.3	12.6
7	Divine Envoy	17.7	0.0
8	Horseman	17.9	13.1
9	Minotaur	18.5	12.1
10	Hoplite	19.6	14.1
11	Medusa	21.4	17.6
12	Chariot	23.5	17.1
13	Centaur	24.4	17.6
14	Cal. Boar (HW)	30.3	23.2
15	Pegasus	32.4	32.4
16	Archer	35.4	24.4
17	Cerberus	37.4	24.6
18	Catapult	49.4	36.0
19	Swordsman	53.7	36.0

(H) - Hero World unit
* I used here 1000 population (FS), FTS (Fast Transport Ships) with Bunks.

Total resources / Defense (TR/D)

Efficiency of your defensive forces (how much 1 defense cost in resources).

The smaller the number the better.

Same idea (as in Total Resources / Attack) but it takes into account the Total Defense value, which is simply a sum of all 3 types of defense, i.e. 1 Swordsman has 14 Blunt 8 Sharp & 30 Distance defense which all give 52 Total Defense. As we can see even though Medusa has great defense strength it is 3 times more expensive than Cerberus or Pegasus.

Divine Envoy - the cost shown in the Sea column is basically the cost of transporting ships.

Offensive units will have much higher TR/D than defensive units.

How is it calculated (Sea*)?

Sea - Total Resources (Wood+Rock+Silver) used to construct ships and build units divided by the Total Defense value of the transported units.

		Sea*	Land
1	Pegasus	6.7	6.7
2	Cerberus	8.7	5.8
3	Divine Envoy	13.3	0.0
4	Cal. Boar (HW)	15.1	11.6
5	Minotaur	15.2	10.0
6	Swordsman	15.5	10.4
7	Centaur	17.3	12.5
8	Cyclop	17.3	12.7
9	Medusa	19.0	15.7
10	Archer	19.8	13.6
11	Erinyes	21.7	14.9
12	Hoplite	25.4	18.2
13	Chariot	26.6	19.5
14	Manticore	36.0	36.0
15	Slinger	50.0	34.4
16	Griffin (HW)	51.6	51.6
17	Harpy	57.3	57.3
18	Horseman	68.8	50.2
19	Catapult	164.8	120.0

(H) - Hero World unit
* I used here 1000 population (FS), FTS (Fast Transport Ships) with Bunks.

 Favor point /Attack & Favor Points /Defense

The same idea as with the Total Resources / Attack & Total Resources / Defense.

Efficiency: How many FPs cost 1 Attack or 1 Defense.

The smaller the number the better.

How is it calculated?
Favor Points used to build units divided by the Total Attack or Defense value of these units.
All attacks/supports done over sea - cost of FTS included.

Unit	Favor points / Attack		Unit	Favor points / Defense
Griffin (HW)	0.29		Cal. Boar (HW)	0.07
Erinyes	0.40		Cerberus	0.09
Manticore	0.43		Pegasus	0.12
Cal. Boar (HW)	0.44		Minotaur	0.13
Cyclop	0.48		Medusa	0.15
Minotaur	0.48		Centaur	0.15
Harpy	0.49		Cyclop	0.16
Medusa	0.49		Erinyes	0.21
Centaur	0.64		Divine Envoy	0.25
Divine Envoy	1.00		Griffin (HW)	0.41
Cerberus	1.10		Manticore	0.45
Pegasus	1.80		Harpy	0.74