31JUL12 - MAJOR RELEASE (Crafting)

Problem solved.

No, I would build trueshots and marshalls. I like marshalls more, for the 10% less attack than knights, they have 41% more speed.

For the penalty of 11% less speed, trueshots have 33% more attack than longbowman, 10-25% more defense than longbowman and costs one leather armour less than longbowman. And longbowman is probably the second best archer unit in the game.

If given a chance anytime, I'd instantly switch to an elf.

You can buy chainmail from market. The price differential between chainmail and platemail is not too much. (currently it is 210 gold in the market)

The limiting factor for cavalry is saddles. Elves have a clear advantage there, because sentinels doesn't need leather armour at all. Trueshots need only one. Hence they have more spare cows.

SugarFree wrote: you sure talk like cavalry is everything.

I dont think much about stalwarts, not to mention other infantry. Defenders mostly comprise of archers, who has high defence against infantry, but low defense against cavalry. 

Stalwart has 14 attack per gold upkeep, knight has 16 attack per gold upkeep. Longbowman has 32 defense against infantry, 20 against cavalry. Knights will be nearly double as effective against a stack of archers than stalwarts for the same upkeep worth of units.

Even spears have fairly good defence against infantry (kobolds have 12 defense against infantry and 13 defense against cavalry - not much of a difference)