Teutons: the complete tribe guide

Teutons are one of the original tribes and reward aggression, activity and production volume. Their defining loop is simple: cheap troops create farming income, farming income creates more troops, and the larger army expands the farming economy again. Late game, the same production philosophy becomes a brutal wall-breaking hammer.

Every unit below links to its page in the unit database, and every comparison opens in the Unit comparison with both sides already chosen. The whole roster is on the Teutons page.

The hero

The Teuton hero is built for raiding pressure. His cranny-related raiding advantage matters most while other players still rely on crannies to protect small economies. The Bag pushes the same identity further by increasing what the hero can carry home, so he is not merely a combat unit - he directly improves the economics of active raiding. In a strong farming account that compounds with cheap Clubswingers and frequent farm-list cycles. The items themselves are in the hero database.

The Brewery

The Brewery is best explained as part of the whole Teuton hammer rather than as an isolated percentage. Teutons already produce enormous numbers of cheap offensive infantry and pair them with Teutonic Knights and siege; the Brewery then multiplies the strength of an army that is already large.

The price is the loss of precise catapult targeting, which makes the mechanic ideal for attacks meant to smash through a major target rather than surgically remove a chosen building. This is why Teutons are so natural in Wonder of the World and major-operation roles: troop volume, durable siege support and a large offensive multiplier in one account. The tribe is not just "good at rams"; the whole architecture points toward building a huge army whose job is to hit something important very hard.

The wall

The Earth Wall gives less defensive amplification than the City Wall but is extremely durable against rams. It is a resilience mechanic rather than a high-multiplier one - see Rams and walls for how wall damage is actually calculated.

Troops, and what they are up against

Clubswinger

The Clubswinger is an economic unit as much as a military one: low cost, very short training and useful carrying capacity. Its closest opposite number is the Viking Thrall.

Unit	Attack	Attack / 100 res	Crop	Cost	Speed	Carry	Side by side
ClubswingerTeutons	40	16.0	1	250	7	60	this troop
ThrallVikings	45	17.0	1	265	7	55	Compare
BowmanHuns	50	13.5	1	370	6	30	Compare
SwordsmanGauls	65	12.1	1	535	6	45	Compare
ImperianRomans	70	11.7	1	600	7	50	Compare

Spearman

Cheap one-crop defence, specialised into cavalry defence, which makes it a natural Wonder and stationary-defence troop.

Unit	Def inf	Def cav	Def / 100 res	Crop	Cost	Speed	Side by side
SpearmanTeutons	35	60	14.0	1	340	7	this troop
PhalanxGauls	40	50	14.3	1	315	7	Compare
Ash WardenEgyptians	55	40	11.3	1	420	6	Compare
PraetorianRomans	65	35	10.9	1	460	5	Compare
ShieldsmanSpartans	85	45	12.3	1	530	8	Compare

Axeman

Trades the Clubswinger's extreme volume for stronger attack concentration. The two side by side is the decision every Teuton account makes.

Unit	Attack	Attack / 100 res	Crop	Cost	Speed	Carry	Side by side
AxemanTeutons	60	12.2	1	490	6	50	this troop
SwordsmanGauls	65	12.1	1	535	6	45	Compare
Khopesh WarriorEgyptians	65	10.0	1	650	7	45	Compare
Twinsteel TherionSpartans	90	11.3	1	795	6	50	Compare
ImperianRomans	70	11.7	1	600	7	50	Compare

Scout

An infantry scout, trained in the Barracks rather than the Stable - cheap to mass, slower to arrive. Scouting explains how a scouting battle resolves.

Unit	Def inf	Def cav	Speed	Crop	Cost	Side by side
ScoutTeutons	10	5	9	1	360	this troop
Heimdalls EyeVikings	10	5	9	1	350	Compare
SentinelSpartans	40	22	9	1	445	Compare
Equites LegatiRomans	20	10	16	2	360	Compare
PathfinderGauls	20	10	17	2	380	Compare

Paladin

Mobile infantry defence, and the reinforcement unit Teutons send when something has to arrive quickly.

Unit	Def inf	Def cav	Def / 100 res	Crop	Cost	Speed	Side by side
PaladinTeutons	100	40	7.0	2	1,005	10	this troop
DruidriderGauls	115	55	7.8	2	1,090	16	Compare
Anhur GuardEgyptians	110	50	7.3	2	1,090	15	Compare
Elpida RiderSpartans	120	90	7.3	2	1,440	16	Compare
Huskarl RiderVikings	95	100	9.2	2	1,055	12	Compare

Teutonic Knight

Not necessarily the strongest heavy cavalry per unit - its value is how efficiently it fits a mass-production hammer.

Unit	Attack	Attack / crop	Attack / 100 res	Crop	Cost	Speed	Carry	Side by side
Teutonic KnightTeutons	150	50.0	9.8	3	1,525	9	80	this troop
Equites CaesarisRomans	180	45.0	8.3	4	2,170	10	70	Compare
MarauderHuns	180	60.0	10.2	3	1,760	14	80	Compare
Corinthian CrusherSpartans	195	65.0	8.4	3	2,315	9	80	Compare
Valkyrie’s BlessingVikings	160	80.0	9.8	2	1,625	9	80	Compare

Ram

Read it in the context of Brewery-enhanced operations and the tribe's traditional wall-breaking role rather than as a raw attack number.

Unit	Attack	Attack / 100 res	Def cav	Cost	Crop	Side by side
RamTeutons	65	3.8	80	1,720	3	this troop
Battering ramRomans	60	3.3	75	1,830	3	Compare
RamGauls	50	2.6	105	1,910	3	Compare
RamVikings	65	3.8	80	1,720	3	Compare

Catapult

Conventional siege. The Brewery makes the trade-off strategic: more destructive power, less precision. Catapults: targets, durability and how many to send covers targeting and damage.

Unit	Attack	Attack / 100 res	Def cav	Cost	Crop	Side by side
CatapultTeutons	50	1.8	10	2,760	6	this troop
Fire CatapultRomans	75	2.5	10	2,990	6	Compare
TrebuchetGauls	70	2.2	10	3,130	6	Compare
CatapultVikings	50	1.8	10	2,760	6	Compare

Chief

20-25% loyalty per hit. Reliable but not tribe-defining - see Administrators: loyalty and conquering villages for the wave arithmetic.

Unit	Loyalty per hit	Cost	Crop	Speed	Side by side
ChiefTeutons	20-25%	114,300	4	4	this troop
SenatorRomans	20-30%	140,450	5	4	Compare
LogadesHuns	15-30%	117,600	4	5	Compare
ChieftainGauls	20-25%	144,650	4	5	Compare

Settler

Teuton expansion is usually funded by farming rather than by a cheap settler.

Unit	Cost	Carry	Crop	Speed	Side by side
SettlerTeutons	20,000	3,000	1	5	this troop
SettlerGauls	18,100	3,000	1	5	Compare
SettlerRomans	19,000	3,000	1	5	Compare
SettlerEgyptians	21,000	3,000	1	5	Compare

Economy and farming

Teuton farming is the tribe's economic engine. The account rewards very frequent farm-list activity, cheap troop replacement and constant reinvestment. Merchants carry large loads but are relatively slow, which fits a high-volume economy rather than a precise one.

Defensive strategy

The clean defensive route is mass Spearmen for cavalry defence, supplemented by Paladins when infantry defence and mobility are needed. Teutons can defend well, but their strongest identity remains offensive.

Offensive strategy

Classic options are Clubswinger + Teutonic Knight or Axeman + Teutonic Knight, with siege added for a full hammer. Clubswingers maximise volume and farming synergy; Axemen concentrate more attack into fewer infantry. The Brewery makes the finished army particularly dangerous against major fixed targets.

The numbers: Clubswingers or Axemen

Both hammers, built to the same 100,000 crop:

Army	Troops	Attack	Resources	Days to train
Axeman + Teutonic Knight	50,000 + 16,666	5,499,900	49,915,650	93.8
Clubswinger + Teutonic Knight	50,000 + 16,666	4,499,900-18%	37,915,650-24%	77.1-18%

Clubswingers give up 18% of the attack on the same crop - and 24% of the resources, and 18% of the time in the queue. That is the whole decision in one line: if crop is the binding constraint, Axemen; if resources or Barracks hours are, Clubswingers.

In practice most Teuton accounts start Clubswinger because the farming loop needs troops now and cheaply, then shift toward Axemen as the crop ceiling - not the resource income - becomes what limits the hammer. Neither number includes the Brewery, which multiplies both equally, or the Smithy; price the whole thing in the Army calculator.

The numbers: which Teuton defence

Army	Troops	Def inf	Def cav	Resources	Days to train
Spearman	100,000	3,500,000	6,000,000	34,000,000	175.1
Paladin	50,000	5,000,000+43%	2,000,000-67%	50,250,000+48%	187.6+7.1%
Spearman + Paladin	50,000 + 25,000	4,250,000+21%	4,000,000-33%	42,125,000+24%	93.8-46%

Spearmen are the cavalry wall: three times the cavalry defence of the same crop of Paladins, for a third fewer resources. Paladins are the infantry answer, worth 43% more infantry defence than Spearmen - and 48% more resources, and two thirds less cavalry cover.

The mix is what a real Teuton defensive village produces, and it lands between the two on both axes while training in half the time, because Spearmen come out of the Barracks and Paladins out of the Stable at the same time.

Strengths, weaknesses and common mistakes

• Strength. The cheapest offensive infantry in the game, and the farming economy that turns it into more of itself.
• Strength. The Brewery, on an army already built for volume.
• Strength. The Earth Wall keeps working when the Roman wall has gone.
• Weakness. Slow merchants, and a tribe that punishes inactivity harder than most: the loop needs a player who actually sends the farm list.
• Mistake. Building the Brewery early. It multiplies an army that does not exist yet, and the resources are worth more in troops.
• Mistake. Staying on Clubswingers past the point where crop, not resources, is the limit.

Where to go next

• The seven tribes compared by the numbers - every tribe's best attacker and defender.
• Army calculator - the full hammer, buildings included.
• Training time and building levels - what the Barracks level actually buys.
• Smithy upgrades: what they do to your units - upgrade costs for the units above.