Okay, didn't know that. Is there some where you can count the ones you have got?
Sometimes, as you state, have come to realize and been a reality... many variables. I know I will not build as many as I did in my 1st world. Certainly they help A LOT, IMO, and in many ways, certainly preserves real troops, while also prolonging the ability to fight, with few real units, the more the merrier.No they are not. You can fight faster without rogues.
What's an army w/o a well maintained Traz? WEAK, she answers herself. Troops are essential for a warrior. Period.I also just got my Traz up last week. However, I also do a lot of in-game battles and lose troops. The lower level Traz doesn't replace them fast enough to keep up with my loss rate currently. Over time, I'll build up the Traz to crank out some more poor prisoners for the front lines.
Totally agree sometimes it's more efficient to use all real troops as stated above... often depends much on units you are up against, etc.. rogues do begin having less effect in some of the higher ages. Always variables. Knowing the troops helps. I practice manually with every unit to better understand their usefulness, a tad of research helps. In SAM, 2 Steel Wardens and 6 rogues will work most often, depends, have used various combinations as needed, 8 Sentinels especially when lots of artillery.This is highly dependent on era. Agent’s in SAV (I assume) and you’re in CE. In my experience in Iron , 8 ballistas is the fastest at any level of attrition. Some people like using 8 Sentinels in SAM, 8 Eels in OF or 8 RFCs in PE at low attrition.
I built 35K rogues in my 1st city, never again, I choose how many other units based on how much I use them. With more rogues it's not as necessary to build the numbers you mention, it's a personal choice I'd suppose. 20K seems a bit much of 1 unit, other than rogues, imo and that's a lot. Besides you probably would never use that many real units in one era, rogues would be my choice of troop to have an abundance, they travel with you.How many of one troop? 20,000 possible.50,000 is you have played a longtime. I add 5K of one then switch what I am making.
Rogues provides that 1st no damage hit. When rogues work I'll pick rogues over my real units. 2 units and 6 rogues. Initially it was 1 unit and 7 rogues. The Kraken changed that. Never heard anyone not tout the value of using rogues. Works for me. To each their own.I'm in CE fighting with PME units against other PME units. Att/Def is 973/626. Attrition at 59. Autobattling only. I just tried about a dozen different combinations of units with no rogues. Managed to win all battles but took very heavy losses (50-70%). Switched back to 2 heavies with 6 rogues and won. Some units took damage but none were killed in 20 battles.
Others have said it will only produce troops from barracks you have in the town. If you only have a rogue den when you harvest, do you still get troops without a built barracks in your town?The Traz will only produce troops for which you have barracks planted in your city. The barracks do not have to be fully constructed or even connected to roads for the Traz to produce. When I first got my Traz going I kept a vacant "lot" in my city. When the Trax was ready to collect I would plant a barracks, collect Traz, then delete the barracks. Next time, I'd plant a different barracks, collect different troops. Rinse and repeat. Eventually, I got all the troops I needed from GE and GBG so my city now only has a single rogue den with Traz at 54.
Agreed, FASTEST fighting is to use 8 of the same troop in GBG, this isn't the same as fighting to minimize losses. If you want to limit losses then rogues are the way to go. Rogues can also be used to win battles at high levels of attrition that otherwise can't be won with your current 8 troops arrangement. What you use is dependent on what you are trying to do. I like trying to prevent losses in GE even though I could just plow thru all the levels accepting whatever the losses happen because of the limitless supply of troops from Traz. However, I find it fun to try and beat the computer troops with no losses. Just started in OF and so far haven't been able to make it thru all of GE with no losses. Attack Boost just over 1000, Attack defense is 950No they are not. You can fight faster without rogues.
Many do as you stated, I have a different strategy. I build as many as possible of a preferred unit to not run out, especially before my Traz is spitting out a decent number.The standard way you use a Traz is specifically that . The needed unit building gets put down , the traz flipped and the building gets deleted freeing up the space for events.