My Nation rank/Mini Guide

[Vissor]

I will start by dividing the ranking by 2 parameters.
Nation unique unit and nation specialty.


Nation unique unit rank (1st is the best):

1)British
2)French
3)Koreans
4)Germans
5)Chinese
6)Greek
7)Japanese
8)Romans

Why?:
There is two main ways to play this game,Snipe with raiders or full attack.
Snipe with raiders is the best way to get loot in this game,but unfortunately its a very boring way as well.
If we going full attack,we have to build a good mix of soldiers.
When most of the bases are build with strong walls,the best way is to go with range attack,so the mix will be something like a few tanks,and the rest is range attackers.
The British are defiantly the best choice for that with dps boost and range+1,the french come close second with a nice boost to their tanks(20% hp),the Koreans with the 40% dps is also very strong.
Germans come 4th with the combination of 20% more dps and victory bonus,Chinese are 5th with faster rate of fire.
The last 3 are mostly useless,simply because foot soldiers die very fast and doesn't have time to produce a good damage overall.



Nation specialty rank (1st is the best):

1)French
2)Romans
3)Germans
4)British
5)Koreans
6)Japanese
7)Greeks
8)Chinese

Why?:
French come first with a great bonus of reducing the time it takes to train the army by 20%,very useful combined with blessing,army trains ridiculously fast.
Romans second with 10% larger army bonus,more army more dps more chances to win!
Germans 3rd with the rally bonuses and the dps bonus after victory,a lot of times i am close to throw my phone when my archers start to shoot at some farms or walls,just if i had my rally quicker...
British come 4th with 15% loot bonus after every raid,after a hour or so of raiding its a very nice bonus to your loot!
Koreans come 5th with 10% loot refund and one more tactic to use in battle,nice for WW.
And as usual the last 3 are truly useless in comparison to the other nations,Japanese with 25% more peace treaties is only for inactive players,shooting center is a joke.
Greeks with upgrade cost refund is nice in IA but not enough.
Chinese specialty...there is no specialty.

So in total the best nation to choose for the most will be French,The unique unit is a great tank especially when it upgrades to a real tank!
British will be my second choice!,i just love those archers!
Romans are also a good nation,but i just do not use infantry.
Germans and Koreans also an option,but in my opinion they are worse then the above.
Other nations just do not worth to play with.

Sorry for my grammar ,English isn't my first language.

 

[Laeon]

Actually, your should rank the nations whether you prefer war or loot.

In war, I think the Koreans are the best. They have a nice unique unit and +1 tactic.

For big loots, the British are the best.

French, Romans and Germans are war / loot balanced nations.

Japanese, Chinese and Greece are the less strong nations in both war and loot.

 

[Vissor]

Actually, your should rank the nations whether you prefer war or loot.

In war, I think the Koreans are the best. They have a nice unique unit and +1 tactic.

For big loots, the British are the best.

French, Romans and Germans are war / loot balanced nations.

Japanese, Chinese and Greece are the less strong nations in both war and loot.

It's hard to say,I prefer both...I like to attack and I need the loot ,I think most of the players think that way.
I can easily get big loot just from using raiders and few wall breakers...but it's so boring...

 

[Hunter Killer]

French is the best if you're not a crown player. If you use crowns every battle to retrain, there is no need to be French. That's why you see a lot of Romans in the leaderboard, they use crowns to instant train army and tactics. The 10% extra army is the only thing you can't get with crowns, for every other specificities, it's either not important enough or you can use crowns instead.

 

[JustInCase]

French unit not thats good. I prefer unique foot troops even though I am french but I never use its unique and prefer to use heavy tank.

 

[Atinyfish1386]

Romans o feel are slightly ahead of the pack but it's just an option on a side note. U.S. Templars is recruiting top talent to join top end players in a small group of former USA elite players to do wars come join us

 

[FroggyKilla]

It kinda is considering all the health boosts it can get.

 

[ivan.]

You guys are overestimating the uniques in this game. None of them are revolutionary or game changing. The nation bonuses is what really differentiates them.

 

[ivan.]

Chinese ahead of Greece? I'm curious what your reasons are.

Chinese have extra defenders spawn directly outside their Town center which is like an extra garrison. They also have an additional citizen. If I was playing Chinese all my traps would be fully upgraded by now. And now they have an extra mercenary camp space. China's weakest asset is its archer but that's not the whole picture. And Greece's upgrade cost refund in IA is not nice lol. I get more loot from raiding a single industrial base than waiting a week for an industrial upgrade to finish.

If I were to rank #1 being best and #8 being worst Greece would be #9.

 

[Vissor]

Chinese ahead of Greece? I'm curious what your reasons are.

Chinese have extra defenders spawn directly outside their Town center which is like an extra garrison. They also have an additional citizen. If I was playing Chinese all my traps would be fully upgraded by now. And now they have an extra mercenary camp space. China's weakest asset is its archer but that's not the whole picture. And Greece's upgrade cost refund in IA is not nice lol. I get more loot from raiding a single industrial base than waiting a week for an industrial upgrade to finish.

If I were to rank #1 being best and #8 being worst Greece would be #9.

The unique unit of the Chinese is little bit better then the unique of the Greeks.
The Chinese nation bonus is usless,I never use more then 8 citizens in one time,this bonus is only good in the early ages.
And when you make an upgrade that cost 5kk,then 250k is nice discount,therfore,Greek bonus better then Chinese but overall usless compared to other nations.

 

[ivan.]

Why would you keep your workers idle? Worker time is the most valuable resource in the game if you're F2P. Can't advance in the game if your workers are busy hunting boars. At the very least you're able to utilize the extra Chinese worker to upgrade walls or traps. You probably think the Chinese bonus is bad because you don't even bother utilizing it.

Also that 250k refund for a 5 mil upgrade will take upwards a week to wait and finish. You could easily farm that much gold within that time lol. Heck a single IA base with upgraded caravans will net you that in a single battle. My league bonus for a single battle is larger than that...

 

[Vissor]

If you are a smart player you won't upgrade 3 things in the same time,so 1 extra worker not needed.

 

[ivan.]

Huh? Why won't you upgrade 3 buildings at the same time? With 14 workers in IA you can have three upgrades going using 4 workers each, and have 2 workers free to collect cider/metal and upgrade walls. And the extra 15th citizen can be used to constantly upgrade traps. Having an additional worker also allows for other interesting upgrade combinations like five x3 upgrades which would have been useful during the tower promotion for example.

 

[Porcupine]

If you are a smart player you won't upgrade 3 things in the same time,so 1 extra worker not needed.

Big no to that. Post was going fine, don't start losing credibility

 

[Vissor]

Big no to that. Post was going fine, don't start losing credibility

, I just think,what will happen if I will upgrade 2 canon's and mortar simultaneously...I think I loose a lot of resources but it's just my opinion!

 

[Porcupine]

Smart players will play at empire and dynasty because they know resources are not a problem, they lose 350K gold and food in each attack but they don't care about that you know why? Because they make 350K food and gold in one attack anyway in those leagues. You should be efficient and never keep idle citizens, except 2 for farming.

 

[Jacesol]

i dont think Greek should even be ranked

 

[FroggyKilla]

Really? Because you can use the 14 to build stuff and have the 1 build walls. Ivan pretty much covered it.

 

[FroggyKilla]

Ranking is too generous for the Feedks.

 

[Hunter Killer]

Whoever keeps 6 workers idle at all time to hunt the occasional bear will lose all credibility

Smart players upgrade different buildings types i.e. one defense, one offense, one economic building at the same time if you don't want to have all your defense down.