Units / Troops

Units are trained in the Barracks (infantry), Stable (cavalry), Workshop (siege), and Residence/Palace (settlers & leaders).

Unit classes

• Infantry — trained in the Barracks. Both offensive and defensive infantry exist per tribe.
• Cavalry — trained in the Stable; faster, higher food upkeep. Includes the fast raiding cavalry each tribe uses for looting.
• Scouts — reconnaissance. Stormfang can build scouts in the Barracks; other tribes use the Stable. Scouts cannot be trapped by a Thornsnare Grove (if scouting, not attacking, player-reported).
• Rams and Catapults — siege, built in the Workshop; upgraded in the Smithy (which increases their damage to buildings).
• Settlers and Leaders/Chiefs — expansion units.
• Merchants — carry resources, not a combat unit.

Unit stats by tribe¹

Full roster per tribe, in the game’s own training order. “Def (Inf)” is defense against infantry attackers, “Def (Cav)” is defense against cavalry attackers. Training times assume a level-20 training building (Barracks/Stable/Workshop) with no extra speed bonuses.

Embermark Dominion

	Unit	Role	Atk	Def (Inf)	Def (Cav)	Speed	Capacity	Upkeep	Cost	Training time (lvl 20)
	Emberblade	Infantry	40	35	50	6	50	1	120 100 150 30	3m 36s
	Shieldbearer	Infantry	30	65	35	5	20	1	100 130 160 70	3m 58s
	Iron Spear	Infantry	70	40	25	7	50	1	150 160 210 80	4m 19s
	Sentinel	Scout	0	20	10	16	0	2	140 160 20 40	3m 04s
	Sun Rider	Cavalry	120	65	50	14	100	3	550 440 320 100	5m 57s
	Crimson Lancer	Cavalry	180	80	105	10	70	4	550 640 800 180	7m 56s
	Iron Ram	Ram	60	30	75	4	0	3	900 360 500 70	10m 21s
	Dominion Catapult	Catapult	75	60	10	3	0	6	950 1,350 600 90	20m 16s
	High Prefect	Leader	50	40	30	4	0	5	30,750 27,200 45,000 37,500	3h 24m
	Settler	Settler	10	80	80	5	3,000	1	4,600 4,200 5,800 4,400	1h 00m

Embermark’s unique Rider’s Wells building cuts cavalry training time by 1%/level and eventually removes a point of upkeep from the Sentinel (well level 10+), Sun Rider (15+) and Crimson Lancer (20+) — the table above assumes it’s unbuilt.

Stormfang Clans

	Unit	Role	Atk	Def (Inf)	Def (Cav)	Speed	Capacity	Upkeep	Cost	Training time (lvl 20)
	Raider	Infantry	40	20	5	7	60	1	95 75 40 40	1m 37s
	Axeborn	Infantry	10	35	60	7	40	1	145 70 85 40	2m 31s
	War Brute	Infantry	60	30	30	6	50	1	130 120 170 70	2m 42s
	Pathstalker	Scout	0	10	5	9	0	1	160 100 50 50	2m 31s
	Fang Rider	Cavalry	55	100	40	10	110	2	370 270 290 75	5m 24s
	Blood Charger	Cavalry	150	50	75	9	80	3	450 515 480 80	6m 40s
	War Ram	Ram	65	30	80	4	0	3	1,000 300 350 70	9m 27s
	Skullthrower	Catapult	50	60	10	3	0	6	900 1,200 600 60	20m 16s
	Clan Warlord	Leader	40	60	40	4	0	4	35,500 26,600 25,000 27,200	2h 38m
	Settler	Settler	10	80	80	5	3,000	1	5,800 4,400 4,600 5,200	1h 09m

The Raider trains in the Barracks as infantry, not the Stable as cavalry. Axeborn’s Def (Cav) is nearly double its Def (Inf) (60 vs. 35), so it holds up better against cavalry attacks than infantry ones. War Brute produces more Atk per point of Upkeep than the Raider (60 vs. 40 at the same 1 Upkeep), at a higher resource cost. Pathstalker is the slowest of the three tribes’ scouts (Speed 9 vs. 16 and 17), so it takes longer to scout distant tiles. Fang Rider carries more than any other cavalry unit in these tables (Capacity 110) despite modest Atk (55).

Verdant Wardens

	Unit	Role	Atk	Def (Inf)	Def (Cav)	Speed	Capacity	Upkeep	Cost	Training time (lvl 20)
	Briar Guard	Infantry	15	40	50	7	35	1	100 130 55 30	2m 21s
	Woodblade	Infantry	65	35	20	6	45	1	140 150 185 60	3m 15s
	Wind Scout	Scout	0	20	10	17	0	2	170 150 20 40	3m 04s
	Stag Rider	Cavalry	100	25	40	19	75	2	350 450 230 60	5m 35s
	Green Lancer	Cavalry	45	115	55	16	35	2	360 330 280 120	5m 46s
	Oak Cavalier	Cavalry	140	60	165	13	65	3	500 620 675 170	7m 02s
	Timber Ram	Ram	50	30	105	4	0	3	950 555 330 75	11m 16s
	Stonecaster	Catapult	70	45	10	3	0	6	960 1,450 630 90	20m 16s
	Circle Elder	Leader	40	50	50	5	0	4	30,750 45,400 31,000 37,500	3h 24m
	Settler	Settler	10	80	80	5	3,000	1	4,400 5,600 4,200 3,900	51m 07s

The Ancients

Stats for The Ancients, the NPC faction guarding Ancient Strongholds/Wonders. These units are never built by a player, so they have no cost or training time.

	Unit	Role	Atk	Def (Inf)	Def (Cav)	Speed
	Stonepike	Infantry	20	35	50	6
	Carved Warrior	Infantry	65	30	10	7
	Monolith Warden	Infantry	100	90	75	6
	Shardwing	Scout	0	10	0	25
	Slate Rider	Cavalry	155	80	50	14
	Obsidian Knight	Cavalry	170	140	80	12
	Gatebreaker	Ram	250	120	150	5
	Obelisk Engine	Catapult	60	45	10	3
	The Ascendant	Leader	80	50	50	5
	Settler	Settler	30	40	40	5

Where to further find unit stats

• Combat Simulator (via the Rally Point, or https://www.thronewake.com/simulator) — hover over unit icons to see their attributes; also shows speed and carry capacity.
• Smithy — shows your own tribe’s researched units’ stats per level in-game. There is no in-game overview of all units at all levels.
• Thronewake Tools (drdoughnut.github.io) — the community tool this page’s data comes from; also lets you compare unit attributes, calculate armies, and plan hammer operations interactively.

Movement & speed

• An army moves at the speed of its slowest unit. Because of this, fast cavalry is often sent alone to raid so it isn’t slowed by infantry.
• The Bannerfield building increases troop travel speed for the portion of a journey beyond 20 tiles.
• Concrete base speeds (1× world; movement scales with world speed):
  • Catapult base speed 3 tiles/hour.
  • Green Lancer base speed 16 tiles/hour (used as a reference elsewhere).
  • (Merchant tribe speeds: Stormfang 12, Embermark 16, Verdant 24.)
  • (An artefact being moved travels at 8 tiles/hour — half a Green Lancer.)

Food upkeep & starvation

• Every unit consumes Food upkeep. If a village’s food goes negative, troops starve.
• External reinforcements starve before your own troops (update 02/07). Which of your own unit types starves first is debated (player claim: the cheapest/T1 unit first — unconfirmed).
• Rider’s Wells reduces Embermark cavalry upkeep; the Harvest Horn artefact reduces upkeep for stationed troops.

Smithy upgrades

Each Smithy level (max 20, or 23 via research) raises a unit’s offense and both defense stats using the following formula²:

improved = base + (base + 300 × upkeep ÷ 7) × (1.007^level − 1)

Because the upkeep term is added before scaling, a low base stat with relatively high upkeep gains a much bigger percentage than a high base stat with low upkeep — at level 20, this ranges from roughly +24% (e.g. the Iron Spear’s 70 offense) to well over +100% for the lowest base stats (e.g. the Raider’s 5 cavalry-defense). A mid-range case like the Emberblade’s 40 offense becomes ~52 (+31%) at the same level. Alliance troop-strength bonuses apply on top of Smithy upgrades.

Settlers and Leaders/Chiefs cannot be upgraded via the Smithy.

Settlers

• Trained in the Residence/Palace; you need 3 to found a village, and a free expansion slot in the training village.
• Cost depends on tribe (Verdant settlers are cheaper).

Leaders (chiefs)

Leaders (called “chiefs”) reduce a target village’s loyalty; when loyalty hits 0 you conquer the village.

• To build a leader you need Residence/Palace and Academy at level 20, the relevant research, plus a free expansion slot and Culture Point slots (2 to conquer a City).
• Leaders cannot be healed at the Herbalist.
• The Stormbrew Works effect makes leaders 50% less effective while active.

Scouting

• Stationed troops (including scouts from anyone in the village) provide scouting there. Players build large “scout hammers” (thousands of scouts) to reveal enemy armies.
• Sentinel, Pathstalker, and Wind Scout each have dedicated base scouting attributes of 35 attack and 20 defense. Scout battles use these values, not the ordinary attack and infantry/cavalry defense columns in the roster tables. Smithy levels and other bonuses modify them.
• Incoming attack and raid visibility compares the incoming troop count with the target village’s Rally Point threshold. Signal Fires raises that threshold; the attacker’s Masking Drills lowers it. Scout missions have additional detection rules described under Combat.
• To see the troops inside a Wilder Site you must scout it (or learn from attacking/raiding it).

Moving/merging troops

• Consolidated Legions lets reinforcements from one of your villages merge permanently into another village you own after arrival. The research must be unlocked in the origin village, and the receiving village pays twice the units’ original training cost. The merged troops become part of the receiving village’s own army.
• Transfer Orders can redirect reinforcements sent from the researched village while they are stationed elsewhere, without returning to their origin first. Its ranks allow 1, 2, or 3 transfers per rolling 24 hours. The new target must be one of your villages or an eligible defensive/personal-pact village.

See also

• Combat · Tribes · Buildings · Research