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Just for fun.

1. You can take any one T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5 from any race, and those units will act as they normally do. So AMs are still reliant on magic sci, CMs give bonus like normal.
2. No race overlap, so one of each race max.
3. One unique feature of any race. For instance, you can choose Halfling half build price, but it doesn't come with faster building too or you can choose Orc FM, but it doesn't come with half training time.

For instance, you can take:
Gaia (T1 - Orc)
HTs (T2 - Dwarf)
Warlords (T3 - Troll)
MUs (T4 - Halfling)
Catas (Human - T5) 
Halfling build speed. for one custom "race".

As you can see, one of each race for 5 unit types + unique race bonus.

Not my choices, just a random example.

Would be interesting if you explained why as well.

What is YOUR perfect race?

T1 - Gaia, obv this is the only choice
T2 - Rocks, i prefer the most offensive lvl 2
T3 - knights, in this new meta of ultra-long eras, the T3 needs beef to justify. highest dp of the choices
T4 - orc MU (cheap)
T5 - Elf archmage (assuming at least lvl 9 magic, this is the most cost efficient unit in the whole dang game)

T1:  Gaia (obvious reasons)

Matthew and Panic, he stated 1 unit max per race. :)

Konspyre a copy cat. :)

For a different build, I would consider:

T1 - Farmer - Halfling 
T2 - Archer - Elf
T3 - Warlord - Troll
T4 - MU - Orc
T5 - CM - Dwarf 
Racial Trait: Human - 200k City

Many people are taking the halfling 1/2 build cost, and it's true that it's good, but I think that the issue is everyone is thinking too early. The 1/2 build cost is only really that good for only so long, but the farmer bonus food is effective all era. CMs give an outsized bonus to econ.

The Elf Archer is the best defender in the game.

A Human 200k can be put down in 8-9d, a Halfling can put down 2x - 90k by D6-7. So not that huge of a difference. That said, the Human 200k gives a solid ~3m econ, now imagine it with CMs and farmers. You also have to remember that Halflings build 25% quicker, but you choose one bonus, so while they still would build quicker with pure number of buildings, they would still be slower OOP builders than they currently are. A 200k easily fulfills all pez needs.

If you're maging, you effectively have an econ of 300-400k worth of buildings for other races, which means that your build speed/cost is a lot lower anyway.

If you're attacking, well this is where it gets interesting. Barring upkeep, the Warlord is by far the most efficient unit in the game. I sacrificed Zerks for CMs to get that huge econ bonus, and due to Warlords being 160g/OP-DP and you having a huge bonus to food/mine prod, you would build up a massively powerful army very, very quickly. Potentially heavily out scaling those who chose zerks.

True, but no one said this is in a vacuum. I'd have a KD to help out, just like Trolls/Dwarves/Elves have these days.

@Kon, you also assume your Himan 200k would have the tax and PG boosts that come with Human, which would not exist. Your Econ would be roughly 400k lower without the 10% tax boost since it’s applied at the base, meaning any tax benefits from large cities are compounded. Your 2 mil gold in taxes would be a lot more than 10% lower ;)

I've had a 200k as a non-Human and it still produced 1m+ in taxes.