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A tween era bored stiff "Blast from the Past" post. The guide and units as they were on 7/20/2005, my first day in VU. :D

Human
Swordsmen 200 2 3	Archers 520 4 5	Knights 1500 10 9	Magicians 100  0 0	Catapults 4000 40 0

Elf
Ghosts 100 2 2	Archers 620 4 8	Riders 1200 8 6	Spellweavers 100 0 0	Archmages 2200 5+Magic Level

Orc
Gaia 25 1 1	Hammerthrowers 320 3 4	Ogres 1200 8 6	Shamans 100 0 0	Nazguls 17000 75 75

Dwarf
Swordsmen 190 2 2	Hammerthrowers 720 5 6	Axemen 1200 8 6	Runemasters 100 0 0	Cavemasters 900 3 3

Troll
Hobgoblins 160 3 3	Rockthrowers 470 5 6	Warlords 1000 11 8	Mages 35 1 0	Berserkers 3600 30 20

Halfling
Farmers 20 0 1	Slingers 150 2 2	Pony riders 600 6 4	Illusionists 100 0 0	Adventurers 1000 8 8

Buildings
	Wreckages When you destroy buildings they will become Wreckages and will disappear over time.
	Homes House 25 people.
	Farms Produce 7+ food each day.
	Mines Produce 3+ gold and 1+ stone each day.
	Magic Towers Will defend your city from magic and make it much easier for your wizards to cast long range spells.
	Guard Towers Each guard tower gives 5  extra defence and increase line of sight.
	Taverne Makes your peasants happier.
	Lumber Mills Produce 1+ tree each day.
	Armories Lower training costs and allows you to train more troops in your colony.
	Warehouses Can hold the same amount of resources as 100 farms/mines/mills.
	Walls Multiplies the defence (max walls gives 100% extra defence) and increase the preparation time when attacking your colony.

+ The buildings can have various bonuses that makes them more effective and can produce more. For example building farms in a city placed near a river will produce more food then a city on the plains/desert.

* All buildings can store an unlimited amount of resources.

Every farm, mine and lumbermill needs 5 workers to operate.

Each man and woman (not in an army) eats 0.25 food each day.

All employed peasants pay 1 gold in taxes each day.

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Man that is pretty funny comparing it to now.

Catas with no defense :D
Elves were changed the most... they all got extremelly lots of defense... Archmage at 5+ magic level is fun :D
Naz at 75/75 is the best part :D They must have sucked big time back then
Dwarfs still suck as they used to :D

Dwarves didn't have cost increases and stuff like that... :\

era 23, 7 of the top 10 were Dwarfs (the top 4 were dwarfs and the top 3 of them were in Legacy...) 

I placed 37 as a dwarf and it was my first full era ;)

LOL I'd like to see a really old player come back and, without knowing, try to play as dwarf this era. He'd/She'd probably get so pissed he would NEVER come back after that. ROFLOL