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Hello all,

the short answer is that
1) halfer ponies are cheap

2) and a single Calvary unit (Human Knights, Elven Riders and Halfer Ponies) gets counted as 3 soldiers on the toplists /rankings.

they are also worth 3 soldiers when determining a army's "size" on the game map.
So normally a brigade is around 5000 soldiers; yet 1667 cavalry units  would appear as the same size on the map

Actually, ALL lvl3 units(including axers and lords) are counted as 3 points.

And ponies/knights/nazzies/riders are only fast if they are in a "pure" army, if u add MU's(wich u often have to) they are as slow as any unit so its a pretty useless boon(except in the case of naz scouts wich can be really annoying).

Trolls only disadvantage is the more expensive sciences, but it is balanced by the fact that they overall have the best military units in the game. Hobs are GREAT, rockies are GREAT(compare them to ponies and tell me wich one u prefer), lords are by far the best lvl3 unit in the game and zerks is the best value for money lvl5 in the game.

Overall, I would still say troll is the most reliable warrior race in the game. Only reason why more people doesnt play them is becouse:
A) Since the game isn't played by as many atm kds are smaller and you need more oop-races like halfers.
B) They are less fun to play than orcs who can do crazy shit(although never defeat a troll 1v1 on the open field)
C) Competition isnt as fierce so people can safely go for economy races like dwarves and halfers becouse they like building stuff - eventhough they aren't that good at winning wars(other than halfers early era).

In summary: go troll.