recruiting

Recruitment

Balancing recruitment vs barracks space.

In LoU there is a balance between how many troops your city can hold and how fast you can recruit them. Since the recruitment times are rounded to the nearest second there comes a time when one more stable or even 5 more stables will not increase how fast you can recruit a knight. The table below shows the different troops and the fastest reasonable time you can recruit them and still maintain a decent number of barracks. You can of course get most of them (except city guards, one second is as fast as you can get) to go faster but you’ll sacrifice a lot of barracks space for that one second you’ll gain per unit. The table also shows the speed needed if you sacrifice one or two seconds for being able to have more troops in the city for selected units.

*Ships have a maximum base recruitment percentage of 1900% this can be increased through research.
*Barons can also be increased via research.

*Ships are also affected by Humility Virtue Bonus ~ Vulcan

Picture	Name	Recruitment Building	Optimal Speed	Optimal time	+1 s	+2 s	wood/h	stone/h	iron/h	gold/h
	City Guard	City Guard House Level 1	3350%	00:00:01	2001%	1430%	360.000	–	–	–
	Berserker	Training Ground Level 1	8025%	00:00:02	5715%	4445%	–	–	270.000	–
	Ranger	Training Ground Level 4	7150%	00:00:03	5557%	4546%	192.000	–	–	–
	Guardian	Training Ground Level 10	8575%	00:00:03	6668%	5456%	–	–	168.000	48.000
	Scout	Stable Level 1	8575%	00:00:03	6668%	5456%	–	–	48.000	144.000
	Crossbowman	Stable Level 5	8025%	00:00:07	7060%	6317%	77.142	–	–	102.857
	Knight	Stable Level 10	7700%	00:00:06	6668%	5883%	–	–	150.000	60.000
	Mage	Moonglow Tower Level 1	8025%	00:00:07	7060%	6317%	–	–	25.714	77.142
	Warlock	Moonglow Tower Level 7	8400%	00:00:15	7880%	7430%	–	–	24.000	84.000
	Templar	Trinsic Temple Level 1	7800%	00:00:04	6365%	5386%	–	–	81.000	90.000
	Paladin	Trinsic Temple Level 6	8250%	00:00:08	7369%	6668%	–	–	90.000	72.000
	Baron	Trinsic Temple Level 10	8600%	00:11:38
	Ram	Workshop Level 1	8475%	00:00:29
	Balista	Workshop Level 6	8450%	00:00:41
	Catapult	Workshop Level 10	8425%	00:00:47
	Sloop	Shipyard Level 1	1900%	00:21:56
	Frigate	Shipyard Level 6	1900%	00:35:05
	War Galleon	Shipyard Level 10	1900%	01:10:11

Recruitment Speed Calculator (Google Docs Spreadsheet)

Layouts:
Shipyards max: Click for Flash Planner for Shipyards
The nice thing about shipyard layouts is they very rarely require removal of resource nodes other than to maximize food. The layout above shows what you need for the max of 1900% (not including research).

Other buildings max: Click for Flash Planner for other buildings
The layout above shows a standard build to get 8600% with Training Grounds, you can use any other building in their place. To get the lower amounts replace TG with barracks in the upper right (of course that placement can go anywhere it fits with the least resource node removals).