So, you want to break hammers?

This guide is going to be written from a Gallic perspective, but is adaptable to the other civs as well. Feel free to ask any questions below, I may edit the guide as I draft it to incl ude answers. Now, you may have seen people say that defense is better than offense and it is for this reason that a good attacker uses fakes to hide his intended target. Def ending is simply easier. Defenders have the advantage of combining all defensive reins as 1 grouped army, where the attackers attack per village and 100 troops per wave for 2 waves is n ot equivalent to 200 defenders. You see many references in the early game to how many troops someone has, but th e real figures to know is how much attack power, or how much defensive power you can produce per hour. The other consideration is how much attack or defense you get per wheat consumed. This is what determines the real effectiveness of your military and wheat becomes a big limitation. Now, to see the strength behind an anvil lets take a look at how a proper hammer is made. Generally you have a 15c capital with a good wheat bonus, and next door you crea te your hammer. You do not make it in your capital because you cannot create a g reater barracks or greater stable in a capital village, this would severely limi t your troop production. You build up production infrastructure. Barracks to mak e Infantry, Greater Barracks to create them faster even at triple cost, Stables for Cavalry, Greater Stables to make them faster at an increased cost. Siege wor kshop to 20 always making cats and rams. The math that you want to know in your hammer producing village is how much atta ck per hour is it producing when everything is running. To simplify I will use s ome created numbers and not consider all variables. Lets say your Teuton and can create 1 axe per 3 minutes 23sec in a 20 barracks. If you have a 20 Greater Bar racks you can spend 3x more to match that productivity so for total production yo u can make 2 troops per 3:23 but at 4x the cost of each unit. (1x for the Barrac ks plus 3x for the Greater). Also, I am only considering raw values, no hero bon us or armory/blacksmith upgrades.