Elwin, I agree that Units should not be picked solely on this table, as there are Tactics that make almost any unit here much better than raw numbers, which is one of the things that will give this game significant replayability. And as I said, the list does not take into account any unit specials, like Snake's Lunge ability or Dragon's resistance to fire. I was providing it more as a unit comparison, so if you were thinking of ditching one unit for the other, this gives a good break out of the two units, not for selecting the top 5 units from this list and always winning the game.
Ryastar, I also agree that the Dmg/Ldship and Hitpoints/leadership can be misleading which is why I did not rate the units based solely on either of those stats. As you pointed out, the ones with lower Dmg/Ldrs tend to have higher defense or other stats, so defense is included in the rating, as not all units with poor hit points per leadership totally make up for it in defense rating or attack rating.
Maybe I should remove the Overall rating, which would eliminate the arbitrary Weight issue. I guess I was using the overall to get an idea of the better units, then compare what category is lowering its rating below the rest, and determine if it is important to me. That is the main reason I showed the individual category ratings themselves, as I find them more important for comparison, but the Overall gives me a good starting point when deciding between Ancient Bears, and Polar Bears for instance.
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