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here's how much money you can save (or lose) by rush buying a prior unit and upgrading it vs rush buying the upgrade directly.
for most units it's significantly cheaper to do this. for example a warrior costs 200, and 80 gold to upgrade, vs the 390 required to rush buy swordsmen directly, saving 110 gold.
the exceptions are swordsmen, horsemen, catapults, frigates, and caravels. their respective upgrades should be bought directly. in the case of knights, a knight directly costs 460 gold, a chariot archer + upgrade costs 385, a horseman + upgrade costs 490.
this is standard speed, no modifiers to rush buying costs or upgrading costs... quick speed is similar but shifts things more in favor of upgrading, marathon shifts things more toward rush buying the upgrade directly, though things are generally in about the same places. marathon skews things to relatively cheaper as their cost raises, like you lose 420 gold rush buying caravel and upgrading to destroyer vs buying destroyer directly, compared to gaining 10 gold on quick speed.
trireme 245
german_landsknecht 150
barbarian_warrior 150
aztec_jaguar 110
warrior 110
pikeman 90
barbarian_archer 90
archer 90
egyptian_warchariot 65
chariot_archer 65
siamese_warelephant 60
knight 60
songhai_muslimcavalry 60
japanese_samurai 60
longswordsman 60
arabian_camelarcher 60
mongolian_keshik 60
crossbowman 60
english_longbowman 60
chinese_chukonu 60
cavalry 40
russian_cossack 40
french_musketeer 40
cannon 40
barbarian_swordsman 40
ottoman_janissary 40
trebuchet 40
american_minuteman 40
musketman 40
indian_warelephant 40
greek_hoplite 35
persian_immortal 35
barbarian_spearman 35
spearman 35
ottoman_sipahi 30
lancer 30
anti_tank_gun 20
rifleman 20
ironclad 20
french_foreignlegion 10
infantry 10
artillery 10
galley 0
german_panzer -10
tank -10
anti_aircraft_gun -10
american_b17 -10
bomber -10
japanese_zero -10
fighter -10
submarine -10
greek_companioncavalry -30
roman_legion -30
roman_ballista -30
iroquoian_mohawkwarrior -30
horseman -30
swordsman -30
catapult -30
caravel -30
english_shipoftheline -50
frigate -70
for most units it's significantly cheaper to do this. for example a warrior costs 200, and 80 gold to upgrade, vs the 390 required to rush buy swordsmen directly, saving 110 gold.
the exceptions are swordsmen, horsemen, catapults, frigates, and caravels. their respective upgrades should be bought directly. in the case of knights, a knight directly costs 460 gold, a chariot archer + upgrade costs 385, a horseman + upgrade costs 490.
this is standard speed, no modifiers to rush buying costs or upgrading costs... quick speed is similar but shifts things more in favor of upgrading, marathon shifts things more toward rush buying the upgrade directly, though things are generally in about the same places. marathon skews things to relatively cheaper as their cost raises, like you lose 420 gold rush buying caravel and upgrading to destroyer vs buying destroyer directly, compared to gaining 10 gold on quick speed.
trireme 245
german_landsknecht 150
barbarian_warrior 150
aztec_jaguar 110
warrior 110
pikeman 90
barbarian_archer 90
archer 90
egyptian_warchariot 65
chariot_archer 65
siamese_warelephant 60
knight 60
songhai_muslimcavalry 60
japanese_samurai 60
longswordsman 60
arabian_camelarcher 60
mongolian_keshik 60
crossbowman 60
english_longbowman 60
chinese_chukonu 60
cavalry 40
russian_cossack 40
french_musketeer 40
cannon 40
barbarian_swordsman 40
ottoman_janissary 40
trebuchet 40
american_minuteman 40
musketman 40
indian_warelephant 40
greek_hoplite 35
persian_immortal 35
barbarian_spearman 35
spearman 35
ottoman_sipahi 30
lancer 30
anti_tank_gun 20
rifleman 20
ironclad 20
french_foreignlegion 10
infantry 10
artillery 10
galley 0
german_panzer -10
tank -10
anti_aircraft_gun -10
american_b17 -10
bomber -10
japanese_zero -10
fighter -10
submarine -10
greek_companioncavalry -30
roman_legion -30
roman_ballista -30
iroquoian_mohawkwarrior -30
horseman -30
swordsman -30
catapult -30
caravel -30
english_shipoftheline -50
frigate -70
