That was phrased poorly. What I meant is that they have roughly the same combat stats as regular infantry, despite being much faster.   Cost Multiplier = Gather Rate How much do you value each resource. The smaller the number the higher you value it.

i was just about to say that what is the cost multiplier, @DesertRose?

unit speed is extremely strong in this game.

Did some little comparison table (.ods / LibreOffice) for units. Not finished yet (a few units are missing, and in the Civ Column is incomplete). Some data points I found interesting: Naked Fanatics have, despite the big complain thread about them, not overly impressive combat stats The P2 Champion Infantry Swordsmen of Athenians and Carthaginians have insane stats cost-for-cost, and have the additional bonus to be fast Maidan Guard have really bad stats if you compare them to other fast infantry; they can only keep up thanks to the 20% damage bonus from Steel Working Elephant Archers are cost-for-cost about twice as tanky as other archers and still deal about the same damage   0AD_Unit_Calculations_028_01.ods

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8792 =D