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Wood Elf
Aliases: WE, Woodie, Welf
Introduced: Round 14
Round Wins: 1
Attacker: Advanced
Explorer: Beginner
Converter: Beginner
Alignment: Good
Land type: Forest
Scribes: [1]

Wood Elf is an efficient race that has strong scaling with Forests. Given only Homes and Lumberyards are on Forest, most players will opt to run high-Home strategies with a handful of Lumberyards to augment their DP and Improvements. Their very efficient DP makes them solid, albeit land-dependent, explorers, and Druids are very cost effective for their cost. The Wisp Lumber bonus is technically twice good as the Dwarf Miner bonus at maximum Forest, though the population penalty means going too heavy on them is risky. They also lack particularly relevant Racial Bonuses or Racial Spells, though there are always niches to be found.

Racial Bonuses

  • Max Population: -5%
  • Assassin Cost: -100p

Military Units

Unit OP DP Platinum Ore Special
Ranger 3 0 300 0
Wisp 0 3 275 0 Produces +1 lumber for every 20% Forests.
Mystic 0 5* 1275 0 Increases defense by 1 for every 20% Forests, maximum +2.
Druid 4* 2* 1050 0 Increases offense by 1 for every 20% Forests, maximum +2. Increases defense by 1 for every 20% Forests, maximum +2.

General information

Racial Spells

Gaia's Light: +30% wizard power, -10% spy power, Cancels and cancelled by Gaia's Shadow.

Gaia's Shadow: +30% spy power, -10% wizard power, Cancels and cancelled by Gaia's Light.

Pros

  • Units are very cheap if you have high forest
  • Able to run very high homes for population.
  • Very space-efficient elite DP, very cost-efficient elite OP.

Cons

  • Very hard to attack with.
  • Limited strategy variation due to forest requirements
  • High population penalty