Best nation for 2017

[BakuMan]

So I was looking everywhere and I couldn't find much when it comes to the latest nation - Korea.
They got that +40% more damage which seems like the second highest (after Chinese) bonus out of all nations and +1 war tactic capacity.
What do you think of them?

I've seen it so many times that Romans are the strongest but I just don't fully understand it.
You get the +10% maximum army, but is it really that good? I mean, I just upgraded to Medieval age and I can recruit 65 troops, so the 10% bonus would just give me 6.5 extra troops?
That does not seem much at all and seems like it would make much difference in the outcome of the battle.
The +25% more health on Legion seems ok but then on the other hand they don't have extra attack like let's say Japanese do (+20%).
This would mean that it would take Romans longer to destroy buildings and garrisons will have more time to produce more troops during a raid.
You could say that they have those 6.5 extra troops to make up for the damage but then when you compare it to Japan where they have 65 troops but +20% attack you could basically calculate that their overall attack would be 65 x 20% = 16.5 troops giving a total of 81.5 troops worth of attack instead of 71.5.
Same would apply with germans but in addition they have double rally time and reduced cooldown.
I know that the Romans have +20% health bonus but should the primary target for these troops not be to destroy buildings as quickly as they can?

British seems quite strong to me on the other hand. They got only +15% more damage but also get +1 range for their archers which allows them to attack from a further distance.
This would then evaluate that defending troops would have to travel a longer distance to get to the archers in which the archers have more time to kill them off.
+15% Loot is also not that bad, it slowly adds up!

Chinese have twice as fast attacks which I assume mean that their overall dps is twice as big as any other nation? These bad boys should plow though defenders and buildings like mad.

Greeks and French seem like the weakest nations in my opinion. They don't have bonuses to the troops that would be used most often. They also don't have any offensive bonuses so that would not make them excel during raids.

I personally play Japan as I really like their defense and the longer peace treaties but as many people said before, it's mostly all about the offence so I wanted to switch things up.
But I just cant decide on a nation.

Which nation is the strongest for the current moment?

 

[Vixen]

Interesting that your maths seems contradictive to most people's opinions that German; British and French are the best to pick.. What age is your account?

 

[JNation]

I think he said he just upgraded to medieval age. I think medieval is far to early in the game to really tell much difference between nations. Being Romans myself I don't find my unique troop all that special but the extra artillery I can bring because of the 10% troop space is nice..
I don't think French and Greek are weakest though..

 

[JNation]

Ah, sorry Vixen. I meant for that comment to be a separate post not necessarily a comment under your comment..

 

[Vixen]

all good JNation... I love French for the retrain time and alliance gate space... My other account is Korean.. archers are good but nothing outstanding. Once I catch up to the crowd at the top I would like to try British out.

 

[JNation]

The French and Greeks have some mean tanks once you get to Industrial Age. Extra range on British is nice. Some folks in my alliance are British and rave about that range!

it would be interesting if Nexon added a couple more nations and have one of them where it's unique troop is the siege unit..

 

[Vixen]

There would be a mass exodus... siege rules!

 

[JMoney]

You're under the assumption that French and Greek uniques are never useful. They get significantly better come Industrial and up, fully upgraded atomic french tanks and up have almost as much hp if not more than a lvl 15 general and pack a nice punch against walls and defensive buildings to boot. Meanwhile Roman, German, and Japanese uniques fall off come gunpowder, and then resurge at Atomic with the APC, though that gap is almost a year of build time if not more. The nations with unique light infantry get better at gunpowder, then pretty much always relevant every age after that. If I had to rate the nations it would be as so:

***
British, French, Koreans

**
Romans, Germans, Chinese

*
Greeks, Japanese

The three star nations are so as they simply excel every so slightly more than the others at things. I'd put Germans up in *** if you're into warring, they're a very good warring nation once you get the right units for them.

 

[Quovatis]

Chinese archers fire twice as fast, but what they don't tell you is the damage is lower. It comes out to only +20% DPS over a standard archer. So Korean archers have the highest DPS by far.

Personally I like German, as you basically get +15% on all troops, not just one special troop. But all nations except Greek and Japanese have some good advantages to consider. Japanese is by far the worst, unless you never want to war and only play once a day.

 

[JNation]

Agree, the Japanese unique troop is cool but becomes obsolete once you reach industrial, maybe that changes with the APC though. The peace treaty thing seems pointless though. i guess if you're never going to attack but you would never get anywhere if you didn't so....

It would have been cool if each nation had a unique defensive building too.

 

[Quovatis]

The German, and Japanese unique unit's stats are identical. But Germans get +15% dmg after victory on ALL units, including the unique unit. So there's really no reason to pick Japanese except for the peace treaty benefit, which doesn't really get you much. The TC shooting at attackers is great in early ages, but does nothing at later ages.

 

[KniferX]

Agreed with above posters about Japanese. They need something added to them, I've heard from some Atomic Age players that there are no almost no Japanese nations to attack for silk, barely any reach Global Age.

 

[JNation]

Does the TC even shot at planes, or is it only ground troops?

 

[Vixen]

just ground troops I think

 

[Kraitok]

I think there is a difference between warring nations and general mp attacking nations. Both Germans and Romans deserve 3* for war imo, but they are only 2* for general MP attacks specifilly from EA through GA.

 

[JNation]

Oh man.. That sucks for the Japanese.

 

[Mebbwebb]

Agreed with above posters about Japanese. They need something added to them, I've heard from some Atomic Age players that there are no almost no Japanese nations to attack for silk, barely any reach Global Age.

Japanese player here from the beginning! level 156. Ill be entering the age up process for the atomic age within 1-2 days. Apparently I am a rarity. This might explain why I get attacked so often by players who throw everything at me for little to no gain.

 

[dolphin225]

My vote is for French and British. That being said, I tell my people not to even think about revolting until they are well into Gunpowder Age and have figured out their own strengths/weaknesses and then choose a nation to help compensate for their weakness.

 

[The Huns]

British are still the best. 60% of my defenses are against British. And 80% of the people who beat me are British. 100% of the people who manage to 5 star me are British.

 

[Gangstaville]

As a British player, the only thing I worry about when attacking a base is the mortars. As long as I can take out the mortars before my troops get into range, I can 5 star all day long.