Did a little breakdown of KS per building.

Advanced Training Center 35
Farm 7.5
Forge 25
Guard House 25
Guard Tower 17.5
House 7.5
Market 25
Medical Center 17.5
Mill 15
Mine 15
School 30
Training Center 25

Castle Unsure if this is a bug or not, but my KS was unchanged the tick my castle finished and did not after I scheduled a new one to build.

There’s a caveat with Guard Houses (GH): the troops garrisoned in them significantly boost their contribution to Kingdom Strength (KS). A fully loaded GH with Caragous yields 385 KS, far beyond the base 25. This highlights a broader design trend of favoring military buildings over utility ones in terms of KS contribution.

That said, I believe Schools are misclassified. Based on their function and output, they align more closely with utility structures, yet they currently generate outsized KS values that skew the balance. Their reclassification could help normalize the curve.

It’s also unclear how KS values were originally determined. Mills and Mines both grant 15 KS, yet a Mill costs only 50 wood, while a Mine costs 50 wood and 100 iron, more than double the resource investment for the same KS.

Proposal: Shift building KS from flat values to a formula based on resource investment (excluding gold). This would align KS more logically with construction cost and building purpose.

KS per Building:

Military Buildings (ATC, Forge, GH, GT, MC, TC): 0.1 KS per wood and/or iron

Utility Buildings (Farm, House, Market, Mill, Mine, School): 0.07 KS per wood and/or iron

Adv. Training Center 30
Farm 7
Forge 10
Guard House 7.5
Guard Tower 9
House 3.5
Market 14
Medical Center 6
Mill 3.5
Mine 10.5
School 10.5
Training Center 25

This maintains the military emphasis in KS while providing a transparent, scalable calculation method.

At the time I ran these numbers, my KS was around 370,000. With this new weighted system, I would drop to 287,000 KS. Even as a caster-heavy kingdom with no markets or farms, it would place me in a more accurate bracket, where my military is comparable to others near me in land.

Obviously, this is coming through Elf-tinted glasses, but I do think it would make casters feel less like they're constantly fighting up a weight class.

Still doesn’t fix the fact that Elf military is in a rough spot.