One way to test different troop designs is to set up invasions in the simulator. Run a few tests with equal numbers of each design versus the same defenses, and see which design performs better.
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Cap'n Q
My first mod!
Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"