Hi..a question from a Noob

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Usually, gold costs are based on units stats and are not supposed to be affected by their equipment. Thus, units with stats in the 12 to 14 range would cost more than a unit with 11-12 stats and much better equipment. There is no guide and no rules, you just have to compare to existing units, preferably different ones. It'd help if you could tell whether or not the unit you are comparing yours into is deemed as powerful or weak. Vanir of MA/LA Vanheim are very good for their price, while LA Tien Chi light cavalry with Composite Bows and Light Lances are mediocre to bad.

Even though equipment's resource cost is automatically calculated, all humans are given #rcost of 1. Some units, like Jotun giants or Bandar of monkey people, have higher base #rcost. This is added to all equipment resource cost, because even slingers have to cost few resources. Heavy Cavalry are given high base resource costs to make them harder to produce. This has no in-game effect, it's just there to simulate horse barding being resource-intensive.