PROMOTE

PROMOTE

Promotes a unit of your own faction race to Hero status.

Heroes are particularly strong in combat.
They attack 5 times in each combat round.
That's why it's worth promoting units with combat skills to hero status.

Note

Heroes do not attack more often with magic, crossbows or catapults.

If a unit is to be promoted, it requires Silver per person (the faction's total number of people).
As usual, missing Silver is taken from the silver pool when there is enough.

The maximum number of heroes is limited, but increases with faction size.
The formula for this is: log10((faction size-500)÷50)×20.

Only people of your own race can be promoted, i.e. neither monsters nor migrants.
Transport takes place according to RECRUIT.
The number of people after recruiting in the current week is used for both the number of possible heroes and the costs of promotions.

Units that have been promoted cannot recruit additional people and cannot be merged with other non-hero units.
There is no order to demote Heroes.

For those who are lazy about math, here is a table showing how many heroes are available in the faction.

People	557	563	571	580	589	600	612	626	641	659	678	700	724	751	782	816	854	898	946	1000
Heroes	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20

People	1062	1130	1207	1293	1390	1498	1620	1756	1910	2082	3312	5500	9392	16312	28618	50500	89414	158614	281671	500500	...
Heroes	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	...