Troop Training

Game mechanic

Category	Military

Troop Training is the process of recruiting and producing new soldiers for your army in Whiteout Survival. Troops are trained at military camp buildings and are essential for combat, gathering, and event participation.

Overview

Troops are your primary military asset. Training new troops replenishes losses from combat, expands your army for events, and increases your city's overall combat power. The three troop types — Infantry, Lancer, and Marksman — are trained at their respective camp buildings.

Training Buildings

Each troop type has its own dedicated training building:

Building	Troop Type Trained
Infantry Camp	Infantry troops
Lancer Camp	Lancer troops
Marksman Camp	Marksman troops

All three camps can run training queues simultaneously, allowing you to produce all three troop types at the same time.

Training speed and training capacity, however, are not read off a single camp: each is the sum of the bonuses of all three camps and of the matching research. The total is therefore the same whichever camp is training — and a camp can display a larger bonus than another of a higher level, because part of what it displays comes from the two others.

Troop Tiers

Troops come in tiers — higher tiers are far stronger but cost more resources and time to train. Early tiers are available from the start, and each higher tier unlocks as the Furnace and its matching camp level up, through T10 at Furnace 30. The two top tiers, Helios and Exalted, are unlocked through War Academy research instead:

Tier	Unlocks at Furnace level
T4	11
T5	13
T6	16
T7	19
T8	22
T9	26
T10	30

Higher-tier troops require more resources per unit and take longer to train, but deal and survive vastly more damage in combat.

Training Costs

Each troop unit costs resources to train:

Meat — Primary training resource, heavily consumed
Wood — Secondary training material
Coal — Required at every tier, alongside meat and wood
Iron — Required at every tier, in the smallest amounts
Training Time — Reduced by camp levels, research, heroes, and speedups

Infantry — Training cost per unit
Tier	Meat	Wood	Coal	Iron	Time	Power
T1	36	27	7	2	12s	3
T2	58	44	10	3	17s	4
T3	92	69	17	4	24s	6
T4	120	90	21	5	32s	9
T5	156	117	27	6	44s	13
T6	186	140	33	7	1m	20
T7	279	210	49	11	1m 23s	28
T8	558	419	98	21	1m 53s	38
T9	1,394	1,046	244	51	2m 11s	50
T10	2,788	2,091	488	102	2m 32s	66
T11	6,970	5,228	1,220	253	3m	80
T12	6,970	5,228	1,220	254	3m 35s	96
T12 (upgrade)	3,485	2,614	610	127	35s	16

Lancer — Training cost per unit
Tier	Meat	Wood	Coal	Iron	Time	Power
T1	32	30	7	2	12s	3
T2	51	48	10	3	17s	4
T3	81	76	16	4	24s	6
T4	105	99	21	5	32s	9
T5	136	129	27	7	44s	13
T6	163	154	32	8	1m	20
T7	244	231	48	11	1m 23s	28
T8	488	461	95	22	1m 53s	38
T9	1,220	1,151	237	55	2m 11s	50
T10	2,440	2,301	474	109	2m 32s	66
T11	6,099	5,751	1,185	271	3m	80
T12	6,099	5,751	1,186	271	3m 35s	96
T12 (upgrade)	3,049	2,875	593	135	35s	16

Marksman — Training cost per unit
Tier	Meat	Wood	Coal	Iron	Time	Power
T1	23	34	6	2	12s	3
T2	36	54	9	4	17s	4
T3	58	86	15	5	24s	6
T4	75	111	19	6	32s	9
T5	97	144	24	8	44s	13
T6	117	173	29	10	1m	20
T7	175	258	44	14	1m 23s	28
T8	349	516	87	28	1m 53s	38
T9	872	1,290	217	70	2m 11s	50
T10	1,743	2,579	433	140	2m 32s	66
T11	4,357	6,448	1,081	349	3m	80
T12	4,357	6,447	1,081	349	3m 35s	96
T12 (upgrade)	2,178	3,223	540	174	35s	16

Improving Training Speed

Training speed is influenced by:

Building Levels

Higher-level training camps reduce the time per troop unit trained.

Research

The Growth Research tree contains Training Speed technologies that apply percentage reductions to all training time.

Heroes

Ling Xue is the only hero whose skills shorten training: Total Control raises Training Speed by 20%.

Speedups

Training Speedups can be applied to instantly complete portions of a training queue.

Training speedups come in the same five sizes as every other kind — 1 minute, 5 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours and 24 hours — and a training speedup is worth exactly as much on a training queue as a general one.

Training Queue Size

The number of troops you can queue for training at once is determined by:

Camp building level
Research technologies expanding queue size
VIP level bonuses

Larger queues allow you to queue up many hours of training at once and log off without wasting capacity.

Train higher tiers when possible: Higher-tier troops are dramatically more efficient in combat per resource spent.
Use Training Speedups for events: Training events reward points for completing training — use speedups to maximize completions.
Assign Ling Xue to a training camp: her Expedition skill Total Control raises Training Speed by 20% — she is the only hero with that bonus.
Balance all three types: Maintaining a diverse army (all three types) avoids the counter-weakness that pure armies suffer.
Heal before training new troops: It's always cheaper to heal existing troops than to train brand new ones.