9 Kings/Enemy Wave Calculator

9 Kings Enemy Wave Calculator

Enemy armies get bigger and tougher as a run goes on. Pick who is attacking, the difficulty and the year to see exactly how much: the multipliers on each enemy unit's own stats, the troop budget the enemy spends, and how many units that buys.

Enemy

DifficultyYear9

King · Year 9

King of Nothing

×13.6HP

×1.65Attack

×1.28Attack speed

×1.10Move speed

181Troop budget

~47Units39-54

SoldierCommon · costs 2

PaladinRare · costs 6

ArcherCommon · costs 4

King of Nothing on King, every year
Year	HP	Attack	Attack speed	Move speed	Troop budget	Units
1	×1.50	×0.67	×0.64	×0.63	13	3 2-4
2	×2.53	×0.76	×0.71	×0.68	27	7 5-9
3	×3.71	×0.87	×0.78	×0.74	43	11 8-14
4	×5.08	×0.99	×0.86	×0.80	61	16 12-19
5	×6.67	×1.13	×0.96	×0.88	81	21 18-25
6	×8.55	×1.30	×1.08	×0.97	103	27 22-31
7	×10.8	×1.50	×1.22	×1.08	127	33 28-39
8	×12.2	×1.58	×1.25	×1.09	153	40 35-47
9	×13.6	×1.65	×1.28	×1.10	181	47 39-54
10	×15.0	×1.72	×1.31	×1.11	211	55 49-62
11	×16.4	×1.79	×1.34	×1.12	243	63 56-70
12	×17.8	×1.86	×1.37	×1.13	277	72 64-80
13	×19.2	×1.94	×1.40	×1.14	313	82 73-89
14	×20.6	×2.01	×1.43	×1.15	351	92 84-102
15	×22.0	×2.08	×1.46	×1.17	391	102 93-110
16	×23.4	×2.15	×1.49	×1.18	433	113 104-120
17	×24.8	×2.22	×1.53	×1.19	477	124 113-135
18	×26.2	×2.30	×1.56	×1.20	523	136 123-147
19	×27.6	×2.37	×1.59	×1.21	571	149 138-163
20	×29.0	×2.44	×1.62	×1.22	621	162 148-174
21	×30.4	×2.51	×1.65	×1.23	673	175 164-188
22	×31.8	×2.58	×1.68	×1.24	727	190 175-199
23	×33.2	×2.66	×1.71	×1.25	783	204 191-218
24	×34.6	×2.73	×1.74	×1.26	841	219 204-234
25	×36.0	×2.80	×1.77	×1.27	901	235 219-251
26	×37.4	×2.87	×1.80	×1.29	963	251 237-270
27	×38.8	×2.94	×1.84	×1.30	1027	267 253-282
28	×40.2	×3.02	×1.87	×1.31	1093	285 271-297
29	×41.6	×3.09	×1.90	×1.32	1161	303 286-323
30	×43.0	×3.16	×1.93	×1.33	1231	321 302-338
31	×44.4	×3.23	×1.96	×1.34	1303	340 320-360
32	×45.8	×3.30	×1.99	×1.35	1377	359 340-378
33	×47.2	×3.38	×2.02	×1.36	1453	379 361-400

Reading the numbers

The multipliers apply to each enemy unit's own stats, the ones on its card. A ×2.00 HP year means every enemy unit has double its base HP.
Difficulty growth is linear. Each difficulty adds the same step every year rather than compounding, so the gap between difficulties widens steadily over the run.
The first six years are softened. Enemy HP, attack and speeds are divided by 1.6 in year 1, easing off by 0.1 a year until year 7, when the softening ends. That is why every difficulty starts below ×1.
The troop budget is 12 + year² + (year − 1) × the difficulty's troop multiplier, which runs from 3 on Peasant to 19 on King IX IX. Year 1 is 13 points on every difficulty.
Units are bought at random. The enemy keeps drawing a rarity (Common most often, Legendary least) and buying the next troop of that rarity it can afford, so the same budget fields a different army each time. The table shows the average, with the lowest and highest seen. No army goes past 699 units.
Not included: decrees and other effects that change the enemy, the boss, and endless years after 33.

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