In which city is the alt upgrade more balanced?

+1. You're right, Vaishan! I recently played as the Terran Empire. When Chaos is at a sufficiently high level, you can attack strong neutral creatures, deploy Stalkers, and damage them with Earth Shock, etc. Regarding Riders, I wouldn't say they are clearly unbalanced. When I played as the Terran Empire, I chose Swift Striders and concluded that their ability is useless against creeps. It is useful in a clash with a large enemy army, but you also need to manage to take advantage of it. There are no such complications with the first upgrade. They run 5 tiles and ignore defense. Hydras are a similar situation. In most situations, Poisonous Hydras are more useful. And with dragons, it's simple. Black against mages, red against warriors. In my opinion, the Horde is quite balanced. The only thing is that Poisonous Wyverns are not as useful as Paoka. Why bother with regeneration when Paoka recover decently from corpses? And the Wyverns' poison is frankly weak. In principle, Assassins will deal more damage, even though, if you compare them upgrade by upgrade, the advantage is on the side of the Wyverns, since they accumulate from the first week, while Wyverns, at best, from the third.