Posts from Racial ability: "Preparation".

Guys, does anyone have the conversion rates for retraining units from one type to another? Preferably with different levels of the Counterstrike skill.
If you have them, please share.

All the rates (and more) are in the Heroes manual...

Monks are also great to train; you’re wrong to say otherwise. They require significantly less money, have almost the same amount of hit points as paladins, can shoot and fight in melee, occupy 1 square, and are the toughest among level 5 units. If they also have teleport, they become incredibly powerful. And elves won’t be able to defeat monks easily; I’ve seen this happen many times, and I’ve experienced it myself. Monks don’t even fall in groups of 10; imagine what happens when there are around 150-180 of them.

With a number of trainable creatures equal to 20, it seems more reasonable to retrain monks into knights, in my opinion. Relying too much on ranged units is too risky, as they have relatively low initiative, and a skilled player can easily take them out of action. Even with a small income, you can start retraining spearmen into monks from week 4, and when the income increases, you can switch them to knights. With this approach, in a couple of months, you can get a stack of knights that is 2-3 times larger than your opponent's, and if you divide them into 2 squads, playing as Axel or Miev, you can destroy half of the enemy army in the first minute of the battle.

Video review of the racial ability: Preparation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnTcS5KW8q8

Of course, the cost of retraining could be increased, and the number of units could be limited. For example, the third tier could be twice as expensive, and so on. And when building a Grail in a city, the number of units available for retraining could also be increased. Or, as an alternative, Paladins could be retrained into Angels, costing around 20,000 gold each.