Using balls and rams for L10 NPC'ing sounds like an interesting experiment, but of very little utility.
Upgrade to lv 10 Compass, and use something like 92k Archers, 2k workers, 4k scouts, 2k warriors and 2k Transporters, and you'll get 3-5k Archer losses. Plus it makes it significantly faster and you don't have to spend time building pikes and swords.
For sufficiently high level heroes (220 attack+) I use 800 workers, 1200 warriors, 3000 scouts, 2k ports, and a varying number of archers -- usually 88k. To further reduce archer losses (on an average), I send a spearhead of about 6k warriors (and less if the hero has a decent attack). This also reduces the scout losses.
For rapid L10 farming and hero training, no transports but sending the attack every hour, I use 4k scouts and 90k archers. The losses are surprisingly stable. When building scouts is very fast, and your goal is to level up your hero, this makes a lot of sense.
Read more about Ship in Frank Herbert's Destination:Void.
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