Battlefield role
Gathers Food, Wood, Stone, and Gold, constructs and repairs buildings, and keeps the economy running while your army fights.
Villagers are the least glamorous unit in Battle Room Empire and the most important. Every army you’ll ever field is paid for by their work, and the gap between a good player and a great one is often just villager safety: who lost fewer workers to raids, and who kept them gathering during the chaos.
Treat their placement like a military decision. Gathering lines near your Town Center are safe but eventually exhaust; distant lines are rich but exposed. Reading that tradeoff — and knowing when to escort, wall, or abandon a line — is economy strategy in miniature.