In fact, not all your raw stats will depend on troop levels, the castle and towers will give you static raw stats. Bonus percentages (might be as high as 50%) will add nicely to those. I did write some spreadsheet based calculator to compute all those stats, feel free to download it (it's hidden somewhere in the strategy forum).
Wulf's thread tells you how to do the EBs. If you're looking for a thread talking about the stories of each EB, then it will be deep in the New section and can't be bumped.
Sorry, wilds thread what was I was looking for. I just didnt see he had that eb series explained and thwn I looked again and saw it