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LionKing · Forum creater Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 23

Tactics
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Good tactics:

Farming: Farming is the act of repetitively attacking someone to 'harvest' their resources. Before you start getting numeroase villages it is extremely important that you farm. In the early stages of the game you will have to farm with spearmen.

Number of troops to send (villages with no defense):

< 100 points : up to 100 spearmen or 30 Light cavalry 100 - 500 points : up to 300 spearmen or 100 Light cavalry 500 - 1000 points : 200-300 Light cavalry 1000 - 2000 points : 600 - 800 Light cavalry 2000+ points : your choice

It bears to keep in mind only send to each village what can carry what the village has. no point sending 500 light cav at a village if the most you can get from it is 1000 of each resource. for most farms, 30-50 light cavalry will suffice to clear them out, but use your own judgement/math skills to work out what you need for larger farms.

it is also worth bearing in mind that spears sent on their own will die. Get around this problem by simply sending a handful of axes with each attack.

Noble Trains

Using a noble train consists of having multiple nobles arrive at a target village in sequence, close together, so that the village is nobled quickly and efficiently. A noble train has a clearing force first (with or without a noble) then 2-3 nobles with escorts, finishing with a noble escorted by defensive troops which will support the nobled village on enoblement. A good noble train has multiple clearing forces.

Because noble trains require 4 nobles and your first village can house a maximum of 3, this is not a possible tactic when you only have one village. after you have 4 acadamys though, you can train the 4 nobles in any village you want, making it a lot easier. If you are in an organised tribe you may even have your tribemates supply part of the train, but lets assume you're on your own. sending your nobles all at once wont work, because your villages are different distances away from the target, so before sending your train, you need to work out how long each segment of the train is going to take to get to the target. There are two ways of doing this..

1. Use an attack calculator from a site such as twtools.
2. Send each attack but don't hit ok on the second screen.

Once you know how long each one is going to take, send the attack that will take the longest to get there. Once the time remaining almost shows the amount of time the next longest will take to get there, send the next segment and so on.

Finally, under no curcumstance (unless you find one) send more than one noble in any single attack. the loyalty would be reduced by the same as for one noble.

Bad tactics (avoid!!!)

Point whoring / sim citying: A point whore is someone who upgrades their buildings and neglects their military. Sometimes even having no military. Their primary goal is to get their resource production high before they start playing the game properly. This is stupid for 2 reasons..

1. You will get farmed, nobled and laughed at if you do this.
2. Farming is a much better source of resources than your mines in the early stages of the game.

This doesn't mean don't build up - just make sure you can bring in some good resources through farming, and that you can defend yourself first.