Tips & Tricks · How to build etc.

Jav Attack · lvl. 10

From Wileton; Here is an attack that is very usefull for taking our hostile swords and pikemen before your main attacks hit, clears the way so you can hit the archers...

50k Warriors

2k Pikes

2k swords

7k Archers

1k cavs

 

Traps play a huge part in battle.

The best defensive set-up is to have 1k traps & 1k abatis & the rest ATs for optimum defence.


if your being attacked by a cataphract army,
and you have 200k archers, 10k warriors 10k pike 10k swords

you will die,
add another 200k archers, and you still die.
but if you add 1 trap instead of another 200k archers,
you win and lose only a few hundred warriors/pike and sword,
and 1 trap.
never ever have cav or cataphact in your city, if you use archers.

same deal, some1 attacking you with 100k cataphract,
you have say 200k archers, 10k war 10k pike 10k swor

its all to do with how the battle plays out.
traps have range of 5000
so they are always involved in round 1 of the battle.
combined with mass archers, it basicaly means those mass
archers get to have a few extra rounds of free shots.
and if you have say 250k archers, thats 250,000 extra arrows
per round of battle, hitting the enemy for free.
250,000 arrows can take out a big chunk of the enemy, each round.
if you have 500k archers, the enemy dies even faster

same deal with having horses in your army when you rely on archers
to do the damage.
horses are actualy very strong, but they make archers realy weak,
so if the majority of your army is archers, (usualy is)
then having just 1 cav or cata can be devistating.
It changes the order of the battle.

If however your main troop type is actualy horses,
then its fine to combine the 2.
for example : 200k cataphract 100k cav, 20k archers, is fine.
200k arch, 100k war, 20k cav = VERY DANGEROUSLY BAD


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How to design a city

In a optimal city town you should have;

9 cottages to lvl 9

12 barracks to lvl 9

Get town hall to lvl 10 which gives you 40 building sites outside your city then build

6 lumber mills to at least lvl9

6 iron mines to at least lvl9

1 quarry to lvl 2

27 farms to at least lvl9

Remember to click the bottum "Allows troops of allied members to garrison your current city" at embassy. Otherwise we are not able to reinforce your city if needed.

Feashing Hall & In
You should build an inn and feasting hall ASAP.  Feasting Halls allow you to appoint a hero as a mayor.  Based on the stats of the mayor your town may produce, more resources, build armies faster, or do faster research at the academy.
Reduce loss
Keep a very high attack hero to defend your city and keep a room vacant in all  FH.
If the enemy sends a high attack hero then he will be captured if there’s a room in your FH.

Resources
Focus on building resources as fast as possible. Building lumber mills, stone quarries, and iron mines is a priority. You don’t need a lot of farms now or ever.
Food is always cheap to purchase.

LUMBER - you need a lot of lumber for archers
IRON - you need a lot of inron for Cataphract