[Age2] Level 8 NPC Farming and Conquering guide

[practicalfool]

With the inherent leadership and hero levelling problems in age2, I will try to organise any and all info I can gather.

Attack types, Warriors/Archer Rainbow

Topics to be covered:-

Lv8 NPC conquering
Lv8 NPC farming using generic hero
Lv8 NPC farming using Queen/King hero
Lv8 NPC farming using Historic Heroes

Data coming soon. Please feel free to leave examples, I use 1k transports and 99k warriors to farm them. If I can gather Att level and Leadership level data w.r.t. warriors lost, that would be great. Any contributions would be most welcome :)

NPC8 Conquering
the short and sweet of it:

Budget: 1 city = ~200k-250k warriors.
Losses: ~60k warriors, total (no troop respawns encountered).

1) Attack with your highest Attack hero, preferably Att150+, send a wave of 100k warriors. If unsure, send 2 X 100k waves to hit.
2) Bring down loyalty with 20-10k warrior waves.
3) Make sure that if you are encountering any NPC troop respawns, that you have 20k warriors hitting that one.
4) It will take between 40-45 hits, optimally. Maybe more if you choose an NPC farther from ur city.
5) Multiple cities used to launch waves, quicker capture.

Benefits of NPC Lv8 Farming -- Contributed by Woldere --

-When you're not ready to farm LVL10s yet, but want to power-level your hero, LVL8 NPCs are quite a decent deal, especially when you have -25% infantry cost. Added benefit is that it's a lot safer; you will have less unexpected results on LVL8s.

-21K to 30k Warriors are faster replaced than archers/warriors/workers. Resources wise, LVL10s are a better deal, but not by that much.

-You can get the -25% buff by pairing up with an alliance member, 1 has to leave the alliance, spam eachother with crap heroes, until you both have 100/100

Queen levelling with lv8 NPCs:
Queen Att = 233 @ Lv75, as you will see, losses steadily improve with increasing level of queen. All available attributes and hero gear onto Attack.
Posting screen shots, not too many words required.

-- Queen, back at Level 29

[practicalfool]

Lv8 NPCs with historic heroes:

Hero has 311 attack and 233 leadership for this attack --Courtesy of Emmett68--

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164 attack, 207 INT, 204 Leadership (All techs maxed, including compass)--Courtesy of Woldere--

[practicalfool]

CREDITS


Woldere - Intel set Suggestion, Historic hero report and testing

Emmett68 - Historic hero reports, testing

[Zeptuno]

This guide is original and will be useful to many players, +rep for you.

[Emmett68]

Hero has 311 attack and 233 leadership for this attack

battlena10.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100602/ab/2d/ab2d8b058a7f1d86ad8591a55070c712.xml

[Woldere]

Looks like a spot to give ur attack hero a wisemen's set.

[practicalfool]

Looks like a spot to give ur attack hero a wisemen's set.

bn pondering that.. lol. I will be trying it with the queen.. haha. I'll post it up.

Queen - 160 Attack, 159 Intel, 85 Pol


Historic Hero - 250 attack and 140 intel 234 Leadership --Courtesy of Emmett68--


Queen - 161 Attack, 163 Intel, 85 Pol

[practicalfool]

^ did not reduce the round count, the hero in defence was only lv2, but still, this is a BIG saving.
I'd seriously welcome ppl to share higher intel hits on NPC8s.

Update: Loss levels continue to be better with intel set, no fluke.

[Emmett68]

battlena10.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100602/93/c5/93c5d99dfbf67db50a8e85f05dc47b47.xml

Same hero as last time but put on intel set so 250 attack and 140 intel
4k less warrior loss with intel set on

[sillykitty]

Ok.. so, i hav my heros on attack set.. if i change it to a intel set.. woudn't the attack level go down?

and what if i am 400 miles away, and tryin to get my historic hero, and i have 5 cities to hit from.. how can i do that?