Guide to Fighting a War, evony-style.

So far an overwhelmingly positive response!

I'm stoked. Anybody have a topic they'd like to see a guide made for that hasn't been done to death?

Respectfully,
could I get a few more comments? Criticisms?

I'd like to get better at writing. :)

It's always good to get a different perspective on the same subject, especially when it's easy, concise, and straight forward.

how bout a hero-leveling guide?:knight:

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Originally Posted by BARBARlAN

why

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because then evenbigger players will go:flame::flame: after u and either take all the resources or the city and use the resources which creates more probs for u

why let every1 know this:confused: just makes it harder for people to take down a cluster of enemys grouped toghether:duh: dont tell the whole world how to play the game :p lol

flawed guide. almost every aspect of it is wrong. pl don misguide newer players with it.

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Originally Posted by Marreck

Cottages. I use 8. I don't think a player really needs any more than that, and could possibly use less if they're of high enough lvl.



Walls; Everyone has a different spin on this. I'm a big fan of the nothing but Ats stance. If you keep a lot of cavalry in your city, and mechanics to set range, then you oughta be alright. Still if you should happen to see a wave of cav coming at you, please build an abati and move your own cav out. Your troops will thank you.

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Kept it very simple....this is covering all the basics.

Although according to my experience i need more cottage as my main hero keeps bumping up levels......but when u r startin out i think u got it right 8 cottages seems good enuf

again just Ats is good to have if u have the right layering in your city....i usually have my abatis on just coz it takes so much longer for them to clear my traps and abatis if i am not online for them to send in a catsmack...thats just me :)

I am in support of the advice regarding attacking, cohesion as an alliance, and all of that business, however, I would support different theories on city and defense composition.

Your number of cottages should reflect the hero that you use for troops training. Ideally a player should have 1 lvl 10 barrack, and the rest of the city as cottages with a large enough hero. But until we all achieve those insane hero lvls that allow us instant troops, we need to replace our population (and thus recruiting capacity per queue) with more barracks so we don't wait forever for our troops to finish.

In regards to wall defenses, AT are really solid as far as layering for mech goes, but I would not place too much importance on them once a server is developed. At later stages, abatis, traps, and trebs are more important to prevent substantial damage from ponies and mech.

--Nice job taking the time to put this post together though.

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Originally Posted by Marreck

I'll start with what I consider are the basics; things every member of an alliance should have, know, and be able to apply when called on to do so. Every member should have their Relief Station upgraded as high as they are able. This is a key building. This game is really heavily weighted in favor of the defense, so it is much easier and more cost effective to break an opponent's army in a skillful city defense than it is to break it in an attack. My goal is always to do the most damage to an opponent with the least damage to myself. Your relief station will allow, if upgraded to a high lvl, many more allies, potentially of course, to reinforce a city than there are opponents to attack it. It increases troop speed so dramatically

Rally Spot, Embassy, Feasting Hall, Marketplace, and Academy should be all lvld up as much as possible, when possible, but I don't consider them to be priority from a war standpoint except in these ways;High rally spots and feasting halls allow for more waves of more troops to be deployed at once, and a high embassy allows more alliance troops to reinforce you.
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so where would all these players with there fast troops go if no1 has a high lvl embassy? the embassy is much more critical first b4 relief station if u gonna be reinforcing troops....lol

and yes, a timed defense rocks :) ask the guy that lost 99k calvs tryin to finish off a city, and even scout right b4 he hit.....oh w8....that was me :mad:

but no prob ;)

i give plenty more than i recieve :D