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The guide is pathetic. As far as we can see there is no correlation to number of troops sent and medals received, they are just throwing numbers out that will result in no losses, it's got nothing to do with the medal drop rates themselves.
This also doesn't apply to just about every single new server. Once again, Hods fails to account for this.
The guide itself doesn't tell us anything at all more then what Evony tells you.
Really, the only thing Hods has done is taken Evony's wording, and change it around a little bit and sticking a label on it calling it a guide.
If people are going to make guides, at least don't take your information directly from Evony and make up stupid numbers as if they count for anything other then reducing losses.
Each medal can be obtained by the level valley that corresponds with the order you use the medals in during the promotion quests.
"Cross and Rose Medal can be acquired by conquering low-level valleys. While Lion, Honor and Courage Medals are in intermediate level valleys and Wisdom, Freedom, Justice and Nation medals can be found in High-level valleys." That's not exact wording because I had to type it out and am lazy, but Evony tells you absolutely everything you need to know about finding medals.
does intelligence of your hero and his level play a part? are certain flats more likely to drop than others? iE grasslands give more chance of lion medals that rose for example...?
Ok, it takes an hour for valleys and flats to fully respawn . . . how long does it take for an npc town to respawn it's troops enough to get the desired medal ie: how long for a Lv 4 barb town to yield an honor medal?
In NPC, troops renew in an hour, ressources in 8.
i just had a player attack me with warriors only. They lost, but the warriors triggered my trebs and logs.
I think that if you send enough warriors first in a 2 wave attack (within the 6 minute window), we should not lose balistas. Sending 15-20k meat, can be regened in 30 minutes compared to hours of balista building.
Ideas anyone?
But then again , the resources you lose on the warriors is not worth the effort . but here is what i am going to do
I am going to farm my L5 NPCs with 0 losses and go on L6-7 NPC with 40k warriors and 40 k archers with 2-3k balista and trans ...at the end of the day i am ahead and my heros get more exp
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WOWEE!! I'm a noob at this game (less than 3 weeks on # $$$ (secret..shhh), but am learning very fast due to extremely knowledable players within my alliance that migrated from server 3. I knew about this thread for like 2 weeks, but never took the time to read all the way through it. I finally managed to read through all 27 pages and here's my observations I made within the last 2 days.
Firstly, I kept HBR at 5 under advice from my co-host and increased the archery lvl as fast as I could. Unfortunately when I hit the 9/5 level, I experienced small losses just like everyone else from NPC lvl 5's. This was mistake # 1!
Observation # 1 to summarize:
Archery 09 / HBR 03 (0 Losses confirmed by Zareth)
Archery 09 / HBR 05 (Small losses)
Archery 09 / HBR 08 (0 Losses)
AND
Archery 08 / HBR 05 (0 Losses
Archery 08 / HBR 06 (0 Losses
Archery 08 / HBR 07 (0 Losses
Archery 08 / HBR 08 (Massive losses)
So... what I SHOULD HAVE DONE was keep archery 8, then improve my HBR to 7. After that, I would stick to lvl 4 NPCs until my archery reaches 9 and HBR reaches 8. Unfortunately I have been waiting on HBR to lvl from 5-8 and made mistake # 2 by NOT keeping the HBR research city clear for HBR ONLY! I started compass 8 or something silly and had to lvl up my lvl 2 stable in city # 3 which ate more time. C'est la vie!
Then I had the bright idea that if HBR 3 requires Stable lvl 3, and HBR 4 requires Stable lvl 4, then the "Archery 09 / HBR 03 (0 Losses confirmed by Zareth)" would work! So I kept my Stable in city # 3 at lvl 3 and attempted to farm NPC 5's again. Unfortunately I took small losses. My thinking was my HBR would stay at lvl 3 for city # 3 only. I do NOT remember which techs I had at the time other than archery 9 and HBR 6 in main city # 1 but knew after increasing the balista count didn't matter, I gave up and continued to upgrade my Stable. This cost me HBR research time which is Mistake # 3!
Now after reading page # 20, I find Syoganai's quote below and never realized the lv.# / Ct.#! So my noobish ways are showing and this my friends was mistake # 4! Ignorance is NO excuse!
Thanks to EVERYONE who contributed to this thread and a special thanks to Syoganai for monitoring this thread and updating the information on page # 1!! /clap
I am currently at war and a HUGE battle is brewing for this weekend. But the idea of NPC 6 research interests me and I will make attempts to analyze data within the next week or two.
Thanks again everyone and have a GREAT weekend!! :D