Medal Farming on New Servers (90+)

[GrStaKa]

Question: When you say do not rescout valleys, I am confused why? Does it lock in the current troops/would the troops change every hour or so if I don't rescout?

Correct. Re-scouting while it is building back up will lock the valley down to X amount of troops until its recaptured.

Note to Guide: I have found a great secret that may apply to other players. The rare valleys that drop medals, when I attack them later they drop more medals. So I've began capturing the lvl 10's that drop medals, and attacking them regardless of troops stationed there, and I get a medal so far 75% of the time.

Thanks again,

LY

This is a great tip! I usually keep track of which valleys I hit that drop medals. It never clicked in my head though. I'm going to watch out for this.

Between both your questions.... ya Lets not go there .... least not here!

I've suspected that gaining prestige and taking losses increased medal drop chances for awhile. How did you figure it out?

Frankly, I was burning through a lot of time / archers on level 7-8's trying building my first town and npc land to farm in... The drop rate was real low no matter what I tried or read. I tried spamming lvl 1-4s, I tried 6-9's ... everything. People were saying that you didn't need 100-200k archers to farm effectively etc and I just couldn't see how you could sustain such a high attack rate vs such a low drop rate...

When I got to the point where I could sustain lvl 10 hits I, again, came up empty handed. I got frustrated and tried a lot of different tactics I found on different forums. Nothing really worked well. Finally, I went for about 2 weeks without getting any medals at all! I was so good at attacking the valleys by this point that all my attacks were all lossless. So I knew I was doing it wrong. Around that same time I found an old guide by Hodd's and I noticed that he was adding losses into all of his attacks so I thought I'd give it a go. Sure as when Harry met Sally, it all worked out...

Also how did you come to the conclusion that medals drop 5 percent of the time in lvl 10 valleys?

Well, basically the first thing that hit me was that I was able to call medals. Checking my attack reports I noticed that I was getting 2-3 back to back every 6 hours. Relatively speaking 5% is an arbitrary #. I could use the 6 hour link to literally call the medals I wanted, then fill in on other valleys in the mean time.

But, if I attacked 20 valleys and got 2-3 medals, I'm running real close to 5%. It always seems like I have to hit 10-20 to get those first 2-3 medals anyhow... Some times you get lucky, but really... I've attacked say 5-6 valleys a day for the last 5 days.. nothing. I set my mind to get some medals today and got 2 honor and a nation medal within 20 attacks.

Seems like its built into the game almost... You almost need to make X amount of attacks before you get any medals. And it just works out to a 5% rate.