Why Scouts are worthless

[Carlo_SS22]

scouts are there to be scouts. who cares about spies? spies are your problems. not scouts!

[WerldEeeter]

I love scouts for the simple fact of scout bombing. Scout bombs both increase the opponents honor and kills off archers if the gates are open.

[WerldEeeter]

So NO they are not worthless

[Naems]

I do have to admit, that once your heroes high enough, you actually kill more than 100k scouts, when you scout with 100k scouts.

And seeing that you cant lose your hero on scouting mission, yes, scouts are kind of pointless from a defensive point of view.

[Bigmos]

Scouts are not worthless. The only thing I hate about scouts is rebuilding them . Try Scouting wit 1 million scouts. .

[wwcross]

I agree that having lots of scouts of scouts in lots of cities is worthless. It's too easy to have large amounts lost to successful scout. Any alliance worth its salt will get report on you, if they want it bad enough. And you will lose lots of scouts to no good effect.

Whoever said that scouts are offensive and not defensive units is exactly right. Their speed means they are easily moved, so keeping them safe and centrally located is key.

I keep <1k in each city to prevent 1 scout scouts (forcing enemy to waste time on 100k scout) and to send out my own 1 scout probes. The rest I preserve in a safe city for use as 100k scouts and as scout bombs.

[kanosig]

I do have to admit, that once your heroes high enough, you actually kill more than 100k scouts, when you scout with 100k scouts.

And seeing that you cant lose your hero on scouting mission, yes, scouts are kind of pointless from a defensive point of view.

This. I only keep scouts in farming cities actually.

[aom12]

I do have to admit, that once your heroes high enough, you actually kill more than 100k scouts, when you scout with 100k scouts.

And seeing that you cant lose your hero on scouting mission, yes, scouts are kind of pointless from a defensive point of view.

Is this true?

[WN1 Hit]

Without scouts, your enemy can attack you so easily because they know what is inside your city.

[thierryd]

if they wanna get you they will get you.
scouts are offensive troops not defensive troops