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    Default Compact Defense-New use for darwin or ultimate defense?

    For those unaware, compact defense removes the 5k range and uses pikes and swords with fewer archers, max towers with some (if only 1) rollinglog.

    100k archers or just some darwin mixed in (1 phract through worker minus scout) seems a good way to cut down troops. Grant, at first compact defense WILL deal more damage to the offense. Rams seem the ultimate way to smack compact defense down, but overall, will traditional tactics still work against simple pikes and swords?

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    Im confused, what do you mean by darwin? Charles Darwin, the survival of the fittest guy?

    I wouldnt put rolling logs in your compact defense. Traditional tactics for killing pikes/swords wont work, as the range is small enough that archers will target the defending AT's first, rather than the layers.

    Cavs work well, I havent seen rams used yet.
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    Naem, i guess you havent been around for long. Darwin is the name given for a certain tactic ingame.

    as for the question by Original Poster, i got ntohing. im just as confused as you.

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    compact def was designed for defending against much and using little army .. and yeah, the slow moving layers like sowrds works and wars are kinda a pain to remove .. esp if the defender has got heavy seige and good hero defending there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boneless View Post
    Naem, i guess you havent been around for long. Darwin is the name given for a certain tactic ingame.

    as for the question by Original Poster, i got ntohing. im just as confused as you.
    Hmm, what tactic does it refer to?

    I've been playing for 3-4 months now, and havent heard of it. And I consider myself fairly well versed in battle mechanics and tactics.
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    Naems: Darwin is probably a dumb name akin to the cav smack being called the 'Jaq attack'
    To the OP, layers of 1 in a compact defence is just begging to be cleared by 7-10 small waves of melee and then a cav smack.

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    I've been playing for almost 10 months and never heard of this "Darwin".
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    Darwin is an archer attack with 1 of cavalry, cataphract, warrior, swordsman, and pikeman. Some people will include a worker. Others will include one of everything with their max archers.

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    No one calls that a darwin attack, they call that layers or a rainbow these days.
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    From digging around in old board posts, there is/was a member named Darwin who, some time ago, was the first to discover what we usually call the rainbow technique. Presumably before this, it was not common knowledge that you shouldn't just send e.g. pure archers on an attack. I think this was relatively early in the life of the game.

    Sometime later, to avoid confusion (because of his name) he suggested the technique be renamed 'pepperpotting'.

    Somehow later on it was renamed the rainbow; not sure of the origin of that.

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