Quote Originally Posted by Domi View Post
cheapest way to defend against single ballista attacks, is to actually keep small layers, ballistas have so much firepower, so that stacking up on them is useless anyhow, however, his archers will clear most of them anyways. ship your archers out, just keep barely enough archers inside the city so that you can tradefire against his ballistas, and kill most of them. After the tradefire, where he, in worst case, might have a few ballistas left, you keep a small amount of ballista, eventually catapult yourself.

How many archers you need, depends on the attack of your hero, but once you get into the latelate game, as you are talking about, with heroes at level 5-600+++ you would be surprised how many ballistas will be cleaned up by 50k archers, then have a few thousand ballistas + your ATs as a backup, in case he got a very few surviving ballistas.

You will still loose some, but the amount of what you loose is rather small compared to him, even in a 65 vs 13% ress scenario where you are on the bad end
u do that in long range, the ataker will desimate ur layers with archer warior layer cleaners. u do that in short range, ur bows can be anhilated by a couple of quick scout bombs. well a guy sending those many balis will surely have a few sbs with 250ish atk heros. good luck.

another guy like u was just suggesting closing gates to bali attak. who cares about 10 mil rsc they loot. ats don matter much anyways... gwah

remember, u cant be online all time to do that juggle. also the guy might time multiple attak waves with the hit . also ur objective is to retain ur city`s def config after tanking that attack and not just playing "yeah i killed ur balis loosing my bows, i rox u sux nub" .... ... so imo just redo ur strat :-)