Quote Originally Posted by LordH_WN2 View Post
Who wants to send 10k rams at a valley to effectively medal farm.... and if its just for taking the valleys, if you have 10k rams but not all the valleys you want something might be wrong?
There are essentually groups of valleys.

Archers with other troops, generally no.

Cav with [not archers] or without other troops, possible with archers, 1 pike 1 sword 1 ballista and maybe 1 cav, generally not efficient over 5 miles as this is over an hour return trip.

Foot soldier only, archers 1 pike 1 sword, and if there are many pike and sword 1 cav or 1 warrior. Good. 1 cav may be used instead of 1 pike 1 sword. About 28 K to 30K for L10s, 22.5K to 25K for L9s and so on.

Archers only, 10k cav for a L10, 7K cav for a L9 and so on, with 1 scout. Excellent. Fast turnaround and longer range cycle possible, as in under 10 mins at similar distance to a foot soldier valley.

Use evocalc to understand how your attack will work, add 10% more archers is a good idea, dxcalc is more accurate but does not show rounds and is faster to use.

Never send bare archers without support to any valley, is my view. Archers are time consuming to make, particularly in the early stages of play.

Scouting your valleys first and having a list of owned valleys will save time and troops.

Scouting an area 28 miles by 28 miles will normally yield 4 good valleys sometimes more sometimes less. Send out your teams, come back in an hour and do it all again.

3 to 5 medals a day is typical in my experience. Lions are the easiest to obtain and Wisdom the most difficult.