How to have a well proportioned army

[P.P. LePew]

Asking me?

Sure fortifacations are great to have, I keep 500 of each and the rest Archer Towers but if you have the gates closed a good archer rainbow wave or two will take all of them down. So, I always have gates open and plenty of troops in the city. But look at your archers you have only 75,000 when they are used to farm 10's. and to farm 10's I use 3,000 workers 3,000 warriors, 1900 transports and the rest archers sending from a 10 you need something like 92,000 archers plus reinforcements for what you'll lose which is something between 4k and 5k archer loss.

[Jasc999]

Oh...... But yes I do keep my gates open.. And Mat, shouldnt ur one catapult prevent that?

[Mat_93]

Oh...... But yes I do keep my gates open.. And Mat, shouldnt ur one catapult prevent that?

Nope, 1 pult is purely against cav smacks, cavs are nearly always the first to go, depending on defenses/attacking waves.

Esp if you operate a 5k defense, keeping a large number of cavs and/or phracts in your cities is a bad idea while offline...assuming a medium number of troops otherwise.

[Jasc999]

Also only 1k ballis, and 500 trans? Farming? Sure theres less npcs on age2, unless you build your own, get lucky that they arent cleared, and are prepared to lose them, but you should still have at least 5 5s or 4s in a reasonable distance (of 2 cities). Also multi hits, for gems, i would advise anyone to work towards 5k as a min, so you can send 10 waves at once. Need more trans, to farm with, to transport res between your cities, and to provide resources to alliance members who may need some.


And no pults? If you are using traps, and are offline, they can spam you and simply cav smack. Just 1 pult will prevent that, and 1 pult isnt a huge cost.


Would also say more workers, for layering purposes.

I said "at least" 500 trans and 1000 ballista

[Navac d'Ragamar]

Absolutely ridiculous thread posting by someone who has played the game only long enough to be misinformed.

Jasc999 play this game for a little while before you start posting "how to" information,please. Your title should have read: "kinda the way I kinda proportionate my troops in the first few days I played and they kinda looked alright". With the subtitle as footnote: "I better show someone else what i did, so here it is".

I suspect you initially meant well when you thought of posting this drivel. But giving false,misleading information to noobs is worse than giving no information at all.

There are several theories out there that suggest what are good mixes of troops, and depending on ones current status, position, protection as well as the strength of your alliance - this mix or proportionate weighting of troops numbers will change. Sometimes drastically, depending on your situation.

But there are fundamentals -


You gain troops and fortify walls by gaining resources and building structures. To do that you need to train Ballistas and Transports, as soon as possible. To hold what you build and train you need to use some established defenses from day one. Walls and defense troops.

That means scouts galore to protect scouting salvos and "no loss" warnings of pending attacks. Scouts and Cav/Phracts at the same number is a deplorable waste of resources on ponies. When gates are open, your scouts will be demolished in one scouting sortee, info will be gained by your enemy and followed by an immediate attack to take out you anemic Cav/Phract as defenders. Same amount of resources for Cav/Phracts will make you another 100K scouts and 80K archers.

You need Pikes and Swords in proportions that don't even come close to resembling your ratios. In a neighbourhood where enemy attacks by Cav is prevalent, Pikes will out number Swords certainly, but never will either of these troop allotments be close to or greater than Warriors or Archers.

Which brings me to Archers - !!!!! - The stalwart aggressors and defenders. I mean archers less than or equal to any other troops? Have you lost your mind?

Dear Lord, you are gravely in danger of being laughed off your server by the first decent PvP that comes along.

Sorry for reality slap.

[Jasc999]

What a nice guy..... I am not going to be laughed off my server, im in the top 6000. Btw this troop combo is for ppl who play like me.

[Oro]

What a nice guy..... I am not going to be laughed off my server, im in the top 6000. Btw this troop combo is for ppl who play like me.

Jasc the guy may haven't have put it in a nice way but he speaks the truth.
Before you start posting how to guides you should be experienced in the game and just so you know ... top 6000... not very good.
Go look on the forums for guides from experienced players.. read them... play the game... master it... and then come back and post guides if evony hasn't destroyed all your brain cells.

[ltladytitan]

lol I hope you dont plan on defending anything other than a lvl 3 city with those troops. If you have an hc your toast within one hit.

[ltladytitan]

Here is what I use as a basic defense in just one of my cities
15k workers
500k warriors
500k scouts
200k pikes
200k swords
700k archers
25k transporters
50k ballistae
2k catapults

I know its not the best in proportion to what some power players have but it has worked very well for me so far. Notice on cav I have them because they are useful in dropping city loyalty really well but I move them around my cities and put them in a valley at night when I log off.

[Prodigy the 5]

seems to me all you did was rewrite what is already written under the stats of each troop. Swords are not good against archers. For best results better of going with cavs/phracts/rams.

And that troop count would fall very easily to most attacks. When making a guide about troops its best to write how each could be used to full potential and how to set them up to do most damages. When defending its important to say to move out layers including swords.