Lets talk about scouts and how much you like them ill start
On age1 they are more useful because you can insta them and people have more troops for bombs
On age2 in the beggining i keep alot of them (100k in each city) but once i conquer a 12 i lower to 75k then 14 i lower to 50 when i cap a 16 i keep not alot instead alot of troops would be better becuz if you dont have any scouts but millions of troops it doesnt matter instead i keep about 600k in 3-4
cities becuz at that point i have alot of troops and i own a 16 so i own the state and i can keep my cities in the state then if get alot of troops i would cap Atlantis and keep no scouts cuz i own the sever wadya think