Quote Originally Posted by cushseth View Post
I was talking with another person in my alliance recently about the benefits of using a 100k bally bombs vs the benefits of using a 57k/43k mixed mech. He swears by his 100k bally bombs, but of course I argue for the mixed mechs. I did some math with DXcalc resource feature and came to these conclusions..

Ress types were set to food:4 lumber: 25 stone:4 iron:25
All servers are different of course.

500 attack hero, all items applied
basic 5.2k defense, 1m archers 1k of each layer 18000 towers and abatis. NO DTS as they will skew results.

100k bally bomb: $13,000,000,000 res to build
1117 hours base build time

archers killed
418,860

Resource cost per archer killed: 31,036.623

57/43 mixed mech: $16,311,000,000 res to build
1598 hours base build time

archers killed
717,649

resource cost per archer killed: 22,728.381

Personally I see this as evidence to my standpoint that the mixed mech is clearly the best, But he argues that the cost to feed ballies and the shorter march time more than makes up for this obvious drawback.

I can see how his point of view would be valid, I just personally don't see the obvious drawbacks of using bombs, IE attacking CDs, and being easily defended as being worth it.

Anyone have an opinion on the matter?
in age 2 ive often thought of this, i can build 2 ballies for every pult and its true 2 ballie waves will do more damage than 1 pult wave or than a mixed waveif you substituted the pults for ballies. another side is the upkeep. 1 pult eats 5 times more than a ballie

however bally/pult waves are pretty powerful and make for nice hardhitting reports and theres nothing i like to use more

so tbh i appreciate both sides of the argument