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Thread: Importance of Range: Explained

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valpurgius View Post
    Despite what the original poster stated, i have found through numerous attacks, that if you dont send cavalry(not cavalary original poster, please learn to spellcheck) then abatis have absolutely no effect on the attack. nada, zip, zilch. Abatis will not damage workers, or transporters.
    This isn't quite true Val. The effect they have is on loyalty. If you have any defenses still intact the loyalty you lose by being hit is lower than if you have no defenses in place. If you want to capture a city then you're going to want to kill off the abatis so you can a) perform the fast scout assault, which is both dangerous and difficult to perform with any abatis up. b) increase each attacks total loyalty drop.

    You can do scout attacks with abatis up providing you send enough to beat down the wall, but you'll only drop loyalty by 1, with abatis down that 1 becomes a 4, so you can send far less attacks to drop loyalty down to ideally 12 before the long wait sets in ;p

    The best defense against an attack if you're online and know you can't beat down the incoming army, build 1 abatis just prior to them sending their scout spam (which you should expect them to start seconds after their cav have take down your abatis), force them to slow down and send another wave of cav, hopefully they'll be coming to die to however many archers towers you can build during the time it takes for the cav to land. Either way you'll then want to build 1 more abatis to force them to send a full army again, seeing as you'll have a few towers up as well as at least 1 abatis, scout spamming has been removed as an option for them! At which point you'll want to queue up as many towers as you can timed to complete a 1minute after there next attack lands...this is important because you don't want them to die against the incoming forces and now you're one step ahead of them in the defense race and by this point you should have bought yourself enough time that you can keep your loyalty levels up via comforting. The next problem becomes maintaining enough food to keep comforting, which you should be able to easily time, however only send as much as you need to keep comforting, eventually when they see they won't succeed in burning down your loyalty they'll give up. Although they'll probably come back later.
    Last edited by phoule; 05-12-2009 at 04:34 PM.

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