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Thread: Why send ballista to crack a level 10 barb town?

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    Default Why send ballista to crack a level 10 barb town?

    Ok after reading the dead zone thread I was wondering... If it takes ballista 16 rounds to get in firing range of a level 10 wall why do people send them?

    I looked over a bunch of combat reports and with a good amount of archers it takes under 16 rounds to win the battle unless too few archer were sent.

    So what's the point in wasting spots on ballista if they don't reach firing range before the battle's over? Wouldn't sending just archers with 1 of each troop in the lead be a better strategy?

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    There is a good reason to send ballistas.

    Despite the dead zone, a lvl 10 NPC only has 3666 archer towers BUT has 400k warriors.

    When battle commences the warriors will literally run up to the range of the ballistas and the archers. First the 400k warriors will get into archer range and in a couple rounds will reach ballista range. Finally the archers will get into range of the 3666 AT but will only suffer a little bit due to it being only 3666 AT before killing off the AT.

    In short, the ballistas are for destroying the warriors.

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    I've done it with only archers, archers/ballistas, and archers/ballistas/warriors and had the least losses with archers/ballistas. The archers/ballistas/warriors had the most losses by far.

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    well i sent just archers tonight, couldn't be happier with the results took minimal losses and now the proud owner of a level 10 barb town

    can't wait to take my next one, it's very easy



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    I personally prefer archers only.

    here is a atk on full def lev 10 NPC. with a lev 47 hero in it.

    battle5.evony.com/default.html?logfile/63/dc/0d/cb/63dc0dcb060fb49fe386a1e0621b393c.xml

    all archers do just fine for me.
    I am sure hero lev plays a big role though
    but nothing lev's a hero faster than lev 10 NPC exp.

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    Soin, Your hero is a lvl 212, with 254 Attack points as I remember, THAT makes a little difference.

    I've been farming a couple of NPC 10s for the last few days (looking for justice Medals)and I know that there was a HUGE difference in the results on my first attack when my hero had 145 att points compared to the attack I made today when it had 160 points.

    And yes I agree that nothing lvls up a hero like attacks on an NPC 10.

    But those of us with "common" heroes will have to lose a few more archers than what you lost there, LOL.

    Personally I've found that sending 50K Ballistae with 47K Archers worked better than the other combinations I tried. Tried sending warriors but that made things worse, not better (as far as losses were concerned), got more prestige but didn't repeat it because that's not what I'm looking for.

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    Im lloking to start taking on a lv 10 NPC, so you reccomend 50k balls, 50k archer as a good combo then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by challenger View Post
    Im lloking to start taking on a lv 10 NPC, so you reccomend 50k balls, 50k archer as a good combo then?
    Just archers no ballista is prob the best method, look at nemo's battle report.

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    You need a lvl 10 Rally point, but yes I do reccomend that. You do need to send some 2300 Transporters as well, more depending on your logistics.

    Since I'm looking for Justice and Nation Medals, I send 5-7 waves.

    Second Wave is 2K Ballistae, 20K Archers, waves 3-7 are 2K Ballistae 10K archers,

    For that you will need a lvl9 feasting hall (to hold 9 heroes).

    All attacks are separated by 20 seconds approximately.

    ALL the heroes have well over 100 points, the First wave one had 145 points on it's first attack, has 162 points right now.
    Last edited by Jordi; 06-25-2009 at 08:56 AM. Reason: Typos

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    Quote Originally Posted by tranq View Post
    Just archers no ballista is prob the best method, look at nemo's battle report.
    All I can say is that when I tried Archers only I had 30K Losses.

    Then again I only sent 97K archers, I did not use up a battle standard like Nemo did.

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