Newbie Guide for NPC

[DeadPoolZ]

Needs to be noted: These aren't the minimums, but they are safe assumptions for when you get started. With strong heroes, higher archery, etc, you can go less. I've done an NPC 5 with 520 and people in my alliance have said as low as 475.

something is wrong because I attacked lvl 5 NPC with 1000 BAL (lvl 7 archery) and lost everything, the only thing i can see what happened was the NPC had never been attacked before... ?????

[bowl818]

DeadPoolZ - if you note the comments in the OP, for attacking a lvl 5 NPC with NO losses, you MUST have a MINIMUM of archery 8, HBR 5.

"Confirmed Archery and HBR combinations when raiding a lvl 5 npc city"

Archery 07 / HBR 07 (Massive losses due to being in tower range, confirmed by Countryrazorback)
Archery 08 / HBR 04 (Smalls losses from units but @ tower safe range, confirmed by thetho21)
Archery 08 / HBR 05 (0 Losses confirmed by me, shoko-koko, Cudaman73)

Until your archery reaches 8 and HBR 5, I suggest you stick with NPCs lvl 4 and under.

[DeadPoolZ]

thanks but what are HBR's??

[MacLad]

Horse Back Riding levels - they screw with other tech

[Harlorn]

If I understand the guides correctly...

If I have...

LvL 8 Archery
LvL 5 HBR
550 Ballistas

I should be good to farm upto lvl 5 Barb citys without losses

[Max Crunch]

This is my guide that I used, and I hope it helps here, I took info from a number of posts to create this. I also tested and it worked for me at the various levlels.

Now the NPC town Hero stats will affect things if you run into high Att hero at a town, but under NPC 5 normally not a problem.

To farm these NPC towns
Your level of stats affect outcome, so these seem safe, I am now farming with less Ballistas and Less Transports, Use as a starting guide and work down from there ;D

with stats - Arch 6 - Hsbk 5 - Logistics 4 - Hero attack 60+

Lvl 1 = 20 bal = 43 transp
Lvl 2= 50 bal = 51 transp
Lvl 3 = 150 bal = 240 transp
Lvl 4 = 215 bal = 323 transp

with stats Arch 9 - Hsbk 9 - Logistics 7 - Hero attack 78/81+

Lvl 1 = 15 bal = 41 transp
Lvl 2= 36 bal = 48 transp
Lvl 3 = 145 bal = 230 transp
Lvl 4 = 200 bal = 315 transp

with stats Arch 9 - Hsbk 9 - Logistics 8 - Hero attack 86+

Lvl 1 = 10 bal = 27 transp
Lvl 2= 30 bal = 43 transp (have done with 26 93+ hero)
Lvl 3 = 140 bal = 128 transp
Lvl 4 = 175 bal = 264 transp

NPC 5 (now with Variables, just like NPC 6 but the listings below do work for me without losses)
-LvL 5 NPC 460 Bal Trans 532
Hero Att 95 arch 9 - hsbk 8-9 log 9- transp 532

-LvL 5 NPC 515 Bal Trans 420
arch 9 - hsbk 6 - log 5 Transport 420

now Hero 95+ Arch 9 - Hsbk 9- Log 8
Bal 430 (425) Trans 474

* with stats Arch 9 - Hsbk 9 - Log 7 - Hero attack 81+
* LVL 5 NPC 430 Bal - Trans 430


Hoturoa suggested Lvl 9 Arch & Hsbk, 375 ballista have not been able to get that low yet..

I will do middle ground 435 Ballista with no losses so far
Transport is based on multiples as well, Logistics level so do a test run in your attack calculator
* you need transports for 399999 total supplies

* Logistis is the level that the Transports can carry Higher the level, more goods in total
These are confirmed, though with the server reset, I lost a lot of the logs

Reports

NPC 5 452 Ballista no damage/losses
* with stats Arch 9 - Hsbk 9 - Log 7 - Hero attack 38 - Intel 83
battle20.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20090803/7e/91/7e91554b95920612b582369e5659b11e.xml

NPC 5 450 Ballista no damage/losses
* with stats Arch 9 - Hsbk 9 - Log 7 - Hero attack 38 - Intel 83
battle20.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20090805/f7/c6/f7c6808a7ed2d7b872a8c6538a5ee905.xml

NPC 5 430 Ballista no damage/losses
* with stats Arch 9 - Hsbk 9 - Log 8 - Hero attack 38 - Intel 83
battle20.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20090803/35/39/3539e865fb749655e76be176d48202cf.xml

NPC 3 139 ballista no damage/losses Hero Attack 56+
battle20.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20090805/f3/09/f309cf4cdfcafdc34985b40a4d04fc8b.xml

NPC 4 170 Ballista no damages losses Hero attack 93+
battle20.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20090805/6f/ed/6fed19a1ca4f14a236bce7af770ff220.xml

NPC 5 180 ballista no damages losses, Hero attack 70+
Now this was just lucky, I sent this one out for experience and instead of a lvl 4 I sent it to lvl 5 by mistake, luckily not all the ATT towers were back in place.. lucky .. so proves that if you take over lvl 5 npc, second wave smaller is doable...
battle20.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20090804/f4/99/f49960a378c541ce1a4b2e873069e456.xml

[sgtachilles]

DeadPoolZ - if you note the comments in the OP, for attacking a lvl 5 NPC with NO losses, you MUST have a MINIMUM of archery 8, HBR 5.

"Confirmed Archery and HBR combinations when raiding a lvl 5 npc city"

Archery 07 / HBR 07 (Massive losses due to being in tower range, confirmed by Countryrazorback)
Archery 08 / HBR 04 (Smalls losses from units but @ tower safe range, confirmed by thetho21)
Archery 08 / HBR 05 (0 Losses confirmed by me, shoko-koko, Cudaman73)

Until your archery reaches 8 and HBR 5, I suggest you stick with NPCs lvl 4 and under.

he better keep farming lvl2 and 3 npc cus today I send 250 ballista with 250 transporter and my archery lvl was 7 and hbr lvl5 (upgrading archery to 8 now) well I attacked this lvl 4 npc and won the battle but lost 17 ballista