Oh, thas all down to numbers. The swords don't act as a rainbow layer; they work the same way that pikes do to cavs.
They attack them while the scouts move on. This means that they get all the time in the world they need to jus' grab the scouts and maul them; since the scouts are at the walls within two turns they pretty much jus' pass the swords; but the swords don't need to moev very far.
You need to have a lot more swords for them to have any real effect.
As you saw from my example; 90k scouts downed bby 45k swords, who only took 4k deaths; the scouts never even got near the walls.
Gotta have more swords to do the trick. The ratio's pretty low though, but I like to keep a minimum of 50k swords; thas enough to kill any single wave of scouts and have plenty left over for the next few.
I'm still lookin' for reports on other swords vs scoutbombs threads to define exactly how useful they are in all situations.
http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=63647



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