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    Quote Originally Posted by Dexter11 View Post
    Lost 7k archers?
    battle97.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100101/29/88/298880e22129bf331aab371678fdc4bf.xml
    For when the link expires this is:

    10 pikes
    10 swords
    30k archers
    1 ballista

    versus

    6747 pikes
    2130 cavs

    The fight took five rounds.

    I have experimented with this a bit and can offer some conjecture.

    How this attack seems to work is that the ballista cause the initial range between forces to be higher, such that the archers have a chance to one-shot the cavs before they come into range. It takes a lot of archers to one-shot cavs, so this kind of attack tends to be uneconomical because you have to use a lot of archers that you could use on an easier valley that might be a bit further away.

    If you include more ballistas I don't think it matters much, and the risk is too rich for my taste.

    The rainbow is a bit picky. I messed around with "exercise", which is kind of useless, but I saw a few cases where I could create fewer losses by including a fuller rainbow, meaning more types of infantry (workers + warriors), so I would go with that since it's hard to imagine it hurting, and it might help.

    I think you can do this with one unit of each type rather than ten.

    The person who made this attack should have won. I'm leaning toward a tech issue. With lower techs it is possible the cavs would be too close or the pikemen too tough for the archers. 15:1 should have been enough to one shot them if they were far enough away. I'm guessing that it didn't one-shot them, and both the cavs and pikes got into the archers. You can't mess around with this stuff. Both of these unit types, as expressed in level 10 valleys, can cause havoc if they get into the archers.

    It is much preferred to go with the Cav versus Archers or the Archers versus Swords/Pikes/Warriors valley types.

    My own failure was:

    1 pike
    1 sword
    25k archers
    1 ballista

    vs

    1908 cav
    4208 sword

    All military techs were rank 9.

    I took a lot of damage when I did this, like several thousand archers.

    When I included a worker and a warrior, and increased archers to 30k, I no longer took damage on this one.

    I think the obvious solution here is to overkill it, until you feel you understand this well enough to shave troops. If you are able to send 30k archers but unable to send 50k, you probably should farm fewer concurrent valleys, or, if this is your entire attack force, stay far away from this kind of attack.
    Last edited by Anoxia; 01-03-2010 at 05:40 AM.

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