Quote Originally Posted by tokinjoe View Post
ok, so i've found this to be a very useful guide; quite possibly the best, most straight-forward medal guide in the forum. I've been successfully attacking all archer valleys and mixed cav valleys (with no archers) using the methods that you prescribe and have had nothing but success... up until today:
battle101.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100119/37/b8/37b875839727c5f06e809848b84aaa80.xml

I didn't lose the battle or anything, but i don't understand why my archers got hit by the cav? or why it jumped from only lasting 2 rounds to now its taking 5? I've used this same method to take out cavs with swords and pikes (in larger numbers than in this valley as well), so this is really confusing me.

The only difference that I can think of is that I used a hero with a higher intelligence than I usually use, but even that doesn't seem to account for why I jumped from only losing the 10pikes/swords to losing 3.2k archers.

does the heroes attack have to be at a certain point before this will work successfully? or was this just a fluke?

**note, I also had on a penicillin and a corselet, which i was not using before when attacking similar valleys with other heroes.
try adding in a worker as well... i have been farming them all day no losses, i now add 1 worker to my attack.