Advanced Medal Farming

[NailSlinger]

First thanks to everyone who contributes to this forum I have learned a lot.

This is my first time making a guide so bear with me.

I am on sever 88 and all techs are 10

This is really a standard valley spam technique with a few additions

I tried scouting valleys and finding no cav, no archers and sending 30k archers at it. Don't get me wrong this method works well if you are just starting out and can't afford losses.

1st: Find LVL 10 valley ( preferably right next to your city)

2nd: Make sure you have an empty valley slot

3rd: Send 30k archers along with one of every unit(including rams/pults) every ten second for as many waves as you can.

4th: When your waves start to hit Recall then Abandon the valley until all the waves are completed

5th: Do it all over again

Losses: You might lose the Infantry/Horse layers and very rarely have I lost the ram, but never the pult. And the only time you lose archers is if archers are present. My archer loses have been as high as 2k once most of the time it is about 400-500 and only if archers are present.

Drop Rate: I am hitting 20+ medals in an evening making 100-120 hits. Making my drop rate 15-20%

Types of Medals: All my medals have been gotten from grasslands or forests, I have gone from Baronette to 4 wisdom away from Furstin in a few days.

I am not a master number cruncher but I believe the pult is extending the range far enough so when cav are present they are still to far out to kill any units before the archers kill them. (correct me if wrong please)

I appreciate any suggestion or critisizm.

If I have missed this technique in a past thread let me know I will take it off, I don't mean to duplicate or take credit for something already brought up

Thanks

[JohnW]

i use a similar tactic, taking the valley and abandoning, using 100k warriors,
my hero got the warrior training down to 0 so takes no time to replace any losses, literally

[Doomsteed]

you do not need to include a ram/pult - a ballista increases the range enough for cavs not to hit your archers, so you can spam valleys faster without sending pults and rams

[skylined]

Good suggestions - I'm still not finding justice anywhere though. Out of 40 hits or so tonight I've gotten 2x lion, 1x honor, 1x nation...no justice. I've hit about 500 valleys in the last week, not a single justice...sigh.

[NailSlinger]

thanks I will try w/o the ram pult.....I have lost the ram only a few times so I wonder what I would loose in place of that layer in those circumstances...I will try it out.

I have only hit 5 justice in all my hits....just had to come by....but I would say the medal drops have been pretty even no matter which valley I am in. Still collecting Data

[skylined]

battle85.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100126/0e/eb/0eeb64536612627c2a6906d59786c998.xml

justice medal, FINALLY. Now, 15 more...

[NailSlinger]

I tried a few waves w/o the pult......I lost more archers than I ever did w/ the pult in the mix......maybe it was just a coincidence but I am going to keep it in there from now on...It only adds about 1 1/2 min to the trip....worth the extra wait I think

[Slay]

Ok im gonna try it

[skylined]

Found a swamp 1mi from my city - have been sending/abandoning in waves of 8 - 6min march time with a ballista - I've hit probably 150 times in the last 3 days and pulled out 8 justice, 1 nation, 10 freedom, and misc. honor/courage/cross. All in all very happy with htis method; 8 more to prinz! -Server85