RAID PROFFING to RAIDING 303

Now you are almost ready to attack other people, but b4 you do a few things to check in all your cities.

lvl 9 market, if your attacked you can put resources up for sale just before attack hits = atleast they dont get them and if you do it right you will get good money for them, sell above current market so they dont sell immediately, or attacker will get the gold instead. You can also buy a needed resource to use up the gold.

lvl 9 relief station, it is essential to have quick army movement between your cities, especially the defending hero, may need to be changed to one that has the highest attack, even if you are going to loose ...you will do more damage.

lvl 9 beacon tower, it is very important to know what is comming at you so that you dont panic.

lvl 9 Warehouses X2 is best, to preserve food for your troops.

lvl 9 walls, maxed on defenses, mainly archer towers with some of each of the other defences. I would recogmend a lvl 10 wall as soon as possible on your best city. It gives 18% more defense.

lvl 9 ralley spot, the larger the army th greater the chance of success, and the less the damage received.

lvl 9 cottages X 10, so that you will have troops for your barracks.

Barracks X 9, but you need to get them to lvl 9 asap, for rapid troop production.

Now for the basics of troops

You should have lots of scouts, almost as many scouts as you plan on having of major troops. With a minimum of 20k per city as soon as possible. As you get a decent size army, 5 k bal or 10k archers keep your gates open. The scouts will kill nosy neighbor's scouts. They are also great for speed capping an attackers valleys if he cannot be persuaded to stop the attack. Cap and abandon his best valleys using scouts will make him really regret having messed with you.

The goal of attacking ...is to attack without loosing troops and without incuring reprisals from a strong alliance. We win by conquering or getting people to join us. Remember CURTISY CURTISY CURTISY!!!

Now you are ready to search for tagets. 1st look for people with no alliance and minimal prestige compared to you. I also look for people that just started a 2nd city. Most expand way too soon and are easy targets for capping. As you learn to attack people with and alliance ...ALWAYS check the stats of the person and the alliance. If you cant kill the alliance DONT ATTACK without notifying your warlord for permission, usually one of the officers or vice host. Many an alliance has died over the stupidity of 1 member. I will boot you if you attack a large alliance without permission and they decide to fry you. If you have permission then we will defend you. If you get in over your head.... curtisy always helps the situation. Looking for people that we are at war with is also a good place to start, especially if another member has been pounding on them.

Target acquired. Now you contact several members that are stronger than you and are nearby. Notifying them of what you are doing will allow them to fortify you if need be. They may also tell you not to attack for some reason that you did not see.

When scouts reveal massive traps and loggs and rocks. Excelent for you, they feel secure. You will need 3-4 low lvl heros that have trash stats. I rename them to reflect that i dont want them to lvl. You will need an extra 30k warriors. Attack with no more than 1000 warriors. Yes you will get slaughtered, but for 1000 warriors i usually destroy 2000 defenses. I get prestige and massive honor. They lose lots of honor. As they have less defenses i will reduce the # of troops so that i get more honor. When they have less than 100 of each of rocks, logs and traps you are done with this type of attack.

You may have lost several of your heros, but who cares they were trash heros. If they have massive archer towers then you want to attack with lots of cavlry. Dont be afraid to use 5 - 10 times as many, dont forget to add for the abatis as well. ALSO dont be afraid to get other peoples opinion on your scout reports. The goal is minimal to no troop loss. Concurrent with this type of attack, if they are not online i will also cap several of their valleys using scouts for the attack, again with the trash heros, in case they come online and reinforce the valley. Be bold and cap the lvl 10s if you think you are gonna be able to cap the city.

My main attack force is usually balistia. They have more bang in large #s. In large battles i also take a few of every type of fighter, except horses. Many people like archers because they are fast. You will soon develop your own style and preferance of attack.

Uh Oh he closed the gates but has a large army hiding. What do you do, since he can open the gate at any time? Hmmm now where did i put those trash heros? For the purpose of simply reducing loyalty i use 5k warriors and a trash hero. If the army is not that big, and cannot defeat the 5k warriors in 5 rounds i may use a lessor hero but this is risky as he may reinforce from another city, or have a friend reinforce and cap your hero. I capped 6-10 heros from UnMe when they attacked with too small of an army.

DO NOT FORGET to check the FORUMS!!!! Yes i know there is a lot of garbage out there, but there is also a lot of good stuff too. Like to defend from my my type of attack either massive or small ...destroy your defenses ...all of them all at once, but leave what you want to kill the incomming troops. Destruction takes time. Cancel the destruction before it completes and wala .... he has to start all over with no damage to you. If you are sneaky you would do this seconds before his army hits so he cant back out.

Well good luck, message me if you have any additions.