Basic Rules for the alliance New Rule 1 READ this BLOG

1. Do NOT attack another player that is in an alliance without letting me or the vice-hosts know. We do not want to start a war until ALL the alliance members are in a fit state with troops, defence, research etc.
2. Attacking another player is what the game is about but make sure you scout him first and send me or vice-hosts scout reports first. We can then advise on troop deployment etc.
3. Build up your city defences, DGAF are just above us and are very powerful, when we get noticed we will be in trouble, count on it. If you have good defences they may go in search for easier pickings. (WE HOPE!!!). EDIT for TIA  NO CHANCE!
4. Remember this is an alliance so that the best way of attacking a stronger player is a coordinated attack with other members. DO NOT GO IT ALONE unless you are very confident (Briberry Please Read).
5. Use the alliance chat button to communicate in real time its free (Thanks to Deanith for that)
6. Remember if another player sends re-enforcements they can be only used for defence and MUST BE FED so make sure your food reserves are adequate.
7. Ensure that you have allow garrisoned troops box ticked in Embassy.
8. To allow your and garrisoned troops to defend your city you need to have the open gates to fight box checked in Rally Point 
9. Come back to this Blog regularly
10. Lastly ENJOY! (IT’S ONLY A GAME!!!!)

Showing off my lvl 10 walls
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What you can pick up from your local boozer

Ok a quick guide to heroes and how to get them.

• If you have a lvl1 inn check the inn for the current occupant.
• Assuming you are after an attack hero you need to look for one with an attack attribute above 65
• With a level 1 in you will only get heroes between 1 and 5 level, this does not matter.
• If there is no suitable hero available tear down the inn and rebuild (don't forget you can use the free speedup button for building).
• This will  refresh the hero. Keep doing this until you get a suitable one. (should only take about 1 min to tear down and rebuild)
• Luck pays an important part in this and you can go for ages and get crap then 2 good one appear so just be patient. (Bit like farming for medals lol)
• Once you have your hero you will need to get him/her experienced and levelled up.
• The best and easiest way is to start farming NPC towns. A level 5 town gives over 90k experience points per hit.

Once the current experience is above the required level then you level up e.g. hit the Upgrade button.

Now that was easy wasn’t it.
Note this only is only the basic details and does not cover things like Holy Water etc but that is for a later time.
EDIT: Don't forget to keep your loyalty of your hero at 100% and do this as soon as possible as it cheaper then. The higher the loyalty the less chance that you will lose him/her. Also don't forget when you lose a battle eg warrior spam etc. then loyalty will drop so reward with gold to get back up.

This alliance

With the sudden departure of vice-host Renfred and other members not exactly participating in full I think it is time to decide what to do with this alliance. I offer 3 suggestions for discussion.

1. We stay as we are as united alliance. However I personally am not prepared to host an alliance with inactive bystanders (being diplomatic). This would mean a shake up of the officers of this alliance with inactive or not fully committed members being first demoted to members and than if that does not not prompt some action being kicked out. (Ohh goody grey flags to farm).
2. I set up another alliance and hand united back to Briberry. I have already set up some provisions for this regarding the blog and have decided on the name unity which is available on both the game server and blogspot. Its no problem to me to move the blog to another domain name. Note this name is not set in stone and if you want go this route and have another name idea let me know. We will need to jump through a couple of hoops to achieve this eg I will need to make one of you host and then get you to expell me otherwise I will take a prestige hit which will greatly effect the new alliance ranking.
3. We join another alliance. I personally don't favour this idea because I would not be able to utilise the blog (which I enjoy and I hope you do too) and we would not really have any control of what is going on. Yes there are some very helpful and friendly alliances around but unfortunately not around us. So we are a bit on our own here. (We can always join Genesis I suppose they seem a friendly bunch!!!!)

Ok that about it, now I need both of you two to carry on where Renfred left off. We need Briberry and iclywe (is that a name or some random characters on the keyboard?) to become readers of the blog. I think you are both aware how important this is as it is our main information portal. Without the blog we would be reduced to sending in game mail or using the chat line. Yes both are useful tools but have great limitations eg this message alone would take about 4 to 5 in game mails to send. So I need you to work on those two and get them to send me an email address. Remember its not me that needs it but Google so that it can send the invites out. You can explain this better then me because you have had to do it (as blog author I dont have to so not sure what the process is).  Mili is another problem. I have received his email address and invited him twice but he hasn't followed up on this, my suspicion is that English (or even colonial English) is not his first language and I'm not sure if he understands. Have any of you received any mails from or spoken to him on the chat line? I can even get google to translate the blog for him (I bet that would be funny though have you read any google translations?) but I do not know what's his first language is. I will let you deliberate amongst yourselves about all of this and let you have the weekend to try your diplomatic skills, you may succeed where others including me have failed.

p.s.
This is a reminder to Banyan to give me his wall and archery levels at the time of nubs attack. I need this information urgently because I can not understand the war report figures. Once I have these details I will post but it is all to do with the battle mechanics and could greatly effect both our defence and attack strategies.

rallin10

I am sitting here writing this watching rallin attack Renfred and not be able to do anything about it. Why? basic rules of the alliance rule 8 to allow your and garrisoned troops to defend you must have your gates open. If you value your cities I would suggest that you follow these blog rules. Yes I know there are circumstances when you have to take a calculated risk in not opening your gates e.g. Banyan at the present but this should be the exception rather than the rule. I have my gates open and I have over 17k A.T.s on lvl10 walls with Archery 10. But I'm sure you all know best! here endeth the sermon !

Scouts and Moiria

Just to let my readers know that Alliance Moiria are taking an interest. I was scouted today by Bovinius from town Famine (his other town is called pestilence, must have a strange sense of humour  ) I have copied the scout report below:

battle113.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100118/9d/dd/9ddde7bac5baac123f701cfff1fc2f03.xml

As you can see he used rather a lot of scouts but my fellows having been working out so although outnumbered they gave him a good thrashing. He then did something similar as our friend nub in that he asked the main man BoddWan to help who then sent 20000 scouts to me which decimated what was left of my scouts and obviously got a scout report. Ok I thought as Bovinius lost a large amount of scouts probably the only ones left were the ones he healed so I popped over to him with my 2nd city scouts and returned the favour.

battle113.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100118/a0/9b/a09bdc57a8ec97fcba35f4424136442f.xml

So just about even I think

As you can see the scouting numbers are getting larger by the minute so I will leave it to you to decide on how many scouts you have, because frankly I have no idea (except the big players keep about 125k scouts per city, remember even with level 10 rally point the maximum you can send is 100k) All I do know is they may be small and fast but they can certainly eat 

Michelangelo Scripts M.A.

I was asked by Deanith what were my thoughts on using the M.A. scripts. Unless you buy coins or are very lucky to win one on the wheel of fortune (which I did, 'bout the only good thing I ever won) this is a hard decision. I would definitely suggest one for the walls (I upgraded both my cities). After that the general consensus is to use it for the rally point. Why? because that will allow you to send waves of 100k troops. This makes capturing a lvl10 NPC town that much easier. (note I said easier not easy) If you can capture a level 10 town you will get a level 10 building of every sort (with exception warehouse) so saving you the need of M.A. scripts. I would certainly not use it to upgrade my town hall as it seems a waste just for 3 extra resource fields and to make yourself look pretty on the map (and a target). I will post a link to capturing a level 10 town if required but of course the one stumbling block is you need a spare town slot so its either a trip to the shop or get very lucky on the wheel or valley medal drops. Has anyone got a rose medal  from a valley or npc village? p.s. That is not a picture of my medal chest but I wish it was!

Hints & Tips

  

Here are a few hints and tips.

Note these are my ideas and I won’t accept responsibility if they don’t work

• Scouts: I suggest that, if you have your gates open, then you have at least 1k scouts in each city. If someone scouts you but are just nosing around they will only send a few scouts. Your scouts will outnumber them so will eliminate them easily. Your opponent will only get a report back that they lost their scouts and no other info. Unless they are after trouble they will not scout again.  However if they really want to scout you prior to an attack they will send more scouts and you can judge by the battle reports how serious they are and whether to prepare for attack. Do not ask for re-enforcements just because you have been scouted,  don't forget your relief station comes into play between alliance members. e.g. I can get archers to any of your cities inside 5 minutes (Providing I’m on-line) and our closest enemy is approx 50min march away. SO DON’T PANIC
• Relief Station: As mentioned above your Relief Station effects the transport of troops and resources not only to your towns but to the alliance also, so when you have time remember to upgrade to a reasonable level. Make sure you can get troops to our alliance members in time.
• Walls & Defences: The general consensus on wall defences is 100-1k traps, 200-1k Abatis and the rest Archer Towers. Just put enough rolling logs and stone throwers (easier 2 spell) for Quest. Obviously get your walls as high as possible.
• Michelangelo Script: I would suggest if you only have one M.A. Script you use it on your walls. Do not use to upgrade your town hall (city) to lvl10 as you will stand out on the map and attract attention.
• Archers and Archery Level: These are the 2 most important troops and research. However Archery level 10 research time is measured in weeks. These times are effected by your hero.
• Hero: Don’t forget to put in as mayor a high intel hero just before research to reduce research times, likewise high attack just before training troops. You can put back your high politic hero as mayor once troop building or research is started. You don’t have to wait for completion.
• Academy: For those with more than 1 town don't forget to put an academy into both towns so that you can have simultaneous research. Also try to keep your academies at equal level so that both towns can share the technology researched. 
• Building and research: Always keep your builders and academics busy. Plan so that the short time things complete whilst on line and the longer things during the night. I know this is almost impossible later on because of the very long building/research times. Don't forget to keep adding fortifications to the wall/s. (Archer Towers )

That's it for now come back often.

“All warfare is based on deception”.
Sun Tzu
The Art of War