The Element of Suprise

Or how to outsmart your attacker
This is a quick post mainly for Banyans benefit to show what I am trying to achieve but some others may find some of the tips below useful.

• I am trying to get enough resources together for Banyan to build approx 5k A.Towers in 1 hit. Why?
• Because if you build say 200 or 300 and then get attacked your attacker will easily overcome those and you will be back to where you started.
• Remember he can scout you and see what you have but not what you are building!
• So the idea is to give your attacker the impression that your city is defenceless (which it is).
• Remember those towers, once built, will appear in one hit so one moment 0 then 5000
• 5000 ATs will require approx 15-25000 archers to take down.
• In the mean time get your walls as high as possible and research archery levels. This will make your towers even more deadly.
• Whilst waiting for the towers to be built, also build troops (again archers)
• When you have good size say 1000 then lose them by sending them to an alliance city (Dont forget to ask 1st)
• If you build say batches of 500 to 1000 once built recall your hidden army add the new members and re-hide.
• Keep a reasonable army in town as if he sees very low numbers or suddenly 0 archers when you had say 1k yesterday he may get suspicious.  
• Unless you get scouted at the wrong time(unlucky) he will see very little change in your apparent troop levels. We want him to get complacent. 
• Important Keep Your Gates Closed you do not want to lose what troops you do have
• Also build about 100 scouts if you haven't got any.
• You will know what time the towers will be complete (Remember I can not see that for you as it depends on research, hero level etc.)
• Now is the next clever bit. I want you to build approx 2-3000 scouts to arrive at about the same time as the ATs. 
• You will also need to be online at this time or you will lose the element of surprise so adjust build times etc to suit eg slightly more or less ATs etc
• Once your towers and scouts arrive open your gates and recall your troops.
• If you now get scouted because a) your gates are open and b) you have a lot more scouts it will mean that he will probably not send enough scouts.
• A smart player always scouts before an attack and times that scout to be just before the attack hits. This will show if the gates are open and if you have been reinforced? note I said smart!
• But he will not get that scout report because you killed all his scouts. So his options now are to recall his troops or press on. He may press on if he has enough troops to take care of the troops that he as seen and thinks you have. WE HOPE!
• He would not have allowed for the return of your troops which were in hiding or 5000 archer towers
• The fields will be stained for ever with his blood

Remember to keep your builders building, and your academics and barracks busy. It is important to spend all the resources that you can and lose any that you cant DO NOT MAKE YOURSELF A TARGET