Protect Your Resources

With last nights battle and defence arrangements behind us (well done team) I thought it would be a good idea to post some tips on protecting your resources (Gold food etc)
This will be in two parts as the procedures change somewhat depending if you are online or off during the attack.

Online

If you are are online and can see that you are about to be attacked and you know that you will lose you should do the following:-

• Remember the main reason you are being attacked is for your resources so hide them!
• How? Easy! Use the market (Thanks to Lord Renfred for pointing me in the right direction long ago when we were in B.P.)
• Wait until approx. 30 mins before the attack starts and sell everything you have.
• Sell slightly below the market price so to make sure all your goods are turned into gold.
• You should be now gold rich but the rest of cupboard is virtually bare.
• With less then 30 mins (say 20mins) before the attack hit buy. It doesn’t matter what and depends on the level of your market. If your market is at least level 4 you can buy some of everything. Pay over the odds so that your bid(s) are excepted. Remember to spend all your gold. This is the clever bit remember it takes 30 minutes for the goods to arrive so when your attacker arrives the only thing in the cupboard is what you have produced in say the last 20min. He will be very p***sed off and will most probably not bother you again.
• Yes you will lose money on the market but nowhere near as much as if you were plundered. But remember it is the 30min delivery time that is important so ensure that the goods ordered arrive after the attack(s) (Check to make sure sure he is not sending more then 1 wave of attackers) Do not use Amazon special delivery service because you need to wait. 

Offline

• If you are being plundered whilst offline (get back from work, log on and UGH!) Then you can protect some of your assets by hiding them again.
• We cannot use the market this time so we need to find somewhere else to hide them.
• Again easy but you need transports or workers (lots) to carry
• Where can you hide them?
  
  
  
  1. In your valleys! Just load up your transports with what ever you fancy and reinforce one of your valleys. They will just sit there until you recall them when you are on-line. Remember only you can see those little flags so even if the opponent guesses what you may have done he will have to search the map to find your valleys and then scout them to find your transports and if you send some scouts (who will attack his scouts) and some troops to protect you will make it even harder for him to plunder. note troops that are camping out eat twice the amount so be careful with numbers
  2. In an alliance town! Just click on one of our alliance members towns and reinforce as above. But please get permission first as the transports / workers will require feeding. The above trick can also be used online eg For the small amount produced between selling and the attack, just send them out somewhere just before the attack, wait for the attack is over then recall.
  
  

EDIT: DO NOT SEND TO ME YOU WILL PROBABLY GET ROBBED see later posting

Note need to check on one thing in that if you reinforce rather then transport to alliance will the goods remain in the wagons or be given to the host. I or you could check on this later.

However if you have strong wall defences and a good size army you will repel most if not all attacks from the mid range players SO KEEPING MAKING TROOPS AND ADDING WALL DEFENCES (ARCHER TOWERS  )

I hope this will be of value to someone and feel free to comment as sometimes I think I am the only one reading this blog. (Note to Banyan )

Quote of the day:

The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

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