Defence Reports

I would like all alliance members to post their town defences and rough troop levels. As to my group email which was short because of the in-game 500 char limit we need to find our weakest links and advise accordingly.
Either send me a mail or better post here in comments pages. (By posting here you can keep game open while typing data, you will find sending mail in game a bit of a pain) and also get over 500 char limit. Also by posting here, the info is available to all e.g. no good asking Lord x for 5k archers when he as only 1K but has 6k cav.. With this info we can plan both our defence and attack strategies. I would suggest updating your data every couple days. Please give it try and report any problems.
I will put my details in the comments below as example
Site now secure so you can post. I need your wall levels and fortifications and rough troop level. Also your military research levels and if you are researching estimated time to completion. Ones I need especially are M.T. (Military Tradition (Attack)), I.W. (Iron Working (Defence))  and Archery level.
With this info we can plan both our attack and defence strategies
Just post into the comments box for this blog entry and update every few days with new information (delete old post (if u allowed to) and enter new info. Dont forget to start post with your game name and for those that have 2 towns, which town you are talking about (walls etc). I know this may seem like a pain but I cannot host this alliance successfully without this info and I cannot scout you?

Edit: I noticed that the reports are very slow in arrival, this I know is partly due to the lack of readers (sic) However I cannot stress too much how much this information is benefit to us all. One thing you may not be aware of is that garrisoned troops share the technology with the city that they are defending. Hence if you send me archers they will have archery 10 and level 10 wall bonus. Likewise if I send you archers they will have the tech. level of your city. So if you are under attack and request troops with the information from your beacon tower plus the knowledge of what your tech. level is I can send an appropriate numbers of troops or plan another strategy. Without this info I could send too few troops which means you get plundered or lose your city (if you have more than 1) and we both lose troops. The upshot of this is I may not reinforce you to protect my own troops so you have been warned

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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