King's Age

[Musashi]

Just some noob I slaughtered sending spies to see if I'm in our out.

[gryeyes]

Ravinthorn is getting his town taken i think. Second time hes been attacked by that huge alliance.

[Tannhauser]

I just lost 40 longbows in defense there.  I wish I could see what attacked him.  I'm sending more troops, I can't buy a fight up where I'm at.

[Kageru]

The game seems to alternate between dull base building and attacks of sufficient power there's no practical defence.

[gryeyes]

But until they reach a fairly high level of development you can basically evade their wraith. The game is to survive and multiply. Dont make yourself a target until its not worth the effort to attack your town. And then spread like a virus! So far I have 750 templars, 600 something squires,360 longbows,60 crusaders,30 berserker and 1 Black knight (complete waste of fucking resources). With a level 20 wall. No town with greater than 20 times your points can attack you.

But i do have 3 seemingly abandoned towns with 2k+ points that i just farm constantly. It takes like 3 counts to take over your town, in addition to the troops required to clear the path. Thats a massive amount of resources.

Edit: ahhh tanhauser you had them supporting, I wasn't sure what you meant at first. Ya pretty pointless to reinforce at our level anyone attacking is pretty much coming with a wave of death. Spies are probably the best, if they cant scout you probably not going to attack.

[Musashi]

Dont make yourself a target ...

Not good at this.

[Kageru]

Up north where I am seems to be a bit of a dead-zone.. Lots of 50pt AFK towns I can't raid because I'm over the limit, the abandoned towns are actually some of the fastest growing!

[Tannhauser]

Yeah, I agree, keep your town looking small while you build up your army.  I sent more troops to Ravinthorn and am farming three nearby towns.

[gryeyes]

It would probably be better to stop trying. You cant prevent or hamper them, its just draining your resources.

[Tannhauser]

Just fought off an attack by 50 crusaders.  But he had a 20% luck bonus and gave me a good zap.  Anyone want to reinforce me?

[Tannhauser]

gryeyes you are being attacked in 3 hours, about 2:20 EST.

[gryeyes]

Thanks tannhauser, it was 600 spies 

Before we can really help eachother we need to be close in proximity. 3 days delay is worthless for support. We need to either die or taking over towns close to eachother. It completely fucks us as an alliance.

[gryeyes]

Anyone still playing and capable of counting other towns? Probably going to leave the alliance if nobody else is playing. 

[Kageru]

I'm still playing... though somewhat wishing someone would just zerg me so I could focus on more rewarding games. It is interesting exploring the gameplay (repulsive) of these tribes type games. I'm still a long way from having a count though, the resource demands are so high and those resources are currently better put into building up my army. Maybe in a week from now I might feel safe enough to move up to having a count.

The count has a take-over range of 75 squares according to a post I saw on the forums. Which means it would be a massively painful way to reposition yourself.

On the other hand if someone gets a fully developed town they'll have an absolute glut of resources and would be able to "pump" a newly established town. I've seen a couple of towns who are in big alliances grow up really fast and would suspect that's what is happening.

[gryeyes]

Blah i assumed a count had an unlimited range, so we could all link up.

[Tannhauser]

I'm still playing.  My suicidal  counterattack seemed to work; he hasn't bothered me since.  Had to slow down my town development to rebuild my army.

A couple of my RL friends have quit the alliance.  I'm not going to but I can understand their issues.  We are an alliance in name only.  It's really every man for himself.

At any rate, I'm still having fun.

[Musashi]

I'm playing.  But some guy changed his town name to 'Miyamoto will die.'  He's got a better alliance than me, and has been kicking my ass.  I'm not sure how much longer I can hold out.  But of course, I changed my town name to 'No U.'

[gryeyes]

I noticed, what sort of numbers is he throwing at you? Does he have counts?

[Musashi]

He's roughly even with me, but i fucked up an over extended myself.  So now he has a larger army while I rebuild mine.  So I'm pretty sure he's saving his resources to build a count.

[gryeyes]

If hes not sending thousands of troops I can spare a pretty large force to reinforce. But if its pointless to try i wont bother.

[Musashi]

No, he's not sending thousands.  He's sending in 500 tops.

[gryeyes]

What type of unit? I think i have around 110 crusaders I can send imminently. Probably faster for me to make some more crusaders instead of sending foot troops. If you have a high level wall that would probably be enough.

Edit: I will just attack him directly.

[Musashi]

Haha.  Nice.  Thanks.

[gryeyes]

Going to send multiple waves of 5 spies multiple hours apart (already sent 3) so he is not sure when the attack is going to arrive and cant stash his troops/resources indefinitely. I also sent some squires so I am hoping he will assume thats the real attack and not attempt to counter it. 250 crusaders will arrive after the 3rd scout attack so he lowers his guard.

Do you have any idea what kind of troop types he has? Are their tons of squires? Or scouted his base at all?  If he has tons of squires and a complete wall I should build more before sending.

[Musashi]

I haven't scouted him for a couple days, as I've been in recovery mode.  But he seems to build a balanced force.  Not too heavy on one thing or the other.

[gryeyes]

Sweet. I will let you know when my attack will arrive. If he is saving for a count you should be able to raid him after i attack (whether i win or lose he will still be messed up) and rob him blind. There is a 72 hour trip for some sense of time.

[Musashi]

I'm building spies so I can scout him.

[Musashi]

Oh shit. He's attacking you.  I'll bet it's spies.  I'm gonna send my spies now.

[Musashi]

[gryeyes]

Thats a lot of squires.

After my 250 crusaders die in 3 days and frees up some troops I will send a swarm of berzerkers.

[Tannhauser]

Wish I could help, but I'm rebuilding my army after a nasty fight.

[gryeyes]

Was trying to save to a count but the realization of how far away it is, fuck it. After i have 3k berserkers I will be attacking Goyoza's enemy. Take my 2-3 days (at 1000 currently), but i have made informal alliances with the major guys in my sector. Make friends if it is possible.

[Musashi]

Who needs friends when you can have enemies?

Also, by that time, I should be able to combine a sizable force with yours.  I'll try to time it so that we both hit around the same time to minimize casualties.

[Kageru]

These sort of games are just so silly. If you are near and get onside with a powerful alliance you'll be doing the attacking, outside of that there's not really much you can do in the way of tactics. Case in the point being that Musashi is probably going to lose the town he's been investing time into in what looks like a count assault (5 attacks with less than 1 minute between them). And unlike Estiah or The West (outside of forts) losing your town puts you all the way back at the start.

Though I guess the rest of us could send resources if there is a restart close to us.

[gryeyes]

There are a bunch of bullshit rules with sending resources. I don't even believe you can send to an alliance member for free. You just have to make yourself strong enough to not be worth the resources to take over.