That’s an impressive kill ratio during an attack!  The Pikeman have a combined total attack of 15 million while the total defense of 14,971,860.  The numbers don’t add up there, especially with the other defenses so this is an underground tactic that can cause some SERIOUS damage to your victim.  Try it out and see for yourself!

Honor is a representation of a player’s troop action, but not necessarily a linear one.  Having a high honor will mean that you heal less troops when in battle vs. another player.  Troop losses can often range from 50% if you have low honor and 10% if you have high honor.

You gain honor by losing more troops in battle vs. another player, the calculation is not based on troop amount but total resource amount that goes into all of the lost troops.  For instance, 1 Archer requires 300 food, 350 lumber and 300 iron to build whereas a Ballista requires 2500 food, 3000 lumber and 1800 iron to build so the loss of a Ballista would gain honor in a fight where 1 Archer and 1 Ballista are lost in a fight against eachother.

You lose honor by losing less troops in battle vs. another player, the calculation again is based on total resources lost.  There are some great ways to lose honor like:

• Sending troops without layers to attack another player – for instance sending 100k Archers on attack will be a VERY inefficient attack and you are likely to lose all of them with very little damage, this is certain to lose a large amount of honor.

• Scout bombing another player – more information here: http://evonyexperts.com/2010/08/scout-bomb-basics/

The possible tactic here is that you can wear down an opponent by simply having more troops to throw at a battle against a defender.  After you lose significant number of troops when attacking you will lose enough Honor – probably to 0 – and build up your opponents honor enough that they will only heal 10% of their losses while you’re healing 50% of losses from your attack.  This sort of Tactic favors players who spend large amounts of time on the game, especially those who farm for resources regularly – to learn more about that you can check out our Speed Farming tactics here: http://evonyexperts.com/2010/11/lvl-10-speed-farming-secret/

Instant Construction of Wall Defenses

When mech waves are useful:

Mech waves are the perfect wave to send when your opponent has a lot of fodder (workers, warriors, pikes, swords), archers to back up that fodder, and has traps and/or abatis.  Also, mech waves work even when the opponent is online!  For me, there are two great approaches to killing the army above.  One involves some waves designed solely to kill the fodder followed by some scout bombs until it can be wiped out with 100k phracts.

The other way is in the picture.  Both work very well, but the mech wave takes far less waves to wipe out the city and therefore is the fastest way to wipe out a city in case he is on or someone can log into the defender’s account to save him with a different attacking method.  Mechs are very slow moving, however, and eat tons of food so there are downsides as well.

The reasons it works (in brief):

Mechanical waves (or “mech waves”) are attack waves that utilize ballista, catapults, and/or battering rams to hit the enemy. The best waves, however, utilize all three types of mechs as shown above. The main advantages of the troops lies in the following:

1. Ballista and catapults have the greatest range in the game (outside of city defenses) and therefore get to shoot at the defending troops at a safe distance.

2. Battering rams have tons of life (they start at 5000 life with 0 technologies while an archer starts at 250) and therefore rams take a long time to die.

This wave takes advantage primarily of the ballista and catapult range to take out all of the defending troops. The rainbow on the attacking wave helps slow down the defending troops from approaching the attacking mechs too quickly and allows the attackers to do the most damage before they take any hits.

We’ve all heard murmurs about Instant Troops and I, for the longest time, was certain this was a myth… Boy was I wrong.  Instant troops means the training time is Zero, Zip, Zilch, 0, nothing.  You get the idea.

Of course there is only one thing that determines the training time of a troop, it is the attack value of the currently appointed Mayor.   Here’s a chart to show you what attack value you’ll need to get for each!

EDIT:  We’ve updated this chart to show what level is required when Excalibur is applied.

Instant Troops

9. When the National Heritage Trust writes to you asking you to cease planting flags with your name in local forests.

8. When you drive by a forest and wonder “How many archers?”.

7. When you have the judge tell you that mailing your neighbours telling them to “move out of my territory or else” is anti-social behavior.

6. When ordering a pizza you give your coords instead of address.

5. When people ask if you had a nice Christmas and you say….Christmas? When did that happen?

4. When you see a TV footage of a North Korean military parade and think “I could take him”….

3. When you go to the racetrack and keep looking for abatis.

2. When you have to rebuild a trap after the postman delivers.

1. When you legally change your name to your server id.

Thanks to EvonyUrl for hosting the link :  http://evonyurl.com/fm5fm3

Next week we’ll show you how amazingly effective cavalry and cataphract can be!

How they work: Scouts are, by far, the fastest unit in the game. Due to this speed, they run past all the enemy’s troops and archer towers and actually get to fight for 1 round no matter what the enemy has. In the picture, they hit the archers. Why? Well, the game has a rather complicated formula for determining this. To make it easy for you, we turned this into a calculator! Click “Scout Bomb Calculator,” enter in all the troop totals (and the DEFENDER’S Military Tradition level) in the target city, and click “Calculate.” The calculator will AUTOMATICALLY determine which troop type you will hit and show you at the bottom!

Scout Bomb