Yesterday Sunday 29th July I enticed an enemy alliance to attack me.
I Moved the following Troops to my city:
My plan was to get them to attack me with basically as much as they had, I wanted to test my defences, as you can see above, I had no intention of this lasting long, little did I know, My defence would be as successful as it was, although I made 2 minor mistakes and 1 major mistake which I will explain below.
First thing you have to understand I had 6 - 8 incoming attacking from different Enemy players, Some Simple Scout bombs, some more local with warrior bombs and Archer Rainbows.
My downfall was having to use 2 Forest Near by to move troops in and out and had I had another city the below outlook would have been much more favourable
I Moved the following Troops to my city:
- 25 Worker
- 545k Warrior
- 1.8mill scout
- 21k Pike
- 10k Sword
- 500k Archer
- 100k Trans
- 10k Cav
- 500 Phract
- 50k Ballista
- 10k Rams
- 1k Pults
- My wall defence was : 1k Traps / 1k Abatis / 100 Rolling Log / 12.4 K Archer Tower / 100 Defence Trebs
My plan was to get them to attack me with basically as much as they had, I wanted to test my defences, as you can see above, I had no intention of this lasting long, little did I know, My defence would be as successful as it was, although I made 2 minor mistakes and 1 major mistake which I will explain below.
First thing you have to understand I had 6 - 8 incoming attacking from different Enemy players, Some Simple Scout bombs, some more local with warrior bombs and Archer Rainbows.
My downfall was having to use 2 Forest Near by to move troops in and out and had I had another city the below outlook would have been much more favourable
Defence 1
Scout Bomb arrives, I had moved all my troops out except Warrior (They are now Priority Unit)
Defence 2
This time All my troops are in and the Ballista are the Highest Priority Unit (Most Combined Attack)
Defence 3
Again, I did not move anything out so the scouts hit the Highest Priority target
Defence 4
This Time I move my Ballista out, and Leave Archer there (They Become Highest Priority)
Defence 5
Same As above
Defence 6
Warrior Bomb..... They will never make it to any decent troop, Cavalry leg it out in defence and hold them for a round, and allows Archer and Archer Towers to wipe them in round 2 / 3 .....If I had 10 Cavalry the result would have been the same.
Defence 7
Archer are left in here, so the Scout Bomb hits them as the Highest Priority
Defence 8
Put Ballista Back in and again Scouts target Highest Priority (Reminder Priority is Highest Combined Unit Attack)
Defence 9
This is how to set your troops out on a Archer Rainbow.
The Smaller the layers the better, Less troops they take (Remember to be rebuilding Traps / Abatis / Log.
I did bring more Archer in to wipe the Attacking Archers with Min Losses.
The Smaller the layers the better, Less troops they take (Remember to be rebuilding Traps / Abatis / Log.
I did bring more Archer in to wipe the Attacking Archers with Min Losses.
Defence 10
Another Scout Bomb arrives just after, So I quickly send My Archers out so the Warrior are the Priority Target.
Defence 11
This is what would happen if I had left my Archers in there, they would become priority target (Remember due to combined Attack Attribute)
Defence 12
Another Archer Rainbow arrives, So the small layers will counteract the Attackers layers while the defending Archer and Archer Towers Wipe the rest.
Defence 13
Another Scout Bomb, trying to target my archers, however using strats correctly you can delay them allowing you time to move Archers / Ballista out.
Defence 14
Same as Above
Defence 15
And Another Same as above
Defence 16
Another Same as above
Defence 17
Still on Scout Bombs....Still Keeping same Unit as Priority (Warriors)
Defence 18
Warrior Bomb, My Wall Defence Layering and Small Cavalry number, Pike and Sword Layer....This makes sure they go no where near any costly unit..... Take the Cavalry out if you wish.
Defence 19
Another Warrior Bomb....This time My Pike and Sword Layering have gone so they hit Warrior instead.
Defence 20
This was a poor Archer Rainbow and if he had Worker, Scout, and Ballista, he could have done a lot more damage.
So take a look at the small defence loss....simply the Archer Rainbow he sent was more like a Archer Rain without the Bow!!!
So take a look at the small defence loss....simply the Archer Rainbow he sent was more like a Archer Rain without the Bow!!!
Defence 21
Major Fail for Me!!!
As a defender I should have organised myself much better than this, this was a complete cock on my part.....I am going to blame the fact that I over ran the bath and it was leaking all over the bathroom floor.....
Anyway, What I would have done here is move my layers back in Just 10 Pike / 10 Sword / 10 Cav / 10 Phract and All My Archers / Ballista.....His Bare Ballista wave would have gone splat .....on a more positive note, I did not catch the Honor Shot on this as I lost so much.
Admitting when you make a mistake is the difference between being a good player and a great player, You have to understand your mistakes to make sure you know what your doing next time!!!
As a defender I should have organised myself much better than this, this was a complete cock on my part.....I am going to blame the fact that I over ran the bath and it was leaking all over the bathroom floor.....
Anyway, What I would have done here is move my layers back in Just 10 Pike / 10 Sword / 10 Cav / 10 Phract and All My Archers / Ballista.....His Bare Ballista wave would have gone splat .....on a more positive note, I did not catch the Honor Shot on this as I lost so much.
Admitting when you make a mistake is the difference between being a good player and a great player, You have to understand your mistakes to make sure you know what your doing next time!!!
Defence 22
As you can see with this wave, My troops arrived too late for the above attack, so this hit was in my eyes another victory for the attacker as he cleared a few more of my Ballista.....remember Ballista take a lot longer to train than scouts :(
Defence 23
Same as above, I had not moved anything out yet so again Ballista get the hit
Defence 24
Same as above
Defence 25
Back to Warrior Bomb, my troops are moving between lakes again, and splat his warriors are gone
Defence 26
Splat again....I am however losing Wall defence faster now, so I am trying to build small Wall defence layers while keeping an eye on the War Reports.....this would be easier if I could have 1 report page on 1 screen and then Wall Defence building on another, however It isn't possible :(
Defence 27
Warrior Bomb = SPLAT
Defence 28
At this point I have moved my Archers out and left my scouts in by accident, so this time my Scouts become the Highest Priority due to the lack of troop numbers on the warrior.
Defence 29
Same as above
Defence 30
Same again, I still hadn't moved my scouts out, I was probably having a bath at this stage ha ha ;-) .......or the Wife was chewing my ear off again for Playing Evony!!!