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| Harkon | Jul 29 2008, 11:06 Post #1 |
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Greetings fellow Frostspears, I have had the honour to be a member of this clan for a few days now and since I am quite new in this game I would like to ask you of your advice and opinions. I am at the state of building my first gunmen. I was holding defence since now with phalanxs and archers. However costs are running up. What do u prefer/propose? Is it better to have lets say 100 phalanx or 25-30 gunsmen? Do u fire units or hold them / send them for pillage purposes? In general is it better to have new strong units maybe in smaller amounts or lots of smaller units? What about ships? Furthermore, do u use workshops? I spent a lot of money for phalanx upgrade but now I see the forthcoming steam giants and feel those money was wasted. What do u propose? Thanxs :) Harkon |
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| melocopter | Jul 29 2008, 11:58 Post #2 |
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I use phalanx exclusively because they are great defenders and relatively cheap. I'm not militarily aggressive so I don't have much use for gunmen. PS I accidentally reported you on this post. Sorry! |
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| Boblius | Jul 29 2008, 17:57 Post #3 |
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I have a mixture of both, but as the clan General I feel I need *some* kind of offensive presence. It does get expensive to run though. |
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| pbspartin | Jul 29 2008, 19:46 Post #4 |
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What I do is go for quality units over quantity units. But that being said every unit is useful in its own way. The only unit I don't use is Slingers. I personally think they are a waste of time. I use everything from swordsmen up. It helps to have a varying army to be able to send the cheapest most effective army to deal with whoever you are pillaging. For example I have 5 gyros 20 gunsman as my main attack army along with a mix of 20 archers 10 swordsman. I am currently in the process of building steam giants. Now as far as steam giants vs phalanx i do not yet know which is better per dollar. My phalanx are fully upgraded so they get me alot of defense for a cheaper price. I do know that the stronger units tho can with stand much more damage. But on the flip side. More #'s can be helpful. At the moment for sake of $$$ I am disbanding some of my phalanx for make room for the steam giants. My suggestion is that if you disband units make sure you have space available in your town center. other wise when the citizen are put back in the population they are wasted. So I either a. upgrade my town hall to fit the disbanded citizens or b. build the new units first so that they are subtracted from population then disband the old units to replace the new ones. Now I will tell you as far as navy goes that it is better to upgrade to the newer ships. I just got steam ships a week ago and they are much faster than catapult ships plus they have assault on them. So they cost the same in reality to send out as the catapults. even tho catapult ships are cheaper to maintain they have to stay out at sea much longer which ends up costing almost the same anyway. So i have been building the new ships then disbanding the old ones to replace my citizens. So there you have it my very big 2 cents worth. lol |
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