Outpost = Defensive

LincLinc OwnerDetroit Icrontian
edited April 2008 in Gaming
Building your outpost village should be a three-step process:

1) Max out resource production
2) Level up barracks and wall
3) Produce defensive troops / armoury upgrade them

Every 6-crop village should minimally end up with 4-5,000 defensive lvl-20-armoury troops if we're going to stand our ground.

Comments

  • Invisible-MuffinInvisible-Muffin Scotland
    edited March 2008
    righty-ho, 5 legions of a praetorian cohort coming up...
    and a wall to make all the chinese players jealous :)
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited March 2008
    Working on it capt'n.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited March 2008
    Gemini has followed that script to the "T". Maxed resources, Wall lvl20, Barracks and Stable lvl20, Armory lvl13, paladins and spearmen at lvl13. By the end of the week, I should have at least 2000 lvl20 defensive troops.

    Lupus is coming along....
  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited March 2008
    So far the village I'd most expected to be attacked by Myth hasn't been yet... Solstice is slowly gaining level 10 resource producers and is levelling troop quality. Haven's getting it's balls ripped off and Resolve is just slowly chugging along :tongue:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited March 2008
    I could send some troops to Haven. Say... 4000 spearmen. That would hurt any future raids by his knights. I wouldn't leave them there, just a one time "OUCH". Let me know... it would take 5 hrs to get to you though.
  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited March 2008
    If you're willing to send them :D I'll upgrade my wheat production in the mean-time then :tongue: ...Gunna ask for resources :tongue:
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    I have THREE maxed villages doing almost nothing but supplying ONE of my 15-croppers, and it is STILL taking forever to build up my troops. Keep this in mind as you spread out and take croppers: it literally takes 3+ villages to fuel a cropper properly.
  • MickyGMickyG
    edited April 2008
    Sure thing, Beforce is resourcing up now.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    A relevant thread to bump. I don't plan to build any more offensive troops outside of Lady Jaye, and she's nearly full. Flint is demolishing its Blacksmith for a Tournament Square for faster reinforcements.
  • SidekicksolSidekicksol Kansas City, Kansas
    edited April 2008
    my OP village wont be up for a while. its barely started
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Every one of my villages but Lady Jaye is currently leveling resources (6), leveling barracks (3), or training Praetorians (6).
  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Are there any croppers near the outpost? I've got 3 settlers ready :tongue:
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    See the Outpost thread...
  • MiddgeMiddge
    edited April 2008
    I've already sent my settlers to (-82|332) on the advise of Q. I plan to be a heavy iron supplier. That will make it easier for troop production anyway. They will be there by tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 PM est. Any resources sent there would be FANTASTIC, as it is only my second village, and resources are hard to come by.
  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    I've got my new village up- Determination @ (-88|287). I smell an army :rarr:
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Harudath wrote:
    I've got my new village up- Determination @ (-88|287). I smell an army :rarr:

    A defensive army right? We don't really need catapults.
  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Whatever is required.
  • TBonZTBonZ Ottawa, ON Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    Cool. We need everybody to build massive amounts of defense. This is the only way we'll be able to get involved in endgame.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    When TBonz says MASSIVE, he means 10k, at least. Yes, 10,000. If you have a cropper, make that 20k just for that village.

    Look at the numbers here... say the top half need to account for the 500,000 troops. That's 25,000ish for each of the top 20 players. I'm not there yet myself but I have so many wheat croppers that I should be able to do that once all my villages are done building.
  • HarudathHarudath Great Britain Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    I have... 1100 druid riders? *sighs* Well... I did join quite a while after you guys :tongue:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    How's that saying go... you need 1100 before you can have 1101, right. Just don't loose them in useless fights. Resources we can replace, troops and time we cannot.
  • Invisible-MuffinInvisible-Muffin Scotland
    edited April 2008
    over all of my villages... i have about 7-8k defensive troops, so i'm getting there :p
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    I'm over 20k but they are so fricking all over the place. I'm trying to have 15,000 sitting ready to dispatch at a moments notice from one village.
  • tttooommm10tttooommm10
    edited April 2008
    im going to build all my troops from 1 15cropper. max that with troops so they will not die then keep making troops and store them in other villages so i can call them back at a moments notice and have LOADS. im aiming for 1 15c and 3 supporters. that is....

    30k troops (very roughly)

    and im only gonna train defensive troops so what a defence that will be!!
  • Invisible-MuffinInvisible-Muffin Scotland
    edited April 2008
    tttooommm10 wrote:
    im going to build all my troops from 1 15cropper. max that with troops so they will not die then keep making troops and store them in other villages so i can call them back at a moments notice and have LOADS. im aiming for 1 15c and 3 supporters. that is....

    30k troops (very roughly)

    and im only gonna train defensive troops so what a defence that will be!!

    hate to burst your bubble, i like your thinking but that'll take a LONG time to set up, my 15c has 2 support villages and its still not nearly that good. and the world is coming to an end, so you can get a few thousand troops if you try hard enough, but i doubt 30k will arise...
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    We'll see... if he pours a ton of resources into his croppers, he could produce a good amount. Remember, even if we don't get picked up by an alliance, we're kind of out of the way. We might very well make it another month without being harassed.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited April 2008
    I've had Flint, my capital 15c, for a month now, and I have 8,000 Praetorian there. That's with a pretty good effort to keep the barracks moving, and having made 3 support villages next to it around the same time. I'm sure it's possible to produce more troops than that if you're less interested in expansion and solidifying the city as a capital, but it will be significant effort to do it.
  • tttooommm10tttooommm10
    edited April 2008
    yer i probobly am dreaming but i will try to build more villages. hopefully 9 in total.

    (yea rite) :)
  • SidekicksolSidekicksol Kansas City, Kansas
    edited April 2008
    wow!!! nice. you did get those villages up pretty fast
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