I have town halls in almost all of my villages running small/large parties almost 24/7. It's a matter of how fast you can get Culture Points after awhile. Resources are not the limiting factor.

How many levels did your hero go up from that attack?

Please explain. I should be building my Residence to level 20 in a few villages along with settlers to be used when the natars are released?

I have my Barracks/great barracks/seige building 24/7.

Should I stop founding new villages now?

i got about 6 levels i think, up to level 26 with full offensive bonus now.

and yea, i've stopped founding villages until the natars released. i have enough CP for a village right now, but they should come out by tuesday at the latest from what i'm hearing. i'm just pumping out troops and upping resource/trade offices till then. i have a capital hammer, so no GB or GS unfortunately.

Where did you hear this? I knew they were probably going to show up soon but I didn't know it was THAT soon.

Yes, you should stop. When WW start being built they have their alliance/meta founding villages around it, rushing them with tons of gold, then pushing resources/troops/whatever to the WW village. There are no resource push rules w/ WW villages so most of the res will go there.

the more villages you can found around it, the better.

generally they come around day 300, its past that now i think. my wing leader said they've never been released on a saturday or sunday, and the lastest has been day 306, which would be tuesday.

i'm anxious to see the big hammers come out. biggest i've seen was about 60k a little while ago.

Someone please explain to me why you're supposed to start villages a fair distance from your capital. Why not just build up a fortress area so that your defenses are easy to move town to town?

I'm obviously nowhere near that, but just wondering.

fwiw, I'm building my main building to level 3 right now. Oh joy!

Who told you that junk? This is my capital, along with my fortress area.




In a perfect world, your SUPPOSED to get a 15 cropper as your capital, preferably one with three 50% wheat oasis in it's 7x7 for 150% max bonus. I have one 50% and two 25%'s and I consider myself lucky to have gotten that.

Once you get your capital, you'll want to build your assault, or "hammer" village right next to it (mine is at -12/202). This way you can easily transport massive amounts of wheat from your 15c capital to your hammer village when your hammer is attacking. Otherwise, your troops will starve since your assault village can only produce ~2000 wheat/hour.

Having a fortress area also makes it quicker for you to shuffle defensive troops back and forth by reining them in your capital then being able to quickly call them back if the need arises. It ALSO makes it quicker to send your merchants to your capital with resources from your feeder villages to build up your wheat fields faster.

The only reason that someone might want to start villages away from their capital would be so that they don't overlap their own raiding areas. If you spread out more you can cover a wider range of farms.

Is anyone interested in sharing an account of someone in my alliance? He's going to be away for the next 3 months or so and won't be playing that much. He says, "Frik, i don`;t care what you do. you can play play if you want. The pass is there, i probably wont pklay it much, thats why i am giving you pass, so you can use gold or w.e."

He has 18 villages with an 11,000 pop

The only good reason I can see for building your 2nd village miles away (asides from for a good 15c) is that you are being raided too much to survive where you are. Oh, and when you build your later villages, don't make them in squares that used to have inactive players you were farming. New players will spawn in those squares later on.

This game seems pretty fun, i really like RTS Games! I signed up 5 days after the start of US.5, so i shouldn't be too far behind. I'm Romans, and just leveling up resources at the moment. I'm at -28/108 on US5 if anyone else is on that server!

Good luck! Start raiding the smaller guys as soon as you can!

Lumber/hr: 81
Clay/hr: 88
Iron/hr: 67
Wheat/hr: 26
Crop Consumption: 99/125
Legionnaires: 13

I've been farming people gone and such. I've cleared out (for now) the four closest.

My question here is whether or not I should be focusing on continuing to up those resource fields or build straight Legionnaires for a while to build army and raid more? Thoughts?

I haven't played Romans, but I assume their best plan is to go for Equites Imperatoris to raid. I'd definitely look to have more than 13 legionnaires first though, perhaps 50 odd. They kind of suck for raiding, but you don't have a lot of choice early on. I guess you need to rely on fields more as a Roman than the other races, but don't overdo it. It's perfectly fine to get to negative wheat production, you'll be bringing wheat in via raiding.

You should also aim to be farming everyone in your initial 7x7, and eventually further out.

Everyone? Or just the dead players? I feel like trying to farm someone as populated as myself is dumb, but...? Just to clarify.

Yeah, I think I've spent way too much on wheat production right now and could have higher levels of other stuff.

I've cleaned out my 7x7 for the small players. I'm moving outside it to about 9x9 right now.

Well, I only start at the beginning of a server, so nobody is going to be bigger than me. It's likely that some of the bigger players near you actually have no army, so teching to scouts to find out will be useful - some of them will be great farms as all their time has been spent on fields.

I try to raid everyone in my 21x21. You definitely want to clean out at least your 7x7. If you can raid them, then they grow slower, which helps you even more.

a lot of times players of your size can't do **** about it.

continually build your raiding force and hope to kill their raiding force while it is at home. also, NEVER leave your raiding force at home. while you sleep, send it to attack a village 4-6 hours away (8-12 hours roundtrip) so that they are getting back a little bit after you wake up.

Okay, you guys have convinced me. I'll start raiding the people in my 7x7 who aren't close to me. There's one guy who is Gauls and is pop 82 and I'm like 86. I'll leave him for now and clear out those near me. Hopefully I can defend when they get pissed and attack me.

Why is it better to have troops away at night? Shouldn't I want to have them there to kill the bastards that try to loot me overnight (if any)?

your raiding troops are a poor defense to their raiding troops. if you have defensive troops you can leave them at home, but DO NOT leave offensive troops or siege equipment at home. finding someone who leaves troops at home pretty much makes them an auto-farm for the hero XP

Some of my proudest moments in this game is farming teutons who left their clubbies at home with my EI's. Clubbies have **** for cavalry defense so just a small raiding force of 100 EI's can take out 300 clubbies while I only lose 4 or 5 of mine.

natars are out on s6, my alliance already surrounded one of their places with new villages

Which one? I have 2 sets of settlers on their way to the 78/227 area with another group ready to go in the morning.

CHOO CHOO

i'm in WE4, we surrounded the 142|72 wonder already, and our wing leader took it. go go go go!

and then i blew up my hammer on some KGB nub

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