Mistfit
12-09-2005, 21:26
Training Up and Down:
Recently Dr. A made me see the light in how to maximize my hunting ability
through the use of Training Up and Down. I thought I'd try to explain it here
for any of you who do not use this technique and for any n00bs that may come
along.
quote:First of some Terms:
TFF = Total Fighting force
This is the total of your Attack soldiers added to your Defense soldiers added
to any Untrained Soldiers. Basically eveyone but your spies and sentries.
SA = Strike Action
The total amount of damage you can inflict
DA = Defensive Action
The total amount of damage you can withstand in an attack
IS = Invisibility Shield
The best defensive weapon you can have
BPM = Black Powder Missle
The best offensive weapon you can get
Everyone I think knows that you should never attack someone that has a smaller TFF
than you do. If you don't know that... stop doing it because you will only get around 50%
of normal gold from the attack.
The idea behind training up and down is to limit your TFF for 2 reasons:
First when you are hunting you want to have as large a SA as possible while having the
smallest army possible. This will give you the largets amount of targets to choose from.
Second is when you are not hunting you want to have as large a DA as possible with the
smallest army possible. This will limit the amount of people that can attack you. A side
benefit to this is that it will lower your true ranking because your SA is 0. This means that
to find you opponents have to search through the lower rankings to get to you.
How to do it:
Optimally you should have as many attack weapons as you have defensive weapons. This makes
things a bit easier when doing the switch.
I have 1250 IS's and 1250 BPM's
When I am building up attack turn I will only train enough soldiers to cover my IS's. All Defensive.
This means that only people that have a higher siege tech than my fortification (or orc)
can attack me for full gold because all of my TFF is Defensive.
Then when I have built up enough attack turns (once or twice a week) I take all of my defensive
soldiers and untrain them (make them untrained soldiers) then train the same guys back to Offensive soldiers. So instead of
having to find targets with a minimum on 2500 TFF I can look for them as small as 1250. This makes
my hunting much more fruitful.
Ocassionally I want to find out my true ranking so I train both my attack and defensive weapons
to their fullest and wait till the top of an hour.
I hope this little primer helps those of you who are hard headed (like me) to see the light on
how to maximize your TFF. If you don't think it will work look up Dr. A .... He Da Man! [cookiem]
Recently Dr. A made me see the light in how to maximize my hunting ability
through the use of Training Up and Down. I thought I'd try to explain it here
for any of you who do not use this technique and for any n00bs that may come
along.
quote:First of some Terms:
TFF = Total Fighting force
This is the total of your Attack soldiers added to your Defense soldiers added
to any Untrained Soldiers. Basically eveyone but your spies and sentries.
SA = Strike Action
The total amount of damage you can inflict
DA = Defensive Action
The total amount of damage you can withstand in an attack
IS = Invisibility Shield
The best defensive weapon you can have
BPM = Black Powder Missle
The best offensive weapon you can get
Everyone I think knows that you should never attack someone that has a smaller TFF
than you do. If you don't know that... stop doing it because you will only get around 50%
of normal gold from the attack.
The idea behind training up and down is to limit your TFF for 2 reasons:
First when you are hunting you want to have as large a SA as possible while having the
smallest army possible. This will give you the largets amount of targets to choose from.
Second is when you are not hunting you want to have as large a DA as possible with the
smallest army possible. This will limit the amount of people that can attack you. A side
benefit to this is that it will lower your true ranking because your SA is 0. This means that
to find you opponents have to search through the lower rankings to get to you.
How to do it:
Optimally you should have as many attack weapons as you have defensive weapons. This makes
things a bit easier when doing the switch.
I have 1250 IS's and 1250 BPM's
When I am building up attack turn I will only train enough soldiers to cover my IS's. All Defensive.
This means that only people that have a higher siege tech than my fortification (or orc)
can attack me for full gold because all of my TFF is Defensive.
Then when I have built up enough attack turns (once or twice a week) I take all of my defensive
soldiers and untrain them (make them untrained soldiers) then train the same guys back to Offensive soldiers. So instead of
having to find targets with a minimum on 2500 TFF I can look for them as small as 1250. This makes
my hunting much more fruitful.
Ocassionally I want to find out my true ranking so I train both my attack and defensive weapons
to their fullest and wait till the top of an hour.
I hope this little primer helps those of you who are hard headed (like me) to see the light on
how to maximize your TFF. If you don't think it will work look up Dr. A .... He Da Man! [cookiem]