Training up and down
 

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.

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]

Corralary 1: If no one attacks you and your TBG (Turn Based Gold) is low, there is no need to switch your attackers to defenders.

I've been attacked but they get less than 10,000 G due to my small size and low TBG. I'll stop by occasionally to train my daily orcs and to buy BPMs, Hooks, and/or dogs.

The whole idea of the game though is to not have a low TBG :D

It takes a while to build up enough TBG to make a difference. I have been playing for over a month and my TBG still doesn't buy crap.

[lol]

I don't know 8 mil seems like a bit

This works like a charm :D All of these guys had 20 mil + With both SA and DA trained I have to look in the 15 mil range for targets. Also I've not been attacked in 3 days!

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up...54548_hunt.jpg

This morning I got attacked at the same instant I wanted to spent the night's worth of TBG. He took about 2/3 of it, so I spent the rest. I trained "up" and then checked my annoyance. Apparently he was out hunting and thus I took 21M from him :D

[lol]

What do you do with the losses? Do you just wait until the next day's alottment of orcs to replenish? or do you have some "extra" in case of losses?