Below i will display some useful strategies and things which will help everyone stay safe
and have a good defensive set up. Some things are little while other things are big and
they all help contribute towards a good safe player.
1 - Sanctuary - This is one of the main buildings used for defence. Always put your leader
with any troop amount into here for 12 hours. You can cancel anytime and put it back in.
Meaning you dont have to wait for 12 hours to finish. Simply recall it and put it back in.
This is recommended even if you are shielded all the time as you might have that one time
where you come out of shield and get hit.
2 - Shielded Players - Your guild will have a number of people who are always under a shield.
Always check in chat or other room to see who the current shielded players are so you can use them.
You can station or send troops as back up to these to keep them safe.
3 - Ghost Rally - Ever wondered why there are always so many assemblies going on for our guild
under the attack tab? Well people use these to protect troops. Once a player has put troops into sanctuary
and still have excess. They can start a ghost rally on a dead player to protect their troops.
The common one used is the 8 hour assembly as it helps cover a 1/3 of the day.
Note: When using ghost rally, Please do it on a dead guildless player and not someone in a guild.
We dont want to ruin another active small players game. We are not monsters.
4 - Infirmary - Your infirmary is another important building. You should always have it maxed in
level to ensure you dont lose troops to deaths. Example: If your infirmary can hold 140k troops but
you have 200k and get hit, then 60k of those troops will die. You can raise your infirmary to 730k
or so if done right (PM me if wanting to know about this in detail).
To raise your infirmary capacity, you need to switch your diplomacy tech to it.
Raising your diplomacy level helps raise the amount of troops it can add to infirmary
(max is 40k per tech in diplomacy).
5 - Leader - Sometimes life is too busy and we cant protect our leader all the time or we cant keep coming
back within 12hours to put it back into sanctuary. There is a way around this. That is, change your leader
to a smaller hero or a crappy hero which you wouldn't mind losing. This helps because if it gets capped
then you wont have lost your main leader. You can switch leaders anytime your on or need to.
6 - Gear - It is recommended to have several different types of gears (construction, defence, research,
harvest etc). You should get used to switching gears all the time. When defending or going off game,
throw your defensive or attacking gear on so that you get some extra boosts.
7 - Location - When your looking for a place to stay in for a while, Consider your surroundings to see
how you can use these to your advantage. Often you will see people sitting on mountains, cliffs and lakes.
The reason for this is it helps block some of the sides so enemies porting in on you are limited on how close
they can get. You might think this doesn't make a difference but having yourself protected around you with
such things and villages helps buy you some extra seconds which are valuable in any defence.
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8 - Heroes - You should always be upgrading your heroes to lvl 35 or 50 where you can to unlock the
majority of their buffs and boosts. Even if you dont use the hero often or at all, having them at either
level gives you additional boosts so be sure to read their profiles to see what boosts they unlock at particular levels.
9 - Buffs - There are many defensive buffs you can use like anti-scout, fake rally and increase attack etc of your
troops. These help improve your defence and even throw some people off from attacking you if they dont know
what you have.
10 - Bubble Trouble - This final point is something which gives long term benefits and less risk.
Often i see people falling off shield as they were waiting for it to expire before applying another but became
busy or stepped away for a minute only to get wiped by time they are back. The simple question you must
ask yourself is "Is it worth waiting?". By this i mean sometimes its better to apply a shield few minutes earlier
or anytime close to shield expiring if you know your going to be busy when it falls off. Its worth saving everything
and giving up that time. I have had moments where i have applied my next shield 1 minute to 3hours before
current expired. If i know i cant make it in time or might not be there when it drops then i will save the risk
and hassle to reapply another beforehand.
Hopefully these 10 points help outline all the tweaks you can make to ensure you have a good defence and
save your troops and leader for the real fun and attacking and defending when your online.
I dont expect these to stop massive attacks on you but they will help reduce the damage you take
and the pain you experience.
Happy hunting