Is It Worth Having A High Medal Count?

Pretty much what the title says. Are there any SERIOUS benefits of having a high medal count? Also (kinda off topic) what's a good troop combination for gunpowder age that will continuously get you 4-5 star victories?
(Sorry kind of a noob)
-Cheers, Jack

If you get really high, there are significantly larger battle bonuses from winning a battle. But you have to get pretty high for that, and the battles become very difficult. The bonuses do not cover the extra losses in most cases, and you can't play the game as much (constantly waiting for tactics and troops to retrain).

One of the larger upsides - if you get high enough, you will get attacked regularly (all active players up there). But you will get peace treaties, because everyone is working on maintaining their medal counts. So no or very few raids for resources with no treaty.

It seems most players have decided not to mess with it, and stay much lower.

I went up to 2800 medals, it took way too much time to stay there, you win only 1 medal per battle but you loose up to 30 being attacked one time ...

JackTheHealer said:

Also (kinda off topic) what's a good troop combination for gunpowder age that will continuously get you 4-5 star victories?
(Sorry kind of a noob)
-Cheers, Jack

Click to expand...

What nation do you play as? I used to use 3 HC, 1 supply cart, 1 bombard, and rest shooters. I play as the British. Also, now in EA I stopped using HC in my army and take a donated tank instead. So, that's a lot more shooters and cannons. If you pick bases wisely, you're sure to get 5 star victories.

it is hard and very costly to try to get high medal actively, if you is good enough you will be float to there automatically. just by winning raids.

The benefits is get war like attack to check your war base design, and less oil raid. You will get peace after one raid.

As a hardworking IA player I try and keep my medals between 400-700. Anything more and I'm fighting all high end global bases.

No, it is not worth having a high medal count. The bases tend to be tougher, so you can attack a lot less often. And the attackers are better, so you will get wiped far more often.

That said, I am referring to high as 1500+, somewhere in the low gold range. I can naturally float around 1300 as a mid IA player, it takes active medal dropping to stay much lower.

The latest update has completely changed the medal count equation. In Kingdom league, the victory chest gives you 3 million food or gold. Empire league players in my alliance have seen 6,600 oil.

In the three or four attacks and about 1 hour of gameplay it takes to earn the victory chest, you should be clearing a million gold, 500k food, and 8k oil. Add the victory chest rewards, and you should have enough for an upgrade or research every 4 days, which is about how often your workers will be free given the ridiculous build times. For people with limited time to play, high medals is absolutely the way to go.

Higher medals now also gives more NTGs from victory chests and League bonuses. I have raised my medals to Kingdom league and will stay there for a while. The rewards can't be missed. Yesterday I got 2.7 mil food from victory chest rewards.

Empire That's not true, you don't get more NTGs, you get the same amount of NTGs from attacks as you would in silver league, just the league bonus ship arriving at your dock contains more NTGs when delivering those to you and more inside the victory chest.

And I've tested it before and I had 12.1k oil in a Kingdom III and 20.8k oil in a Empire III victory chest as a reward. As I can easily get much more oil during active play I dropped down to 1000 medals again.

Dimun said:

Empire That's not true, you don't get more NTGs, you get the same amount of NTGs from attacks as you would in silver league, just the league bonus ship arriving at your dock contains more NTGs when delivering those to you and more inside the victory chest.

And I've tested it before and I had 12.1k oil in a Kingdom III and 20.8k oil in a Empire III victory chest as a reward. As I can easily get much more oil during active play I dropped down to 1000 medals again.

Click to expand...

That's what I meant - NTGs from League and Victory chest rewards. I haven't seen those before. I was writing in continuation to Tsamu's post.

Ok sorry Empire, didn't want to sound rude, just wanted to point it out as otherwise maybe someone could mistakenly think it works differently .

No, not at all. In my hurry to type, I had missed to add that bit and it did make it inaccurate. Thank you for pointing it out

You gain 1-2 medals and can lose 10-30 pretty easily as everyone said.. However, if you just rush the town centers on the edge.. 8 battles (15stars) yields close to 7mil rewards at 2700-3000 empire 2 range. Get about 20k oil from a chest as well. Is it worth it? If you don't mind spamming the next battle button for an easy base then yes. If not then no.

How do you get national trade goods being in high level medal count? I’ve read it’s very hard to do 100% attacks. Or maybe the players in high medals level are not active in WW?

At 1800 medals, the boat and victory chest drop AA troop cards including EA. No amount of farming at lower medals will give you that for wars!

It generally isn't worthwhile. Very hard to get NTGs, resource rewards compared to troop loss per battle are much worse, and you get attacked more quickly and by tougher opponents.

The troop cards in the victory chest and the occasional well timed oil reward are the only upside. And those are both very inconsistent - the rewards choices are so diluted by ntgs, trade goods, blessings, and tactics that getting an offer of a single card between one of the 6 slots is a good day. And I have never seen an elephant archer, or indeed anything much better than an infantry card, all the way up to 2600 medals. They do become AA cards at a certain point, but that point is different for the victory chests and the daily boats.

I am a gold III gunpowder age 1400 medals. I like it here because when I get a troop card it is level 6 (daily dock and victory chest). All other troop cards I can get/buy etc are all level 3.

Seeing as I am about to move up an age high medals is also allowing me to amass inventory items. So when I do move up I’ll have plenty of resources to raid with. Actually I don’t raid in the sense the term is used here, I always try for a win as well. I also tend to max each level before moving up so my base is very strong for my age and when I step up an age I have a strong start there too.

I carry troop cards into multi-player battle and do use (extensively) the next base button looking for a base that has two or three desired characteristics, lots of loot, within 5-10 levels of me and a nationality that would give me needed ntg’s. And are diamonds available as resources. If I find all of these I might deploy my troop tactics cards to help insure a 5 star victory. Otherwise I’ll take what I can get with only base troops and donated troops. If I see an advantage/need I’ll deploy mercs as well.

I feel like I have tons more to learn about how to deploy troops, and where, etc... I keep an active armor blessing and Weapon’s blessing and a loot blessing. I probably average 400-500k of each loot per attack and usually attack 3-4 times in an evening, but only evenings when I have workers coming off shift and am getting ready for a new upgrade. Keeping the timing right is part of the challenge imo and I try. That way when I log off anyone attacking me is doing so for minimum loot.

I don't try to shed medals at all, although I guess that is what “raiding” accomplishes. I don’t get raided often, it seems most attacking me are looking for victory also. I defend pretty well and have a lot of university level 2 done, which provides a strong defense and I keep a tower blessing up all the time. Often I log in to see one victory for plus ~24 medals and one 2-5 star loss for minus ~14 medals. And an active peace treaty. This pattern alone helps hold my medals at current levels and even slowly climbing.

i”m in no hurry to move up in age as I dislike playing catch-up more then moving slow and steady. So all these things combined make me comfortable where I am medal wise etc. but I might add that it was access to the level 6 troop cards that helped me form my current strategy.

I’m glad that many rush the ages as it gives me easy pickings in multi-player.

After staying for a long time at low medals (gold league and below), I've tried again to reach dynasty league. From 2800 medals and above it becomes very hard to climb higher when you have a life beside this. I play in the evening during a few hours (and during this few hours I can't even leave my Ipad because otherwise I get deconnect and attacked because this f*cking game doesn't give us even a 10 min rest without activity ..). And until I replay again the next day I get attacked 3 times, at the end of each peace treaty, so during my play time I'm more or less just recover the medals I've lost during the day and I stay between 2800 and 3000.
Also, getting ntg is very hard, at low medals it's very fast to recover ntg in a very fast time, because you can 5 star every base you encounter (I'm lvl 238 cold war age attacking with 6 HT mk6) whereas at high medal you spam the "next" button to find a base which is faisible without big losses. I've even run out of diamonds whereas at low medal I'm always full so that I cover all my base with oil barrels bought at the raffinery ..

Loonies said:

At 1800 medals, the boat and victory chest drop AA troop cards including EA. No amount of farming at lower medals will give you that for wars!

Click to expand...

I've always been over 2000 medals and NEVER got EA cards from boat or victory chest.