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I am a level 310 DA and like to stay at the low end of Empire (2600 to 2800 medals). I find that to be a good place to collect NTGs (lots of low end CWAs available) while also having the possibility of 26k oil victory chest rewards. My problem was I would log off for a few hours and have 10 medal dropping attacks against me. I could easily go over 3000 medals. I spent a lot of time medal dropping to get back to my preferred range.
Then I started using an exposed TC base design, thinking the first person to attack me would snipe my TC, I'd get a peace treaty for the price of 100k oil (which I'm always full of anyway) and not have to medal drop as much. I also made it fairly easy to get my mills and markets (remember, always full of) so I can collect from farms and caravans to meet goals. I thought you might be interested in my experience.
About 20% of attackers do what I expected; drop 1 infantry to trigger the TC defenders, drop another on the other side of my base to draw them away, then heavy infantry, AVs or bazookas to finish off my TC. About 1 in 4 also collect food and gold. Quick, clean, and everybody wins.
I still get about 20% medal drop attacks. meh.
5% are bomber attacks for my oil. Only half of those succeed due to cunningly placed towers/air defense/SAMs. That was sarcastic. It is blatantly obvious that the bomber flight path is death alley. Still they try.
10% of attacks are serious attempts to destroy my base, almost all using transports/paratroopers. I have placed ambush traps and land mines at the frequent drop spots, so most of the time those attackers fail to get my oil.
What surprised me was the number of the players who don't know how (or don't want) to snipe a TC. They just drop their entire army next to my TC and get killed. Most of them then decide to drop their generals and mercs and use their aircraft, probably intending to use an instant retrain. Some of them even go after my generals just to spite me I think. I revenge those players.
All in all it is nowhere near as beneficial to have an exposed TC as I had hoped. The things that annoys me most are losing my alliance troops and losing my generals. However, on balance, I am going to stick with it since I dislike medal dropping so much.
Then I started using an exposed TC base design, thinking the first person to attack me would snipe my TC, I'd get a peace treaty for the price of 100k oil (which I'm always full of anyway) and not have to medal drop as much. I also made it fairly easy to get my mills and markets (remember, always full of) so I can collect from farms and caravans to meet goals. I thought you might be interested in my experience.
About 20% of attackers do what I expected; drop 1 infantry to trigger the TC defenders, drop another on the other side of my base to draw them away, then heavy infantry, AVs or bazookas to finish off my TC. About 1 in 4 also collect food and gold. Quick, clean, and everybody wins.
I still get about 20% medal drop attacks. meh.
5% are bomber attacks for my oil. Only half of those succeed due to cunningly placed towers/air defense/SAMs. That was sarcastic. It is blatantly obvious that the bomber flight path is death alley. Still they try.
10% of attacks are serious attempts to destroy my base, almost all using transports/paratroopers. I have placed ambush traps and land mines at the frequent drop spots, so most of the time those attackers fail to get my oil.
What surprised me was the number of the players who don't know how (or don't want) to snipe a TC. They just drop their entire army next to my TC and get killed. Most of them then decide to drop their generals and mercs and use their aircraft, probably intending to use an instant retrain. Some of them even go after my generals just to spite me I think. I revenge those players.
All in all it is nowhere near as beneficial to have an exposed TC as I had hoped. The things that annoys me most are losing my alliance troops and losing my generals. However, on balance, I am going to stick with it since I dislike medal dropping so much.
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