Gunpowder Age base advices?

[Viridila]

Hello! I haven't been playing the game for a long while. I want to do a Gunpowder base makeover, but I don't know where to focus on and where I should put my wonders (I feel they're somewhat useless at this moment). Any suggestions?

I've attached a link to a screenshot of my current base. Please excuse the crappy graphics from my iPod6.

 

[pckrn]

if i was a gunpowder age raider around 900-1000 medals and came across your base, a single engineer from north to open up access to all your resources. few raiders to take some of the resource, an archer off in the corner to draw away the defenders, more raiders to take the rest of the resources. and then because i feel sorry, i will send infantry on your town center, only to find out there are traps there. and then i will think, oh, you dont want a peace treaty? your loss! and then end battle, leaving you with a lot less loot and no peace treaty to protect you from someone else doing the same thing as me.

you should redesign your base to prevent this kind of play the best you can.

 

[oddin]

the acropolis should be somewhere in the middle in order to gain its full effect. start from that

 

[albynos]

Viridila: in my opinion at this stage you should not think to the ultimate layout as you are missing many important defense buildings like missile silo, stables, sniper towers cannons eetc....; at this stage you should only think how to raid and gain resourecs faster..considering also that you are missing oil.
Once you have most of the defense buildings you can think to the layout (have a look to my post base layout showdown just below yours).
Summing it up, if I would be in your pants I will think to upgrade the army (have you got tanks)? The game is all about attacking not defending

Said the above I give you my personal adivce:
1. there is something wrong with the walls...there are some holes that can be easily closed.
2. switch mortars with redbout.
3. you can't defend all the deposits, choose if you want to defend gold or food (having 2 different saved base layouts helps)

In any case my base layout is posted into the above mentioned post, check it and if you want make me some questions.

ciao
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[Persia]

It’s about defending now!

 

[albynos]

@ persia: I think you are referring to the rebalance. Yes, not attacking is definitely harder than some time ago, but in my opinion the structure of the game does not change especially for viridilla. he is still missing some strategical defense buildings like missile silos around which you should build up your base. in addition tothis he still has some horses into the army!!