Iron Age - Farming Layout

[blackbrain]

I came up with this base for Iron Age, it's a farming base, so since I don't care about the Town Center, I'm only protecting the resources.

I have an acropolis, so on this layout it covers both garrisons, if you don't have acropolis. feel free to play around with the defences.

A nice thing about this base is that every single building is connected to the town center by the road, so you get the most gold out of it.

Let me know what you think and/or how it works out for you.

Other Bases:

Classical: https://forum.nexonm.com/forum/nexo...strategies/44013-classical-age-farming-layout
Classical w/ Extra towers from Library: https://forum.nexonm.com/forum/nexo...apult-archer-tower-resource-protection-layout
Medieval Donut: https://forum.nexonm.com/forum/nexo...dieval-donut-farming-base-resource-protection
Medieval 2x2: https://forum.nexonm.com/forum/nexo...medieval-farming-base-2x2-resource-protection

Cheers!

Blackbrain
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[2pourdrummer]

All in all a good layout, but be careful with a single box for the walls. Once breached, they have access to everything. Try to create a few segments so they have to go through multiple walls to get everything.

 

[blackbrain]

Thank you 2pourdrummer, it is good advice, I just couldn't come up with a design with those features and still have the road cover every building. Do you have one you could share perhaps?.

Thank you in advance

 

[Skillz]

Great job blackbrain. I think the design is amazing and one of the best i have seen for iron age. But as i have told other before in iron age you honestly don't worry about defense because no matter how great you base is at this point in time you are going to be beaten nonetheless. Your main concern should be on getting the resources and upgrading not defending. Once you get to enlightenment age then the defending kicks in big time.
Just my 2 cents

 

[jeoseo]

I have a similar design, except I got a catapult in the middle, and the acropolis just barely reaches the garrisons. http://imgur.com/xfbvPcW

 

[Pearson]

im also using a box layout at the momment since im still in an iron age. not enough wall to do anything and this is actually the best base layout for iron age that i have seen. one suggestion though, remove the road and the gate. i would make my base as small as possible. Also gate is a weak point, might as well remove them. I sacrifice some income from road but they dont really give me that much money anyway

this is what i have right now, I know most people put their townhall out, however since i went with japanese, my townhall is also a part of my defense so for now im going to put it inside for the moment. It is one closed box with no gate.

and this is my plan for when i have more walls. Im going to slowly transform my base into different sections, one at a time. Dont have enough wall yet but you know what i want to do

 

[blackbrain]

Great job blackbrain. I think the design is amazing and one of the best i have seen for iron age. But as i have told other before in iron age you honestly don't worry about defense because no matter how great you base is at this point in time you are going to be beaten nonetheless. Your main concern should be on getting the resources and upgrading not defending. Once you get to enlightenment age then the defending kicks in big time.
Just my 2 cents

Thank you Skillz, I agree with what you say about iron age being more offensive, it's a short age too, so you really don't have to worry very much about defending.

I just thought about sharing at first because I was just trying to get all my buildings connected to the town center with the road, just to get the most out of that gold resource, and this base manages to do that.

I've had some time with it now (waiting on my TC to get to then next age atm), and although I do get raided once in a while at low medals (where I think you should be on this age), even when I do they barely get to the resources, so it ended up having a good defence as well as being efficient with the road connection, and even though it doesn't matter a lot it's still nice to see your base defence perform nicely



Everyone else thank you for sharing all the other bases too! I hope this thread can help more people going through the first stage of what it seems like a really cool game.

Cheers!

 

[Skillz]

I would like to change my statement to DEFENSE IS VERY IMPORTANT. I just saw today seeing as how my base actually defended off a few troops that you earn crowns from defense. So i am currently in design mode making a base that will get me as many crowns as possible to help me upgrade much faster.
Again Defense is very important. Do try to make a good base.


My advice on your guys bases would be to make more smaller squares to help impede the attacking army. I noticed in my base that my defense started working after i made the new design and got a few crowns because most people currently cannot use rally a lot in the attack so they can not control troops efficiently and my base picks them off.
Your guys base has a slight disadvantage that there is only one layer in the walls so if i drop all my troops and then destroy the acropolis--> Rally to catapult (lose a few troops but only 1 wall destroyed and go for catapult and right next to is the garrison which will be destroyed right afterwards--> let army reap havoc and as soon as rally is replenished aim at another defense. -->Victory-->Scream my lungs out at all the resources i have looted-->get in trouble for screaming in public ;(
Hehe

 

[blackbrain]

lol yeah I agree this base doesn't have the most defensive potential it could have, jeoseo linked a nice example of a good defence base with an extra layer for the catapult, or you can look for a base called Legion in the forum, has compartments and looks really good if you don't mind sacrificing some income for extra protection.

As I was saying, this base is balanced with max income from road and a good enough defence, I've been getting crown for most (if not all) of my defences, and so far people have only managed to get 1 gold storage and that's because they rallied to it, lol.

Thank you for the feedback!