Medals

[Wymatt]

Can anyone explain to me how medals are calculated? I'm currently in the Empire III League; and my question comes from making attacks. When I'm cycling through and looking for an opponent to attack, some of them offer 1-3 medals for a win (regardless of high or low loot), and others offer as many as the high 30's for medals (regardless of high or low loot).

What I have learned is that if I attack someone that offers me high medals, my troops get massacred in next to no time, but if I attack someone that offers the measly 1-3 medals, I can typically win the battles with ease.

Also worth noting, it doesn't matter if the bases have their traps active or if they're tripped.

I'm trying to climb to Dynasty League, but I just don't see how this is possible when the only players I can win against offer so few medals.

 

[Quovatis]

The medals offered is only a function of the difference between your medals and theirs. If the player you attack has many more medals than you, you can get 30+ medals for victory. If they have far fewer medals, you can be offered only 1. As you go up in leagues, there are fewer and fewer players above you, so most of the medal offers you get are low.

 

[yemen]

The corollary to Quovatis' comment is that bases who have a lot more medals than you are very tough, which is how they hang onto those medals against lower attackers who could steal 30 at a time, while those with a lot fewer medals are generally weaker and easier to defeat.

Climbing to Dynasty league is asymptotic; as you get closer and closer, you get fewer medals from each attack, and lose more from each loss. It can take a long time time to get there, much longer to go from 2200 to 3200 than from 1200 to 2200. That last few hundred is apparently quite a grind, and requires very strong defenses to prevent losing more than you gain.

 

[Manifesto]

What I have learned is that if I attack someone that offers me high medals, my troops get massacred in next to no time, but if I attack someone that offers the measly 1-3 medals, I can typically win the battles with ease.

Could it be that the stronger base is calculated to give you more medals? That would seem to be logical in my opinion. You have more to gain so it's more of a challenge.
About what you would expect for your medal range.