So, I finally broke down...

[Djinn]

So, I should lower my medals because I win a lot, but can't farm? Interesting.

 

[Eddie F1]

The keyword there is 'French' - can't do it with any other nation - 40 raiders takes over 3 mins.

Due to the schoolboy maths error the French are around 6x more effective at not only getting resources but climbing medals - 30 battles in 30 mins = 30 medals minimum - any other nation is lucky to get in 5 or 6 battles = 6 medals, which if the next attacker swipes 7 of them, you're going backwards, while Frenchy still has a net gain of 23.

Naturally I'm switching to France as soon as all my workers are free in around 30 hours time - I'm taking the motorwayautoroute, fed up with battling the inept programming.

 

[maggiepie]

So, I should lower my medals because I win a lot, but can't farm? Interesting.

Your entire complaint is about not being able to farm. So no, keep your precious useless medals and stagnate your base. :/

You are one stubborn pigeon

 

[dbukalski]

U can do whatever u want. Which seems to be playing at too high medals for ur skill or army strength. Using army compositiom that leaves u with 3 attacks an hour. Ur on here complaining thats not getting u the resources u need. Weve told u how to get the job done. Take it or leave it. Once u get to ea and have training blessing ull have more breathing room in terms of army composition and tactics and medal range

 

[dbukalski]

Also ur medal level of 1200 doesnt mean jack. Ur league bonus is a joke. do urself a favor fight at 200 and when the time is right(industrial age army with training blessing) i can blow past that 1200 in 2 days

 

[CarlosSuarez]

Djinn listen to me. Its really easy climb medals when you hit EA, before that trust me its worth it stay in 200-400 medal range raiding other GP and Medieval players. One month ago I had 200 medals and was upgrading to EA. Now I have +2850 and recently reached IA

 

[Eddie F1]

Can't see what army mix you are using, but I'd switch to raiders, keep your medals, take the TC's to get a victory and get to EA ASAP. Dragoons can tackle EA bases, maybe with a couple of wall breakers. Once you get to EA, the temple is the first upgrade, once with Training Blessing switch to being France.

 

[Djinn]

Your entire complaint is about not being able to farm. So no, keep your precious useless medals and stagnate your base. :/

You are one stubborn pigeon

Keep it up, I'll shit on the chessboard.

 

[Djinn]

So, without being torn a new butt, how do you "lower" medals without losing 95% of your resources?

 

[Eddie F1]

Use raiders on farms, caravans, mill and markets - ignore the TC.

 

[CarlosSuarez]

So, without being torn a new butt, how do you "lower" medals without losing 95% of your resources?

do 31 raiders. Dont do any unit more until you get 200 medals

 

[maggiepie]

I agree with Eddie; when I was in GP (using a diverse army) I would only need to use between 3-6 (on rare occasion +3 donated) raiders (6 was the max raiders that I'd carry) in order to do drops, and my average drop take was 70k each per raid. That was just for dropping (then I'd use more units in order to 4-5 star a base making more rss, but tbh that was just to feed a need to demolish bases; raiders are a more effective and viable strategy to loot quickly and keep your medals down).

 

[Djinn]

My current army is 3 ballistas, 5 heavy royal companions, 20 crossbow men, 2 sabotage, 1 protection, and whatever my alliance donates and usually max javelin guys (18). And I'll 90% get 4 stars each attack.

 

[maggiepie]

My current army is 3 ballistas, 5 heavy royal companions, 20 crossbow men, 2 sabotage, 1 protection, and whatever my alliance donates and usually max javelin guys (18). And I'll 90% get 4 stars each attack.

I think you need to tailor your army based on what you want to accomplish. If you really do want to drop medals in order to get a lot of rss then raiders are essential to that end. But if you want to take things extremely slowly and just for pure fun 4-5 star bases (then subsequently get rid of those medals gained), then expanding the army a bit can work (I regularly deployed 15 archers, 6 HC, 6 raiders; sometimes reinforcements, general, miner; just about never mercs, tactics). I spent a disgusting amount of time in GP, but it became relatively stress free and I could upgrade at a slow, but regular, pace.

That being said, training blessing is honestly awesome sauce- mainly because I personally feel I can maintain an acceptable level of play with minimal frustration and less raiding time. If you want to really grind it out and progress faster, you'll probably want to take a more aggressive approach with raiders, as has been suggested.

Also- you'll need to raid more than 3x a day to get any meaningful rss; that is just too few raids to make you anything substantial.

 

[Eddie F1]

how do you "lower" medals without losing 95% of your resources?

After thinking more about this, it seemed an odd comment, sounds like you've never done it - it is standard practice to stay low on medals while climbing through the Ages until you have a max GP or EA army then go for medals big time and climb the Leagues.

Back in the day when HC was the mainstay, 5*ing bases was the way to loot bases and naturally climb to around 800 medals, then using a couple of raiders or foot troops just start hitting farms and caravans to lose medals back down to 300ish then get the full army out and 5 star your way back up to 800. Rinse & repeat.

With the HC nerf and raider buff, using lots of raiders is a viable alternative - to climb medals, you'll use a lot to take a TC and mop up resources, if you want to drop medals, just raid with just enough to collect the resources, less than 10 will do many bases, fast rebuild and go again - it is fun for the first couple of hundred bases, but has it's challenges on tougher bases if you want the win too.

 

[Redgar]

Djinn, do you see that 1b resources achievement? Now, do some math on how much time it's going to take you to collect it at your current loot speed or how many crowns you need to buy to get walls taking even more than 1b of gold. You'll get years of time and tens of thousands usd. What means that you're not gonna make it. Ever. Unless you change your approach. I am getting close to 500m gold while before I started learning the best ways I had only 85m and suffered in GP, wasting crowns for army speed ups.

I'd understand if you are 100% happy with your strat and having fun, but it looks you are not. You choose 5 days without raiding just to collect on smth. So it is not efficient and NOT fun. Total waste

 

[dbukalski]

My current army is 3 ballistas, 5 heavy royal companions, 20 crossbow men, 2 sabotage, 1 protection, and whatever my alliance donates and usually max javelin guys (18). And I'll 90% get 4 stars each attack.

So? Raiders can take all the resources u need and 2 star bases while being fast at training and battle

 

[dbukalski]

3.5 billion for max walls, 1,379,000 crowns, $10,000 to buy walls from lvl1

 

[Eddie F1]

Around 900 hours playing time at 4m gold/ph

 

[Redgar]

Okay, even if 770m for lvl11-12 taken into account, it's like 2k usd, 180 hours = 6 months. But 4m is our strat, not Djinns, so it could be multiplied by 4 for him what makes it mission impossible