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Any ideas what the new badges are. I have two and thought they had something to do with the new glory system just arriving on 245 but that isn’t the case. It’s prob some event badges.
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Do you think you could cover what gear to use when fighting in caverns? The battle mechanics when you fight there PvP
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What’s the best type of hero (attack or def) that will yield the best drops in goblin camps
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hi, it 8 buds and full nine gems 7, properly balancing the percentages, and having all the pieces of the second level great for chs, known now to make the records of lake town, the remainder of the boss is really high, but I believe you can do better than 255m, you think it is time to place such a piece of attack? or ability to change on torin?
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just wondering if anyone knows… i have 5 morale boosts skills ready to apply to a hero.. but i need to know if all the skills work giving me a huge increase or only one of them works.. please answer as i need to know
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could you repost this at the hero skills article for an answer please?
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Rumours abound on several servers that the number of caverns that spawn is in direct relation to the number of empty wilds. There are those asking or encouraging everyone to abandon their wilds to increase the number of caverns that will spawn. My main city is surrounded by unclaimed wilds, probably 75% of them are not occupied yet not a single one is a cavern so I find this hypothesis unfounded. Also, I seem to recall Kabam announcing that the number of caverns that would be placed was fixed and since they also appear on goblin camp locations I’m not convinced there is any merit to this “more wilds, more caverns” campaign. Do you have any experience or insight?
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heard that before and worth the try I think….who uses wilds anyways now? Other than that I cannot give any informed answer but what you stated already.
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hey, it’s 1BadAssOldMan,aka Jett
My phone started a new game and now I can’t seem to get back, help.
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Hope you set up a Kabam ID – if you did – just log into it through the settings page.
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Hello! I’m new and I was wondering what is the best troops to use to tk or attack a stronger person with?
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Best Attack is 2000 SG and a full muster of MR.
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also attacking someone with troops could depend on what skills you have on your hero… like me i have 5 bullseye skills increasing my archers attack….giving me a boost when i attack with archers… many other skills are available to use…
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yeah but you could have multiple heroes with multiple skill sets to solve that of course
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I’ve noticed thAt stone giants are harder to come by since we’re able to train them (which takes forever). I was wondering why
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I don’t really know if this is where I need to ask a question but, I wonder if you knew anything about the time it takes before you can fight an alliance boss again? I know it starts with hours but how do you get it to a faster time? Like thirty minutes or less if possible.
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They recently updated this (about 2 months or so ago) to be every 30 minutes instead of every 2 hours. If you’re needing to hit sooner than that then you’ll have to spend mithril (5 mithril per early hit). Hope this helps. Good luck!
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Can does Hero skill ” Marauder ” increase rate of getting token count ?
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seems to imply it does, but I havent tested this , myself
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Thank your answer quickly
I look forward fo the article you write about it.
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BTW,
do you know when new cavern appears in map
and how long it takes between the next time ?
thx
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In the look out tower use the search tab. I believe it rests every 2 hours.
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yes it does. but it also increase the time you stay on that mine.
so its likely you will have more tokens by the end of mining trip. i hope that is enough explanation.
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hi,
I have looked through and even done word search, but I can not find any reference to how Honour points are gained or lost. Is there anything you can add to help with this please?
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WOW
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Can someone explain alliance CHS scoring from a tourney point of view? How does this not turn into a boss kill?
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becasue you will be attacking campaign trying to best your highscore on the maps itself not just by killing bosses becasue that doesnt have anything to do with it.
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At this time it sounds like Movable Type is the top blogging platform available right now.
(from what I’ve read) Is that what you are using on your blog?
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How do I get past level 80 with my heroes?
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Upgrade your great hall. Every level of the great hall allows you another 20 levels on your heros (and adds another hero). Lvl 1 great hall=lvl 20 hero/ lvl 2 great hall=lvl 40 hero
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I like your work. Congratulations.I’m from a spanish server (Dwalin 212) and I try to translate as better as posible the information you give to my alliance. I’d love to this page were in Spanish. nevertheless, thanks
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Great site! I have a question, I asked it before, but can’t find it. What is the best home/barrack ratio for your production city and the same for your training troops city? Also, at what levels is best to have them in both types of cities?
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depends upon how often you login. 1 home to 2-3 barracks… ball park of that usually work fine if you queue every three hours.. but who really farm and train anymore. just get tokens from mines and get might in premium. much faster.
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How is possible to obtain Oakenshield I ? I did not see it among the gears obtainable at (first city) sage’s tower.
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They only way you will be to obtain the oakenshield 1 is from galadriels premium chance… And hope fully it will be a prize to win..
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Best thing to do is to use your tournament coins or tokens in the Sage tower to purchase the Monday 10x chest and open 100 at a time I have three of the oakenshilds by doing this
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Love this website!
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Anyone have an idea of when the trophies won in tournament world will be redeemable in our main world?
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trophies are never redeemable, only tokens and coins
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How “upgrading” to “I” weapons via sage tower is affecting upgrades and enhancements? Will be full enhanced and upgraded Smaug’s Tooth “upgraded” to full enhanced and upgraded Smaug’s Tooth I or just plain one ?
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You have to re-enhance the Smaug Tooth (even if it was enhanced before you upgraded it to I). So I would recommend not enhancing or upgrading something (same thing applies for upgrades) on a legendary piece of gear unless you know you are keeping it plain. Or if you have 7,000 of each scorched gear and it doesn’t really matter to you… free xp for enhancing.
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Could you please specify, which type of buffs are best for Campaigning, Attacking Bosses, Troop Kills, Goblin Kills, Cavern Mining and attacking Smaug. From Life, Attack, Life Debuff, Attack Debuff, Load and Speed.
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Smaug=life and foe atk dbf
Campaigning=same as Smaug
Hitting a mine=atk/foe life dbf
Defending a mine=life/foe atk dbf
Troop kills depends on whether you are attacking or defendin, and goblin kills are same as campaign and Smaug.
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offensive: attack and life debuff
defensive: life and attack debuff
load and speed are almost never useful. Just ask yourself the question, no matter the situation, are you defending or attacking? Base cvhoices on that, and for Campaign/CHS, go for defending for best scores
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Me and a lot of ppl in the ge are trying to find out why the “Saturday’s Journey” is? We all seem to have th but no one can use them or figure out what they are used for.. You can Emil me or contact me through line chat my user name is poison34.. Thanks for your help!!
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I have no clue…
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I wonder if you could make a section on running an alliance?
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Pretty straightforward. Depending on alliance you want to have. Some like tourneys, others go for just having tons of might, others strive to have all of the top 10 tkers. Still more enjoy just having fun and still actively participate. Just as a regent log in daily, have fun with your members in ac and gc, make good decisions about which tourneys you all will or will not participate in, and keep them informed! Most important part to me of course. Forums are best way to get advance information about events and issues.
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Good information. Lucky me I discovered your website by accident (stumbleupon).
I’ve bookmarked it for later!
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Hi bearded monkey can you answer my question in your gear blog please as im a bit confused
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Have you started work on the new Hero Skill attributes that you could share?
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not yet, just found out yesterday and it is not yet released in my server…..
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Linor149 has the skills activated.
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What is best combo gear for defense plz reply
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There is a article about this allready
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Beorns Axe
The Shelter
The One ring
Cloak of the Void
The Peak
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make that:
Orcrist 1
Oakenshield 1
Bards ring
Void cloak
Rep or Void amulet
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hi , i did some test
same as beard but with resplennish instead of void gear,
but it can due to the fact than my orcrist and oakenshield have debuff attack on it
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What if I dont have Orchist I or Bards ring?
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what gems should be equipped to the gear you recommended?…
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Why can’t I use bard in lake town
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you probably have to still unlock him. There is a Bards call item in the Lake-town tower for sale
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Do you have any updates on whether kabam will bring back being able to trade tokens for trophys is sage tower before the end of the season? Do you have schedule for week 3 and if sage towers exchanges will change for a 3rd time? Appreciated if you could find out. Cheers.
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Have you heard of the new phenomenon called Double Tap. It pretty much only works on high level bosses, like smaug. Attack him first with like 1500 MR; prepare to lose. There should be around 3000 life left on smaug. Then attack again with say, 100 SG and 2000 MR. Score goes up. I haven’t completely figured out the mechanics, and it doesn’t seem right, cause you’ll have much higher vitality. And close to same number efficiency. But score goes up.
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Have noticed that and don’t understand either. Moria is also a common place where you can do that. Not sure how much it will work now though with lvl 8 artamirs and the rainbow gems.
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Try with calc campaign.
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Is there a Tk tournement today?
The horns missing off my screen the schedule said there was?
Thanks paul
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no there is an issue with it. Not resolved on the forums yet….
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Hi monkey,
Thanks for the tremendous work you have done in this blog. Your blog has guided me through the beginners day and continue to do so even now :).
Since I joined the game in late January 2015 and missed the laketown deed I have worked my way to a good alliance and acquired all cities but I face challenge in smauging. I would like to know if porter trick works for old smaug for an elf. Dont ev much defence gear but have 250 hero.
Thanks
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HI monkey,
I have bards arrow, the sting, bilbos cloak, the oakenshield, thorins fur, gandalfs stick, and i dont know what to do with them! i have bilbo hero at level 250 if that helps, can you give me some ideas,
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I also had complete set of replenishing gear
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You can always use them on other hero’s – – – I would use what belongs to Bilbo on him and use the other gear on the hero that it belongs to – – – if these are just extra gear then I use my extra gear for enhancing – – – – Sara
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Thank you for this beardmonkey, I only started recently and was confused about a few things. thereofer I turned to my trusty friend the search engine and found this site and it helped me a lot.
I am, even, upto 5 cities already just from the info you gave on where to get the relics. I doubt I would have gotten them this quickly if I was trying to figure it out on my own.
If we find any info out of date how can we let you know? This way we can help you out.
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thanks! For corrections, simply leave a comment or mail me at beardmonkeyblog@gmail.com
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Great web site and a great job
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thanks!
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If anyone wants to know how to lose 400 stone giants only when smauging,
comment on this.
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400 c beaucoup en perte sur smaug
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400 many in loss on smaug
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How?
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I lose 93, so why would I want to lose 400? 😉
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How do you lose so little? ?
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better buffs gear etc
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Right now I’m losing 192. I’ve got Elrond III with void cloak, beorns axe, oakenshield I, void ring and the peak amulet. BC is maxed and SW is close to max. I’m thinking it’s the gems I have embedded but I’m sending 1000 SG and the rest master rangers and the lowest I can get is 192.
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I have a question regarding, FOE Attack debuff. Assuming you have 50% FOE Attack debuff and your enemy has +50% attack. Will the FOE Attack debuff operate on the 50% bonus the enemy has and simply do 50%-50%, or will it work on the now 150% total attack of the enemy?
Also what happens if you are debuffing 100% ATK(not sure if it’s even possible), are you:
a) removing flat 100% attack.
b) removing all the attack bonus
c) removing all the attack (making him hit 0)
d) Does it work like when assigning a hero and actually means 50%? (As in speeding a building 100%, makes it take half the time it would take, instead of actual 100% which would mean instant)
Sorry if I’m not explaining myself very well, I find this very confusing!
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I do not know the exact answer to this im afraid…
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Alright no problem, thanks for the great website anyways! 🙂
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thank you too. There was a comment somewhere from someone who figured out the battle formula partly, but I cant find it at the moment …..
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It is simple.
100 attack buff means multiply your attack by 2.
100 attack debuff means divide your opponents attack by 2.
It is not addition/subtraction, it is multiplication/division!
Don’t let the battle report sheet mislead you to assume otherwise.
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What could tou tell about the new gems and what gear and what combination should I use?
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Depends on what hero you want, the new gems are not as powerful as the artemir gems yet so stick with them.
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Hi Beard Monkey,
I have the complete set of the replenishing arms which is theThe Light
The Shelter
The Well
The Peak
The Spirit
However, i accidentally lost the peak gear part and i cant get it back. I use smaugs tooth instead but i dont think it will work. I can only get 80k defense with this gear set and i think it might be because of the smaugs tooth. What should i swap it for?
I only have the light and max level, the rest are level 8 and one level 7, all fully enhanced.
Thanks
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use 2 void pieces
3x replenish and 2x void is best basic defense set….
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How do i know which gears are the replenishing etc. And why isnt this complete set of the replenishing arms the best?
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Please go to the index and read up the articles under the Heroes and Gear section. Read the All You Need to Know article to see all the gear, the Best Sets article on best gear to use, and the articles on Diminishing Returns on why full Replenish sucks…
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Okay thanks but, isnt 84k defense for one hero good?
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Do you have new CHS ,,gears and gems
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Hello guys, I need to know everything is there about Ratios in troop kill.
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I don’t a Lake ton why???
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maybe cuz u dont, know how to talk
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What is the best gear to use on attack and defense heroes?
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I have an article on that, find it through the index page please
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I am inquiring about a piece of gear called the one ring. Is it good enough to level up?
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Yes it is one of the best all-round and defensive/campaign rings in game at the moment. If you have a defense Hero with 3x replenish and 2x void, swap one of the voids for the one ring, unless you have a really good random void ring
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How about now with brads ring and the axe of thorin
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Bards ring is pretty good as well, but thorins axe? Havent even seen that one!
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Probably Beorn’s Axe. Best for defense hero at he moment.
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I’ve read through the basic (101 articles) and I see a huge amount of effort put into these documents. probably the most comprehensive set of documents about Middle Earth, honestly.
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It truly is a comprehensive work that I hope the author is proud of.
We miss you Beardmonkey and hope you return to your efforts here.
And big thank you for all that you’ve done and published here.
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Love the site n info.
But what im searching for at the moment is info on how each tourney is run, how the scores r calculated n so forth. I keep getting asked the same questions but cant find any solid answers
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If you are still interested, go to the Kabam forums and send me a pm (Orc_Man)
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Hi, I just want to say thanks for all the work you’ve done on this site. Much appreciated! Just wondering, could you perhaps do an article on the new troops attack order soon? With the introduction of Lake-town troops, there’s been some alterations… Cheers.
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I think he already has done article
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Here’s the link https://beardmonkey.net/2014/10/20/troop-attack-order/
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ive dug thru a lot of this websites pages. while it is the best I have seen on giving info. there is still a lot to I have not seen.
1. Dismissing troops (namely porters) to get idle population back (how most win in train a thons) and if done on a ally wide scale ally TOMs. (Have known some players that train nothing but porters in every city all day every day, and have even known some players that will dismiss all the way to T3 to ensure victory in train a thons.) This all depends on resources and all but not uncommon to see players and banks with billions each to fund.
2. Basic info on ally shop exchange. Example of what I mean here is only 2 things in shop ever worth exchanging for. stam refills and 12 hour protection runes. Everything else is garbage and not worth it. Stam refills being the most important thing.
3. TK conversions. example of this is most players can get 3:1 stone giants vs woodmen. Would really love to see this for the new tactical as only use ive found for them is to let the pikemen die protecting stone giants
A ton of other info i would love to see as well.
look forward to seeing more in the future
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About laketown: In ur article it says after research has been completed, u can destroy ur research building and depending on what u want, u can choose not to build stables! There’s an other building u can choose not to build to make space for a home or barrack though and that’s the tavern! Transport will be much slower but, speaking for myself, thats not a real issue! Just fyi to perfect ur allready magnificent site… Great job and ive learned a lot… Thx
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Quite sure I already mentioned NOT to build a useless tavern, but Ill look it over again.
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