What matters most is that you know what you are fighting against. Personally, I have a pretty high attack boost on my primary world, +148% to be exact and I lose troops all the time too. Like others have said, you should NOT auto battle for a long time. With all at level 10, that's a whopping +90% to both attack and defense.įirst, I would say NO it is not rigged or fixed against you. Each of them, per level, adds 3% to the attack and defense values of the units in your attacking army. These are Zeus, Cathedral of Aachen, and Castel del Monte. Join a guild that's active on the Iron Age or Early Middle Age maps and learn to fight there through repetition.īuild and get your attack Great Buildings leveled.

If you're fighting against ranged units and you have to spend a turn under fire before closing the distance, try to end you movement in the type of terrain the unit gets a defensive boost from. Mousing over any enemy unit shows what their attack range is, so this is easy.

In general, Heavy murders Light, Light murders Fast, Fast murders Ranged, and Ranged murders Heavy.ĭon't get so close to the enemy that they can attack you before you attack them, if possible. Don't attack units with the units those units are best against if you can avoid doing so. Read the unit descriptions, either on the unit itself or look it up in the wiki. I rarely (if ever) used it on the continent (storyline) map, as the enemy AI there is smarter than the other two. I didn't start using auto-battle until I had around 50% attack/defense boosts, and even then I only used it for GvG and PvP.

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