Battlefield Strategy
Hey all fighters! In order to improve our battlefield efforts I thought I would make some basic strategy that we all should follow. I know it will take time but if we all have a clear idea about how to do battlefield at least we have a common goal. Everyone who do battlefield pleas try and follow these tips and rules.
Preparation before battlefield:
Those who sign up for battlefield must make sure they can attend at the given time slot. Players who repeatedly does not show will not be prioritized for sign up int the future. When we sign up players Evony will calculate the total power that is signed up and find a matching enemy with similar power. If only half show up we will most likely be seriously underpowered and loose battlefield. If not 100% sure do not sign up!
Before battlefield begins make sure you have no wounded troops in hospital or troops out marching. (You cannot enter battlefield if you have wounded or troops out)
Check your march presets and make sure they are setup correct.
For those who are ghosting remember to remove wall generals and turn of sub city automatic defense.
When ghosting remember to ghost according to you presets. This way it's easy to unghost any relevant march preset when needed. Those not ghosting remember to put up correct wall generals.
Activate any Attack/Defense/HP/March buffs you might have
Go into settings and turn off rally notifications.
Make sure you have some troops in all your sub cities (if a sub city has zero troops it will not participate in fight and you don't get those buffs)
Make sure you have setup proper monarch gear presets for your different march presets (ground, ranged, siege etc). You will want to switch monarch gear based on what you send for attack during fight)
Make sure you have set a proper monarch talent tree for PvP
Select the proper Civilization Treasure for healing buff.
Make offer in shrine to activate additional buffs.
Enable any active dragon talent you might have and check your blazons.
A dedicated battle leader shall be appointed for each battlefield. Always keep track of messages from battlefield leader in battlefield chat and follow instructions.
Keep battlefield chat clear of unnecessary chat. Do not post battlefield reports in chat unless instructed to post scout reports. By keeping chat clear it’s easier to see important instructions.
How to Rally:
In order to rally effectively in battlefield we create a hive some place, usually the location is called out by the rally leader. The rally leader is the one who decides what to rally, when and how. Everyone must try and join a rally called as quick as possible, within 5 seconds and use a speed up to join.
The rally leader will call for either a ranged, ground, mounted or siege rally. Usually a pre warning comes in chat like: "Ranged going up" - this means you must be ready to send your usual ranged pvp march. Then shortly a new message comes: "Ranged is up" - this means you should send your ranged march within a few seconds.
Those who rely on ghosting should therefore try to ghost the pvp marches correctly so that you can unghost the needed pvp march and quickly join a rally.
If needed you can heal just an exact march needed from hospital by clicking the corresponding march preset. Never heal all the troops if you lose them!
During battlefield:
When entering battlefield there is a 5 minute peace time where you cannot move or attack any. This is your last chance to check your settings and prepare. When countdown is zero the battlefield will begin. Make sure to teleport away as soon as it starts! Enemy will try to zero players immediately after start.
The first hour of battlefield should be used to try and zero the enemy before doing reinforce the and occupation of buildings.
Smaller players and those who ghost should distribute them self around all the portals. It’s very important to take portals so that teleporters is generated. You only need to take empty portals with one troop and nothing more. Keep your one troop inside the portal as long as possible. Teleports are generated as long as we have troops in the portals. If you get ported by a powerful enemy try to get back to the portal and continue occupying it.
The bigger players needs to use most of the teleports during the first hour to rally or kill enemy. If instructed to join a rally please try and do so by sending your strongest march to the rally.
Always keep looking in battlefield chat for any instructions given!
Always join a rally if called upon. Always be quick to join a rally by using proper march speedups. We want to fill each rally in under 10 seconds.
If we are successful in zeroing out most of the enemy players within the first hour we will start to occupy all the buildings. Battlefield leader will coordinate who is to occupy what building first. (First occupier gets the most points, second occupiers only get 25%). When first occupiers has entered the buildings the rest of the players will help reinforce.
If we have a building fully reinforced the first occupier must never pull back their troops cause this will result in that all the reinforcements will also be pulled out!
If we are not successful in zeroing the enemy, occupation or reinforcement of buildings will not be possible. Then we either continue to try and zero enemy or we just keep harassing enemy by taking back buildings not reinforced. Usually it is not possible to win battlefield if we can’t zero enemy. Battlefield leader will inform in this situation.
If you get zeroed never give up or leave battlefield. You can still heal a few cheap T1 troops and keep taking portals and occupy them! Also if you leave battlefield you don’t get any rewards!
END OF BASIC BATTLEFIELD GUIDE.
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ALL STARS STRATEGY:
As a reference for further in depth study i will below share a strategy plan used by a very experienced team for all stars. Also som good information here about tactics:
TEAM ROLES:
1) target scouts - all you need is to share good targets and write / tell on voice it's power. More targets the merrier. In the first few min we'll have lots of targets, so that won't be needed, but IT'S CRITICAL we find all 3 enemy hives quick and we'll be hitting them.
Especially important if certain team out of ports - need for FIND THEM FAST and attack before enemy does
Need 2-3 people on this
2) rally spotters - once rally is up and if target ports, please call it out, example - "ranged target ported"
Same, 2-3 people
3) portal holders - smaller players better not be in a hive as they're easy solo hit, but closer to some designated portal and do it's reset so it doesn't go into enemy hands. The best if you're not right next to portal, but around 30-40km from it and still join rallies from there. Reach out directly to me if you think you're good for that role. I'll also ping folks based on their power. Some players also tend to put ground into portals, so cav hit normally what you need plus you get extra points from it
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PORTALS reminder
PORTALS are really critical and can make or break the whole game
Please DO NOT PORT for solo hits, do them remotely with speedups. Do not stand next to portal, you'll be force ported fast.
Very important! Use ports only to port from RALLY! And port like 30-50km away from your location. Never port next to your location.
If OUR TEAM IS 10 ports or lower, CALL IT OUT. Then we all need to go to portals and reset them till we're back to 15+.
If you're zeroed, and have no heals, watch a portal.
Also, when you port away from rally, take 1-2 portals after.
BATTLE PLAN:
Pre-War:
- Important- Turn off War chat settings
- Change animation settings to low. Game is laggy, you need to be have the game to be as light as possible
- Disable all decorations unless you have the dragon decorations that give you in city buffs
- Change keep to Largest keep/Buffs you have. If you enter with small keep you wont be able to change back
- Buff up to senior march size and check your presets
- All marches should have layers, we need all players to have all 4 marches- Range, Seige, Calves and Ground, in that order.
- If you don’t have Seige or ground, etc. send in whatever you have in later stages. These are called “dust” rallies
- Activate all dragon skills before entering war. Do not activate skills before fixing your presets. If you activate march size dragon skill and change presets + save, it will mess up your presets after battle.
- Save atleast 1K senior march speedups. If you have a decent march size, set monarch gear to march speed instead of march size. Make sure to check your presets are not messed up if you do this
- Change Civ treasure to healing if you plan to heal. Or sub gear for troop heal on subs.
- Make sure all your subs have troops before entering war
- Find somewhere quite before you enter war, and mute yourself
Start of war:
- Disable war announcements. There is a bug currently that will make those announcements interfere with your rally joining
- Port into your hive location. Neo will post cords where he will port. Others will follow hive formation
- Send me(Neo) Seige or ground reinforcements. Seige is preferred, he has 2400+ sin city buffs. Or calves. No range, they are bad in exchanges. I will not port at all, I trust you all to reinforce me and that will get us tons of points.
- If Neo gets hit, quickly refresh your reinforcements.
- We will have 1-2 scout, only they would be speaking most of the game. Rest need to mute themselves.
- If you find a hive or a target, post cords. If we aren’t able to find targets for 5-6 minutes and you do find a target, post cords like- Wolverine(location), 17B and call it out.
- Keep bookmarking targets while other rallies are going on and you have nothing to do. Then post it when there are no targets to set rally on/we need need more targets.
- Speed into all rallies. Use war chat or battle war tab depending on what is faster for your. The game is glitchy so sometimes either is better.
- We want to target 10 second rallies. That is we need to fill 50mil within 10 seconds.
- I will only say this- “Range going up in 3, 2, 1. Range is up.”, then move on immediately to next keep and repeat for next march type if possible. We might be setting 4 rallies at a time so be prepared to join all. If you don’t have all 4 types, I will share what alternative march you can send for particular rally, like Range or Ground rally going up.
- We will avoid using names of keeps, they are hard to say and hard to remember. We will say- Range ported, range still there, ground ported, etc.
- If you have a rally being set on you, Neo will be checking battlefield tab to check. Just post your cords on war chat.
- Do not take Crystal mines when the cart comes up. We want to set a rally on it. If you take it, we won’t be able to rally. Alternatively we might want to set rally and send before cart reaches to take a defense hits. But smalls should never take the crystal mine when cart shows up.
- We will assign who is on portal duty. Sometimes you can’t take back a portal on your own. So unmute yourself and say- “Send ground to top portal”, if it has range, etc. Some big can solo.
- If you want to heal, heal only after getting zeroed and if the exchange is good to warrant you to heal, else you are giving away points to other team.
Some notes
- Get atleast 100mil t1 calves or ground(depending on your defence general and), 300mil is ideal to tank rallies
- Cav marches will be good against t1 traps.
Terminology
- March bullets- Nos of times you can keep sending marches to the rally, after they have died. Example- if you ground march of size 200M, once you send to rally and its Attack lost and it dies. March bullets is the number of times you can have this same type of troops join the rallies
- Marches/Presets- Type of march, eg Range, calves, ground, seige
I will try to keep this strategy updated as best I can. If you have any questions please reply to this mail.
The-Czar
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