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In article <30E97B...@smartlink.net>, Razor <ra...@smartlink.net> says:
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>I am wondering what the best strategy is for defending my town(s) 
>against my friends ground units.. He builds like 300 kinghts and sends 
>them down in hordes to attack my town. Even w/ walls, he quickly breaks 
>through and kills my archers and towers.. I can hold him off for a while 
>but afterwards I have a very damaged town and a lot of dead 
>soldiers\peons.. Basically I am looking for some good defense tactics..
>
>Any suggestios for getting sappers DEEP into the enemies town w/o being 
>killed.. Any suggestions in general to kick ass? 
>
>What are some of your favorite tactics?
>
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>-Razor <ra...@smartlink.net>

If you give your friend enough time get all those soldiers, you could be
building up a much better army with dragons and magic.

Razor (ra...@smartlink.net) wrote:
> I am wondering what the best strategy is for defending my town(s) 
> against my friends ground units.. He builds like 300 kinghts and sends 
> them down in hordes to attack my town. Even w/ walls, he quickly breaks 
> through and kills my archers and towers.. I can hold him off for a while 
> but afterwards I have a very damaged town and a lot of dead 
> soldiers\peons.. Basically I am looking for some good defense tactics..

If he has 300 Knights I suggest you surrender ;)

Walls (you can double/triple them if that would make you more secure)
combined with catapults and Cannon Towers (though I don't recommend those
- you are better off with Guard Towers) can make fairly quick work of
anything trying to break thru.  Mages with Blizzard make quick work of
hordes of guys coming in.  Right now playing against someone who is having
a little trouble coming in with 10 mages defending my town.  With two
ready to cast Blizzard and the rest ready to turn his army into sheep, he
has found it very expensive (to say the least) to try to come in.  I have
Paladins with exorcism to repel the Death Knights, plus they heal any
damaged units.  Of course Flame Shield can be used to some effect if cast
near the rear (3rd last guy or so).

> Any suggestios for getting sappers DEEP into the enemies town w/o being 
> killed.. Any suggestions in general to kick ass? 

Sappers CAN'T get deep into enemy terriority.  Otherwise it would be a
rather lifeless? game.  They should be used mainly to break thru to enable
a strike into the town.  Very useful on towers, walls, a cluster of units
on Stand Ground <grin>.  They do 400 hit points of damage - two can kill
any building (except townhalls, maybe more?) and one will knock off a farm
or two if you can get it at the right place.

> What are some of your favorite tactics?

I have to keep something to myself ;)

What is this talk of having mages ready to cast blizzard, etc. And so on. 
I wasnt aware you could program units to cast specific spells at specific 
targets. I thought mages just defaulted to lightning strike unless you 
told them to use something else specifically.

Thats what I hate about the game, it's too hard to be specific specially 
when sending troops into an attack against another group. If you pick one 
guy they all try to go for it ignoring all the other baddies beating on them.