Best fortification combination in Evony
There are five different fortifications in Evony, traps, abatis, archer towers, rollinglogs and defensive trebuchets. As pretty much everyone knows the archer tower is the best fortification there is, but is it a good idea to have 100% archer towers? I don’t think so, I definitely prefer some diversity in my fortifications. Archer towers can be best against most forms of attacks, but now and then it will help you a lot to add some other fortification units. The most important fortification apart from archer towers in my opinion is the abatis, I usually have about 1500 of these in cities with a maxed wall.
What I have found works best against all forms of attacks is about 1k traps, 1.5k abatis, 200 rollinglogs, 200 defensive trebuchets and the rest archer towers. This will be about 14k archer towers on a maxed wall. I need the abatis to defend against large cavalry and cataphract attacks and the rest of the fortifications for layering purposes. Some players prefer just 100 traps, 1k abatis and the rest ATs. I doubt there is one correct answer, it all depends on what types of attacks you are facing more often. If you want to read more about the different fortification units you can click the links below.
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Unfortunately, one cannot predict who will attack with what. Some folks are cavalry freaks, some prefer the rainbow of troops. In Age 1 I once ran across a guy who liked to attack with 100k rams!
Wall defenses eventually prove useless, unless supported by a good mix of regular army troops. I have read from some that 400K warriors is a necessary element of a defense force.
PicMaster
14 May 10 at 8:00 am
Does the mayor affect the strength of the archer towers attack?
Bluemeanie
3 Jun 10 at 3:09 am
what happens if they spam you with 40,000 workers?
what is the bexst protection?
this is the kind of attack i usually get hit by.
alex
9 Nov 10 at 10:51 pm
Your archers towers will mow the warriors down but u need traps to slow them down. Remember that traps start the battle at 5200 out from ur walls for non horsemen infantry and archers. If they are sending worker waves then it is probably to try and destroy all of ur traps so the battle starts closer to ur walls.
I had one city the other day with 100 snafus and traps withstand eight waves of attacks and still have 11000 of the 18000 towers left. If the player would have just sent twenty or so smaller waves of infantry to clear my traps she would have cleared the rest with ease which is an argument in support of keeping 1k traps because 100 are too easy to clear.
This city only had 75 archers defending it because they wiped about 800k troops by hitting a colony of mine. I had suppression set at 100 because I was aftr a host hero and they found out and wanted it.
Countchocula
12 Nov 10 at 5:46 pm
best to have layers of troups – mainly warriors to archers at over 2 1/2 to 1 so 100k archers and 300k warriros or more – scout bombs hit your archers if too few warriors in house
Iroh
8 Dec 10 at 3:11 pm