Evony valleys – a short guide
All the terrain spaces around your cities are called valleys in Evony, actually the only things on the map that are not valleys are player cities and NPC barbarian cities. They come in seven different types, grassland, desert, hill, swamp, lake, forest and flat. The flat is the only type of valley that you can build a new city on, to do this you need to first attack it with enough troops to win the battle and conquer it. Then you click the “build city” button to found your new city.
You don’t get any resource production for having a flat conquered, but you get bonuses for conquering all the other types of valleys. You can have as many valleys conquered as the level of your city hall is. Forests are the most popular valleys to conquer since they give production bonus to your lumber production, which is the most popular resources. Iron is also a popular resource and to get a production bonus here you have to attack and successfully conquer hills. To get production bonus to your stone production you need to conquer the desert type of valley.
The three valleys I haven’t talked about already give you production bonus to your food production. These are the lakes, swamps and grasslands. Overall you get a higher resource production bonus if you take a higher level valley. The higher level valleys also have more troops and higher technology levels though, so they are quite a bit harder to conquer. The valleys have the same level of all technologies as their level. If you want to know how many warriors you need minimum to successfully conquer each type of valley you can check out this post.
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If you want to take Valleys without losing any troops these are the amount of Archers you need for each Valley Lv
Send with your Archers: 1 Warrior, 1 Pikeman and 1 Swordsman
Lv1 valley with 50 archers.
Lv2 valley with 100 archers.
Lv3 valley with 200 archers.
Lv4 valley with 400 archers.
Lv5 valley with 750 archers.
Lv6 valley with 1,500 archers.
Lv7 valley with 3,000 archers.
Lv8 valley with 7,500 archers.
SpaWn
10 May 10 at 9:34 am
Tried out your “no loss” numbers. Did not work and I lost the single units and a small amount of archers each time I tried.
TommyGun
15 May 10 at 3:59 am
Not even close. I doubled these numbers and still took quite a few losses with 9 arch and 7hbr
Dysdain
25 May 10 at 7:13 pm
Works for me.
I’ve just used archers at the levels ApaWn suggests,from lvl 1 thru lvl 3, and have take no losses in at least 40 raids. Archery at lvl 7…
Khun Mike
26 May 10 at 5:57 pm
i think spawn numbers reflect having 10 archery and 10 in defense of troops and attack of troops
uhuh
28 May 10 at 3:58 pm
The numbers are correct just do not layer. send recommended number of archers and 1 scout.
battlena17.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100605/fb/88/fb88f5ea7ab2a3ff163cda4bfeac22b8.xml
Level 3 valley attacked
Dellan
5 Jun 10 at 7:31 pm
valleys are easy, just use a decent amount of ballistas
Alex
6 Jun 10 at 4:23 am
Yeah I tried tripling them and still lost archers. These numbers seem like they need to be reconfigured for the higher ranges.. or you need to specify what researches and attack power on hero you are using to find these.
Sagium
8 Jun 10 at 12:54 am
mine are fairly close to his except i probably go from 1.75:1 to double on the archers
jm
9 Jun 10 at 3:48 pm
You will always have losses if you face enemies Caverly or Archers, this is something that you can not change its just battle mechanics, if you don’t want to lose any scout Vallys Lv4+ to see if they have Archers or Cav.
SpaWn
14 Jun 10 at 2:33 am
Yes, SpaWn has it right – archers alone suffice for 0 loss of valleys lvl 1-3. Lvl4 and above can spawn enough opposing archers that losses will ALWAYS occur.
What is not mentioned in the introduction is the observation that valleys change. Each day – at server maintenance, 24:00 game clock time – all unoccupied valleys are “reset” to a level 1 higher than they were. Lvl 10 valleys become lvl 1.
Maybe after some time of server activity, it also appears that even flats that were occupied and then abandoned (i.e. an NPC city was constructed) are recycled; the city disappears and a flat of as-yet-unkown level takes its place. This has just happened on server na17 – about 3-4 weeks after it opened.
Dwst
28 Jun 10 at 3:16 am
battlena1.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100712/e5/b0/e5b006497f6f2f6ed4ba6ae41327b99c.xml
yoginboo
12 Jul 10 at 7:11 pm
how much archers for lvl9???????
unknown
19 Jul 10 at 9:50 pm
What is the differences between a lvl 1 and lvl 10 flat (exept the enemy troops)
woopsy
20 Jul 10 at 9:01 am
When taking a valley that is already owned it appears that you need to use 2 attacks….one for victory over the current owner and another to claim it for yourself.
LadyBarb
4 Aug 10 at 9:15 pm
if these tips r not working for u, research ur archery!
MzShawty2u
6 Aug 10 at 9:12 pm
there the same
Antlantis
7 Aug 10 at 6:56 am
Just wondering how many valleys we can own for each level rank?
Sash
9 Aug 10 at 7:36 am
I found this good….My 1unit of swo,pik,and warr were killed. If the valley had arch I lost small amount but picked up more items when lost small amount of archers? scout the valley
Valtar
21 Aug 10 at 7:09 pm
I use these no# and have no trouble up to a lvl 4 valley my arch is lvl 9 and my hbr is lvl 4
KalJericho
2 Sep 10 at 1:02 am
Edit above apart from the sinle units cause they are just cannon fodder
KalJericho
2 Sep 10 at 1:06 am
I can attack a lvl 1 flat with 25 archers with no losses at level 6 archery and lvl 3 hbr. A level 2 with 90, a lvl 3 with 125.
Dametrea
17 Sep 10 at 10:43 am
Archery level 6
Horseback Riding Level 2
Hero attack 93
SpaWn’s numbers are correct up to valley level 6 (haven’t tried higher lvls yet). I don’t even bother scouting anymore, I just send 1500 archers, and 1 warrior, pike and sword, and I’ve never taken any losses for lvl 6 valleys.
Consummate
12 Oct 10 at 7:32 pm
i dont understand why you all have to compare your HBR when the only troops you send out is archers.. hbr only works for mechanics and calvs… compass affects the archers speed
DeathJR
15 Oct 10 at 6:26 am
the way to conquer lvl 2 to 6 valleys without losses is as the following
3x^3, where x is the level of the valley
Dyldo
16 Dec 10 at 3:04 am
Yes. it works. when i attack lvl 1 valley i use i send 1hero, 50archers and im victorious, no loses.
(archery 1lvl)
NOTE: sometimes you can even get a medal.
Unknown
28 Dec 10 at 4:59 pm
HAHAHA i sent 10 archers on a lvl1 flat and pwned it
Namier
20 Mar 11 at 10:27 pm
just send 100k arch to any vally with all lvl 10 reserch and you will take with no losses
wolf
16 Dec 11 at 6:24 am