Guide to conquering high level villages from active players
If I’m going to conquer a city in Evony I want it to be a city worth keeping. For me that is a city with high level buildings and several high level barracks. New players with low prestige usually don’t have villages like that, so when I try to conquer cities it is usually cities from high prestige active players. It can be very difficult to conquer a village from a high prestige active player, so I thought I’d explain how I do it.
You need to have high enough title to take two more villages to use this method. The first thing is to get a base close to the city you want to conquer, preferably less than 10 miles from it. What you do is to look for a low prestige hopefully inactive player with at least 2 villages, that has one village close to the high level village you eventually want to have. If there are more easy to get villages to choose from, choose the one with highest rally point and feasting hall.
You take this easy to get village using the normal method, first destroying fortififactions and then scout spamming it. Scout spamming is attacking the village with 1 scout and 1 hero several times until the loyalty is below 15. When it’s below 15 keep attacking it now and then so that the public grievance remains high, it will drop to 5 in 1-2 hours. At 5 the gates will open and now you need to send your army to take out his troops. When his troops are gone you keep scout spamming it till loyaly is 0 and then you get the village in your next attack.
Taking this first village might take you a long time if your other villages are far away, but if it’s an inactive player it doesn’t matter, he won’t be online to stop you from taking it anyways. The next village you’re going to take however is a high level one, from a high prestige player that might have an alliance watching over him, so here you need to be as fast as possible. That’s why you need this other village close to him as your base.
Now move your army to your newly conquered low level village, with enough food to feed them for a while. Hopefully it has a high level enough rally point for the troops you need to send out from it, if not you have to build it, preferably speed build as your new neighbour might notice what you’re doing if you spend too much time on this.. Also fill up the feasting hall with heroes.
Now it’s time to go after the high level village you wanted in the first place. You pretty much use the exact same method as you used to take the low level village, the difference now is that travel time is much shorter so you can do everything real fast. In addition to scout spamming you will now also use your whole army several times, so that you take away all his food and any troops he might be reinforced with.
If he happens to get online during your scout spamming, you have to use parts of your army to attack with instead of scouts, also scout him often too look for reinforcements. It’s very hard to conquer a village of a strong player who is online, but being real close to him with an army much larger than his, it is possible. Don’t give up, good luck!
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Scout spamming is no longer possible since Scouts no longer attack walls.
Eyvind
22 May 09 at 11:49 pm
True, sending 1 scout to attack doesn’t work anymore, they die after 100 rounds then. You now have to attack with more than just 1 troop, I like to use 50 cavalry or something like that. Now that you can’t use just one scout it’s even more important to do like I say here though, and get a base close before you go after a high level village.
Iwind
23 May 09 at 4:49 pm
Why not just spam cheap workers to get rid of the traps, then march in full force?
OR
When he is online, and close, watch to see if he leaves his castle, then while his army is out, you strike quickly and seize his castle?
Adi B
10 Jun 09 at 5:51 am
now it’s not possible so what am i going to do? I’m not going to conquer a city thats what ill do!
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15 Jun 09 at 4:47 pm
this is not possible so i guess i wont conquer any cities for a while!
l=m=p
15 Jun 09 at 4:48 pm
50 cav isn’t enough. 50 cataphract apparently is. maybe the developers keep upping the spam attack limit.
Gary
18 Jun 09 at 7:20 am
like…i just have loads of troops like 2500 warriors, 439cavalery,and 700pikeman…….BUT I STILL CANT CONQUER THE GUY BESSIDE ME(im 14000 prestige hes only 190……i began to play this game 1 week ago…..do i need something special??
THANK YOU
McConde94
25 Jun 09 at 12:54 pm
Im atackin an inactive player with just one city.
And after his loyalty has gone down to 0, im getting this message :
This is the last city of your victim, Show your mercy , My lord!
This message is in my last 20 reports.
It can be conquered or i must attack until im bored???
Hypynos
28 Jun 09 at 10:07 am
Hypynos….you cannot conquer a city when the player only has one. the loyalty will stay at zero and eventually become an NPC or the game will remove it altogether. Once you figure out that the guy you are attacking only has one city, give it up unless you want his resources.
Bailarius
2 Jul 09 at 3:47 pm
build more farms
carLine
3 Jul 09 at 8:52 am
Do i need to destroy the abatis before I can conquer it?
Light
3 Jul 09 at 12:31 pm
you cant conquer a city if the player only has 1
james
11 Aug 09 at 11:32 am
Hey, is there anyway to put up a guide as far as numbers and attacking. How many troops to take out a city with around 7K or so archer towers and other defenses. What is the best way to do it in order to minimize loses.
robins
20 Aug 09 at 6:11 am
You may only conquer a city if the player has two or more cities. An other words One city no conquer.
Gunter
3 Dec 09 at 5:12 am
First as you’ve mentioned scout spamming doesn’t work at all.
Second cavs spamming does but u need 100 for every level the walls are to be safe per hit. So level 10 walls send 1k cavs.
Always to to stats and look up a player before you decide to steal his city. You want to ensure they have more than 1. Or you are wasting your time.
If the person is an active player with an active alliance you will not to steal a city from them. I have about 10 different players sign in info. So if you attack one we sign into each others accounts and defend each other. We also have an alliance of players all over the world so it’s almost impossible to find our core players offline.
After getting myself up to having a 1/2 million archers and supporting troops I’ve determined that defense is way easier than attacking and less expensive.
Honestly if it’s going to be an attack game the rally point needs to be able to go past level 10.
Also if you really want a nice city. Why not take a level 10 npc? They are easier to take and everything is level 10! Before I took one fo those my best one had 2 things level 10.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Bill501
Server 72
Bill501
23 Dec 09 at 9:25 pm
ummmmm wt i did is when i had about 10k archer tryed to take someone with 9 lvl 9 barracks i spam made warriors and sent them in 7 or 8 waves ever 9mins then would hit after in a day i could make 20k warriors so it didnt take me long to take that guy over so warriors spam making i s good now thou i have 31k archers
K.C.
14 Jan 10 at 5:03 pm
and i took the city i have 16 barracks in that city now that i took ty BucII
K.C.
14 Jan 10 at 5:04 pm
you can use Exercise button in your Rally Spot to run simulations
PashaM
16 Jan 10 at 12:07 pm
Is there a good way to successfully conquer their city while they’re online and trying to heal? Do you need privateering to do this properly? We’ve got lurkers in our area who like to truce whenever they’re not online, and with both Truce and Dream Truce they only need to be vigilant two hours a day now.
Ron B
25 Mar 10 at 2:28 am
I thought u could only conquer cities in age 1?!?!?!?
KingKunt
29 Jun 10 at 1:34 pm
Someone should mention that defeating players is possible by conquering in age 2. At least I think it is. A few times a day I see a message something like “Lord so-and-so(alliance) has defeated lord other-guy(their alliance) and has conquered (city name)! Just pay attention to the system messages, youll see it too,.
johnb
26 Aug 10 at 2:05 am
how do u no if someone has more than one city? i want to take a city but idk how to tell if its there only one.
butterfly
3 Jan 11 at 1:23 pm