Evony Age 2 Guide

The pikeman of Evony Age 2 is a troop geared towards offense and also at taking out enemy ponies, cavalry and cataphracts that is. Pikemen are good at taking out enemy cavalry having a long reach and high speed. Enemy cavalry are often in front so the pikemen can hit them hard taking them out without being stuck fighting the enemy’s rainbow. To win the battle you should have about 50% more pikemen than your enemy has cavalry, if your enemy uses cataphracts you should have about 3 times as many. The pikemen of Evony Age 2 are much cheaper and faster to train than cavalry and cataphracts though, so this is not a bad ratio at all.

The Veteran Battalion in Evony is an item which once used will give you an average of 150 cataphracts, 325 transporters and 200 cavalry. These units are all very useful in the middle or late game. This item is equivalent to about 1900 archers. Make sure you do not use the Mechanics Battalion before mid-game, as you will run into a food issue. The Veteran Battalion can be obtained by spinning the Wheel of Fortune.

This attack report was posted in the Evony forums today. It is an attack report from server 52 where one player takes out more than 1 million archers in one attack. This is the most archers I’ve ever seen killed in one attack. The player making the attack is named Gil, and he used 1000 scouts, 29000 cavalry and 70000 cataphracts. He had a level 361 attack hero and was up against a level 261 attack hero. He had taken out all the layers before the archers, apart from 72 warriors, so the cavalry and cataphracts went straight to the archers and did maximum damage. The attack report is posted below, you can click on it to make it larger. Read the rest of this entry »

Abatis is the second best fortification there is Evony in my opinion. It is very important to have some of these in your city defense, but not too many. For a city with a maxed wall I usually go for about 1500 abatis. The great thing with the abatis is that it only affects cavalry and cataphracts, so it is not possible to kill off someones abatis with warrior cleaning waves. The abatis also extends combat range to 5,000 which in some battles is really important. A city without any abatis is really vulnerable to cavalry and cataphract attacks. Read the rest of this entry »

Defending your cities is obviously very important in Evony. For defense you can use both a lot of scouts so they are not able to find out how many troops you have or just a lot of defense troops so they can’t manage to beat you anyways. In addition to your troops you need a lot of fortifications, I recommend archers towers, they are effective against almost anything the enemy can send at you.

I also recommend having gate closed usually, unless you’re able to have a huge defense army in town, or you are only and manage to figure out how large of an army your enemy sends against you. It’s true that more powerfull players will destroy your fortifications frequently, but they are pretty cheap to rebuild after all. If you keep rebuilding fortifications and don’t have much resources worth to plunder other players will proabably just leave you alone. Read the rest of this entry »