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[ashimar]

On the catapults issue, 25 catapults is enough in most cases. This table gives the number of catapults needed to destroy a given building level (column 2) or to flatten a building of a given level (column 3). I found it completely accurate so far.
Cats destroyed in the battle have (almost) full destructive capacity if only a couple of cats are destroyed. So I usually go with the expected number of cats + 10-20% for the main attack, and then 1-3 cats on the colo fleet to ensure destruction of the main house.

1 0,12 0
2 0,14 0,14
3 0,17 0,32
4 0,21 0,52
5 0,25 0,77
6 0,30 1,07
7 0,36 1,43
8 0,43 1,86
9 0,52 2,38
10 0,62 3

11 0,74 3,74
12 0,89 4,63
13 1,07 5,7
14 1,28 6,98
15 1,54 8,52
16 1,85 10,37
17 2,22 12,59
18 2,66 15,25
19 3,19 18,45
20 3,83 22,28

21 4,60 26,88
22 5,52 32,4
23 6,62 39,03
24 7,95 46,98
25 9,54 56,52
26 11,45 67,97
27 13,74 81,7
28 16,48 98,19
29 19,78 117,97
30 23,74 141,71

Two examples on how to use the table.

1. You want to flatten a lvl 13 building.
You look on the 13nth line. The last number on that line is 5.7, so you need 5.7 catapults. You must round that number up, so you need 6 cats to flatten the building.

2. You want to turn an isle into a farm. It has a lvl 22 storehouse, that you want to decrease to 15.
So you have to destroy from 22 to 21, 21 to 20 and so on. For 22 to 21, you need 5.52 cats (1st number on the 22nd line).
The total is 5.52 + 4.6 + 3.83 + 3.19 + 2.66 + 2.22 + 1.85 = 23.87 cats.

[ashimar]

Attacks
- to Chiavata! someone up send multiple attacks to all his isle with 1 large war ship. this way his radar goes bizerk and he hopefully ships his stonies to the wrong place or waits to long to ship them to the right place
- take out the tower first to keep opponet from knowing where you are going to next
- see the CAT table for needed cats to destroy lvls and flatten buildings


Deffending
- Queue your resources up in ships or men or cats b/c you cant plunder the queue

Spying
- if the enemy sees your spy ship it will fail
- so send 1 from several diffent isles then when he asks whats up so oops and get him to tell you which isles he sees and cancel only those. theywere going to fail anyways. Thus the other make it and you get your report

i've got more and will post as i have time and i remember
cmccann and bbqdwarrior work with me a lot to figure this stuff out


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Additions:

Spying: I find sending 2 SWs at the same time gives success every time. You lose one warship, but you also get your espionage. Its also effective because when they see your spying they assume you only sent one, and it is failing. As a result they leave their fleet in, so you obtain an accurate report.

Attacking: It is also effective to destroy their storehouse to a low level, this way they lose resources tht werent queued, and they cant build up main houses, stone walls, or fleets.

Tip - Send SMs in with the attack and take their resources before you destroy the storehouse.


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When attacking i tend to send out a fleet to attack every island he has.

I target his main island with my 2nd largest fleet - so hes got nothing to hit back with

One of his middle score islands with my main fleet just to smash it up a little bit.

The ones i wish to take from him i hit with a clearing force follwed by 2 attacks very close to each other the 2nd 1 with my coloney ship in.

and all his other islands i attack with 5 fleets all made up of 1 large warship.

While this may seem a waste of large warships it tends to fix his stoners/cats in place as most people ship them out to their weaker coloneys when they see the attacks in bound.


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I will usually build the colony ships close to the island I want to take, cuts down on waiting. I build 2 colony ships for every island I want to take, this way when the 1st is returning, then 2nd can go out.

I will launch the colony attempt first, with 5 Cats, then send off the spy ship(s) (once I got my spy report, I send my attack fleet, with the correct number of cats to knock main house to 1).
Where there is a large gap between inital colony attempt and main attack, I will send a 2nd attack that will land just before colonisation attempt.

[ashimar]

I personally quite liked you lot, when you asked to be protectorates of Valkea I was going to happily says yes, as were Divinity after they found out we wern't the only alliances you asked.

I always viewed SM as quitel ike Morkin, but less good (no offence). You seemed to stick together a lot and whne I stole a few colos off you a while back, I think I got the "All of us will suicide you." treatment, which promptly made me give one back, I think..

But as I saidm lay off statues, get some protectors, get some colonies and defend them well.

A colony outside the top 20 without 3000 spearmen, will not be your colony for long.

My advice-

Keep the big symbol at the top of your Alliance Display, I quote like it and I have it sort of registered to your name.

Get rid of all the other crap, one symbol is enough and it is quite nice looking. If you like, i'll draw up a rough design plan for you.

Make sure your admirals and diplomats can do thier job.

Get a friend with a colo-tool, you need it to get your average isle score down.

Make sure everyone talks and is active. If there are a bunch of shadowy figures in there, they won't get help when they need it. An alliance of friends is an alliance which will react sharp.

Keep the Alliance morale up. Tell them things will get better, tell them to ask thier friends to join. Aim to recruit promising players who take an interest in colonising, whether they fail or whatever. A player with 1 colony is a good sign- It shows he can keep it.

Merh- that should do.

Good luck smile.gif

[Natmus]

ashimar said:

I personally quite liked you lot, when you asked to be protectorates of Valkea I was going to happily says yes, as were Divinity after they found out we wern't the only alliances you asked.

I always viewed SM as quitel ike Morkin, but less good (no offence). You seemed to stick together a lot and whne I stole a few colos off you a while back, I think I got the "All of us will suicide you." treatment, which promptly made me give one back, I think..

But as I saidm lay off statues, get some protectors, get some colonies and defend them well.

A colony outside the top 20 without 3000 spearmen, will not be your colony for long.

My advice-

Keep the big symbol at the top of your Alliance Display, I quote like it and I have it sort of registered to your name.

Get rid of all the other crap, one symbol is enough and it is quite nice looking. If you like, i'll draw up a rough design plan for you.

Make sure your admirals and diplomats can do thier job.

Get a friend with a colo-tool, you need it to get your average isle score down.

Make sure everyone talks and is active. If there are a bunch of shadowy figures in there, they won't get help when they need it. An alliance of friends is an alliance which will react sharp.

Keep the Alliance morale up. Tell them things will get better, tell them to ask thier friends to join. Aim to recruit promising players who take an interest in colonising, whether they fail or whatever. A player with 1 colony is a good sign- It shows he can keep it.

Merh- that should do.

Good luck smile.gif

Who wrote this crap? Symbols and protectors and morale? Recruitment?

Probably wellmeant, but not from one who knows us very well, is it?

[ashimar]

It's someone talking to the founder of Maharishi serinity. Forgot to post his name. I found the reference to us worthwhile and flattering. This was the alliance MotD was in.

[Natmus]

Oh, okay. I had misunderstood, and thought somebody was giving us advice

[ashimar]

Yes, I thought so much. ;D

[ashimar]

From the Fish & Ships messageboard, perhaps useful for later....

A colony tool plus access codes

Date: 29.08.2006 18:47
From: tom_the_buffalo_soldier
Subject: RE: RE: colony
Dragon posts one on request on the forum.

Timberwolf wrote:
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I have access to one but it must remain a secret. Forget the warning message I've had it for awhile with no issues.

www.trap.navixhosting.com/login.php

Raymond
Motorcross

TPS wrote:
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has anyone been able to get acces to a colony tool yet? this clicking is getting tireing.

[Freiegeister]

ashimar said:

From the Fish & Ships messageboard, perhaps useful for later....

A colony tool plus access codes

I've started writing my own which can be found at: freiegeister.somee.com/inselkampf/

Data is captured with a webpage stripper.
For those that are interested, parse the Map page with:

Isle: (?<name>[^\r\n]*)[\r\n]+Position: (?<ocean>\d+)\?<group>\d+)\?<island>\d+)[\r\n]+(Ruler: (?<ruler>[^\r\n]*)[\r\n]+)*(Alliance: \[(?<alliance>[^\r\n]*)\][\r\n]+)*Score: (?<score>[^\r\n]*)[\r\n]+Colony: (?<colony>[YesNo]*)

Raw xml data (~5.5Mb) is here: freiegeister.somee.com/inselkampf/data/map.xml