Ultimate Defense Guide Part 2. The Incredible T1s

[@DerrickDefies]

Just wanted to clear some things up. My videos are to explain the mechanics and aren't the definitive "best strategy" as each battle has different variables and therefore different strategies to use. Use these videos to learn how the game works and make the best strategy that fits your playstyle and the type of opponents you face. I showed building T1-T3. This is ONLY if you are using a lot of mounted attack buffs and its meant to deal with rallies and killing multiple troop layers. However, if you are using T1 mounted as more of wall and prefer to use ranged refines, you should ONLY build T1s. The ultimate goal is to build enough so you don't lose any to counterattacks.

[@SteveAdeff]

The idea of T1 mounted only is having the 8 billion-ish T1 amount along with as many archers at each layer? and this allows you to basically have 0 ground troops of any layer?

[@DerrickDefies]

@@SteveAdeff you would still want small ground troops to soak up attacks, but yes basically T1 defense (with ground or mounted) allow players to build primarily those troops as a defense.

[@kdkd693]

@@SteveAdeffyes,I found t2 and t3 die just as easily as t1 but cost more to build and lost points. I no longer build t2 or t3

[@DerrickDefies]

@@kdkd693 Exactly. I failed to convey this is my video. making T2/T3 is only better when you have high flat attack buffs on mounted and want to do better against rallies. I posted the comment to clear up any confusion.

[@J33BUZisNeverGoinPro]

Is one better than the other for defence. Between all cav atk and mostly ranged atk. Also is one better at taking rallies. You mentioned the t2 t3 was for taking rallies. Does that mean the other isn't as effective for them or just two different ways to defend?

[@JWevony]

Derrick, this one is best yet. Congrats brother-fantastic content.

[@DerrickDefies]

That means a lot coming from you. Thanks a lot!

[@BuckeyeNut123]

Your research is greatly appreciated. As a numbers guy and a research wonk I love what you put out there.

[@DerrickDefies]

Thank you. I started this as it bothered me there were no reliable sources for Evony mechanics. Regardless of strategy/experience/how much you pay, the numbers don't lie. (Except the range and speed values Evony gives us, those are lies)

[@palevelmode]

as T1 defense keep, I allocate 3 marches for to be unghost after each attack to replenish my defensive layers. You can zero t1 in battlefield easily but not on svs. :D

[@DerrickDefies]

Ohh yeah, I was going to mention doing this. Its a lot faster than healing and it's a great strategy! Thanks for sharing!

[@kdkd693]

Great thought

[@shadowking2120]

​@@DerrickDefies what about reinforcements of t1 troops .

[@MrYours]

Thanks!

[@DerrickDefies]

Whoa! Thanks a lot man!!

[@MrYours]

@@DerrickDefies well deserved! Thank you for the content

[@DerrickDefies]

@@MrYours thanks for all the great streaming that distracts me from making the content. 😂

[@MumbaikarSiya]

Thank you for such an informative video 🙏🏼😊

[@MathWithAnE123]

i can't wait for your next video, i watched your mechanics video and immediately set to work trying to figure out what i could do to optimize a siege defense to try to hit my preferred target at the start of combat.

[@kurtdowney1489]

Great video 👍

[@Mossekraka]

Really appreciate your videos man. If thought I had a decent grasp on how this game works after playing for about three years now, but your videos have really been eye opening. Btw, I’ve got a report that could really use your expertise if you’re interested. Just let me know and I’ll add you and share.

[@DerrickDefies]

Yeah sure. send me a friend request in game DerrickDefies and I will take a look at it.

[@Mossekraka]

@@DerrickDefies FR sent. Moss in game

[@araphena0303]

Thank you 🥰

[@mk4720]

Great video Derrick. 👏 any detailed video the gear for the wall general if using T1 mounted defense ?

[@donjaarv4231]

Bootyca 😂😂 great vid 👌

[@johncoodyii5512]

Thank you for the videos on T1 traps. It helped me get my wings yesterday. SirJohn2 from server 1118.

[@RedDeerEnquiries]

This is a great explanation- however my only comment would be that the k45 update probably means if I’m being attacked by k43 and over I need to increase the layers - I noticed that they can easily eat through the layers which didn’t used to be the case. One final thought I also realised top siege is not my friend - I made a lot of this early game and have had to dismiss it because the power exchanges were always horrific and I couldn’t ghost all of it. I’m working towards a billion t1 cavs currently

[@DerrickDefies]

When it comes to layers, they will be attacked somewhat randomly by the enemy. This means that your T13 layer may be attacked by the enemy T2,T5,T6 troops before their T14. So having bigger layers will help ensure that your "protective layers" don't random die to the enemy's small layers. But you are right, as you play stronger opponents, you will have to adjust your strategy. As for Siege. Siege is a huge liability for players that don't have massive siege buffs. I try not to tell players to dismiss troops as those siege can still be useful offensively.

[@liranamram1715]

Please keep making those videos🙏🙏🙏

[@jecovyjohnson6362]

Thank you very helpful

[@Nat3ch]

Waiting on that next vid :)

[@JamesRoberts-f8d]

Hey Derrick.... I just thought of something you could test the speed books on... Evony Age 1: Layers were not used in all situations, or not ALL layers were used in all situations. Arch bow typically benefited from as many rounds as possible, infact, it got the name "bow" due to having layers. Cav marches used ONLY 1 ground. Literally only one ground. More rounds were bad for cav, but the one ground for some reason acted as a "sling shot". Without it, cav fell flat. With it, damage output was x10. Key was removing any range type units, or it didn't work.

[@kingface6417]

I'm setting it up now in a new server, t1 baby lets do it, kiet, Johnson wall gens. Flat refines mounted only 10m so far. Thank you for all the knowledge,

[@natesytacct]

I'm on a new server and just got my wings as mostly a t1 trap in our second svs against a tougher opponent (your videos were very helpful in this, thank you!), with a lot of layers rein from my alliance mates and a lot of the bigger players on our server taking a pass against the tough opponent. I want to transition to t1 defense -- that is, add ranged beyond 100k to layers 1, 11, and 12 at least, and start to focus on gear and such with %s for archers while I keep flats on mounted. My question is about civ gear. I've caked once to get a piece and planning to get a second. Everyone says "koryo for wall" but koryo doesn't really seem to do shit for this keep design aside from the bow. Am I insane with this plan? 2pc Augustus helm/legs for starters. And realistically, probably that will be the end of it for quite a while, but if I can get left side and decide to use on wall, it would be 2pc Abbas bracers/boots. Koryo bow. All the civ armor seems quite bad for the plan, but maybe Augustus chest. ---Just basically wondering if I'll regret *NOT* going full Koryo but instead for this mixed setup focusing on ranged % attack and debuffs.

[@rodrigoyoshida535]

@DerrickDefies amazing video, I am new on this game and I am learning a lot from your videos, thank you very much and keep working on more content for us ❣ I have a question, the refines for the other part equipment should be "flat " for mounted troops too?

[@mista_b]

Whilst the research is appreciated and I assume accurate for the most part, be mindful of building too many top tier archers. The video suggests they won’t be touched, but they absolutely do get touched by enemy siege. I play regularly against players with 2500% siege attack buffs, I ghost all troop types so I am left with layers similar to the video. I have 500m T1, with the necessary flat refines. But the enemy siege still wipes out 1m T14 archers and then makes a start on my T13. Again around 1m of those. ✌🏽

[@DerrickDefies]

You are correct. Archers will be directly attacked by some mid tier siege and will be directly attacked by high tier siege once all your siege is dead. It may be worthwhile to make T1 siege to absorb those attacks to protect your archers. Or dare I say buff range HP/Def % But overall, archers are the most protected units and are generally safe to make all layers of.

[@mista_b]

@@DerrickDefies How much T1 siege are you thinking? Wouldn’t they just get splatted too 😢

[@SteveAdeff]

@@mista_b yes, but once your troops move in close enough to attack their Siege you will kill their siege, so you need enough of those lower tier siege to absorb that attack at first so your upper tier Ranged survive. Don't forget they'll have a more limited troop attack count based on their march size. It's a war of attrition. Of course they can always rally you, but just gotta keep an eye out for that.

[@dazzamcgrazza3043]

amazing DD

[@dazzamcgrazza3043]

seriously amazing.. KUDOS from Australia !!!!!

[@DerrickDefies]

Thanks mate, I appreciate it!

[@sonudalakoti5658]

Thanks

[@Crackkk-ps6go]

the best video about evony seen so far, enlightening content. Thank you. Just one question, out of 8 attack refinement slots, how many do you recommend for cav and how many for archers?

[@DerrickDefies]

It really depends on how many cav and how many archers you have/plan on building. I would just keep the first gold flat one I receive and build accordingly

[@Crackkk-ps6go]

@@DerrickDefies ok, thanks for the reply Derrick, I really appreciate 🙏

[@Crackkk-ps6go]

@@DerrickDefies I'm k35, no svs wings, just got to 150m t 1 cav. 700m power. i am setting up the layers as you suggested and it works perfectly, at least until now against k39 k40 with buff below 2000

[@DerrickDefies]

@@Crackkk-ps6go with some good baiting, you should get your wings in no time.

[@totoybalisong5969]

Please explain further why you are advising us to train t2 mounted by the time we reach 100 million t1. Why not continue with training more t1? Why stop at 100 million. Please educate me. I am hesitant to train t2 next. Is it really better to train t2 after reaching 100 million t1? Please explain.

[@accord21]

He never explained this? It makes no sense.

[@TheBagarali]

@@accord21 Perhaps, he already answered this question in several other comments.

[@AndrewJohns-r5e]

Hi Derrick, I’ve set my troop layers up more or less as you’ve suggested with Taylor as main general and Sigurd as assistant and I was wondering what skill books you’d recommend for them both ? Enjoying your content by the way keep it coming.

[@hossamahmed4131]

can you turn on subtitles please

[@DerrickDefies]

I plan on making subtitles for all my videos. Sorry for the delay!

[@hossamahmed4131]

@@DerrickDefies thanks for your efforts

[@Halyconist]

How a t1 ground wall would work. If I want to build that, what kind of troop composition should I use.

[@matteoponzilacqua6965]

But ...with the new buff over 5000 is it still right?

[@Hades-ky9ol]

Can I get that doc to test my flat buff on?

[@keithnorleen4044]

How do I get a copy of your excel sheets so I can plug my buffs in?

[@carterfitzler1683]

This maybe a dumb question but can cavalry be buffed (maybe along with archer debuffs in sub citys) to be able to go tier for tier defending against archers successfully?

[@mokranehoussem8627]

What about gear ? And assistant general

[@philipkingsworth6638]

10:08 how do you get 10,000 attack on mounted when only two gear pieces give you attack flats?

[@rayanking9667]

I get 8000 from the 2 pieces , 500 from the dragon , about 500 converted from the defense general %

[@tomickes409]

what about 250,000,000 each of the 4 types teir one ........ 1,000,000 each of every type and every teir up to 14........ 5,000,000 t11 and t12 seige ??? hows that look ? suggestions ???

[@beppe7753]

Ciao Derrick... quando metterai i sottotitoli in italiano? 🙏🙏🙏

[@Dualities21]

Perhaps a guide to defend against siege bombs if i already have a t1 wall defense? im weak against them. Is there any way to coutner enemy siege also?

[@rlgsbs]

Nice

[@LowPh306]

So you want mounted atk flats slightly favorited over HP flats?

[@DerrickDefies]

No, if you are building a T1 defense, you should have HP flats on your mounted. You should also have some attack flats for your mounted so that your T1 layer can one shot enemy layers.

[@goldmoney3047]

first 1-2 siege to wipe all the siege and archer and then 1-2 archer to zero the t1 keeps. i have done it many time. even zeroed 1.5b t1 cavs keep.

[@DerrickDefies]

Yeah, by taking out their rear line, you are able to keep your layers when you hit with ranged. It makes a big difference.

[@donaldduck9884]

What platform do u stream on? ytb, twitch? Sincerely D Duck

[@SteveAdeff]

You discuss building lots of archers, but not if a specific tier should be concentrated on. It would seem with the flat refines being best for up to T11, and without being able to be debuffed, that having say 100K Ranged for T1-T10 then concentrate on training many T11 ranged would be the best strategy? If I'm understanding buffs and battle mechanics from your videos properly: Ranged all have the same range, T11 would move closer as necessary fastest (not sure how much this really effectively matters, probably not much), and they would have the highest attack . Other than attacking Siege, an effective mounted or ground lower layers should protect those T11 Ranged. Thoughts?

[@dax313xab]

I only use the code REDWIFI, lol. 😮. This dudes plan got me wings with 10k all layers and 20mill T1 mounted... I was happy to see I've escalated things to 100k all layers and 50mill T1 mounted... flats ... on dragons gear.

[@dax313xab]

I like the JW Wick guy also! Both have amazing, next lvl content 👌

[@ProseProsInternational]

Hey derrick...there is a few seconds where you quickly say to make a march preset with 10 of each troop in order to heal ....???? This makes no sense to me. Would you please expand and clarify? Thanks

[@DerrickDefies]

Having a preset of 10/500/1000 of every troop to heal is very useful when it comes to recovering your layers after a hit. It also allows you to make a good march on the spot that you may not have a preset for. Say you are hit by an archer march that killed all your mounted layer except for your T1s. You can heal just a few troops in each layer to help in a follow-up attack. And since I dont know your experience level, perhaps you are just unfamiliar with the ability to heal presets. If thats the case just go to your hospital to heal troops and click a preset. I hope that helps.

[@ricks3313]

I have over 300m t1 cav, while my defense is based around siege. I'm still getting smoked by high level archer bombs. What am I missing?

[@DerrickDefies]

Without looking at your Keep, I cant know for sure, but some things that will affect this. Do you have Flat HP refines on your equipment? Do you have many T9 and below siege? Are you ghosting your upper tier mounted troops? What are your Debuffs?

[@jefflehman5278]

After getting my t1 horses over 200m i decided to increase all my orher layers, so I now have a minimum of 250k of every layer of ground, range, horse and siege. Your video is making me think this was a bad idea, especially for the ground. Should i thin them out and retire most of my ground?

[@DerrickDefies]

It depends on what you are going for. Your 250k layers ground are a liability in a ground/mounted attack, however they will help greatly in and archer/siege attack. And eventually when you outgrow your T1s you will probably be better off with the extra ground. So my advice is to ghost them and unghost them on archer/siege attacks.

[@johnisaac9428]

great stuff, on wall general / assistan, how about the skill books? i'm doing ranged attack, ranged range bonus, siege attack siege ranged bonus ground attack and ground hp, that is good set up or should be redone?

[@DerrickDefies]

It looks good to me. Defense skill books should have: Siege and archer range increase % buffs related to your troop composition HP is more important than Def. Also no speed skillbooks

[@jesuscastillo8211]

Had to save you video, even after copying and pasting your title , it won't come up on KZbin search. Had to search reddit for your post

[@BaoNguyen-zq9vt]

i have in every troop typ from t1 to t14 1million troops but 220 million t1 mounted i´am on k37 how can i make my defense better ?

[@R3NEGADE_Evony]

Go k 38

[@GTIFabric]

I get slightly lost @5:35 . These are total numbers to have in your keep?

[@DerrickDefies]

These are suggested numbers to have in your keep for a typical T1 defense. Ghost your troops to achieve these numbers or use it as a base to come up with your own strategy. The best values will change depending on what you are up against.

[@HerbBurner]

Thanks for all the information man always watch your videos millions of times. But I definitely have a question for my understanding. Percents do help t1. Obviously the flats are more important because a t1 troops base attack is so low . But after you add all that base attack. Percents are going to carry it even farther

[@DerrickDefies]

Yes, percent will help because you have millions of troops. But my point is that those percent buffs can be used to strengthen non-mounted units instead. Players get too wrapped around focusing on using mounted generals when its not necessary. Take a look at @MrYours recent video. He used a resource gathering general on his wall and destroyed players.

[@eddiebanson5486]

Are you saying it's better to have range attack % Refines than mounted attack flat Refines?

[@DerrickDefies]

No. All your attack refines should be flat. I am saying you can have flat archer attack refines with your mounted attack refines. Which one that is better is dependent on the number of troops you have in your keep.

[@rodyaraskolnikov]

What are your thoughts on building 150 T1 cav defense, but instead of more cav after that go do 150M T1 ground and then split the refines on wall gen between ground/cav flat? We have a few people suggesting this defense on our server.

[@DerrickDefies]

The issue with ground flats is that they will be most effective for low tier ground. This means ghosting your high tier ground and high tier mounted. I think a few flats on ground is useful to strengthen up your lower tiers, but it's more effective for you to concentrate on only T1 wall type. Splitting them makes them less efficient.

[@philipkingsworth6638]

If I use the simulator 1 t15 attacking 1 t1 defender both mounted. how is it defender wins ?

[@philipkingsworth6638]

Bug in simulator? Scripts does not change

[@augustinfrancotte3163]

redwifi code no longer available...

[@-SeanyBoy-]

quick question... i was talking with someone who said nero does not debuff siege, because it is not a troop? is this true?

[@DerrickDefies]

This is not accurate. Siege are considered troops. Nero's Debuff works on them.

[@arun619143]

How to defend with archer rally attacks ?

[@DerrickDefies]

Unghost your high tier ground/siege if you have them. Make traps to kill non-archer layers (look at my last video) And ask for reinforcements. The reinforcements can just be layers. When attacked, the enemy will target the mounted troops with the highest attack. This is generally your highest tier, however when reinforced, flat buffs can great change this. If you have a player reinforce you with just 100 troop layers of mounted with a decently strong general, he will soak an attack for you. However, you also want reinforcemenst that will kill through the enemy's rally protective layers more quickly. I even use an alt with a strong ranged march to reinforce me and it greatly helps with rallies.

[@fwiffo1376]

What is more important for the T1 defence, ascending subcity generals for the debuffs or ascending the wall general?

[@4ce5bf154]

If you are not a coiner and don't care much about offense, then I'd ascend all duty generals to one star first.

[@DerrickDefies]

I would recommend ascending a wall general at least once as they give some pretty good buffs and are not a huge investment. Debuffs are better for T1 defenses as a 25% decrease in the enemy's attack is better than a 25% increase in your T1 HP. That said, I focus on duty generals because I feel like they are safe investments since I know I probably wont acquire too many premium ones.

[@Bipo21]

I find that very interesting. but which general do you think would be the best solution? i use william marshal and actually wanted to switch to boudicca. but now I'm unsure 😏

[@DerrickDefies]

I didn't mean to be too hard on Boudica, I just they she is over-representing in T1 defense/traps. I don't like to give advice to how players should play, and the best defense general will largely depend on your troop composition, the amount you spend ect. I personally would suggest any general who gives good attack stats to range and siege and good def/HP stats to ground and mounted.

[@Bipo21]

since I don't invest any money, my choices are very limited. I play with Korea and focus on long-range combat. may I ask which general you use?

[@kdkd693]

Agree. I had Boudicca as second to Dewey, but have now been changing to Leo for the reasons Derrick mentions. Boudicca seemed a good choice before as we were able to get lots of Boudicca fragments. But Evony seems to have changed that

[@KalebYoung-vv5qp]

@@Bipo21 for assistant wall gen mason weaver is not bad siege an range stats off the bat with spirit beast

[@oryslothston5968]

Thanks for this. This implies to me that %ranged attack might be better than flat mounted attack on wall gen gear. Do you have any data on this?

[@DerrickDefies]

% Range is only better if you are top heavy on ranged units. However, defensively, It is better to have flat attack archer refines on your gear. This is because the flat refines can't be debuffed and they increase your attack more than % refines for all troops below T12. My buff video covers this quite in depth. Also, there are soooooo many sources to get % buffs. There are only research and refines available to get flat buffs

[@timjones3554]

​@@DerrickDefiesHi Derek, just subscribed. You said that general doesn't really matter so much but rather flats. In saying that, would a free general like Kusunoki be good to ascend and use as main for archers then? If I want to use both,Or is Boudica generally still best for t1 cav? I'm a non coiner

[@WitchyGeek]

I tried your code, but it said that it's expired by now. Do you plan on doing another one any time soon?

[@shaneblavins1286]

Iv got a question for anyone willing to answer…is there a difference between marching troop attack and attacking troop attack ?? Because my understanding is there the same but if so why name them different?

[@mikep509]

Marching is your troop... attacking is march and rally

[@fs7792]

@derrickdefies amazing work 👏. Do you think having a mounted + ground t1 defence would be more potent than mounted alone, with attack number refines for mounted and hp for ground ?

[@4ce5bf154]

The main reason we all just do mounted is cause you want to focus all flat refines in one.

[@DerrickDefies]

You want attack refines on ranged too. Remember, they are safe attacking units. It is most efficient to focus only on one troop type for defense/hp. Though having two can have its own benefits, not to mentions Ground units are very tanky with these flat buffs. But think about it like a march, we don't send mixed marches because its more efficient to focus on one type with your generals and gear. Defense is not much different. A highly buffed unit will win against a unit its weak to.

[@fs7792]

​@@DerrickDefies👍

[@billcotton8747]

Derrick I'm a k33 and aiming to build t1 defense. I have Boudica on wall as my main and thinking to use Poligunus as my assistant to get his mount hp basic skill buff Will this work and if so which skill books do you recommend?

[@wickedclownluve]

Poligenus’s basic skill is deactivated when he is assigned as a wall general. If the general’s basic skill says, when General is leading the army “to attack,” the skill will not work when you are defending.

[@enginesspareparts8416]

🎉one question. If we don't build alot of siege as you said they will siege bomb us. But the next target of siege after our all siege is dead is range and siege has advantages on range and when their siege kills our range they easily kill us with mounted

[@DerrickDefies]

Not necessarily. A few things to note. Siege do less damage to archers than they do to siege. Archers have much more defense and hp. And 3rd, the siege will have to go through all your siege layers to get to your archers. You are better ghosting your siege if you see an upcoming siege attack, than letting them get hit (if you can). But make sure you always keep layers. You can also unghost your mounted/ground to help deal with siege attacks and any non siege reinforcements would help.

[@DerrickDefies]

@@bigupmenan Not at all. A solo march of T15 siege would lose to this build. The reason is because it would take several turns for turns for the siege to even get to your archers. Any tier below T11 siege will target your ranged/ground units first. And a T9 siege hitting your T14 archer will do little damage especially since they will more likely be small layers. This means that only the attacking T11-T15 siege will be able to take out your siege layers. (Depending on siege range buffs) So it will take them at least 4 turns to get through your siege before the T15 with %1500 buffs target your ranged units. Now, it would be best if you were able to unghost a mounted/ground march to deal with the siege. But if not, your archers will attack the siege no later than turn 10. Your T1 mounted will absolutely wreck them as well.

[@mista_b]

@@DerrickDefiesThanks for reply. Im Ryan. I tested this and got my top tier archers wiped out as I thought 👀 Happy to share report bud if it helps feed into your research. Pretty much followed the advice given in this video regarding layers. Let me know your discord, see if you can spot anything?

[@DerrickDefies]

@@mista_b find me in-game, DerrickDefies. Send me the report and I can tell you what happened. I am interested in seeing this. Regardless, if you built a lot of siege, it would have probably been worse.

[@sadgrape3405]

Derrick. If I already have 4-5m of every troop layer to t14 would you still suggest that I spend the gems on refining my gear again?

[@sadgrape3405]

And building all those t1s

[@DerrickDefies]

No, at the point you are at, many players will focus mostly on % refines. (Though I still recommend flat attack buffs) After you have rallied or have had your top layers decimated, you can change your general gear (or a different general with gear) that has flat refines and transition into a T1 trap.

[@sadgrape3405]

Thanks for the help 👍

[@kjax-h5u]

I’m having trouble getting to 10k in mounted flat attack. Is keep lvl a factor, I’m k33? Also is there a good goal for range attack flats? Thanks!

[@DerrickDefies]

I was including a dragon from a wonder in those stats. And 10,000 is close to the max (you can technically get more) I personally have more than half my flat attack refines in ranged and about 4-6 in mounted. However, I have a lot more ranged in my defense. Both strategies work. The problem with T1 is that they can only attack one layer. This is why rallies hurt them and why after making so many T1, we start making T2.

[@kjax-h5u]

@@DerrickDefies ok right on. So I have 150m t1 mount and 8500 in flat attack. Only 5m t1 archers. Should I been focusing on range or only focus on the mounted?

[@DerrickDefies]

@@kjax-h5u I focus on both. The problem with going only mounted, is that means your mounted is your only attack. And if you only have T1 mounted layer, you will get shredded by a rally. I think T1 mounted traps are a great cheap strategy for points. But ranged troops (of all layers) help greatly.

[@hji126]

So why not just flat refine for archers and build a ton of them?

[@DerrickDefies]

This is what I do for my defense. More than half of my attack flats are Archer. Archers damage is great even if it's reduced by a troop modifier for ground. The reason I suggest mounted attack as well is because you are already building so many of them. 100,000,000 cav hit hard when combined with an attack refine. However, if you made millions of ranged, you could probably forgo mounted attack refine and focus on archer attack and either mounted or ground def and hp.

[@RedQuasar13]

@@DerrickDefies That's my defense - I have ground HP/Defense + Ranged attack - Ground is the shield/tank and Ranged is the damage dealer.

[@rlgsbs]

@@DerrickDefies And Leonidas would be perfect for this?

[@DerrickDefies]

​@@RedQuasar13that sounds incredibly potent. I don't see it often though. I tried to explain it in this video. It's certainly a viable strategy.

[@RedQuasar13]

@@DerrickDefies I have strategic layers of Siege to cover for various rallies. So far it works pretty decent. I am over in the Discord with you. Usually you will find Wonky and I chatting it up in keep defense :D

[@arashnanbakhsh3067]

Imagine if you have two wall gen (one regular with mix flat and % with ) and one specific for t1 protection. For 10 b keep when will be an ideal time to swap them? I think instate of investing on Boudica you can develop a general to attack a t1 trap and when you need to put him on the wall and best general for this dual purpose is Li Naomase. Last thing do think k45 and 8m march size still give a chance to t1 keep to survive?

[@4ce5bf154]

Lot of big players do this at Allstars, once all top tiers are gone they ghost couple attack marches and then switch to flat to scramble extra points with the 1T wall left

[@arashnanbakhsh3067]

@@4ce5bf154but the problem is that you don’t lose all top tier before having only low tier. Only you miss one type and if you swap earlier it could be devastating.

[@4ce5bf154]

@@arashnanbakhsh3067 if you leave all your high tier troop types the t1 won't get much damage but yeah there will be a moment when you stop spending healings and have a mix of high and low tiers when you will have to decide to switch by ghosting the remaining and letting the t1 wall do it's thing

[@rlgsbs]

What would you say is the threshold between T1 Mounted defense and just defending with high level troops?

[@DerrickDefies]

That is a tough question, especially since K45 was released and with it, a ton of % buffs. This is good for top heavy defenses. Regardless of your keep size, I would always suggest flat attack refines as they are better for troops T1-T11. As for def and hp, sure, you can give % to mounted/ground as they will generally be targeted first. But it seems like there are so many sources for % buffs, whereas flat buffs are quite rare.

[@4ce5bf154]

When your higher tier troops start to get bigger than the march size you can ghost is the moment you will have to switch to % and keep pushing higher tiers, that being said I'd always priorized construction first.

[@rlgsbs]

@@4ce5bf154 thank you

[@timrobbins1350]

what would someone do if they already have 50 million horse and 1mill siege in each layer built, do I scrap and rebuild or can I salvage it ? I also have larger amounts of ground too. I WOULD LIKE TO STOP AND JUST BUILD RANGE NOW AND CHANGE WALL I ALREADY HAVE ALMOST ALL OF MY HORSE FLATS CAN I SALVAGE THIS KEEP PLEASE AND THANK YOU.!?

[@DerrickDefies]

No, not at all. Depending on how many you have, you can still ghost the top layers. I keep a Ground march and mounted march ghosted and will sometimes unghost them if I see someone attack me. You can also ghost your top tier siege. If you are too big I would recommend focusing on Def and HP percent buffs and flat attack. Flat attack is best for units below T12 and I would imagine most of your units are. Feel free to make as many ranged units as you desire as they will be well protected. I recommend making traps to help with protection layers to deal with ranged/siege rallies. If you want you can add me in game and send me a battle report (have someone attack you with one troop) and your wall generals, and I can give you a better answer.

[@4ce5bf154]

Just keep buildings t1 cavs 50m is not enough imo you want at least 200m

[@gingan4859]

hey derrick, thanks for the content it's really helpful. I have an idea of using a t1 mounted/range trap, all the hp and defense refines will be on the cavs and the atk on range only, do you think that will work?

[@DerrickDefies]

Yes, it would work. Having no attack on the mounted units means that they will have less wounds from counterattack, but you will rely heavily on the damage your Ranged do. The problem with that, is if someone attacks with ground, you need enough archers to deal with it. You can use my calculator to determine how many ground troops your ranged will kill every turn. Oh, also there is one more caveat. There is a rare occurrence where a ground attack will attack your archers before they are done killing the enemy mounted. This is because your archers move to the front lines. I will explain it in a future video, but it's not something to be too concerned for, just something to watch out for.

[@MagdCastillo]

Baby, you forgot to explain about t1 archers on archer tower..

[@kenc2194]

why would you want to train T2 and T3 horses after you get past 100M T1? Doesn't this go against the math which is applying a flat refine stat to the lowest possible troop, which is a T1 troop?

[@DerrickDefies]

I tried to explain this in my pinned comment. You ONLY would want to do this if you have high flat mounted attack buffs and you want to defend against rallies. The 100m is just an arbitrary number. You may want to do this after you have reached 1 billion Cavs. The point is that once your T1s deal enough damage to one shot an enemy's main layer, you can start building T2 to try and one shot 2 layers. The benefit is that you kill 2 layers every turn, the downside is that T2s are worth more points than a T1. Hope that clears it up

[@kenc2194]

Outstanding explanation thank you @DerrickDefies

[@BuckeyeNut123]

Thank you.... more comments later.

[@fate5624]

The enemy easily goes trough all of my siege and then all of my range so never do many range troops , I have a billion t1 I know what I am talking about

[@DerrickDefies]

If you don't mind. I would like to see a report on this to see where I could give advice on someone in your situation. From my experience and calculations, it would be difficult for a siege attack to go very positive against a player with few siege. But I could also be experiencing different types of attacks with a variety of buffs/debuffs and didn't account for your situation.

[@fate5624]

@@DerrickDefies the problem is not the siege but you said that I could have more of archer but the enemy wipes out all of my siege and then my archer I can show you my name is "quicksilver" With the ""

[@DerrickDefies]

@@fate5624 sent.

[@rickymathern5162]

Can I get into a discord with you bro

[@DerrickDefies]

My discord is in the description. Feel free to DM me.

[@mikehawk5907]

Should have showed my attack on you last svs 🤔

[@DerrickDefies]

Was it the one where my Cavs weren't ghosted? 😂 Yep, Rookie mistake. I still technically was positive in that out come, but just barely. But thanks to you, I no longer needed to ghost my Cavs for the rest of SvS 😂

[@jonathanmoreno-q6s]

t1 defense is already useless against 5m enemy marches which is why most old server are already using % flat refines with 3+ millions for all layers t1 to t14

[@DerrickDefies]

I think once your are a bigger player, you can afford switching some of your flat HP/Def with % refines. However, you should still keep some flat as they are nearly impossible to get. and you should nearly always have flat attack regardless of your size. I also think T1s got a buff recently with the new specialty skills. *Battle tested* on your wall and assistant generals will add an additional 1000 flat attack. This is huge to the players who have millions of T1s.

[@Randomcommentor-JR]

Bow'da'see'a is the correct pronunciation

[@DerrickDefies]

No lie, I watched a 10 minute video explaining whether Boudicca used a hard C (K) sound or was pronounced as you said. So after knowing that the pronunciation is up for debate, I wasn't worried how to pronounce it. 😂

[@fate5624]

You should absolutely not do a lot of higher tier archers they are not protected !! When someone attacks you with ground or siege or I think even archer they will kill your archer !

[@DerrickDefies]

Ground wont attack your archers until all your ground and mounted are dead. Siege wont attack your Archers (with the exception of certain ranges, until all your siege are dead. Enemy Archer will attack your Archers only after your Mounted are Dead. They are very well protected.

[@fate5624]

All my archer layers died against siege attack but my siege also died but when I make a lot of siege and I get hit by strong siege he will wipe almost all of them out or not wouldn’t it be unprofitable to do a lot of siege so it is not good to make a lot of t2-t10 archer layers because they will die against siege attack why do you say in the video I can make as much range as I want it’s not true they die against siege .

[@fate5624]

Or should I make just enough siege so it would still be profitable when getting hit by large hit that wipes all my siege out but then it will probably also wipe out a lot of ranged

[@The_Protagonist]

Evony lying? No way! They wouldn’t do that to the player/customer base……..

[@DerrickDefies]

Yeah, well as soon as I figured it out, all my battle data made sense. Not sure why they are giving incorrect values.

[@sait6104]

I knew it. I always had that feeling that the values are incorrect :D

[@The_Protagonist]

@@DerrickDefies they don’t want ppl to know how it works. They are so shady. I hope more follow you and break the game 😂

[@PiYSingh]

​​@@The_ProtagonistLet me correct u a bit there,,, " They don't want people to know that ,they don't even know about their game mechanics , ( or mechanics never existed in Evony 🤭🤭,,, " 🤣

[@DerrickDefies]

@@PiYSingh You laugh, but I truly believe this.

[@justlove7475]

My defense is HP, Defense is for ground. Atk is for mainly siege ( T3,T4 ).

[@DerrickDefies]

Siege and ground? How do you deal with mounted attacks?

[@justlove7475]

​​​@@DerrickDefiesMy debuff on subs are mainly mounted ,i got more than 1000 debuffs on mounted. 2. I used alot of T12 archers , T3,4 siege will protect archer from siege of enemy

[@coolfox376yt4]

I don't understand I'm color blind

[@Jeoff-tr3pq]

Love your content , but the math dose not scale there is rng in combat

[@DerrickDefies]

It does scale, but I have noticed the math may be a few Numbers off. This generally happens the more "rounds" in a battle. It is more likely to do with how Evony rounds. I haven't found any true RNG in any battles yet. Everything has always been repeatable.

[@legion2440]

BOOTYka

[@FffddfFffd]

shajar>>> boudica

[@DerrickDefies]

I actually was going to say this except I couldn't pronounce shajar's name at all. She is the master baiting general

[@FffddfFffd]

​@@DerrickDefies agree. ppl dont understand how work buffs

[@SteveAdeff]

@@DerrickDefies What about Ly Thuong Kiet as the second defense general for increased T1 trap triggering?

[@siddharthrathod3211]

I am huge fan of you, your details about game Useful a lot to build my T1 defence. I would like to join you on discord. can you please share me the link so that I could join you. Thank you once again for your valuable information.

[@99-Bullets]

Changed my aptoide code for your REDWIFI :)

[@DerrickDefies]

I appreciate it 🙏 😁