Defense Guide

Skills for Defending

Basic skills for Defending are as follows

• Guardian to 100% (50 skill points at current without items)

Striker at 100% is first and foremost an important stat. At 100% a troop attack of 100 troops turns into 200. Only works in attacking.

• Brave to 50% (25 skill points are needed for max, not including items)

Brave will on 50% save half of your troops while defending. When you have 100 troops in a city and they all get killed while defending, 50 while get send to your capital.

• Salvager to 100% + 

Salvager will give you 2% gold for every enemy troop you kill while defending. For example with 150% salvager, when your city gets attacked with 100k troops and you kill them all, you get 150k gold.

Defending

For Starters: You shouldn't even think about going for a defense strategy if your not one of the top spots on the leader board. Because if you start going defense too early you are wasting gems on the skill reset, and most likely no one will attack you, which will make your defenses skill a waste. And as long as your not one of the big guys, why would you go defense? You can attack all the big guys with extra exp etc. But if you are one of the big boys now, many little players will try and take your city's because of that 200% exp, and because you can't counter attack. So what you now do is to start playing defense. There are different ways to play defensively: The easiest way to play defensive is playing with Salvager. But watch out: You need to be really active to make this strategy work. And with the start of season 1 Salvager will be 2% instead of 3% every level, which will make this strategy harder. I will explain it never the less. With Salvager, you play to trap the enemy's army. Salvager gives gold for every Soldier that you kill. If you get salvager over 100% it often happens that you, when you spend money on a city to trap an army, you end up having more money than before the attack, even though you spent money on the city. It is required that you know how high to level the city though, because if you don't, you may level it too high and end up losing gold. But if all that works out, this tactic is basically unbeatable. You get all the exp and lots of gold, the same as power from boosting your city's. There is nothing worse for you with this tactic. And for the enemy its basically impossible to take your city's, except for the case that you aren't online, or they have an army 4 times your size. Another thing you can add if you like is Cautious, which will, in case you still lose your city, give back 50% of the gold that you invested in it when the skill is on level 10.

Another way would be, which also saves troops, in case someone attacks your city, with your troops, is to go Brave and Guardian. It is more a defensive Strategy for players that are less active. What is needed are troops in your city's. Get Brave to the maximum of 50%, which will save half your army, if it dies while defending and the rest of your points go into Guardian. Guardian will add extra troops to your army. But only a percentage of the already existing army. So if there is only a small army or no troops at all, Guardian won't help at all.