One of the most important aspects of defending your city is having the right wall defenses. Your wall defenses will determine what type of defense you will use. There are two types of wall defenses that you can use: a ranged defense and a compact defense. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. There is no true perfect defense but there are some very good set ups that are very difficult to break. I am not going to share those types of defenses however this post contains about 50% of all the information you need to know on defending in evony; these are the most basic and the most important concepts that you need to know for defending and it teaches you in which way changing the set up on your wall changes the entire battle.
Ranged Defense
A ranged defense gains it's range from having either abatis, traps, or defensive trebuchets on the wall. They will always start the battle at 5,200 paces. The down side to this type of defense is that your layers move toward the enemy units fairly fast and get wiped out pretty quickly. In a ranged defense, you would have to continuously have to build abatis or traps while you are getting hit in order to keep the range. A ranged defense can be made up of archers, ballista, and/or pults. Ranged units such as archers, ballista, pults are much stronger in this defense.
An example of an archer based ranged defense:
1k warrior
1k pikemen
1k swordmen
300k archers
5k cav
5k cataphract
2k trap
2k abatis
15,000 archer's towers
Compact Defense
The compact defense relies on your archer towers to set the range of the battlefield. The disadvantage is that your archer towers will usually get hit first by the opposing ranged units, but because the battle field is a lot smaller nearly all your units will attack at once. It will be very hard to defeat you if you keep great amounts of layers. If you lose your layers, a phract smack will decimate all your archers. In a compact defense, your layers become more effective. A compact defense does seem like the better option if you have a lot of archers. You need to have a high layer to ranged ratio in your city. For example, using swordmen as a layer and archers as the ranged unit, the safe ratio would be about 3:1 (swordmen:archers).
An example of a swordmen/archer based compact defense :
600k swordmen
200k archers
18,333 Archer Towers
I'm just wondering if you meant swordsman to archers @ 3:1 which to me is example:
ReplyDelete600k swordsman
200k archers
or did you mean archers to swordsman @ 3:1 which to me is example:
600k archers
200k swordsman
Thanks
I meant 600k swordmen, 200k archers. I will fix that and thank you for commenting :)
Deleteyou must have 3:1 ratio favoring swordsmen. it's main purpose is to guard against scout bombs?
Deleteit protects against scout bombs but no, it's main purpose is to guard against ALL enemy troops. Think about it. Archers like range. They like a big battlefield because so long as nobody can touch them, they are the best. Now if you shorten that, it becomes hell for archers. However, your defending archers are not exempt from that. Therefore, to protect them from enemy troops and to make sure they're not the first to get touched on a short battlefield, you need layers to protect them. Swordsmen are a wonderful layer but warriors, phracts, or battling rams work too, depending on your budget.
DeleteIts because your offending archers target the archers towers first, as they are immediately in range (range is set by the archers towers in a compact defence) so your infantry marches forward and decimates enemy archers, I like this for the beginning on servers, not as effective in the mid-end as people have mechs which when layered correctly tear through compact defences. This is because a properly layered mech wave that targeted a compact defence would have archers, ballista and catapults, meaning only one of those 3 targets archer towers meaning other 3 target infantry. Also rams decimate compact defence
DeleteRams do unless you have rams as your layer (which very few people will). You are right though: a compact defense is not great as the main defense as the game progresses. However, you should still know how to switch from a ranged defense to a compact defense quickly. It is useful in some situations.
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