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Evony Attacking – Exchange / Tradefire Attack

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Exchange Attack Wave – Most commonly referred to as an “ex” or “x” wave on most servers but some servers will call this a tradefire wave or “tf”. This is typically an attack that is used more so early on in a server where defending with archers is quite common. The entire concept of this wave is get archers in a position where the archers can exchange fire, thus the name.

Evony Battle Mechanics

The idea is simple, basically you are exploiting the defenders mechanics by causing the archers to stop for one round to kill the incoming cavalry when facing someone in a ranged defense. This creates equal movement and causes the attackers and defenders archers to encounter each other at the same time to then exchange / tradefire. If you do not kill all melee units in front of the defenders archers it can cause this wave to fail or do very poorly as it will need to engage other units rather then archers as seen below.

Evony Attack Wave - Exchange Tradefire Fail

Exchange attack waves are much more effective if it has a strong hero. The better the hero the better the result. Also if the defender has a low count of archers and can possibly pass into another exchange round you can do more damage. The first example below features a weak hero, however the defender has a low archer count and able to force the exchange into an extra round thus killing more. Here are two examples.

Weak Hero, low defending archer count

Evony Attack Wave - Exchange Tradefire Low Hero

Stronger Hero, lots of defending archers

Evony Attack Wave - Exchange Tradefire Success

Dynamics of the attack wave

This attack wave will consist of mostly archers since these are what will do damage to the defender. You will layer this with a low amount of cav do maximize how many archers you can send. This wave can be performed in range and compact. However this wave is best for range since if they are in compact and have archer towers they may be difficult and costly to kill. I have shown you multiple reports on this wave for a reason because when you read the section about delayering you may discover something you did not know regarding abatis.

Defending against the Exchange / Tradefire attack

Mech Defense

First thing I’d like to point out that is very effective against this wave is mech defense because it simply out ranges the incoming archers. Though this can be a great defense you must make certain you have a large amount of mechs and a strong hero. This attack can slowly chip away at small amounts of your defending mechs until you have a collapse. If you see that you are losing any mechs at all, you have a serious problem and need more mechs or stronger hero asap. If an exchange waves kills your mechs this is what will happen.

Evony Attack Wave - Exchange Tradefire Mech Defense Collapse

Layer up (1 pike)

If you are simply defending with archers your best defense is to layer up with “1″ of all melee units. Your first unit you must layer with must always be 1 single pike. The pike alone will stop this attack. After your pike is up then get other layering in place.

Switch to Compact

Switch to compact if you have the troops and the towers to kill. This can especially be the case if you have an instant archer tower hero. Your towers can take quite a bit of damage and be especially difficult to take down if they are sending poor heroes. When archer towers are down you will want to switch back into range to avoid archer exchanges. When switching to compact make certain you do not get jaq/viof’d. Make sure you always have melee layers to prevent this.

Compass Level 9

By not researching to compass 10 this affects the battle mechanics and your archers march speed. This is a good counter to this wave particularly early game. This will make you immune to these waves altogether. Keep in mind that all your troops will march just a bit slower.

Battle Mechanics – Delayering

In short this means going massive sums of abatis to delayer/kill the attackers cavalary. What this does is remove their cavalry before round progression even starts. So they are essentially sending a pure archer attack wave. As long as you keep abatis count high they will be killing nothing and have no clue why. Keep them guessing when you do this or they will start sending larger amounts of cavalry and this method will be ineffective.

Read more about delayering here – Evony Tip – Battle Mechanics – Delayering

Conclusion

This is a great attack wave early in the game and go do massive damage if you are catching a defender offline. However if you are online you should have more then enough tools to stop this attack completely. As your server advances this will likely become used less and less as people transition to more mechs. Good luck attacking and defending.

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Evony Farming – Layers for Level 10 NPC Farming with Attack Heroes level 140+

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level 10 npc farming layer

Every Evony player should know by now that all Evony heroes with at least 220-240 points in the Attack attribute (depending on said hero's Intelligence attribute points) to start being able to successfully farm/attack level 10 NPCs WITHOUT scouting them first – while still having less than 6-7k archer losses – no matter the level of the defending level 10 NPC's mayor.

* Layers – The word "Layers" or "Layer", in regard to Evony discussion, refers to the exact/specific troop types and troop amounts sent in an attack. Another popular term for "Layer" that some people use in Evony is "Rainbow" as in, "What type of attack rainbow did you use when attacking that level 10 NPC?"

However, many Evony players do not know that there are many different "Farming Layers" to use at different times in order to better your results (which is ALWAYS less archer losses when farming Level 10 NPCs in Evony for food and other resources).

Some tricky things about farming level 10 NPCs in Evony are that some level 10 NPC farming layers work better than others when farming depending on your hero's intelligence attribute (apparently), plus some layers stop working as well as they once did when your hero's attack attribute goes beyond 300. Just like some layers work better for heroes beyond 300 attack but not before, and some layers only work well for heroes beyond 700. You just have to mess around with them!

Layers found to work well with Heroes above 220 Attack, and some for 350+ Heroes:

Hero Level Worker Warrior Scout Pikes Swords Archer Trans
250-350 2000 2000 3000     91000 2000
230-340 1 1 4996 1 1 93000 2000
300-350 1000 1000 3000 1000 1000 91000 2000
300+ 3000   7000     88000 2000
350+   6000 300 500 500 88000 2000
350+   5000 3000     90000 2000

 

Archer Layer for Attacking Level 10 NPCS

Archer attack layer for farming Level 10 NPC Barbarian Cities

level 10 npc farming layer

 

Okay.. so having strong and awesome Evony heroes is good and all.. but what do you do before your hero is strong enough to farm level 10 NPCs without losing over 7k Archers?? Well, you can keep being an Evony Uber-Noob by farming lvl 5 NPCs for 90k exp, you can step your Not-So-Noob-Level up a notch by doing some "Warrior Bombs" on lvl 6-8 NPCs with 50-100k Warriors for 220-700k experience, OR..

Just add some Ballista to the above attack layers, subtracting the same amount of archers, and use a hero with at least 140 attack – Only loses 4-7k Arch, just like the big boys! Evony Noob-Level no longer in question… 😉

Here's some "ULTIMATE Evony Level 10 Farming Layers" that work well with Heroes that are below 220 Attack. Heroes below 140-170 attack will need less Archers and More Cow Bell Ballista!!

 

Hero Level Worker Warrior Scout Pikes Swords Archer Ballista Trans
140-170   6000       77000 15000 2000
170-220   3000 3000 500 500 87800 3200 2000
170-220 1000 2000 3000 250 250 88000 3500 2000
200-230     1000 1000 1000 92000 2000 2000

 

Level 10 NPC Farming Layer with Ballista for low level Heroes

Level 10 NPC Attack Layer with Ballista

Level 10 NPC Farming Layer with Ballista for low level Heroes.

Have some input? You can submit a comment below with your favorite Evony Level 10 NPC Farming Layer and a link to a screenshot of it in action to get it added to this guide!!

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Evony References – Mayor Politics Level for Instant Build Wall Fortifications

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In Evony, just like troops, there are instant build fortifications with heroes that have a high politics level.

Yes, it’s insane!

Having insta-Traps and/or insta-Abatis is great for defense. Having insta-Trebuchet is nice for dropping honor and leveling heroes..

Here are the politics levels required with and without Wealth of Nations to instantly build wall fortifications.

Evony References – Mayor Politics Level for Instant Build Wall Fortifications

Instant Fortification Builds by Hero Politics

Instant Fortification Build Hero LevelWith Wealth of NationsWithout Wealth of Nations
Traps486607
Abatis596745
Archer Towers661826
Rolling Logs772965
Trebuchets8531066