Towns and New towns Strategy page

Towns and New towns.

Towns and New towns Strategy page Last updated 3/7/96

Strategies I have discovered:

Setting up a new town, goes deep into the realms of psychology. There are so many options. Of course none of them work against players that have good recon. Here are some tricks that used to work, and may possibly work against new players.
1. Build your town in a players town that has dropped out of the game. A lot of people forget about the mine and town after a player drops. They often check out all the mines except the mine of a player who has dropped. So when a player drops, go set up in his town. Often your buildings blend in with the other buildings that were already there, especially if they are the same race of buildings. So the enemy flys over and thinks all the buildings are the player that dropped. I have to warn you, that the good players do not fall for this trick. It does occasionally work.
2. Once your town is entirely destroyed, go back and rebuild it in the same place. Usually people expect you to go find another mine, because that is what most people do. But instead of that, you rebuild your town in the same place where it was. That only works when there are no enemy units still in that place where they destroyed your town.
3. If they keep attacking your new gold supply build another hall. But keep protecting the first hall that they are attacking. So what is supposed to happen, well what you want to happen is they keep attacking that hall. While you have another that is doing just fine. But you have to act like you really want to protect that hall. Fake it. Just make a few peons to mine and send in just a few grunts or Ogres to make them think you want to protect it.
4. You can build your next hall at the closest mine to your original one. That way you can protect it easier. But most people expect you to do that. So maybe you want to build at some mine in the middle of nowhere. It's a toss up. Either way could pay off or neither could. It all depends on how good your enemy is.
5. Maybe you want to build your new hall right next to the enemy. Maybe they won't expect you to. But if they find it, the advantage goes to your enemy.
Start out right. Build your Town Hall as close to your mine as possible. Don't be like those idiots that build their mine miles away and never have any money.
If you think your town is in trouble, run!. Set up another town. That is your only hope for survival. Good players can pull this strategy off. Gotcha, Warpmaster, and Psychodad sure can!
Delay your enemy finding about your new town as long as possible. Do not give your opponent any reason to think you have another town. You could even type as your enemy is destroying your old town "Ok, you won, I'll just let you destroy my town". Usually once someone thinks they have won they stop building guys. If you are building, guys, like Ogres, Knights or whatever the whole time they were attacking were attacking you then you will be able to use this to your advantage. Do not send any guys from your old town to your new town. This will give you away. I know all this because I've experienced this myself. Other people have done this to me and have successfully hid their new town. If you do this right you might still be able to survive and even win.
Always assume that someone has a new town when you are destroying their first town. You always have to plan ahead. If the town you are destroying is not their only one, and you stop building, upgrading, and expanding your town you could lose. Don't stop mining, building, and training guys. Never assume a player is dead until they actually drop or surrender. Don't listen or believe anything what your enemy says. Good players will do anything to make you think they are dead. The best players out there will try to make you think they are dead until they can recover and attack.
If you start out the game with a town hall already built, and the town hall is too far from the the mine, build another one closer to the mine. This will pay off big time because you will have the closest town hall to the mine. That will mean you will out mine everyone. Also, you will be able to put out 2 peasants at once, which will allow you to catch up from having to build another town hall that early. This only works if you put your town hall in your same village. If you try to build another town hall at some other mine other then the one you started off with, this strategy will probably not work. Unless you can protect those new towns.
What I've realized, through Chrism teaching it to me, that it is not having 2 town halls at once that gets you more gold. It is having more peons. It is better to have a million guys on one mine, then to have 1/2 of those peons mining 2 mines. Because it is easier to protect one hall then two.
The benefits of having 2 halls at once is you can upgrade with one, and still make guys in the other. Also, you can make 2 peons at once.
I think, I changed my mind about making a second town really early in the game. However, this is a really risky strategy. That just spreads out your troops thin, so it is much harder to defend everything, especially at the beginning. This is what is known as the "super long term win". If you are able to stay alive until your town gets going, this can pay off big time. But if anyone comes in early, like I like to do, then you are going to get screwed. You really only want to try this when you have a teammate to help you. If you are able to catch up to everyone else, technology wise, then you can really get ahead of the other players. The key is to always make peasants at both towns. Don't ever stop making peasants until the fighting begins. I tried this and I ended up with more money and lumber then I could spend. By the end of the game, I ended up with 48,000 in gold, in cash, waiting to be spent, and 30,000 lumber. This is really risky to try. I would not do this if you are by yourself. What made it work for me, is I used my second peasant to go and build the hall. I was really screwed for a while, anyone could have beat me. But once my second town was up I got so far ahead of everyone. I was upgrading to fortress, when others where still at town hall! Remember this is one of the riskiest things you can do so use it with extreme caution. If the players like to go in early and attack you are probably going to lose.
If you wait until you hit stronghold/Keep it is not as risky and I recommend that you do it to survive and win.
Once you hit Stronghold/Keep, on land levels, you might want to consider making another back up town hall near another mine if the other players you are playing are really good. That way if your first town goes down, maybe you can survive with your second town.
If you build a second town, you better be able to defend it, unless you can keep it hidden.
Put up a barracks at your second town as soon as possible!
Keep setting up other towns if you get in trouble. This often works or at least delays your death.
Build two or more barracks at each new town you make. And make sure you have enough peons to constantly make guys in these barracks too. If someone attacks your new town you need to be able to whip out two or more guys out of your barracks at the same time to repel any attacks.
A good strategy might be to place one arrow tower by your mine. That way if someone attacks your peons at least they will get hit by the tower. Try to put walls around them if you can.