People, you aint tuff if you havent wasted a lot of resources on Archery Towers in your walls. They are the best and most effective defense system you can ever have and get: they dont dissapear when they are used.
Get 500-1000 archery towers when you are going out of protection. After protection build extra every day. There is really no full chance of protection, but the more towers you got, the less chance there is that you will get attacked.
Keep low on resources, meaning: login often to use them. If you dont look juicy for plunder then you wont be attacked.I've seen that we are getting pounded, and frankly, most of you guys defence look like your have been inactive so its not really a supprise. You need to get your defense systems up and archery towers is a must. It will scare away most of the enemy.
On another note: Build 3-6 barracks in your cities.
Or build one city that is a fortress where you can massproduce military and keep them fedd, meaning: lots of farms and 6-8 barracks. Later on it will become really slow to build up your massive army, therefore a group of barracks in a city is needed. In your main city or cities, keep 3-4 barracks.
Looking dangerous helps too, therefore please
change your flag to "TUFF". If we are many in one area with the same flag the attacker might think twice before attacking.
Dont't forget to
open up your embassy so we can send reinforcemnts in case of trouble. To do that click on your embassy (in each city) and mark "Allow troops...".
Here is a visual explanation to what I mean with "fortress".
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