Farming Medals/Gems

Gems: The cheapest and easiest way is to farm level 5 NPC with your ballista waves. If you don't care about the resources and just care about gems, you can send the ballista waves at NPCs every 15 minutes and still get gems from them sometimes. 

Medals are a little different:

Cross/Rose/Lion: Farm these in level 1-3 Valleys. 

To farm a valley, send attacks to land every 10 seconds or so. Once it hits (and captures) the valley, quickly abandon it before the next attack hits so that it re-spawns. Do this until you are bored or until you have the desired amount of medals.

Honor: Farm these in level 4 NPCs mostly with my ballista waves.

Courage/Wisdom/Freedom: Farm these in level 5 NPCs with ballista waves

Justice/Nation: These are the hardest and most expensive to get. The easiest way I found was to attack a level 10 NPC with a normal Hero Leveling wave, and then follow that 100k warriors that will and every 4 minutes afterwards. Any less than 4 minutes and you lower the drop rate, and more than 4 minutes and you increase losses that you will suffer.

Get 8 mil resource within an hour - Advanced Guide

Attacking valleys is a great way to generate resources, but to get resources you have to attack the valley without conquering it. If you attack a valley with your valley slot full then you wont be able to capture the valley but you will get 300-600k resource from that valley.

Again if you capture a valley and then release it then the valley will regenerate the resource and troops within it. Thus you need two cities near a lvl 10 forest or hill.

1) Send 30k archers, 1 work, 1 war, 1 sc, 1 pike, 1 sword, 1 cav, 1 phract from the first city with valley slot full. As the valley slot is full this attack will not be able to capture the valley but will get the resources. 

You will get 300 K to 600 K lumber or iron from each attack.

2)Send another attack with 1 scout from the other city (with a open city slot) to capture and abandon the valley. This attack will regenerate the Valley immediately with the source and troops.

The big wave will bounce back, but will loot the valley, then when your scout lands it will capture the valley. Immediately abandon the valley.

Repeat the waves in sequence with camp time of 1 min, then with every attack from the first city you will get you 300 K to 600 K resources reach time.

Farming and Medal Hunting - Recommended Troops - Beginners Guide

Attacking flats and valleys with scouts is a quick way to farm for low level medals.

Recommended troop numbers when attacking flats and valleys with scouts:

Level 1 flat/valley: 100 scouts

Level 2 flat/valley: 200 scouts

Level 3 flat/valley: 300 scouts

Level 4 flat/valley: 500 scouts

Level 5 flat/valley: 1000 scouts

Recommended troop numbers when attacking flats and valleys with warriors only:

Level 1 flat/valley: 75 warriors

Level 2 flat/valley: 125 warriors

Level 3 flat/valley: 250 warriors

Level 4 flat/valley: 400 warriors

Level 5 flat/valley: 850 warriors

Level 6 flat/valley: 2500 warriors

Level 7 flat/valley: 4000 warriors

Level 8 flat/valley: 6000 warriors

Level 9 flat/valley: 10,000 warriors

Level 10 flat/valley: 15,000 warriors

Recommended troop numbers when attacking flats and valleys with archers (we recommend sending archer attacks with one scout, warrior, pike, or swordsman to reduce losses):

Level 1 flat/valley: 50 archers

Level 2 flat/valley: 100 archers

Level 3 flat/valley: 200 archers

Level 4 flat/valley: 400 archers

Level 5 flat/valley: 750 archers

Level 6 flat/valley: 1500 archers

Level 7 flat/valley: 3000 archers

Level 8 flat/valley: 7500 archers

When attacking NPC cities, it is recommended to use ballista on levels 1-5 with 100 ballista per level of city. Your archery technology level should be at least one level higher than your horseback riding technology. You will not take any troop losses at all when this is followed. Do not attack NPC cities with ballista beyond level 5 as you will always take losses.

Level 1 NPC city: 100 ballista

Level 2 NPC city: 200 ballista

Level 3 NPC city: 300 ballista

Level 4 NPC city: 400 ballista

Level 5 NPC city: 500 ballista

As your archery technology goes up, you will be able to use fewer ballista and still get no losses.

Recommended troop numbers when attacking NPC cities with warriors only:

Level 1 NPC city: 1000 warriors

Level 2 NPC city: 2500 warriors

Level 3 NPC city: 10,000 warriors

Level 4 NPC city: 20,000 warriors

Level 5 NPC city: 28,000 warriors

Level 6 NPC city: 35,000 warriors

Level 7 NPC city: 55,000 warriors

Farming Lvl 5 NPC's - Beginners Guide

Attacking low lvl NPC cities are mainly for resource and gold, this is done with ballistas to achieve 0 loses. The maximum level without loses is level 5, level 6 or more have trebuchets so you will always suffer losses there.

But there are ARCHER TOWERS... so you need specific tech level of archery and Horseback Riding (HBR).

Archery 08 / HBR 03 (Massive losses due to being in tower range)

Archery 08 / HBR 04 (Smalls losses from units but @ tower safe range)

Archery 08 / HBR 05 (0 Losses )

Archery 08 / HBR 06 (0 Losses )

Archery 08 / HBR 07 ( Small losses )

Archery 08 / HBR 08 (Massive losses due to being in tower range)

Archery 08 / HBR 09 (Massive losses due to being in tower range.)

Archery 09 / HBR 01 (Small losses from units but @ tower safe range)

Archery 09 / HBR 02 (0 Losses when using over 575 ballistas )

Archery 09 / HBR 03 (0 Losses )

Archery 09 / HBR 05 (Small losses from units but @ tower safe range)

Archery 09 / HBR 06 (Small losses from units but @ tower safe range)

Archery 09 / HBR 07 (Small losses from units @ tower safe range)

Archery 09 / HBR 08 (0 Losses )

Archery 09 / HBR 09 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 00 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 05 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 06 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 07 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 08 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 09 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 10 (0 Losses )

NUMBER OF BALISTAE TO ATTACK

This number depends on your hero ATTACK attribute, the safe numbers for heroes with no attack with 0 loses are:

(Note: You still need one of the above zero loss Archery/HBR combinations)

20 Ballistas vs Lvl1 NPC

50 Ballistae vs Lvl2 NPC

170 Ballistae vs Lvl3 NPC

250 Ballistae vs Lvl4 NPC

550 Ballistae vs Lvl5 NPC

Farming Level 10 NPC's for Medals and Resources

Farming Level 10 NPC's for Medals and Resources

Attack 5 times in quick succession.

Attack Wave 1: Use 92,000 Archers, 4,000 Warriors, 1,500 Swords, 1,500 Pikes, and 1000 Scouts.

The first attack will be the breaker and should use a level 90+ hero with 200+ attack.

Attack Wave 2: 25,000 to 50,000 warriors. This wave will clear out remaining defenders.

Attack waves 3 through 5: 10,000 to 20,000 warriors.

Transports can be added to attacks 2 though 5 for plundering resources.