Archery - Intermediate Guide

The higher your archery level, the more range your archers have. This allows your archers to get free attacks on your opponents. It's great when you can eliminate half of your enemies' forces before they even have a chance to attack.

Each level of Archery increases shooting range by 5%

Requires:

Academy Level 4

Military Science Level 4

Quest: Scientific Research:

Archery Lv.1 Award: Gold 10,000

Level	Requirements					Increased Range
	Lumber	Stone	Iron	Gold	Research Time
1	800	500	600	5,000	40m 00s	5%
2	1,600	1,000	1,200	10,000	1h 20m 00s	10%
3	3,200	2,000	2,400	20,000	2h 40m 00s	15%
4	6,400	4,000	4,800	40,000	5h 20m 00s	20%
5	12,800	8,000	9,600	80,000	10h 40m 00s	25%
6	25,600	16,000	19,200	160,000	21h 20m 00s	30%
7	51,200	32,000	38,400	320,000	42h 40m 00s	35%
8	102,400	64,000	76,800	640,000	85h 20m 00s	40%
9	204,800	128,000	153,600	1,280,000	170h 40m 00s	45%
10	409,600	256,000	307,200	2,560,000	341h 20m 00s	50%

Military Tradition - Intermediate Guide

With each Military Tradition upgrade, you enhance troop attack by 5%. This is just one of the military technologies that you need in order to survive. Whoever has the highest attack, defence, and life will prevail – attack is one of those.

Each level of Military Tradition enhances army attack by 5%.

Requires:Academy Level 2
Military Science Level 1

Quest: Scientific Research:Military Tradition Lv.1 Award: Gold 6,000

Level	Requirements					Enhance in army attack
	Food	Lumber	Iron	Gold	Research Time
1	800	120	200	3,000	00h 20m 00s	5%
2	1,600	240	400	6,000	00h 40m 00s	10%
3	3,200	480	800	12,000	1h 20m 00s	15%
4	6,400	960	1,600	24,000	2h 40m 00s	20%
5	12,800	1,920	3,200	48,000	5h 20m 00s	25%
6	25,600	3,840	6,400	96,000	10h 40m 00s	30%
7	51,200	7,600	12,800	192,000	21h 20m 00s	35%
8	102,400	15,360	25,600	384,000	42h 40m 00s	40%
9	204,800	30,720	51,200	768,000	85h 20m 00s	45%
10	409,600	61,440	102,400	1,536,000	170h 40m 00s	50%

Military Science - Intermediate Guide

With each Military Science upgrade, you enhance troop training speed by 10%. This is absolutely huge considering the possibilities. If two opponents were to start dead even, the person with the higher Military Science would win because he/she could rake out the troops more quickly than his/her enemy. Obviously, numbers would speak for themselves. It’s very useful not waiting 48 hours for a simple 1,000 swordsmen to complete. Upgrade your Military Science technology and you might not have to wait as long! 

Each level of Military Science enhances training speed by 10%.

Requires:

Academy Level 1

Forge Level 1

Quest: Scientific Research:

Military Science Lv.1 Award: Gold 5,000

Level	Requirements							Increase in Training Speed of Troops
	Forge	Food	Lumber	Stone	Iron	Gold	Research Time
1	Level 1	600	100	100	150	2,500	15m 00s	10%
2	Level 2	1200	200	200	300	5,000	30m 00s	19%
3	Level 3	2,400	400	100	600	10,000	1h 00m 00s	27%
4	Level 4	4,800	800	800	1,200	20,000	2h 00m 00s	34%
5	Level 5	9,600	1,600	1,600	2,400	40,000	4h 00m 00s	41%
6	Level 6	19,200	3,200	3,200	4,800	80,000	8h 00m 00s	47%
7	Level 7	38,400	6,400	6,400	9,600	160,000	16h 00m 00s	52%
8	Level 8	76,800	12,800	12,800	19,200	320,000	32h 00m 00s	57%
9	Level 9	153,600	25,600	25,600	38,400	640,000	64h 00m 00s	61%
10	Level 10	307,200	512,000	512,000	768,000	1,280,000	128h 00m 00s	65%

Basic Troop Stats - Intermediate Guide

Unit	Life	Population Cost	Attack	Defense	Carrying Load	Food Cost (AgeI)	Food Cost(AgeII)	Speed (mi/1,000 min)	Speed (mi/hr)	Engagment Range	base recruit time
Worker	100	1	5	10	200	2	1	180	10.8	10	00:00:50
Warrior	200	1	50	50	20	3	1	200	12	20	00:00:24
Scout	100	1	20	20	5	5	2	3000	180	20	00:01:38
Pikeman	300	1	150	150	40	6	3	300	18	50	00:02:30
Swordsman	350	1	100	250	30	7	3	275	16.5	30	00:03:44
Archer	250	2	120	50	25	9	4	250	15	1200	00:05:50
Cavalry	500	3	250	180	100	18	9	1000	60	100	00:08:20
Cataphract	1000	6	350	350	80	35	17	750	45	80	00:25:00
Transporter	700	4	10	60	5000	10	5	150	9	10	00:16:40
Ballista	320	5	450	160	35	50	25	100	6	1400	00:50:00
Ram	5000	10	250	160	45	100	50	120	7.2	600	01:15:00
Catapult	480	8	600	200	75	250	125	80	4.8	1500	01:40:00

Warehouse - Intermediate Guide

You have most likely heard from everyone that you don’t need any ware houses and while that may be true for more advanced players it’s not for you intermediate level players. 

You don't need to have five plus ware houses, but only one. This is mainly because if your alliance went to war with other stronger players you might get attacked. They would also take all your food enabling you to comfort your city. So you need to preserve your food with warehouses. And sometimes the fact of the mater is that it can be simply to late for your alliance to help you in some situations. So that’s where the warehouse comes in, but for it to work properly make sure 100% of the storage is food.

What is a Rainbow attack? - Intermediate Guide

The rainbow attacking method is very popular and effective. It gives a lot of advantage to the attacker in winning the battle. It is just a simple method yet very powerful.

The process of rainbow is simply send 1 type of every troops along with the archers. 

An example of rainbow could be:

1 worker

1 warrior

1 pikeman

1 swordsman

1 cavalry

60000 archers

1 cataphract

The main reason behind this is to form a shield to protect the most powerful troops, archers. 

How does just one of each troop form a shield for all those archers? 

Battles are fought in rounds. In each round the defender and attacker try to kill each others troops. This battle takes place by single troop type. So for each type of troop you send you will get a extra round of firing. This can be simulated as follows

Suppose the defence (your opponent has 10000 AT)

So, the battle will be fought as follows.

Round 1

Enemy - The 10000 Archer Towers hit your 1 worker (remember in each round all of them hit a single type of troop). 

You - Your 60k archers kills 2000 AT's(Archer Tower)

Round 2

Enemy - The 8000 AT's hit the kill 1 warrior.

You - Your 60k archers kills 2000 AT's

Round 3

Enemy - The 6000 AT's hit the kill your 1 Pikeman.

You - Your 60k archers kills 2000 AT's

Round 4

Enemy - The 4000 AT's hit the hit and kill your 1 swordsman.

You - Your 60k archers kills 2000 AT's

Round 5 

Enemy - The 2000 AT's hit the hit your 10000 archers.

You - Your 50k archers kills 1500 AT's

Round 6

Enemy - The 500 AT's hit the kill your 500 archers.

You - You kill the rest of the at's.

Though the above process is very much simplified to give you an overall idea of the rainbow method. The opponent's level of research, level of walls, speed of different troops make a great difference. Sending the rainbow alone does not ensure you will win the battle, but sending rainbow troops are much better that sending only the archers.