Ballistas and Catapults
Most players on Evony know that if you attack barbarian towns up to a level 5 barbarian town, all you need to send is ballistas and transports. Doing this you will suffer 0 losses and get a big chunk of resources. If you attack an evony barbarian level 6, then you will lose around 70 to 75 ballistas on each attack. These losses go up as the barbarian town levels go up.
There was a diamond in the rough though. If you have invested time into building level 10 barracks and were slowly and steadily pumping out catapults, which have the longest range in the game, then you could hit level 6 and level 7 barbarian towns without suffering any losses, similar to ballistas before the patch. Now though UMGE has released another sneaky patch without telling the evony gamers and the latest patch takes out this feature. What hurts even more is that you lose more catapults than if you had sent ballistas.
On a level 6 barbarian town, you will lose consistantly 70 to 75 ballistas. On the same town attacking with just catapults and transports you will lose 130 to 140 catapults! These catapults are supposed to have more range and less speed, meaning they should be shooting from a greater distance and moving in to be killed even slower than ballistas. Something has gone awry with the evony calculations though as they are getting killed easier and more often than ballistas.
To put it into perspective, a ballista can be made in a level 9 barracks, of which most players will have up to 10 in each and every city they own. Ballistas only take 10 minutes to build 1. Catapults on the other hand, require much more hard to get technology advances, a level 10 barracks and catapults take 20 minutes to build 1. Most players will only have a small number of level 10 barracks, maybe 1 to 3. So a loss of 130 catapults puts the player back 43 hours. nearly 2 days of catapult building! Compared to 20 minutes to rebuild 70 ballistas.
So it still remains that the best way to keep your troops fed is by attacking evony barbarian towns under level 6, OR attacking other players.
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Nice tips man! Yeah I had noticed this problem in Evony already. Catapults is the best way to go versus Barbarian cities. However, when attacking human players, combine ballistas and lots of archers, its a killer combo!
You could actually farm high level NPCs before just with ballistas, at least up to level 8, I did that several times successfully. 2500 ballistas or something, too bad it’s not possible anymore.