It was a truely epic battle looking at the stats. Congrats to the defending armies as well for surviving and taking out an army of about 100k Knights. Now the main question on everyones lips should not be about the battle but "How the hell do we get to make an army with 100k Knights?". Now that is the truely amazing feat and I bow to you Hyo. You have done what I can only dream about. And I can only imagine the experience your commanders gained. Not to forget the expereince the defending commanders gained as well.

 

I know Gem. Depressing isn't it?

 

 

 

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You would therefore have to have 13 missions of 100k orc thieves, all of which succeeded, in order to deplete the gold.   That's IF they picked up nothing but gold, which is somewhat unlikely.  They would probably pick up basic resources at least some of the time, so it's more likely it would take a minimum of 21 missions.  If you send 21 separate missions, it's fairly likely that at least one would fail -- and you'd lose 100k t2 orc thieves, with the consequent rebuilding time.

A large alliance could certainly collaborate and do this, but remember, this is what it would require to clear gold from ONE city -- and the player could simply transfer the gold from another city to cover the losses, or from a trade hub.

That's also assuming that the city maintained only an "average" supply of gold.  Most people who chose that particular strategy would likely maintain a larger supply of gold, say 500 million or even 1 billion.  An entire alliance dedicated almost exclusively to thieves would have some difficulty removing that much gold.

In addition, the city could be designated as the alliance capital at any time.  This would give the city's owner instant access to the alliance gold account -- to be transferred instantly into its coffers, with no possibility of blockade.  Granted, this would not automatically work for more than one city at a time (because there are limitations on how frequently one can change the alliance capital), but if an alliance wanted to run one extremely large army, this would be a feasible tactic.

Yes, running negative on gold raises the potential for troops to desert, but for an enemy to cause this to happen is not as easy as one might think.

Don't Spit could have a little over 4x sov multiplier.  That estimate is right on if all that sov is dedicated to cav production.

Because orc T1 can be built so fast and inexpensively they are great warfare fodder.  I imagine going forward you will continue to see large amount of troop unit casualties due to the increase in orc T1.  

A 10 city orc player with 200% troop sov can replace 300,000 T1 orc spears in 21 days.  How long does it take to replace on 97,000 Knight army?  

The update has totally changed the game, in my opinion.  

Tha said, base numbers without any guess work as to commander level/bonuses

Def vs bows:  18,001,674

Def vs Cav:  19,091,187

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Comparing the recruitment power of 10 cities vs. 1 city will of course provide a skewed outlook.   Yes, all the cavalry were in one city but writing off the other recruitment power of the other 9 cities especially now that several of the cities have been freed from supporting the 100K cavalry.