Luna can you possibly tell the people not on topic who can read to stay on topic ? I mean we cant discusss armageddon if those not wanting to discuss it are derailling the topic because this topic happen to be in latest post!

I'm quite aware what the topic is, I can read...Most players only look at Latest Forum Posts, which is cluttered with this war nonsense. Either end it or take the discussion else where, please...

The topic is pret-ty clear epidemic. if you dont wish to comment then perhaps you shoudl go and put comment on other thread.

monkeyfeather wrote: dunnoob wrote: One lean and mean (huge) town at 147% still can do 12.68 stalwarts or 14.81 axmen, with two reserve squares, when troops are more important than cows, or when Illy's winter starting in less than two weeks kills the seasonal food bonus. A minor point, and somewhat off-topic, but it's one of my personal bugbears, which I continually push in AC, so I'll reiterate it here. Troops are always more important than cows. Cows, horses, swords etc., all can be sourced from many places, whereas the only source for troops is your barracks, and the only way to make it more efficient is troop sov. In my view, using your limited number of sov squares for anything other than troop sov (or the food/basic res sov required to run so much troop sov) is not using them to their best potential, regardless of any bonuses to adv res production. Sorry to be picking at such a small part of your post dunnoob, but it's an opinion I just can't seem to keep quiet about

Well, my formula is quite simple build cows during peace and troops during war..... a 25k knights army can be made in 3 months(assuming you can procure the saddles) and that will cost 47.5k gold/hr even with 3 cav grounds and if you aren't involved in a war(which is normally the case in illy) all that gold goes to waste.Thus my suggestion is to build cows during peace time as they don't require an upkeep(you can still build ~10k knights in 3 months) which will require 40k cows for which you require a production rate of 18 cows/hr which requires ~145% prod bonus.This way you will be self sufficient and efficient.
I accept this post has nothing to do with the topic of this thread but thats the case with many others in this thread. 

dunnoob wrote: One lean and mean (huge) town at 147% still can do 12.68 stalwarts or 14.81 axmen, with two reserve squares, when troops are more important than cows, or when Illy's winter starting in less than two weeks kills the seasonal food bonus.