u/witcher_rat

I keep seeing people thinking they are clever by leaving lava fountains when attacked, or putting very weak troops to defend them.

That is a mistake.

Why? Because:

1. You earn both CP and event points by defending the fountain. Especially if your clan turned on the 1000% CP bonus, which most clans should.

2. You do not lose any troops permanently, and the silver revive cost is super cheap.

3. The enemy clans will get their points anyway. Trying to outsmart them and prevent it is a waste of your time. They will get the needed points no matter what you do, so ignore that aspect.

4. Today is Authority Rush. Let that sink in for a minute. It means you can get points for new mercenaries, by attacking+defending with your mercenaries and then reviving them for cheap silver, without losing any of them!

That last point is a big deal. It's basically free mercenaries today.

I'm not even using monsters or regular troops in my lava fountain attacks - I am only using mercenaries... ALL of them. I've already gotten a bunch of new ones for essentially free.

So stop being silly. Defend your fountain, and attack the other clan's fountains.

Attacking the fountains fails frequently. Like you do not start marching at all. And sometimes when you start marching, the speedup action does not appear, meaning you cannot speed up the march.

You have to restart the game to fix it, sometimes multiple times.

I have seen this happen on both the web version and mobile (iPhone), although it seems to fail more frequently on the web.

I have been in many clans, and I keep seeing clans making the same mistakes again and again for where they put their clan capital, and the member cities.

So I’m venting about it in this post. :)

1. Place your clan capital near the middle of the kingdom map, not on the edges by the water. Why? Because almost all epics appear near the center of the kingdom, so they will be closer to march to. And because it gives you the most crypts/citadels/etc., since your marching distance will cover a larger region instead of being cut off by the water.

2. When placing a clan capital, ALWAYS put it in or right next to a large section of grassland that gives 90% food production bonus. Why? Because most clan members should be putting their cities on 90% food production bonus land. Food production is the main limiting factor for most active players, and is the only land bonus that really makes a noticeable difference. The sand for silver production is ok, but frankly most cities do not actually produce much silver, so that bonus makes very little difference (except for cities designed to be silver alts).

3. All clan member cities should be very near the capital, and next to each other. Why? Because raids are easier with cities nearby each other, and Ancients vaults are easier to find and faster to clear, and Olympus lava fountains are easier, reinforcing is faster, etc. I know it’s ugly, but it’s far more convenient.

4. In the perfect scenario, the region covered by your territory border will also have land tiles that have 90% production bonus for silver/scientific-tractates, iron/steel, stone/cement, and boards/lumber. That way you can place the clan Universities, Foundry, Mason, and Timber buildings on the best land tiles for each of them. But it’s not truly critical - you can get more scientific-tractates from Runics, and clan production stuff from Heroics, than those clan buildings generate anyway.

As the title says: I am looking for a kingdom that needs CP run defenders.

My main is a T9 with very good CP defense (15 pieces godlike immortal armor, Beowulf, Skadi, etc.).

I also have a second T9 account with average CP defense, as well as four G9 accounts that I can put into other clans to be the reinforced tank and do the clan CP run attacks against my main if they prefer that. I have my own clan capital with maxed research, some baby alts, a bank, etc., etc.

I am not playing the game much right now, and not doing SK. Instead I mostly defend CP runs, and charge 1M silver per 1B CP.

I am looking for a kingdom that needs CP runs, for whole clans. Or for G9 players looking to unlock S9.