Orc cleric

[Atdy587]

It has been a long time since i played a heavy attacker( 6 years at least i think) so need some help
my current war strat

9% farms(not enough science)
10% banks
20%tgs
20%gs
11% raxs
10% guilds
5% towers
10%wts
5% stables

Plz tell me where is lacking and why. And most importantly, no high homes..... tried it once at 30% homes and my econ fell apart after losing 20% of land in a chain....

[DjTeddySpin]

hmmm, I would do something like:

9% farms
11% banks
20% TG
12% GS
18% rax
10% guilds
7% towers
10% wts
3% dungeons

I wouldn' run stables because it does not provide that much MO for an Orc as your elites have 9 points, as compared to a 6point halfling. Instead, you might want to consider dungeons as prisoners are re-usable. After sending them out on the first hit, they will be available immediately for the subsequent hit if youre double tapping, triple tapping or quad tapping.

Personally, I don't like to run that many GS. That's because you won't always be hit. Unless you are a chain target, investing in that many GS will be quite a waste of land if nobody is hitting you. You can always build incoming lands into GS to amend this strategy(when you've been chained).

5% towers seemed a little too low for me, but if youre only doing self spells it might tide through depending on your sciences. I usually run 7% in this case even just for self spells.

[Palem]

I'm running Orc/Cleric, this is what I'm running...

8% Farms
15% Banks
15% TGs
15% Racks
15% GS
10% Guilds
5% Towers
15% WTs
2% Dungeons

Running pretty good for me, only really having food problems, but that's because I need more science.

[Atdy587]

The problem i have now is that i have not enough cash to rebuild/retrain everything....
As for selfspells, I only maintain mp, fl,ia and nb when needed. oh yeah and bl as well. Only have problem with plague so far... Will phase in some dungeons since it seems pretty useful. thanks for the help guys.

Btw palem what is ur attack time with ur 15% rax in war? and whats ur draft rate and be?

[Landro]

I run the following strat as Orc/Cleric (awesome choice btw)
10% homes
8% farms
16% TG
16% rax
16% GS
10% guilds
5% towers
16% WT
3% dungeons

I don't need banks because I get +30% gains on my plunders

[Palem]

The problem i have now is that i have not enough cash to rebuild/retrain everything....

As Landro said, plunders are your friend, as long as you can find a good target.

Btw palem what is ur attack time with ur 15% rax in war? and whats ur draft rate and be?

I've got ~13 hour attack times out of war, should be <12 hours in war.
65% Draft
~80% BE.

[Atdy587]

As Landro said, plunders are your friend, as long as you can find a good target.

It is a war strat so i have to be able to try not to depend so much on my kd mates aid. I m currently in war so plunders are hard to do:p I dont think i will run that high rax cause i cant make use of the extra 1 hr red... 10% currently works fine with my sechdule(it is like a qf) but still not sure abt banks vs homes in a war. reluctant to run homes in wars cause of overpop and running stables is to mitigate the slightly lower troop count cause of not running homes so as to maintain opa but i noe it is not so efficient...

[Palem]

I'd keep your banks if I were you. Maybe throw your stables into either more banks, or run some homes if you'd like.

[Landro]

It is a war strat so i have to be able to try not to depend so much on my kd mates aid. I m currently in war so plunders are hard to do:p I dont think i will run that high rax cause i cant make use of the extra 1 hr red... 10% currently works fine with my sechdule(it is like a qf) but still not sure abt banks vs homes in a war. reluctant to run homes in wars cause of overpop and running stables is to mitigate the slightly lower troop count cause of not running homes so as to maintain opa but i noe it is not so efficient...

As Cleric, all losses will be replaced by soldiers so you won't have to draft a lot and the credits you receive more than make up for the elites you lose in combat. You just need cash to build your land and that's not too big an issue

[E_Boko]

Orc cleric = scary crzy

[Landro]

Orc cleric = scary crzy

I had my elites at home for 5 minutes and got hit with PF and possibly BG too. I lost less than 200 elites out of 5700. That's just crazy

[octobrev]

Dunno why so WT unless you're targeting the halfling kds that don't exist.
9% farms
20% tgs
20% rax
12% hosps ~ banks for lolclerics
8% guilds
4% towers
25% gs
2% dungeons

[DDodge]

very high GS... best investment ever if you are going to be chained or if your whole KD is also running 25% gs. Otherwise wouldnt it be safe to say lower the GS to 15% and use 10% in forts? Pumps your mod defense and therefore increases your mod Off as you grow. 15% GS still does some serious minimizing on the gains they are getting

[Landro]

very high GS... best investment ever if you are going to be chained or if your whole KD is also running 25% gs. Otherwise wouldnt it be safe to say lower the GS to 15% and use 10% in forts? Pumps your mod defense and therefore increases your mod Off as you grow. 15% GS still does some serious minimizing on the gains they are getting

Playing Orc is all about offense. Forts are rather silly when you're offense heavy. Just load up on GS to reduce damage from incoming hits.

[Atdy587]

Yea i m trying to reach 100 opa/ 40dpa rite after this war I m currently in so forts are not needed imo. running wts is to stop some ops and mitigate damage as a orc will suck using tpa as thief protection.