The Halfling Nuke

[Tash]

A strategy my kd has used to great effect this age is the "halfling nuke"

Our 5 halflings work on growing conservatively in the first day of war - pick up acres and thieve peasants to fill pop. While simultaneously dumping 2dspa worth of specs into dragon, emergency drafts are employed to build up satellite soldier armies. This process continues through the first 2-3 waves until a massive soldier pop is established. Barring any nightmares or NS (hard to do on halflings effectively), the soldiers are then transferred to the largest grown halfling to use to take down TMs. This strategy has effectively been the final winning strat for us in a good portion of our wars, aside from the usual deep/semi-chaining of large attackers.

I wonder if halflings will remain this strong into the next age.

[TerricK]

All those soldiers.just get NM away...

[Persain]

halflings work on growing conservatively...a massive soldier ....Barring any nightmares or NS

I've highlighted the key points, against a capable kd your going to eat nm's from an elf or NS's from another halfer. There's a reason lots of kds keep 1 giant elf and 1 giant halfer so each can run lower dpa and then run like 8 raw wpa or tpa...to counter this exact concept.

[Topsy]

This game is all about building unbreakables. Different types of unbreakables can be benificial in different ways. The faery is the most likely to stay ub and can generate/maintain the most econ from that position. Halfers are the best at being made UB, not only because you can use soldiers defensively, but because you can use them offensively and keep more elites home. Solds on halfers are incredibly strong as offenses become lowered across the board during the duration of a war.

[StratOcastle]

There's a protocol to UB. The correct steps to ensure you're unbreakable go along with the ability to create NW range. This goes back to chain stalling, resistance and dispersion. I'm not the most knowledgable player and don't do numbers, but I've stalled chains and have been in the midst of our chains stalling. What happens is a reverse course, as the separation creates pressure to either reengage in less than optimal conditions, or bypass the chain stalling province and continue. If they reengage they generally are set up for massive losses from the following nw tier. You can punish the chain resisting province, but it requires attention that's valuable to the opposing kingdom. Wasting mana/stealth/runes to handle a breakaway. We sometimes get complacent and don't account for unpredictable counter tactics. Open the spell book or practice alternative sabotage from the run-of-the-mill. The beauty of your halfling UB is laziness in intel gathering and the difficulty it requires. Though NM work it diverts resources and some kingdoms won't understand why their being destroyed. Bravo.

[Tash]

against a capable kd your going to eat nm's from an elf or NS's from another halfer.

I agree that this is an issue - in fact we ourselves NS'd about 13-14k soldiers within a tick from a halfling and a Faery from Modesty in our 7+day war this age. I am fairly new to the game and wasn't sure about the mechanics of NM. Does it strictly affect soldiers at home, or like NS, does it hit soldiers away on an attack.

I made sure to keep soldiers dispersed amongst the halflings until we were ready to strike at a TM (Faery, Elf, Halfling). In addition we try to weaken opponent mages running 7-8 WPA using AW in the first stages of war. I've found with a solidly built halfling prov, putting up resistance to mage attacks is pretty easy.

I brought this strategy up because it is a 'turn the tide' sort of strategy in my opinion. In a long protracted war where attrition to troops from MS and attacks inevitably leads to a subsequent regrowth of peasantry and thus soldier pop, it opens the opportunity to make previously UB provs breakable.

To make reference back to our war with Modesty, we literally had a transferrable and cheap to maintain 100k offense at our disposal. As we started to break their "UBs", a withdrawal from them came shortly afterwards.

[madi]

that strat can be stopped pretty easy... everything is about starts and counter starts... yes your method can be effective but all depends on the opponent and there activity... a experienced war kd watches for that and can prevent it from occurring as long as they are the more active party... And there is no such thing as unbreakable... yes someone can be for a moment but any good warring kd can take down anyone just depends on the amount of resources they want to use on it...

[Persain]

Early indications show that our operation was a success. Our thieves assassinated 1,350 enemy troops.
Early indications show that our operation was a success. Our thieves assassinated 1,213 enemy troops.

attempted to do in my kds current war...11k solds down the drain

[Palem]

lulz

[br3nt00]

hello Noobies Don't Bite :)

was a well-fought war on your end. and yes i agree with our setups your idea is (was) definitely feasible, and a good one

[neanderthal]

So, the old school term for it is called a soldier ball. Pass it around until the ball grows huge

Nothing new, just not used very much in eons. You just found poeps that did not update SOT's.

[Tash]

best war i have been in br3nt

[Phrenic]

Can night strike kill their elite when all their elite is out?

[Nim]

Yes.

[Palem]

Unfortunately it doesn't work too terribly well (targeting Elites with NS, not NS armies that are out)