Orc/Cleric War Build

[Slashbox]

I was just wondering if someone could help me with a war strat. I am going more for a twice attack build being that I am up at camp and can only log on to my computer twice a day. This is what I was thinking of running.

10% Homes
10% Farms
15% Banks
22% TG
5% Arms (thinking of getting rid of these and dumping somewhere else)
15% Guilds
5% Towers
10% WT
5% Stables
3% Dungeons

I currently am running roughly 2.5tpa and 1wpa. Wish my wpa was higher...

[Slashbox]

Also, I am running 30ish dpa without elites and the rest into off

[LoRD_SaMPuaN]

to run 2x attacks per day, you need to bring your 12.80h attack timer down at 12h, which requires %10 rax, prefably little more to compensate acre fluctuation..

if i were you, id scrap homes, banks, arms all together in favor of rax, gs and some more stables.. if your other attackers arent running gs though, feel free to keep them in either homes or banks whatever you prefer..

[Slashbox]

So would you just use acres to stay populated?

[Robertz]

Yes, no need for homes unless you can take advantage of them. And in war, homes generally tend to be a waste. You asked for a war build, not a OOW build. Say you get moderate to heavy chained, your homes will be destroyed and you'll just be overpop. If you MUST keep homes, phase them out during war, don't rebuild. And put into something more useful like barracks, GS, WTs, etc.

However, if you're not warring, homes are plenty fine as they'll give you more income to grow and whatnot.

LoRD_SaMPuaN is correct.

[JohnnyReid]

If you know you can keep your army in/out within one tick, you can get rid of stables altogether once you've sent out for the first time. Agreed with the above. put banks/homes/arms into something else. Barracks/GS/hosps for even further -% casualties on top of cleric bonus? Up to you! :)

[StratOcastle]

When clericing I tend to use more GS to prevent losing dspecs unnecessarily. I kinda run my entire cleric strat based in getting the most from the durability benefit.

[feast]

Homes 10
Banks 10
Guilds 10
Rax 15
Towers 5
Dungeons 2
Stables 13
Wts 10
Tgs 17
Farms 8

Problem with swapping stables is you need quite a bit of money to do so. Also stables are more land effecient than tgs. Give you more offense than the me bonus from tgs. I put 13% it may be a little high or low just make sure all your elites are on horses. After war starts and you get land in just don't build anymore stables start phasing them out. Just my opinion.

[poltit]

My build for my Orc/Cleric

40% homes
7.5% farms
8% rax
10% stables
8%guilds
5% towers
10%TG
11.5% banks

68% draft im running 97% BE with 124 opa at 200% wage rate. 7dspa. 2.8 wpa raw 2.8 tpa raw.

I could break anyone anytime. Anyone could break me too but at 40dpa without elites they can't double tap me easily.

I always fly low so they wouldn't make me a chain target.

Been in 3 wars. I was doing great with some aid of the KDmates. Can break 2 province per attack and I can double tap them.

My strength is from my Population.

But it depends. Im running high science. 963.5 bpa.

[FATstrat]

I'd make you a chain target

[JohnnyReid]

Most troops losses for orc/cleric would come from desertions... need rax and GS (if the rest of kd is also running)

[noobium]

Orc/Cleric sucks. Merchant is better.

That said - most of your dangerous troop loss as Orc is from ops and overpop, and that should be considered.

You should be more focused on how you can best leverage your bonuses rather than what to build. Homes-heavy is pretty nice for Orcs, to afford versatility between pumping, growth, and warring. You do need a failsafe plan against really deep chains, but aside from that you usually don't need GS and they can prove counterproductive. What you build on incoming, and how you manage being land-chained, is a lot more important with high-homes, but if you aren't controlled your BE should tick up faster than normal. The added homes also translate to more soldiers and (free) emergency-drafted troops, which is helpful for accumulating soldier balls.

[Bishop]

Orc/Cleric sucks. Merchant is better.

Nope.

[Robert4069]

Orc/Cleric is awesome!!

[noobium]

Yes it does suck. It is only less sucky because of a lack of alternatives, with Warrior and Tactician being nerfed or less useful. The one really good thing Cleric brings is plague immunity, and how much do Orcs care about Plague?