Hey everyone.
I've started playing as a Halfling attacker in a non warring KD, first time playing and still getting familiar with the basics and stuff.
I have been running around 8-10 EPA for defense and rest into offensive specs. I'm not too big acre wise, and noticing that I've been getting attacked a lot, sometimes even double tapped by provinces quite a bit larger than me. I have enough offense to retaliate an attack, sometimes enough to double tap myself if I send out a chunk of my elites I can do it more often. But I'm constantly netting negative acres while retaliating, especially because I'm getting hit more often than I attack, running 10% barracks. I kind of wish now I chose a race that provides higher defense while army is at home (turtle?).
Still, I'd like to try and make this work and hope to get some suggestions on what I can do. Would splitting my defense into 50/50 elites and defensive specs lower my networth enough to make any noticeable difference? I was thinking that with 100% elite defense, the nice total offense number and ability to send them out on attacks would deter a lot of attacks but that doesn't seem to be case as of yet. Forts and/ or Guard Stations? My KD goal along with my own is just see how big we can get.
Right now I'm running:
10 EPA.
7-8 ospec per acre.
2 rTPA.
~64% draft.
8% Farms.
10% Banks.
15% Armories.
10% Guilds.
10% Barracks.
15% Thieves' Dens.
15% Training Grounds.
5% Towers.
2% Dungeons.
10% Stables.
My personality is Sage.