Orc War Hero

[protagon!st]

orc/shepherd.

dont run barracks, the answer is to have a large enough offense to have a 2 tiered army so you can have 2 generals returning with land every 6 hours instead of 4 generals every 12. with your land % saved from rax run extra guard stations, watchtowers and homes.

this is a province designed to get chained and enjoy every minute of it. while you're getting bashed, hopefully ineffectively, the rest of your kd should be doing something spectacular.

also, the growth potential is enormous.

[Jobolob]

Orc Shepherd without barracks. Yet your still going to have 12 hour attack times?

You need barracks if your not warrior.

Effectively 6 hour attack times, have fun not sleeping. You'd have to be uber active for this to succed

[khedrei]

Yeah Jobolob, feels like that when I am sitting and didn't get the other provinces army in sync with mine... have fun sleeping for sure.

[bigDizzy]

Well, as an orc war hero this age, I found that once you get to a certain acreage, at least 1k acres, homes and hospitals were great.

I run 20% hospitals and I get about a 2:1 ratio of elite credits to elites dead. Therefore...as I grow, my offense continues to go up. Obviously during war, your build will change due to your situation. Ultimately, during wars, I never needed banks as all I was spending my money on was d specs. Buildings and offense were more than covered by my war hero personality.

[protagon!st]

orc/shepherd, it worked great last age and i have reason to believe it is only more effective this age. my orc/mystic this age however is...different, but still effective especially since im the war leader and it comes in handy for cbing whole kd's.

[_greenie]

Well, as an orc war hero this age, I found that once you get to a certain acreage, at least 1k acres, homes and hospitals were great.

I run 20% hospitals and I get about a 2:1 ratio of elite credits to elites dead. Therefore...as I grow, my offense continues to go up. Obviously during war, your build will change due to your situation. Ultimately, during wars, I never needed banks as all I was spending my money on was d specs. Buildings and offense were more than covered by my war hero personality.

homes, nope... not worth it...
also, you never got ambushed, did you? =P
(P.S. faster attack time of warrior is ftw!)

orc/shepherd, it worked great last age and i have reason to believe it is only more effective this age. my orc/mystic this age however is...different, but still effective especially since im the war leader and it comes in handy for cbing whole kd's.

ew....
you chose mystic.... as an orc... to help with CB's... why?
just build more guilds...

[protagon!st]

orc/mystic rawr. i had to do it once hah. i use my wpa to get cb's from everyone including t/m's when reviewing a kd for war and then casting greed/ms after war is initiated. ideally i would have someone else do these things and pick a different personality but my kd is t/m poor this age.

while you might say elf/mystic is more tried and true for an attacker/mage, i was looking for something different.

[bigDizzy]

Well, I found that keeping around 1-2k o specs, depending on your size, does lessen the ambushes a lot. And this is between 500-1.5k acres.

Also, this whole talk about being ambushed does not happen nearly as often as some might say. More often than not, I found that KDs in war focus more on Traditional marches followed by razes more than ambushes. Ambushing is a much more situational attack than a damage attack against a warring opponent such as Traditional march and raze. And in your situation, Jinandtonik, I highly doubt you will get ambushed in a ghetto setting.

As for attack time, it's not difficult to include barracks. But, Jinandtonik, as you are going to be in a ghetto, warrior is probably better for an overall solo province. War Hero is more beneficial as an overall KD strat especially if you include elves and gnomes.

[raiman]

I think you should go...

33%homes
33%banks
33%mills

then..

explore like crazy.

now pm me your location and I'll help you out further..

;)

[testsubj]

He will be able to eventually.

so hows that orc strat working for ya ?

[goodz]

at smaller networth warrior is probably a better bet, if you get around 300-400k nw war hero starts to add up but when your smaller faster attack time and not having to use anon is much nicer

[Jinandtonik]

Thanks for all the help everyone! I've been reading through every single post and the consensus seems to be that Orc/Warrior is more optimal overall but Orc/War Hero is rather situational.

I have now committed myself to an Orc/Warrior with the strat I have alluded with a minor variation in that I build more Hospitals than Barracks due to my naturally fast attack times.

Thank you again for all your suggestions and feedback. :)