Elf Tact A/m

[LightWolf]

thanks for all the advice guys, i havent played the game for ages so its good to get some other ideas to assist in making up a strat which im sure i will change in war to suit individual situations but its good to have a baseline to follow. So im thinking elf mystic now and going to play a/M :D

13%homes
7% farms
25% watchtowers
15% guilds
15% towers
10% stables
15% hospitals/rax mix

28.85 ppa
16 mpa
6 epa or 38.7 opa (wage)
2 tpa or 3.2 modd (60% science)
8 dspa or 54 modd dpa (wage/mp)
5.3 wpa or 12.7 modd (50% race and 60% science)

[Zobo]

Hooray, one successful convert.

@Changler, growth builds are wonky and diverse, but I'd recommend angling your mana toward Paradicing, your thievery toward stealing gold and pulling intel, and your army moving in and out as quickly as possible. As such, Tact could be worthwhile (help keep down attack times so you're making 2 uniques a day, since 16 hours is base OOW). I'd recommend against Sage, as you'll have difficulty keeping up with your land. Against Warrior, for obvious reason. Against Cleric, since you won't be getting chained. Against War Hero, since you won't be taking dragons. Against Rogue, since it's silly on Elf....

Soo... Tact, Mystic, or Merchant.

[crease]

if you want to grow by attackin.... then elf is not for you... you will lose military fairly quickly and have to sit around and pump frequently.

much better picking a dwarf/cleric or merchant and still being able to go into a/m with BE boost giving you better wizzy production and far better economy oow spending much less time pumping. sorry but this is about the only reasonable bit of advice i see in this thread. Elf is failed choice for growth via hitting.... and there really isnt a good personality for doing so

[tras19]

im going elf mystic a/m next age. i think it will be pretty fun to play

[tamle]

you'll have fun, it's one of the harder race to play out there.

[LightWolf]

any ideas on protection strat? were warring 2 days oop.

600 acres

7% farms
8% stables
25% guilds
15% towers
15% arms (switch to wts for hostile)
30% banks (switch 5% to wts for hostile, switch 15% to hospitals for hostile)

[Blindman]

I am going for 600 oop war 2 days after as well

I am thinking the following for mystic in protection:
33% guild
20% bank
20% arms
15% tower
7 % farm (25% food science from 10 bpa)
5% rax (12h war attack time and under 12h plunder oow I think)

For war I can get rid of my arms, drop guilds down to 15-20% and drop some banks to put in 15% hospital
15% WT
15% GS

Exploring 100 acres, dicing another 100 while in protection. Plunders oop.

[valypet]

i think 600 acres are a good start

[BruceLee]

great points Zobo, as a dwarf with QF last few ages, I ran 5-8% rax just so I can have 12h atk times from start of war, also I found casting QF for multitaps is uber waste of mana (but i doubt elves will be doin much multitaps =P)

[Blindman]

True, elves will mostly do single taps and we have 5 mana a tick regen since most elves are mystics so it shouldn't be a problem.