For weeks you’ve lived free from our scorn
But now our supply line has been torn
The barbs we raided kept us all well fed
And no one mourned their fallen dead
But rumors stirred within your ranks
Our food now gone is this our thanks?
You’ve petitioned the gods to stop our raids
And for all your whining you’ll soon get paid
Our Armies need the food we’ve lost
The gold we make wont cover costs
So since the barbs now produce too few
Our attention is turning straight to you
So build more farms for corn and grain
If your gates are shut it will ease the pain
We’ll crush your towers with little trouble
We’ll turn your defenses into a pile of rubble
We’ll take your food your wood your stone
And drag it out over your armies Bones
We’ll hang your Hero from the broken gate
The game gods now decide your fate
They chose to listen to all your cries
And took away our food supplies
So now your it!, you should be proud
They heard your voices clear and loud
So drink some coffee and stay up late
We’ll soon be at your city gates
__________________
LoRd PaReThIuS

NOTE:
This is an ongoing post. I will update it as I learn more myself about the method and fine tune it more. Your technoliges can also change these numbers so its better to err on the upside when using the ballistas on any level for the first time.

Whats Required:
Ballistas and Transports. (transports are optional but it would be crazy to not carry back all that loot.)

The Method:
Can’t much easier. Send Ballistas and Transports with a decent attack hero at a NPC city.

Npc Ballista Spam

These Numbers are from my experience using a attack hero with over 100 attack and may be adjusted more to the downside or upside as more of my alliance members report in on smaller sizes being successful. I will fill in lvl 9 and 10 when i get enough Ballistas. Hero Level is very important, if you hero has low attack adjust these number up about 50%

• Lvl 1 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 30 Ballista
• Lvl 2 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 50 Ballista
• Lvl 3 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 150 Ballista
• Lvl 4 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 300 Ballista
• Lvl 5 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 600 Ballista
• Lvl 6 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 900 Ballista
• Lvl 7 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 2500 Ballista
• Lvl 8 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 3500 Ballista
• Lvl 9 NPC BARB CITY  - Requires approx 9600 Ballista (My attack hero was 156 attack)
• Lvl 10 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx

Pre planning a long term Ballista siege of multiple NPC citiesIf you plan your strategy out effectively in advance you can have multiple npc very close and easy to spam.

• Plan your capture of and abandon some lvl 7, 8, 9, or lvl 10 Player cities very close to you.

Player cities converted to NPC Barbarian cities

• until you have a large ballista army you can continuously hit lvl 1, 2, 3 NPC for small rewards. those are easy to capture from other players and can be abandoned right away as they have no value to you anyway.
• Seeing you are on a long term siege of these cities, why not use the flow of experience the hits will generate to level up your mayors faster. Once you know your ballistas can beat the NPC no problem (any easy way to tell is by how many rounds it takes to wipe them out. If its under 40 you should be o.k. sending in a low attack mayor.) attach a mayor to them for tonnes of experience and lots of levels you can then apply to intelligence and politics.
• Don’t forget to level up your attack heroes while sieging NPC cities, and when you go after a new level of NPC city, use them not your mayor until your low in rounds reuired to beat that npc with your attack warrior. Myself I like to use my attack hero to hit the higher level NPC, and the level below that I send my mayor while waiting for the higher level to regnerate new resources.

It appears lvl 1 – 5 npc are still safe but 6-10 are not worth the effort.

LVL 3 NPC, 1400 BALLS, 30 Rounds, 118 Attack Hero, 0 loses
LVL 6 NPC, 5094 BALLS, 30 Rounds, 102 Attack Hero, 90 BALLS lost
LvL 8 NPC, 26375 BALLS, 26 Rounds, 140 Attack Hero, 1707 BALLS lost

I pity my neighbours as they are now my main source of food. Time to make dozens more quit Evony.

These classless bastards have no clue how to keep the servers up and running, keep opening new servers, changing game mechanincs without notice costing hundreds of players days and sometimes weeks of work. If you have never played Evoy, Don’t start. If you have and have paid to play, file a chargeback with your credit card or paypal as these are not the terms you signed up to and you were never given prior notice of any changes, you weren’t even given notice after the change these cat eatin bastards are so fucking clueless.
 
***OLD INFO NO LONGER ACCURATE FOR LVL 6-10 NPC***
The new patch is in effect on Evony servers. Medals are now attainable at a very regular rate.

From my alliances experiences so far with the new system we have come to these conclusions,

• Lower level medals can be found in all levels of valley, flats, npc city and PVP battles.
• Higher level medals can be obtained in high level valleys, flats, and npc cities and large PVP battles.
• The drop seems to be very random. Its hard to target one medal type specifcally.
• So far the rate seems to be 1 in 5 hits on avg produce a medal which is inline with the developers claim of a 20% drop rate.
• Loses (both defender and attacker), hero level, army size, and all those other silly variables peole are coming up with in the Evony forums doesnt matter when attacking valleys and npc cities(its a random drop per level of target), but it may matter when attacking PVP.

CONFIRMED MEDAL LOCATIONS:

NPC Barbarian Cities produce the following,

• npc lvl 1 – Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 2 - Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 3 – Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 4 – Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 5 – Courage, Honor, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 6 – Courage, Honor, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 7 – Courage, Wisdom, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 8 – Courage, Wisdom, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 9 – Courage, Wisdom, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 10 -

Flats and Valleys produce the following,

• Lvl 1-3 flat and valley – Lion, Cross and Rose Medals
• Lvl 4-6 flat and valley – Lion, Cross and Rose Medals
• Lvl 7-9 flat and valley – Lion, Honor,
• Lvl 10 flat and valley – Courage, Lion, Honor

As we continue to build our medal stash I will add any knowledge we gain to this post. For now, get out there and get your medals before they screw it up again which i have faith at some point they will.