One of the more effective methods of building your empire up in Gold, Resources and Hero experience is Ballista Spamming. Technically its not spamming due to the travel time to your targets. But, I consider it spamming due to the extreme effectiveness if used correctly and with a little planning.
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.
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.
- 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.





