DeletedUser114342
Hi,
I've been playing FOE for a few months now and I consider myself one up from a noob (I don't think I can all myself that anymore).
After browsing the forum yesterday, I came across the "plunder" discussion thread, so I thought I would try my hand at attacking and plundering my neighbours.
I'm in LMA and before I just attacked my neighbours to fulfill the requirements of a quest and only plundered when they had a 2 spearmen defense thinking that they just don't really care enough about their goods if they don't protect them. As I only ever attacked from the bottom of the hood, I thought this was just a few people who did not set their defensive army because we're all in HMA/LMA /CA already and people should of learnt by now to set a defensive army.
Today, I attacked over 40 neighbours (I got bored after a while) and only 6 had some sort of defensive army set up, 3 had all 8 units.
The rest had only 2 spearmen as their defense, including those that were participating in PvP! The higher I went up in the hood, I had hopes that this 2 spearmen epidemic would be coming to an end, but sadly no.
So it got me thinking that I must be missing something here?
Is there something so great about the 2 spearmen defense that I don't know about?
Has the 2 spearmen defense ever beaten an attacking army?
As this is a strategy game and as so many people are using the 2 spearmen defense in their strategy, there must be something I am missing.
I've been playing FOE for a few months now and I consider myself one up from a noob (I don't think I can all myself that anymore).
After browsing the forum yesterday, I came across the "plunder" discussion thread, so I thought I would try my hand at attacking and plundering my neighbours.
I'm in LMA and before I just attacked my neighbours to fulfill the requirements of a quest and only plundered when they had a 2 spearmen defense thinking that they just don't really care enough about their goods if they don't protect them. As I only ever attacked from the bottom of the hood, I thought this was just a few people who did not set their defensive army because we're all in HMA/LMA /CA already and people should of learnt by now to set a defensive army.
Today, I attacked over 40 neighbours (I got bored after a while) and only 6 had some sort of defensive army set up, 3 had all 8 units.
The rest had only 2 spearmen as their defense, including those that were participating in PvP! The higher I went up in the hood, I had hopes that this 2 spearmen epidemic would be coming to an end, but sadly no.
So it got me thinking that I must be missing something here?
Is there something so great about the 2 spearmen defense that I don't know about?
Has the 2 spearmen defense ever beaten an attacking army?
As this is a strategy game and as so many people are using the 2 spearmen defense in their strategy, there must be something I am missing.