Npcs Vs Ballistae

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In Evony, the most efficient way to farm level 1-5 NPC cities with zero losses is with armies consisting of ballistae and transporters.

Since June 9 2009, you need horseback riding L8 and archery L9 to hit the level 5 NPCs with zero losses.

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Warning:  As of August 16, 2009 it appears that updates have been made that may require you to increase the number of Ballistae needed to farm NPCs with no losses.  Please let us know if you experience this as well.

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Transporters Required

It is important to remember that this is only the number of vacant transports you will need.  Both the transports and the troops require food.  This will be the tricky part.

Each ballista can hold 35 load as well and that increases by 3.5 for each level of logistics as well.

Each Transporter consumes 10 food and each ballista consumes 50.  There is some structure or academy level that reduces this as well but I am not sure what it is.  Currently my transports are only consuming 1 and my ballista's are only consuming 11 with a load of 46.  So I can attack anything within 4 miles and it will not require any more transports than the above as long as my ballista's are equal to or greater that the number of transports.

Transporters Required

NPC Level 1

75 Transporters
Strategy Guide

(Anything below level 6 archery needs to send 50 ballistae)

Archery L7

Archery L8

20 ballistae

Archery L9

20 ballistae

Archery L10

  • 20 ballistae
  • One player reported success with:
    • 80 hero attack
    • 18 ballistae
  • Using lower-level attack heroes (like 27) may have ballistae losses.

NPC Level 2

80 Transporters

Archery L6

  • 200 Ballista
    • Military Tradition: 6
    • Iron Working: 5
    • Horseback Riding: 4
    • Logistics: 4

Archery L7

Archery L8

  • I didn't bring any ballistae and this was for testing purposes.
    • Hero 72
    • HBR6
    • Iron W7
    • Military S8

Archery L9

Archery L10

?

NPC Level 3

Archery L6

Archery L7


  • 200 ballistae
    • horseback riding L8
  • Confirmed Jun 28, 2009
    • Since the recent patch limits the rounds of a fight to 100, the number of ballistae needed for a lvl 3 is between 171-200.
    • There are no casualties on your side if you attack with 170, but you return with a defeat and no loot because the fight aborted at round 100. The sweet spot is somewhere between 171-200. If anyone knows a more accurate number, please let us know!

Note: The NPC archer's towers can hit ballistae, so there may be casualties if your archery level is less than 7.

Archery L8

  • 120 ballistae
    • hero attack 122
  • 150 ballistae
    • horseback riding L5
    • hero attack 30

Archery L9

Archery L10

?

NPC Level 4

460 Transporters

Archery L7

Strategy Guide
  • Aug 5 2009 350 ballistae
    • Hero Attack 131
    • Metal Casting Lv 7
    • Horseback Riding Lv 6
    • Logistics Lv 5

Archery L8

  • 2009-08-02
    • 270 ballistae
    • BR 3
    • Hero Attack 79

Archery L9

Archery L10

NPC Level 5

Use 760 transporters

Horseback riding 8 is recommended at this point to have 0 losses

Archery L7

Archery L8

  • Jul 14, 2009 350 ballistae
    • Horseback riding 5
    • Medical 6
    • Military tradition 8
    • Iron working 6
    • Hero attack 95 (anything less than 95 and I started getting losses)
  • Jul 1, 2009 700 ballistae
    • Horseback riding 5
    • Hero attack 100
  • Between 3001-5000 ballistae

Archery L9

Both of these done by myself, Nannis, so all other tech the same(this was done to test hero attack factor):

Archery L10

  • August 11, 2009 390 Ballistae
    • no losses
    • Horseback riding L9
    • Hero with 122 attack
  • Ballista's: 700
    • Transports: 600
    • Hero Attack Rating:  104
    • Archery: 10
    • Military Tradition: 10
    • Horseback Riding (HBR): 6
    • Medicine:  9
    • Note:  With the above stats and Archery at level 9, i was still taking losses but was winning.

NPC Level 6

At level 6 Defensive Trebuchet come into play. It is unlikely that you will succeed without ballistae causalities.

Because of the wall bonus, NPC cities L6 and above will increase ballista casualties. Bring catapults! With catapults you can win with no losses.

Archery L9

Archery L10

Without Catapults, losses are always going to happen. Depending on the level of HERO in the NPC depends on the amount of loss you have.

With Horse riding at lvl 9 minimum, you can send 1600 ballistae, and will loose 360 of those. 25 will be able to be treated in the Rally Spot. Sending more ballista helps but still will not stop the losses. Sending 1900 ballistae reaps only 250 losses, again 25 of these are repairable in the rally spot.

NPC Level 7

  • 2009-Oct-14
    • Totally lost 3010 ballistae with 1L0 archery and L9 horseriding, Hero 113 attack.
  • 2009-Sep
    • Lvl 10 arch and minimum
    • lvl 9 Horseriding is advised on this NPC level
    • 2500 ballisae reaps losses of 800 and goes 60 rounds
    • Havent tried less than this yet, as the losses are too great.
    • I am starting to use catapults on both lvl 6 and lvl 7 now

NPC Level 8

  • 2009-Oct-20
    • Lost 5000 Ballistae and 2500 transport with Archery 10 and HBR 9 and Hero with attack 117
  • Lvl 10 arch and minimum lvl 9 Horseriding is advised on this NPC level.

A minimum of 3500 ballistae. ???(losses)???

NPC Level 9

?

NPC Level 10

  • 2009 Nov 20
    • Sent 20000 Balls, 1000Pikes, 1000Swords, 10000Arch, 2400trans
    • I lost all pikes, swords, archers and 15754 Balls (OWCH)
    • I did walk away with 22.5mil resources though

Evony has been tweaking the game with each patch, so this information may not be accurate.

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