Evony - My First Conquer

18 pages of attack reports (more or less 180 attacks), 2 trips to the bathroom, a capsule of stomach ache medicine, 24 hours without sleep, 2 mugs of coffee, and 2 niece asking me questions is what took me to take over a single city. Not to mention the hundreds of cavalry I lost on my spam attack experiment.

I, one of the good and kindly lords, is slowly(or quickly, depending on your opinion. :p), becoming a warlord. I've trained thousands of elite soldiers the past few days and now training more than 20,000 elite soldiers and 2,000 ballista.

And now, I am becoming more and more evil. >:)

I have conquered my first city from a Prinzessin (he is not a princess, I am not that evil yet). And the city I conquered have a level 10 town hall to boot. Well, that level 10 town hall was the one that tempted me and my alliance leader to take it for our own hands.

Unfortunately, I have 4 cities, the maximum I can have for my current title of a Baron. So I had to give up one of my newer cities. When I gave up my youngest city, it turned into a level 7 barbarian. That is what happens when you abandon your townsfolk, they become barbarian and eat each other. Or was that the cannibals? I don't know and I don't care that much about them anymore. :p

Me and my alliance leader, the Mighty Essex, started pounding 2 of the 9 cities of Tantak, with conquer in our motives. Then, the loyalty of Tantak's cities are slowly going down, giving us more and more opportunity to win over the hearts of his people. Well, we didn't win their hearts because of kindness, we threatened them with thousands of soldiers going back and forth his and my city.

After more than an hour of siege (yes, you only need more than an hour to take over a city, the other 23 hours are used on rebuilding and playing around), I finally get to see inside the city! Unfortunately, the city looks worse than what my scout told me. I have to find that scout immediately and have him hanged!

Here is what inside the city looks like:


The resource fields are built uneven. There are very small number of farms than what I need to feed my soldiers. The cottages for the people of the city are uneven (I am guessing he took consideration for a caste system and nobles). The city layout is a random mess. It could have been better if there is a level 10 barracks.

Well, I only conquered it for the town hall after all. What I am telling is that a level 10 town hall is hard to get, unless you have paid for treasure hunters at the black market to get for you some scrolls of Michael Angelo. I only have a single scroll in my treasury, and I plan to use it only when I need to.

After the conquer, I began reformatting the city. I attracted more civilians into the city by very low taxes and no work to do. I ask for the priest to pray for the people. After a flock of stupid civilians entered the forsaken city, I began building up the farms to feed my starved soldiers. Then I started enslaving the people into the fields!

Rebuilding a sieged city is hard work. You need to rebuild all fortifications to protect your city from raids. So, I decided to go into truce for 12 hours to give me time to rest and rebuild.

And on the end of two days for me, me and my alliance leader have a new city to command. Then, I did finally have a good sleep.