I've got a question for our beloved forums! As the hansel i am, i have been doing the Epic Battle Ambush. But here is the problem: i dont know how much an attack or assasination gives you for plunder after the EB. I need to know if stealing gives you more money, or assasinating. I can steal and get around 34 mill on first hit, but assasinating uses half as less troops! Please answer if you know anything, or if there is a thread that gives that kind of info. Thank you, TheTexasRanger
As far as I know, stealing does not give you any bonus plunder after the epic. But assassinations do. You can always experiment doing both and seeing what works the best for you.
Do the test yourself. One unload of steals, record each steal and the plunder at the end. Then the next time do one unload of assassinates and record the plunder at the end. Make you sure you don't do any more than 1 unload of steals the first time or 1 unload of assassinates the second time. Total each, see which is more. Then post it in a nicely made thread, including the end values, and people will be like "Cool, thanks." And you'll be all like "I'm so helpful." Or something like that. Anyways, yea.
What I have found is stealing to the 13m-15m mark, then unloading the rest as assassinations. It seems to give the best payout, and steals do affect plunder return at the end of the epic.
Just come do haunting. Then u won't be bothered by this prob. Haunting pays the best. And the pots r free.
Haunting sucks for Hansels, waste so much money on pots. I tested exactly what this thread is about. Here's how you do it. Do multiple Ambushes to test. Never attack in any. In the first one, do one steal and assassinate until empty. In the second one do two steals and assassinate until empty. 3rd one 3 steals and so on. At the time I did the testing, I made it as far down as a steal that paid me $9m, I forget which steal number it was, and it was still increasing in total plunder as of that test. So for me, getting max $ possible would involve stealing until somewhere below my $9m steal. It's gonna be different for every build, I bet, though similar. Also, if you wanna make the most $, there is no doubt about how to do that-- keep your spies right near full and only steal one or two times per regen. That is max income, no question about it.
I did a test on an alt Hansel of mine. Once was 1 unload of assassins The other was 1 unload of steals. They paid almost exactly the same after the bonus was calculated in. If I remember correctly it was less than a million difference. Sorry don't have any numbers and this was a few months ago.
There is no net pot cost for haunting. I hv done this experiment 3 times with different state. There is simply NO NET POT COST. A hansel earns not a penny less than his ally bonus in haunting.
To find out if what I said is true. Simply go do a haunting, attk only without any spy actions and pots. After the EB ends, go to history, divide ur total plunder by total no of actions, minus away 12m pot cost. Then there u go. ur ally bonus will appear in front of u.
^ right, an wrong for a Hansel. If a Hansel has enough bonus to attack then they need not use pots, this is when you should do hauntings, until then ambush is superior. The only time this changes is when usin Mithril etc to severely boost your damage done to the epic at a little/low cost