There's been a lot of people wondering what is the best build. The answer to this question is it depends. It depends on your playing style and a balance between effectiveness in wars and earning plunder. Being effective means you have high attack strength and high defensive strength to maximize troop losses to the enemy. The balanced buildings will give you the mixture of attack and defense that is need to meet this requirement, but let's not forget about spy buildings. What good are troops if there all assassinated. My personal experience is this, if a purespy wants to assassinate or steel from you then they will. Pots will not stop them, defensive tower will not stop them, and having guilds will not stop them. In short don't worry about things you cannot defend against. Just concentrate on stuff you can defend against, like someone with five or six guilds. Don't worry about the purespies, they will get through no matter what you do. Now that we know we need some arrangement of balanced buildings and a few guilds we need to figure how many of each. One great resource is the overall leader board. All these people are t4 LCBC and gives some insight on what you'll be up against. Taking their respective stats and averaging them you'll find this: Attack Strength = 1.77M Defensive Strength = 1.64M Spy Strength = 252.0K Spy Defensive Strength = 277.4K By looking at the distribution of stats 19 balance buildings will cover both attack and defensive strength by providing 1.80M stats. This leaves us with 4 spots left to balance the spy stats. If we go with 4 Strongholds it will proved 259.8K stats. This will be just enough to block spies but not enough to get though. So what about 18 balanced buildings and 5 Strongholds? You can see from here it becomes a preference on how you like to play.
Maybe you should run different builds through the build calculator and tell us the highest cap value. Or just tell us the build that is the strongest. Ok?
Strongest build for attacking is attack build. Strongest for defense is defense build. It all depends on if ur an attacker or you like to defend. I personally think defense build with attack build allies would be best. But it's really up to the player
Or as above... Have all attack build and get Defence associated allies. Bcos def built allies seldom get bought. You're safer.
Now that's interesting... Never was I too keen about the different Ally rosters such as attack/balanced and defense. Now I'm wondering why I wasn't paying attention to the allies I'm buying which contribute to my plunder as well as my overall stat. Good insight.
OK In theory this looks great and a very polished build. 20 - elements - 4 shadows with stats off: attack - 1,894,880 Defense - 1,894,880 spy attack - 259,840 Spy Defense - 259,840 But before anyone goes running off to build this you need to check to see if its going to give you the best advantage because if you build it you won't be able to change it without it being way too costly! Does it provide the best plunder from an OSF (95+% of your hits and earns are from OSF) Well......NO Its a well know fact that the higher stat buildings offer the least amount of total plunder (except the defense buildings which offer extra plunder bonus. Lets not forget that the buildings stop at LCBC tier 4 but allies continue to increase stats but also continue to reduce plunder So do we choose to build all titans or foundries then? And how many spies (shadows) do we really need to be effective? As for tier 3 avairies were a key part of successful waring in most builds. But last time i looked this game has changed to a plunder race. As for spies i have used 2 shadows in a real war to great effectiveness and with full spy builds on the increase do we really need more than 2 on our attack builds? having more seems to be a waste of plunder earn when not in real war which seems to be 95% of the time at the moment. So to sum this up i believe we need a balance of buildings - Elements for the stats - foundries to boost attack - titans to boost Plunder - and 1 or 2 shadows to help when real wars happen. Something like this: 8x Elements - 8x Titans - 6x Foundries - 2x Shadows 2,008,688 1,999,232 129,920 129,920 good stats with good plunder!