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<\/p>\nMany people don’t know that you can prevent a tile hit by raising a shield.\u00a0 Here’s how it works…<\/p>\n
Also, tips for avoiding accidental tile hits, and how to attack dead bases to get resources!<\/p>\n
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Fundamentally, a shield prevents your base from being attacked by another player.\u00a0 However, a shield, once active, prevents YOU from attacking other players as well.\u00a0 A byproduct of this mechanic is that a shield will prevent you from hitting another player’s gathering spot (tile).<\/p>\n
If another player already occupies a tile, clicking on it allows you to “scout” or “attack” the tile (rather than gather) or view the player’s information.<\/p>\n
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If your shield is active, you get a warning that attacking the player will deactivate your shield AND activate “War Frenzy” which prevents you from re-shielding.<\/p>\n
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However, if both players march on a tile at the same time, you get the dreaded screen flash.<\/p>\n
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In the above, I’m marching on Brad Sarlac Pitt — Don’t worry, he’s one of my farms.\u00a0 At this point, both Brad and myself have flashing screens, indicating that a conflict is imminent.<\/p>\n
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At this point, Brad has already landed on the tile.\u00a0 My screen is no longer flashing, but I’m still marching on the tile.<\/p>\n
If I was NOT shielded, my screen would still be flashing<\/p>\n
As my troops reach Brad’s tile, because I’m shielded, my troops immediately turn around without attacking.\u00a0 In fact, I don’t get a notification of any kind – no battle report, no gathering report.<\/p>\n
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If I was NOT shielded, I would have attacked Brad’s troops and stolen the tile (poor Brad).<\/p>\n
There are 3 variables:<\/p>\n
Here is the matrix which describes the outcome (If there is a battle, winner gets the tile):<\/p>\n
| Arrives First<\/th>\n | You<\/th>\n | Opponent<\/th>\n | Battle?<\/th>\n | Your Troops<\/th>\n | Opponent’s Troops<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
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| You<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| You<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | Yes<\/td>\n | Infirmary<\/td>\n | Killed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| You<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| You<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | Yes<\/td>\n | Infirmary<\/td>\n | Killed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Opponent<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Opponent<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n | –<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Opponent<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | Shield<\/td>\n | Yes<\/td>\n | Killed<\/td>\n | Infirmary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Opponent<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | No Shield<\/td>\n | Yes<\/td>\n | Killed<\/td>\n | Infirmary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nTips for Avoiding Accidental Tile Hits<\/h2>\nDon’t Leave Dirty Tiles<\/h2>\nIf you gather from a resource spot, but don’t gather all of the resources, this is known as a\u00a0dirty tile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Most states have rules against dirty tiles because they don’t re-spawn as quickly.<\/p>\n When you click on a resource tile, make note of the resources available.<\/p>\n When you select your troops to gather, check “Gatherable” on the bottom-right to ensure that this is equal to the resources before you click “Dispatch”.<\/p>\n If “Gatherable” is less than the tile resources, you will leave a dirty tile.\u00a0 Also, if you leave before your gathering is complete, or relocate to participate in an event, you will leave a dirty tile.<\/p>\n Many players hit dead bases for resources, which can be much faster than gathering.\u00a0 Resource buildings continuously regenerate resources, which means that dead bases can be hit repeatedly for a steady stream of resources.<\/p>\n HOWEVER, you need to make sure it’s a dead base:<\/p>\n A “tagged” base will appear with the alliance name in brackets next to the name.\u00a0 In this case, there is no alliance name displayed.<\/p>\n To find out if a player has live troops, click on the base, then click “Player Info”<\/p>\n Click the button to the right of “Might” to show “Highest Might”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If Might and Highest Might are about the same, then all troops are dead.\u00a0 This is like scouting without scouting, and is one of the most powerful techniques in the game.<\/p>\n Once you decide to attack the base, Send riders, because they are faster, and the base has no troops to defend.\u00a0 Here, my troops are on the way…<\/p>\n My troops hit the base, which instantly burns because there are no troops to defend it….<\/p>\n After the battle, my troops leave with resources….<\/p>\n As you can see by the battle report, no troops existed to defend.\u00a0 No might was lost by attacker, nor defender.\u00a0 And, I picked up 100k food, 100k wood, 20k steel, and even a little bit of gas.<\/p>\n Larger bases have more resource buildings and at higher levels, so if you can find dead bases in the 30 HQ level range, you will get pretty decent resources for free.\u00a0 Advanced players generally tear down their food and wood, and maximize steel and gas.<\/p>\n Attacking dead bases can be a great way to gather resources, but watch your state rules….many states don’t allow this during VC\/WLK because legitimate players could be untagged.<\/p>\n Reach out to your R4\/R5 before you just randomly start attacking stuff….your state might have specific rules that you must follow.<\/p>\n Thank you for reading, and I hope this is helpful!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …And Other Gathering Stuff Many people don’t know that you can prevent a tile hit by raising a shield.\u00a0 Here’s how it works… Also, tips for avoiding accidental tile hits, and how to attack dead bases to get resources!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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