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Common beginner mistakes
Full storage, no cranny, attacking a player during protection, sending a hero alone, and too little crop are the most common mistakes.
What works best- Letting storage fill up: production stops, and raiders love you.
- Ending your own protection by scouting or raiding a player too early.
- Forgetting the Rally Point: you cannot send troops or build Barracks without it.
- Sending the hero alone into a fight it can lose.
- Raiding (not attacking) an oasis with the hero and expecting to capture it.
- Big army, negative crop, empty granary: troops starve.
- Sending catapults without Rally Point level 10 and expecting to hit the Residence.
- Keeping a Teuton Brewery while trying to conquer.
- Spending Gold on "finish now" for long jobs: it costs 1 Gold per minute here.
Related topics
- How much can I store? What happens when storage is full? Resources & fieldsThe Warehouse stores wood, clay and iron (each); the Granary stores crop. When storage is full, production stops and anything delivered above the limit is lost.
- How does beginner protection work? Getting startedNew players are protected for 24 hours: nobody can attack, raid or scout their villages. Attacking, raiding or scouting another player ends your protection at once.
- How does the hero fight? HeroThe hero fights with the army it travels with, like a strong extra unit, and its bonus helps only that army. A hero at home defends with the village troops.
- What happens when my crop runs out? Resources & fieldsWhen the granary is empty and net crop is negative, troops in the village die until consumption fits production. Reinforcements die first, then your own troops, the most crop-hungry first.
- How do I capture an oasis? OasesSend a normal attack (not a raid) with your hero to a free oasis within 3 fields of your village, kill every animal, and have a Hero's Mansion at level 10 or more.
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