Layers

Layers is the name when you mix lower tiers with your high tier army. This is in order to protect your higher tier troops, and works for both attacking and defending.

Two main mechanics occur during PVP:

1. PVP battles happen in rounds that players can’t see
   • These rounds that occur during battles are suggested from troop speed and range, for further information check base stats here.
2. Each troop type per tier targets one enemy type and tier per round
   • Layers work because of this mechanic, as even the enemies high tier troops that could wipe out your troops have to focus on one type of troop and one tier per battle – allowing you the chance to do more damage

Defensive Layers:

The larger the defensive layer, the better as you are not limited to march size when defending. For high level keeps you will want hundreds of thousands (some have millions) of troops of each tier and type. For lower level you will still want this mix, although don’t push too hard for high amount of layers – the resource is better towards getting towards the high keep level!

Remember to have dg equipped, for more information click here.

Offensive Layers:

When attacking you should have presets for ranged, ground, and cav. This is to counter whatever your enemy is heaviest on – it is a bit like rock, paper, scissors. Ranged beats cav, cav beats ground, and ground beats ranged. Siege can be mixed with archer – although this is not advised for free to play players due to the gem cost to repair.

The formulas for offensive layers depend on troop type:

Ranged

Ground

Mounted