Evony Age 2 strategy, guides, wiki and browser game tips

The rainbow attack has been discussed a lot when it comes to Evony combat mechanics. Basically a rainbow attack is an attack with one main army type and 50 – 1,000 troops of each other type you have available, usually not including siege weapons as they are too slow. You don’t want to use less than 50, as they may be killed off in traps before they reach the enemy troops and then they will loose their purpose. The purpose of including them is to make the enemy troops busy for one round so that the main type of your army can either reach the enemies without being damaged, or fire at the enemy without taking damage themselves for several rounds. This is called layering and here are two standard Evony rainbow formations. Read more

The swordsman is the defense foot soldier. They are decent at attacking too, but most players in Evony tend to use the swordsman for defense. Overall they are a pretty bad troop type though. They are slow to build and they move pretty slowly also. Pikemen are much faster so they are the choice for taking out cavalry and go on loyalty dropping missions. Warriors are worse than swordsmen in combat but way way cheaper and faster to train. I don’t use swordsmen much at all in Evony these days.
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