Meer and Rod's Verbal Battlefield

[Ashe]

If you can't defend the gold, then spend it the moment you get it on things that will help you defend it, like Armor to boost your defense. Again I go back to my "You have a pile of money in your front yard and are mad that people are taking it which stops you from saving up for that laser wall to protect my money!" point.

I'm not like angry or anything, I just don't see the complaint as being valid. You can do something to prevent that, and you choose not to. Sometimes you have to rethink your strategy and plans based on forces outside of your control, and learn how to get control of it.

Yeah, you likely won't stop, say, Jack from storming your fort every five turns for your gold. But if you have no gold stocked up and spend it on armor every single time you get 25g, and put your turns into more troops (but only enough that said troops have gear, don't waste your time making extra troops beyond your gear because you lose a lot more of those.

Like in my images above, I lost twice what my failed attacker did just because i had no gear on that portion of my army. Once they went to 100% of them being geared -due to others being dead-, I began to lose significantly less.)

Additionally, if Jack grows too much, he can't hit you if you stop just burning all your turns into troops - you fall off his radar.

You'll have no gold for him to get, making it a waste of his time (which means other people can catch up to him quicker and he loses his adantage).

And you'll be gaining more and more defense over time putting yourself more in the position of being able to deflect his blows.