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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Castle - Training Ground

Training Grounds (TG) give the most basic offense and defense units in the game. Training grounds let you train Berserkers for offense and Rangers/Guardians for defense. Rangers are the best anti-infantry unit in the game even without the wall and tower bonus. The guardian is also the 'best' anti-cavalry unit in the game which is debatable partly because of their slow march speed. The berserker is also the 2nd best offensive unit in the game against units, next to mages. I'll get into troop comparisons later. Anyway, here's the castle!

This castle is ideal if you plan to make your first or even your 2nd castle. Here is a TG Castle layout I put together in the LOU Flash City Planner.


Stats:
Max units: 188,000
Training Speed: 6550%
Construction Speed: 800%
Food Production: 47,779 / hr


To begin, you should always get the construction speed higher than 2500% by making 20-40 cottages depending on how fast you want to complete the castle. In the end, it has 6550% train speed which gives 3sec Berserkers, 4sec Rangers, and 5sec Guardians. It makes 47,779 food / hr in which 47,000 food / hr is required to feed the 188k Berserkers at maximum capacity. Did you know that at 3 seconds each, you can make 25k Berserkers per day!? Isn't that awesome? Of course it is! Although, you'll need to make 157k iron / hour in total. If you use the resource city layout below then you'll only need a bit over 2 support cities!

Tweak this layout to your desire (add warehouses, more/less barracks, more/less cottages, etc) as this is a basic, yet efficient, Training Ground Castle layout. Good luck!

12 comments:

  1. Hi there,

    there is a problem with that city layout, you only get 150k army, not 200k as LOU flash city builder seems to show you, that in turn means that you are overproducing food, not necessary a bad thing if your city becomes under siege and you have to feed supporting troops too.

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  2. Your blog has the potential to be a good resource for new players googling for info on LoU outside of the LoU official site.

    May I suggest then, under the above idea, that your next post be about a 45k/hr dedicated gold city, and the benefits of such (how to build it in phases, how it is "invisible" once it gets running and doesn't need babysitting, how it helps you not worry about wasting room for townhouses in your resource cities, etc...)

    Cheers!
    -Visibiliti

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  3. Thanks for the suggestion, Visibiliti. I will do just that tomorrow as I've just posted a Shipyard Castle today. See you then!

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  4. Anon, thank you for visiting and commenting! I checked in the Flash Planner and it seems to be correct that 50 barracks would give 200k spaces. Keep in mind that the castle gives +300%, not 300%. The (+) sign adds to the original 100%. Double check it and let me know if you have any questions!

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  5. Without warehouses, you can't store enough food to make this work. But the principle is still good. Also you have the problem of not being able to send lots of resources to keep making zerks...

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  6. That's true, Anon. Thanks for your reply! Seeing as one almost never needs to export from the castle (unless you plunder a lot), the market and the harbor can be exchanged for warehouses in your case.

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  7. This city will NOT have 188k max units. A barrack gives +3000 army size with level 10 castle.

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  8. wat bout building ships??

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  9. A lvl10 barrack with lvl 0 castle gives 4000 army space

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  10. thats a lvl 10 castle sorry for the typo also your farms are pre-ascention patch the new farms would make more food if you spread them out and used less cottages and those cottages you take out can be used to build some warehouses or baracks to increase your army size.

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  11. Fascinating... My cousin was searching this kind of info. He will be very happy when I give him your url. Thanks!
    Ana

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  12. Not sure if it is accurate, but the BOS troop speed calculator shows that you only need 5715% production speed to get a Zerk every 3 seconds, a ranger every 4 seconds and a guardian every 5 seconds. Due to LOU rounding, there in no benefit to adding training grounds until you can step up to 6700% where you get 4 seconds for guardians.

    -Sloah

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