tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35023359338024070812024-03-02T17:29:50.233+00:00Grepolis by G.R.O.M - top players guides, statistics, tools, tactics, tricks and secretsThe most popular and best Grepolis guides, statistics, tools, tactics, tricks and secrets written by one of the top players - city setups, battle mechanics, units, navy, mythical units, gods and many more.GROMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15960171048611605602noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502335933802407081.post-2095166352841489392013-05-19T19:33:00.002+01:002013-05-19T19:33:36.835+01:00Units guides updated<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Units guides have been updated! I have recalculated all stats again and made new tables/rankings + amended info about every unit. You can find them in Basic Guides tab or just click here: <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/grepolis-units-everything-you-would.html" target="_blank">Grepolis units - everything you would like to know about them</a>.</div>
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Everything about nukes in Grepolis and their use (attack forces composition, city builds and other requirements).<br>
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Definition of a Perfect Nuke - its an attack which is going to hit your enemy so hard that he will be raging on the Grepolis forum in the next few minutes after seeing what it left him with - a battle report. It is an attack made of the same type of units, only Slingers, Horsemen, Hoplites, Light Ships or mythical units. Here is an example of a perfect nuke:<br>
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Long conflicts in Grepolis against big or skilled players and alliances are very demanding and you will have to focus on resources to be ahead of your enemy. If you read my guides about <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/conqering-citites-part-1-timing.html" target="_blank">timing waves</a>, <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/organising-your-waves.html" target="_blank">organising</a> them (including my <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/organising-your-waves.html#GROMs%20Manoeuvre" target="_blank"> famous manoeuvre</a>), <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/large-scale-operations.html" target="_blank">organising and planning operations</a> and still have trouble winning then you will have to focus on your resources and prepare for a long war.<br>
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If you cant outsmart your opponent, then you need to outlast him - endurance is the key here. You should aim to have at any moment more army units available to fight than your enemy. This will let you to have control over the war. The goal is to achieve an advantage and hold it or even increase it - without an army nobody can survive for long.<br>
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<b>This article is an ultimate guide focusing on all types of resources in Grepolis 2.0 (materials, favour points, time). It also introduce my super <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/units-calculator.html" target="_blank">Units Calculator</a> (and </b><a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/units-calculator-with-mythical-units.html" target="_blank"><b>full verison with Mythical Units</b></a>)<b>, which I think you will really like! I also added <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/production-time-calculator.html" target="_blank">Production Time</a> calculator and few nice tricks that you might have not been aware of.</b> <b>Enjoy and leave your comments.</b></div>
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<li><a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/hoplite-intro.html" target="_blank">Hoplite - History</a> </li>
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the forty years of their known existence (378–338 BC) marked the
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the Sacred Band of the Thebans", which have previously been seen as
invincible (with help of the heavy cavalry and the novel long-speared
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Everything about operations<b> - </b>leaders role, creating and coordinating Battlegroups, planning and preparing your operations, different targets and goals, some general tactics and few tricks.<b><br></b><br>
In the previous parts I covered timing and organising your attack waves
in order to conquer a city. However as players and alliances get bigger,
it will be harder to take their cities. In order to do that you might
need to organise large scale operations. As I mentioned in the
introduction to War Tactics, well coordinated operations targeting many
cities at the same time can be devastating to enemy players and even
alliances in the medium and sometimes advanced stage of the game.<br>
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<b><span style="color: orange;"> War Tactics</span></b> - series of guides in which I share my experience and some tips in what I was known for in Delta - winning wars and defeating empires. Step by step we will go from timing waves through conquering cities to finish on defeating big alliances.</div>
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Conquering Cities </h4>
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<li><a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2010/11/organising-your-waves.html" target="_blank">Part 2 - Organising waves</a> - how to deal with dodgers, non-dodgers, snipers etc plus one extra trick - "GROMs Manoeuvre"</li>
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<ul>More coming soon. If you read all enjoy<a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2010/12/big-fails-what-can-we-learn.html" target="_blank"> Big Fails</a> till then ;)
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I would like to inform you that I made a lot of changes in guides on this page. I added extra information or updated them to be in line with 2.0. Some guides were re-written and I added many extra facts, analyses and tips (like <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2010/11/mythical-units.html" target="_blank">Mythical units</a>), while others were only partly re-written. I am mostly proud of my new Mythical Units guide which was totally re-written. I added new rankings and statistics showing units effectiveness and efficiency. This in turn let me to re-evaluate some units and change my mind a bit about them (not that much though).</div>
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<li><a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2011/01/research.html" target="_blank">Research </a></li>
<li><a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2010/11/land-army.html" target="_blank">Land Army units</a></li>
<li><a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2010/12/city-specialisation-army-composition.html" target="_blank">City specialisation - army composition</a></li>
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Additionally I fixed some minor bugs and retested my <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2011/01/traveltime-calculator.html" target="_blank">Travel Time Calculator</a>, it should work perfectly fine now. Many people really like it and find it helpful.Also thanks to Wellagain we have an alternative for my planner in the form of an online google doc, so if youre interested go and check it: <a href="http://grepolis-pro.blogspot.com/2010/12/attack-planner-by-wellagain.html" target="_blank">Attack Planner</a>.</div>
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Now I can come back to writing new guides - next one coming soon will be war tactics series of few guides about winning wars of course ;)<br />
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If you read Part 1 about recruiting right people for your alliance, you should already have a decent group of champs (yes, like those on the picture). Now it is your duty to organise them and coordinate their actions. Of course after awhile they will all know what to do and your job will be much easier but with new people its never easy. I will also describe here the key components of a properly working alliance, which for some people are wrongly limited only to structure.</div>
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I saw many leaders frustrated with inactive members, frustrated after
sending long mass ingame mails, asking people to cooperate, send
resources, armies, to read posts on forum but with very minimal
response. Their "Fidel Castro" long speeches to masses brought no
results, because masses didn't care to read or react. They were inviting
masses to their alliance and then expected masses to follow.</div>
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This is not another guide. While cleaning my disk I found some old screen shots and texts which I used on different forums or just for lols so decided to post them here. There is a story behind them of course... There was alliance called The Forgotten Phoenix which at some point was as far as I remember 2nd biggest on our server. Their leaders were always keeping contacts with all alliances around and when an opportunity was on horizon they knew how to use it for their advantage. They were talking to you nicely but behind your back were making deals with other powers around when and how they gonna strike you. They were also feeding on weaker less organised alliances taking them one by one. That politic made them top alliance in the east of Delta...in numbers. What statistics were not showing was their lack of "military" training. Most of the members didn't know how to fight! The biggest mistake they did (like many other alliances) was assuming that if they are on top of the grepo stats chart, they can take down our alliance which was of a similar size but with 3-4 times less members. Some leaders get very cocky if their alliance is made of hundreds of players - what they never realise is the simple fact that not numbers matter but quality of players. Same with some of their "big" fighters - yes they had 300k points but their cities were badly organised, armies weak or just wrong units built. Tactical abilities = zero, no idea about timing waves etc I could go on and on but no point now.<br>
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/filesgrom/GROMTimingcalculator.xls?attredirects=0&d=1" target="_blank"><i><b>Traveltime calculator</b></i></a> is an excel file calculating for you lots of things and saving your precious time for more interesting stuff. Many people find it very helpful and easy to use.</div>
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I made it very simple (you need to have really basic knowledge of excel to be able to put information into cells), marked correct boxes/cells with colors and wrote a simple 4 steps instruction so you know what and where to type. Once you are familiar with it, you will not regret as it will save a lot of your time when planning attacks from many cities. It takes literally 5 minutes maximum to plan attacks from 20-30 cities (depends how quickly you can check travel times in the game and copy them into the spreadsheet).<br>
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Many of<i> </i>us often wonders whats better - Fast Transport Ships or regular Transport Boats. I think that after researching Bunks, which is a must tech anyway, Fast Transport Ships become much more attractive. Bunks - <i>"Your transport ships can carry 6 additional units".</i> This technology is definitely worth investing in as it will save some population which you would put in transport ships. That population can be invested in more troops and make your army stronger. The most important thing is that it also makes Fast Transport Ships a better choice when deciding about your navy transport in the advanced stage of the game (when your enemies are far away).<br>
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<span style="color: red;">Updated for 2.0!</span> <br>
In 9/10 cities I conquered I had to reset some research in the academy wasting my Culture Points. Its amazing how many useless technologies people have in their cities! I will give a brief description of all of them and will tell you on which you should never waste your points. All technologies help more or less but since we cant have them all in one city then its important to prioritize them and to have really important ones.</div>
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Wars (mass scale conflict between at least two groups of players) happen in Grepolis at different stages of game-life and require different tactics in order to be successful. I will present now three main stages of the game. As you progress in your game you will have to change your tactics a bit and add new ones in order to win. In my next guides I will focus precisely on timing waves, organising conquest operations, on effectiveness and efficiency of your actions, when to attack and when not to, how to win "resources war", PnP (Politic and Propaganda), demoralising enemy, politics, diplomacy and so on - all of these are required to win a war especially in the advanced stage of the game. This "guide" here is just a general introduction. <br>
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City walls are the most important factor next to the units which will contribute to your city defenses. Many players when attacking ignore the power that walls add to total defense so please let me explain how important they are and if you are the attacking side, how important it is to send catapults with your attacks.</div>
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Breakthrough is one of the most misunderstood and underestimated research in Grepolis. Many players ignore it or try it in a wrong way, get wiped and never come back to it. <u>As long as you know what breakthrough can offer you and what are its limitations then it can become a very useful tool in your arsenal. </u>Its main drawback in a Revolt world is that it cannot be both revolt and breakthrough, which makes it more usefull for Conquest worlds. </div>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As2CghhTKUwrdFJqeWZMaW15T1NRbXNxWUNWTDdKSFE#gid=0" target="_blank">Demo attack planner</a></div>
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Prepared by <i>Wellagain</i> (including instruction material)</div>
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This attack planner is slightly different, it provides some
additional info, but also requires some more filling in. It's made in <b>google docs</b>,
so it is always online and is saved automatically, and you can access
it from anywhere — from work, school, home or mobile. No need to copy
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To download instruction (Win/Mac) click here -> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/filesgrom/planner_instruction.zip?attredirects=0&d=1" target="_blank">Instruction</a><br />
To see the planner go here -> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As2CghhTKUwrdFJqeWZMaW15T1NRbXNxWUNWTDdKSFE#gid=0" target="_blank">Attack Planner</a> <br />
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Thank you Wellagain for providing new tool, I hope people will enjoy using it. The only thing I can advice is to not depend on the popping calendar - it bugged for me every time but its not a problem as you can just type in your date (remember to use proper form mm/dd/yyyy)</div>
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Some credits should also go to <i>jimmyisoff2camp </i>and <i>datester </i>who worked on this planner before and created its foundations.. <br />
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Biremes of Fire Ships? To answer quickly I will say that Fire Ships are better against Light Ships attacks however overall Biremes are more useful and should make most of our navy defenses. It also depends in what stage of the game you are. If you have only few cities then having Fire Ships in each of your harbours make sense however once you get 10+ cities and become part of a bigger alliance, then you need something more useful - Biremes.</div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Map by</span> <a class="bigusername" href="http://forum.en.grepolis.com/member.php?u=11676">Xarandir </a></div><div style="color: black;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">source:</span> <a href="http://forum.en.grepolis.com/showthread.php?t=11927">grepo forum</a></div><br />
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These are condensed guides for beginners, rewritten, simplified and telling some basics. I will not go much into details here, I wrote it for those who just want some easy to follow advices and don't look for reasons behind them. If you have time and doubts please read full guides :)<br>
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City specialisation in Grepolis is a must in advanced stage of the game. City specialisation becomes more crucial than ever, and changing your building layout for each of those cities to only the necessities will optimise the farm spaces left to make troops.<br>
There are many reasons for that. First of all as I mentioned many times before, in Grepolis battle mechanics proportions are very important. The bigger attacking wave the more damage it can deal and in the consequence save more of your units, resources and time to rebuild them. <u>Due to population cap per city and inability to merge armies when attacking we are forced to maximise effectiveness of every single army/wave we send.</u> In Grepolis sending one wave made of 1000 slingers is much more effective and efficient than two waves of 500 slingers. There are also other reasons - its simply time and resources saving strategy. </div>
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In this guide I will show you how to make big Slingers or Light Ships nukes and how to construct a good Colony Ship wave. I will also give few tips about organising your cities to be able to defend your little empire.<br>
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I plan to post here the most ridiculous battle reports I get into my hands. Unfortunately I haven't saved from my wars any except one, however found some in Grepolis Forum. If you have more to share please let us know. LEARN and HAVE FUN!</div>
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<li>1) So it was one busy Bireme out there and yes - some people can be that silly<br /><a href="http://forum.en.grepolis.com/showthread.php?34290-Epic-Fails" target="_blank">Source</a><br />
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GROMs advice: Escort your transport ships with Light Ships dude and leave at least 1 Bireme protecting your city, who knows what fortune has for us... When I was dodging attacks I was also leaving 1 Bireme behind, some people can be very generous ;) I also love that he used Heroic Power but didnt think about LS lol</div>
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GROMs advice: DONT DO THAT lol seriously, LS cant defend; you cant see attacks heading a ghost town duh! So if you really want to "hide" your LS like this, chose a city where you can see incoming attacks but better just send them for a trip to attack enemy city or your own one when going to sleep. </div>
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This is the most fundamental and important guide you should read if you want to play better in Grepolis. This is an online war game and winning battles against other players is one of the most important things you should master if you want to rule in this virtual world. Understanding roles of all army units, their attributes, strong and weak points is crucial if you want to win battles and wars. You must know which unit serves what purpose. Each of them have a specific role in the game. In this guide I will describe them quickly and tell how to use them. </div>
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