How To Conquer A County Successfully (Translation from a Chinese guide)

Hey all, this is something about how to conquer a county in Chinese, which Smexy found and I tried to translate some of that so it will be helpful. I do not take any responsibility for mistranslation! So use it with care. Anyone who has better Chinese than me, please feel free to make the necessary changes. The original article is found here: http://sg.uuyx.com/bbs/page/Viewthread.aspx?forum_id=91&post_id=106889

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A commonly asked question is how much troops are needed to conquer a county. This maybe something that you can consider:
10,000 ?
30,000 swordmen
80,000-100,000 archers
6,000 rams

Because different players have different playing style, the type and amount of troops will differ. But if your investment technology is low, you would have to bring more troops.

However, what happens if you don’t have enough food in your 6 cities to feed all the above troops? You can try this tactic (Northstar’s translation, lol) called “sudden troop burst or STB”. What does STB mean? For example, if you intend to send troops out to conquer a county in 100 hours, you need to calculate how many troops you can make at near 100 hours (ie 100 hours +1 or -1 hour so as to minimise negative food growth).
If you have 6 cities and 9 barracks in each each, total of 54 barracks.

1) 30 of barracks are level 4 and can make 3000 archers each in 100 hours, then you will have a total of 90k archers in 100 hours.
2) 16 of the barracks are level 9 and can make 230 rams each in 100 hours, then you will have a total of 3220 rams in 100 hours
3) 10 of the barracks are levl 3 and can make 4000 swordmen each in 100 hours, then you will have a total of 40k swordmen at end of 100 hours

Hence you will only need 3k rams, 20k archers and 1k (?) before you use STB

Some people say to do STB you need a lot of resources. This is true, you need to prepare yourself with lots of resources and buy from market.

Some other people also say you will need a lot of population to create that many troops at one go. You can use appease -> regen population to do this.

(There’s a long para on technology and trebs, which I don’t understand at all so if anyone can help, will be appreciated)

What are the steps to conquer a county then? First you maraud, the county will send all troops except rams to meet your army outside the country. Try to win without losing any troops. Second step is to maraud again, to make sure all the enemy’s army completely destroyed. Then you conquer – from this conquer battle onwards, you need to conquer continuously without break and must win, cannot draw or lose, and keep attacking for 9 hours until allegiance is 0% and you take over the county.

What happens to the enemy troops in terms of regeneration? After your first maraud, and if you keep attacking, the number of troops that regen will not bother you that much. It is the fortifications (ie traps, barricades, rolling logs, archery towers and the wall’s HP) that are troublesome – it is the fortifications that make it very difficult to conquer. If there’s a short time gap between your attacks, or if you draw or lose any battles in between, the fortifications will recover quickly. The example given was that in one of the battle, this chap bought 1200 trebs and 160 rams, and realized that the 1200 trebs could not take out the walls, only the rams and drew the round. The next round he sent out his troops, archery towers had increased by another 2,000 and the other fortifications recovered. Hence when you attack a county, there cannot be any break or loss/draw battles in between. If there are not time gap between your attacks, the fortifications recovery rate is only 5% to 10% max.

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