Thoughts about Attack Patterns

In this section, i will give some thoughts on different Attack Patterns.

On Support Attacks (using other than capital armies), it is sometimes good to send fakes also against a single City, instead of targeting only support villages. This will draw attention towards the City, and is hard to ignore. Why a single City and not many of them ? Because if you fake many of them you should fake them all and attack many of them.

On Main Attacks (using capital armies), it is adviceable to always fake Treasuries, and more often than not, not hit them. (But hit the Governors Capitals instead, as each Governor Capital you destroy is one less Hammer that is being used against you.)

On mixing Support and Main Attacks. The patterns of course, are usually good to be mixed, but sometimes it is better to just hit with the exact same patter they were hit before. This is usually the one they except the least.

When conducting Fakes, sometimes mix in some Fakes that have less Troops than others, which might possibly be seen by the opponent who recieves those attacks. This confuses them as it differs from what they are used to. You can do this to real attacks too, mixing some Fakes with them which some of them the opponent will see as Fakes. All kind of confusing patterns, that might or might not be a mistake, will affect the process when the opponent plan their Defenses and sometimes even have a long lasting effect that keeps them on their toes, making them second guess about their understanding on what you do.

There are some Psychological Tricks you can use too, like saying to their King/Queen that you are not going after his/her Treasures, then only fake it being true to your word. They rarely believe what you say and even they would not Answer, they will Read it. At best, this is mixed in with some talk about Honor between the Kings. Because they wont have it, they will never suspect you would.