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The Warehouse Yes or No

I have read a lot of for and against the Warehouse. As a place to store your resources it is virtually useless. Even if you have half a dozen of them you will only store a fraction of your resources and protect them when you are attacked. Mostly I like to keep a minimum of 300mil food in any city as i am using a minimum of 2 mil an hour for troops and this gives me a bit of space if I can't get on for some reason to obtain more food. The only time that a warehouse is of value to you will be if you are attacked by a force that is far greater than yours. In this case you will have food to last for a while so you can apply disaster relief. This will enable you to keep your loyalty above 0 and stop from losing your city. If you have sufficient food in the warehouse and you are on line then you can protect your city even if you have no wall defenses and no troops in the city as long as you can stay awake. If you have food in your warehouse and troops in your city then you can do a lot of damage to the attacking forces. If it is a single attack that is larger than yours then close your gates and save your troops. If the attack is coming in waves close your gates for the main attack then check the troops in each attack wave and open your gates for the one you can defeat. Open you gates when that attack arrives then close the gates again and heal your wounded. You can keep this up and make a huge hole in troop numbers of the attacking player. It does not matter if the player has 10 times your prestige and millions of troops it still works the same. The most he can send at any one time is 125k and he would need a lot of troops to continually run this number of troops at you not to mention the cost of all those War Ensigns. You may get a couple of 125K attacks then after that they will be down to 100k. Think of how nice it would be to wipe out his third attack of 100k troops :) I have seen players lose 300k troops before they realise how stupid they are. Remember that all the advantages are on the side of the defender if they are online. Of course this applies to you also if you are the attacker. Another small trick that I often use when attacked is to send a camp attack straight back to the attacker. Just use a very low hero and 1 warrior with a camp time of a couple hours. This starts their bird flashing and puts doubt in their mind. It is also very annoying for them to see their own bird flashing. Now you have an extra advantage. You know you are being attacked but your attacker does not know if there is a real attack coming or just your lousy 1 warrior camp. Now he has 2 things to watch with the results of his wave attacks and also watch the other screen incase a real attack is launched. Nasty Nasty but effective. If you have other cities or other alliance members are close enough to assist you can launch attacks against your attacker. If you do not have enough troops to defeat him then send many attacks and recall a few seconds before each arrives. This makes it even harder for you attacker. They never know if you are going to continue, send a larger force or pull out. It won't take long before you become such a pain in the a**e than he will quit. Remember while you are sending attacks at him it diminishes the number of troops he can send at you so you have more chance of defeating his smaller and smaller attacks. If you can get a few of your alliance members to assist with attacks in the same way just imagine how confusing it is for your attacker with 20, 30 or more attacks coming his way and always needing to know which ones are large enough to hurt him. A simple word of advice here is that if you cannot get any help from your alliance in this way then it is time to find a new alliance. I am not in an alliance to talk a lot of rot in the chat section for endless hours. I help where I can with advice, resources and defence of alliance members. If you don't get the same then find an alliance that is worth being in. This is really a great game and I love it. It is like a good game of chess but far better. The more you learn the better you will become in both attack and defense so read, read then read some more as there is a lot of information around. If you are not online when attacked then you had better be in an alliance where members will reinforce you and pray that you still have a city when you return. One simple test to see if a player is on line is to send one scout. If that scout comes home then the gates are closed and they are probably off line. Don't count on this though as I often close my gates in this case as I do not mind them knowing that I have 15k tower and 300k or more of troops. The they can have a go at me if they are game especially since they will think I am off line and send the force they think will knock out my wall defenses. Trouble with this of course is the amount of time it takes to clean all the mess off the drive. Just remember this is a game of war and if you don't want war then it is not the game for you so don't take it personally when you are attacked just enjoy being able to defend and beat your enemy no matter how big he is Thanks Mary