How to 0 pop a village efficiently.

Hey guys, this is what I use in times of war. This works only for non-capitals or capitals without a stonemason.
Comments are welcome.

1) Cropkills:
Cropkills are only effective against a player who doesn't use gold heavily. Otherwise, you are much better off crippling a village's production. This takes relatively few catas ( only slightly more than a cropkill) and similar to a cropkill. The crippling is done by sending the first portion of the standard cata sequence. The sequence is as follows:

Hammer +120 catas (res/palace , granary)
120 (MB, warehouse)
120 (market, granary) (Reason for the second granary is that most people will have two. If they don't, it can slightly mess up the rest of your sequence, but if you send all the waves, you will be OK. And it's worth taking this risk because granaries = evil for purposes of crippling a place.)
40 crop/crop
40 crop/crop
40 crop/crop
40 clay/clay
40 clay/clay
40 wood/wood
40 wood/wood
40 iron/iron
40 iron/iron
20 grain mill/bakery
20 iron foundry/sawmill
120 random/random
120 random/random
120 random/random
120 random/random
120 random/random
120 random/random

This sequence will destroy any village of any size, because it covers all possible buildings. By hitting the smaller stuff (fields, bonus buildings) first, you are making sure you use the least possible number of catas to accomplish the goal. If you do not have enough catas for a full sequence, stop right before the random/random sequences begin. If you 4-5 of you are cataing the same village, divide the target buildings amongst each other and target efficiently; it will maximize your damage output.

2) Chiefing:
When chiefing, yes, try to do it in one wave. Assume that your chiefs/chieftains will do 20 damage if the enemy is not much smaller than you, and 17 damage if they are much smaller. Senators will generally drop 25 or 20. So 6-7 chiefs is always safe, and 4-5 senators is always safe.
The key to successful chiefing is to hide it among fake attacks. Chiefing attacks are tough to hide because seeing incomings on the same village from different villages belonging to the same player raises the chief flag immediately. How to avoid this?

Assume you are using 3 villages, village 1 has your hammer and catas and 2 chiefs, villages 2 and 3 have 2 chiefs each.

Send the following waves: (example)
Fake from V1
Fake from V1
Fake from V1
Fake from V1
Fake from V1
Fake from V1
Fake from V1
Hammer+catas aiming at residence+chiefs from V1
Chiefs from V2
Chiefs from V3


Then send waves of 10 fakes at a couple of the victim's other villages (ten, because that's how many total attacks are going out to the actual target).

The key to success here is very simple; RENAME all three of your villages used in the chiefing to the same thing. Call them TK! or ABC or WaRsucks or w/e you want. But make sure ALL THREE VILLAGES HAVE THE IDENTICAL NAME.
In your rally point, you see incoming attacks as attack from [village name]. They will not realize the attacks are from different villages unless they click on all 10 waves individually and note the coordinates. I guarantee you 99% percent of people will not go to that trouble. They will maybe click the first few.

Feel free to ask any questions

= 1360 catas needed.

If the population difference is large enough, then 20 catas will not be enough to reduce a level 10 res field to zero.

BGS wrote:= 1360 catas needed.

If the population difference is large enough, then 20 catas will not be enough to reduce a level 10 res field to zero.

Agreed, but this is more for later in the server. It's meant to be a guide. I used it to 0 pop a 1k village yesterday without wasted attacks.

This is great guide Rows. I was thinking of making one myself but you were faster. Good job.

DZ|CZ

If I could spell "efficiently" it would be even better

Rowsey wrote:

BGS wrote:= 1360 catas needed.

If the population difference is large enough, then 20 catas will not be enough to reduce a level 10 res field to zero.

Agreed, but this is more for later in the server. It's meant to be a guide. I used it to 0 pop a 1k village yesterday without wasted attacks.

On another server, I assume?

A post like this makes him the Alpha male don't you guys agree?

BGS wrote:

Rowsey wrote:

BGS wrote:= 1360 catas needed.

If the population difference is large enough, then 20 catas will not be enough to reduce a level 10 res field to zero.

Agreed, but this is more for later in the server. It's meant to be a guide. I used it to 0 pop a 1k village yesterday without wasted attacks.

On another server, I assume?

LOL, that's what VAO means when he said I have too many catapults!

Wow - very nice. That's great! Which village did you zero pop?

BGS wrote:Wow - very nice. That's great! Which village did you zero pop?

No it really was on another server, I'm 950 catas away from this number here, but give me a week....

Rowsey wrote:

BGS wrote:Wow - very nice. That's great! Which village did you zero pop?

No it really was on another server, I'm 950 catas away from this number here, but give me a week....

Then you'll only be 775 away.