Combat Speed Explained As there are 6 important stats in place we all know 3 by heart.

1) Defense

2) Attack

3) Range

Remaining 3 stats are overlooked by many but are nevertheless important.

4) Life

5) Combatspeed

6) Accuracy

*For now spell caster rules have not been added to the 6 rule principle.

Combat Speed explained in Buff & Debuff: “Battle starts with each opposing forces facing each other at a distance set by the side with the

highest range troops or wall defenses.

At the beginning of each turn, the system checks to see if each of your troop types are in range

of the closest enemy. If they are in range, they attack. The enemy troops do the same, at the

same time.

The closest enemy is decided not just by distance but also by their threat of range. This means

The highest range enemy is always targeted first in the first round of combat. The exception

to this is if Siegewalls are present

If not in range and still alive, your troops move forward according to their Combat Speed. The

enemy troops do the same, at the same time.

This continues until all troops on one side are dead or until 100 Combat Rounds have been

fought. Any surviving troops go home.

Combat Speed does nothing except move the troops forward. It is not involved in the battle

calculation for any other reason. It’s effectiveness is limited solely to slowing the enemy troops

down (CS Debuff) or speeding yours up (CS Buff).

You would normally only use Combat Speed Buff if your enemy has higher range and you

want to close the gap between you and them fast. This has the benefit of cutting the number

of rounds your troops get attacked without your troops being able to engage the enemy.

Obviously, if you are the higher range player, then you want to add as much Combat Speed

Debuff to slow your enemy down for the opposite reasons.

When you have Range advantage, slowing your enemy’s advance can also be done using troops

as blockers. Blockers are troops that are sent in front of the range troops to stop the enemy in its

tracks, the enemy must kill these troops before they can move further forward. This allows your

range troops to continue killing.

The reason you want to avoid your range troops getting in range of the enemy is that they tend

to have low Life and Defense stats. This means they die fast once in direct contact.

Troops with high Defense and Life Stats are more effective blockers and the higher the

numbers, the more likely they are to hold off the attackers. Blockers are combated best by high

troop numbers with high attack stat.

The cap for Combat Speed is currently set at between 375% and -50% but the higher the better

as long as it does not compromise the rest of your Throne Room.”

(combatspeed txt by Giantari)

So You can use Combat Speed to counter range? Yes. The Combat speed CAP is TWICE the

size of the RANGE CAP. Realistically you can apply Combatspeed in BUFF or DEBUFF in ANY

TR. Using CS to your advantage end even enhance the TR to have better results in battle.

Again some simple examples.

1) You attack with Horsed Troops ( Lcav/Hcav/Hussar). You want to apply CS Buff

2) You Defend with Range Troops you want to apply CS Debuff.

3) You defend with Scouts/Cav you want to Apply CS Buff.

So Where do you find CombatSpeed in Cards. What we show is GENERAL combatspeed, that

applies to ALL troops. Horsed Combat Speed is a UNIT Specific combat speed that ONLY

benefits Horsed Troops ( Lcav/Hcav/Hussar). You can mix them.

2000 combatspeed + 2000 Horsed Combat Speed will give you:

2000 Cs for ALL troops

4000 cs for Horsed Troops ( 2000+2000)

The combinations are endless, but you should use as much GENERAL combat speed as possible

and COMPLIMENT with Specific Combat Speed.

Troop Specific Combat Speed

Of Course CS also exists in Champion Cards. So having CS in champion is a benefical factor too.

But we will address the Champion & CS in another tutorial. Lets just concentrate 1st on CS in

the Throne Room Stats.

Combat Speed BUFF

Combat Speed Debuff

Combat Speed Debuff + Buff

There are a lot of cards as well with just 1 line of CS buff or Debuff. Useful also and they can

add to the overall count combined with these cards.

Below is a collection of Graphs and stats that BadOmen did,explaining combat speed vs

other troops:

In the charts below are the Combat Speed vs. Range comparisons for Cavalry versus Archers,

Ballista and Catapults. The numbers under the column labeled "Number of Rounds To Close

Gap" are the numbers of rounds spent JUST MOVING. Your troops would attack in the

following round. This also equates to the number of "free shots" that your opponent would

get while you move...plus one extra as they would attack first in the round that your troops get

to attack back.

Notice, that pre-Throne Room(0% bonus for both sides), the best you could hope for was

facing a minimum of 3 rounds of attacks before you could attack back (2 spent traveling and

one during your attack round). HOWEVER, with the Throne Room...you have the ability to

knock one of those free shots off...and, thanks to the cap system..you can eliminate their

ability to get any more than 2 free shots...meaning that Range has actually been made less-

effective by the Throne Room.

Cavalry have a Range of 100...and a Speed of 1000.

To figure out how many rounds it would take before you can attack back, you have to consider

both values. The Speed attribute gets them so far...and then the Range gives them an extra

100 spaces.

Look at the line where the Cavalry have a 0% Bonus, leaving their Speed at 1000...and the

Archers have a 75% Bonus, making their Range 2100.

In the first round, the Archers attack and the Cavalry move forward 1000 spaces. Leaving them

still 1100 spaces away. Even with the extra 100 spaces for their Range...they are still 1000

spaces away...too far to attack back.

In round 2, the Archers attack again, and the Cavalry move forward another 1000 spaces,

which puts 100 spaces away from the Archers...with a Range of 100...this means that the can

attack in the next round.

In round 3, the Archers get to attack first again, but this time...the Cavalry get to attack back.

= 2 rounds to close the gap...they attack in 3rd.

SPEED vs. RANGE: Heavy Cavalry vs. Archers, Ballista and

Catapults

when dealing with Heavy Cavalry vs. Ballista/Catapults, without any Range modifiers at

all...you can still reduce their Range advantage to what it was pre-Throne Room(2). In order to

drop them below the pre-Throne Room value...you would need to Debuff them to a 100%

Range difference.

10% range = 27% CS

20% range = 54% CS

30% range = 81% CS

40% range = 108% CS

50% range = 135% CS

60% range = 162% CS

70% range = 189% CS

80% range = 216% CS

90% range = 243% CS

100% range = 270% CS

: Sharing is knowledge, and a lot of players are not sharing. Yes

it gives you and edge, or advantage, but it leaves also many people clueless. The objective of

these tutorials, is to teach, learn, educate players so ALL players have a better under

understanding of the game. The more players participate, the better the overall experience is

for all players. More attacking and defending means “lively” domains full of activity.

Pls learn the difference between general

buffs/debuffs and specific buff/debuffs.

GENERAL BUFFS/DEBUFFS

( INFLUENCING ALL TROOPS/TROOPTYPES)

- ACCURACY debuff decreases the accuracy of all enemy troops

- ACCURACY buff Increasess the accuracy of all your troops

- ATTACK increases the attack of all troops

- ATTACK debuff decreases the attack of all enemy troops.

- BONUS ON DEFENSE TO PvP increases attack and defense in the defense against another

player

- BONUS ON OFFENSE TO PvP increases attack and defense when attacking another player

- COMBAT SPEED increases the combat speed of all troops

- COMBAT SPEED debuff decreases the speed of combat troops opposing

- DEFENSE increases the defense of all troops

- DEFENSE debuff decreases defense of all enemy troops

- RANGE increases the reach of all troops

- RANGE DEBUFF decreases the range of all enemy troops

- LIFE increases the life of all troops

- LIFE DEBUFF decreases the life of all enemy troops

- LOAD increases the load capacity of all troops

- LOAD DEBUFF reduces the volume load of all the enemy troops

- MARCH SIZE increases the sending of troops for each run (run size)

- MARCH SPEED increases the driving speed of all troop types

SPECIFIC BUFFS/DEBUFFS

( INFLUENCING SPECIFIC TROOPS/TROOPTYPES)

- CHANCE TO FIND ITEMS IN DARK forests increases the probability of finding an element in

the dark forest

- CHANCE TO FIND ITEM IN PVP increases the probability of finding an element when

attacking another player

- BONUS Vs. BARARIAN CAMPS increases attack and defense when attacking the barbarians

- BONUS Vs. DARK Forests increased attack, defense and life when you attack dark forests

- BONUS Vs. Wilds increases attack and defense when attacking the wilds

- BARRIERS TO BONUS spiked increases life and defense of the barriers with spikes

- BONUS TO TRAPS increases the attack of the traps

- BONUS TO WALL increases life and defense of the walls

- BONUS TO WALL MOUNTED increased attack, defense, life and range of crossbows and

trebs mounted on the walls

- HORSED ACCURACY BONUS increases the range of your horse mounted units - HORSED

ACCURACY BONUS debuff decreases the range of enemy cavalry

- HORSED ATTACK increases the attack of the Cavalry and Heavy Cavalry

- HORSED ATTACK DEBUFF decreases the enemy cavalry attack

- HORSED COMBAT SPEED increases the combat speed of cavalry

- HORSED COMBAT SPEED DEBUFF decreases the speed of enemy cavalry

- HORSED DEFENSE increases the defense of cavalry

- HORSED- HORSED LIFE increases the life of cavalry

- HORSED LIFE DEBUFF decreases the life of the enemy cavalry

- HORSED LOAD increases the load capacity of the cavalry

- HORSED LOAD DEBUFF reduces the volume load of enemy cavalry

- INFANTRY ACCURACY BONUS increases the range of the infantry (scouts, supply troops,

spearmen, swordsmen, pikes)

- INFANTRY ACCURACY BONUS DEBUFF diminishes the range of enemy infantry

- INFANTRY ATTACK increases the attack of the infantry

- INFANTRY ATTACK DEBUFF decreases the attack of enemy infantry

- INFANTRY COMBAT SPEED increases the speed of combat infantry

- INFANTRY COMBAT SPEED DEBUFF decreases enemy infantry speed during combat

- INFANTRY DEFENSE increases the defense of the infantry

- INFANTRY DEFENSE debuff decreases defense of enemy infantry

- INFANTRY LIFE increases the life of the infantry

- INFANTRY LIFE DEBUFF decreases the life of the enemy infantry

- RANGED ACCURACY BONUS increases the range of the archers (range type)

- RANGED DEBUFF ACCURACY BONUS output decreases the range of the opponents archers

- RANGED ATTACK increases the attack of the archers

- RANGED ATTACK DEBUFF decreases the attack of the opponents archers

- RANGED DEFENSE increases ranged defense archers

- RANGED DEFENSE DEBUFF decreases defense of opponents archers

- RANGED LIFE increases the life of the archers

- RANGED LIFE DEBUFF decreases the life of the archers opponents

- RANGED RANGE increases the range of the archers

- RANGED RANGE DEBUFF decreases the range of the opponents archers

- SCOUT SPEED MARCH increases the running speed of your scouts

- SIEGE ACCURACY increases the range of siege weapons (catapults, rams ballistae)

- SIEGE ACCURACY DEBUFF decreases the range of enemy siege weapons

- SIEGE ATTACK increases the attack of weapons of siege

- SIEGE ATTACK DEBUFF decreases attack of enemy siege weapons

- SIEGE COMBAT SPEED increases the combat speed of weapons of siege

- SIEGE COMBAT SPEED DEBUFF decreases the combat speed of enemy siege

- SIEGE LOAD increases the carry load of siege weapons

- SIEGE LOAD DEBUFF decreases the carry load of enemy siege weapons

- SIEGE RANGE increases the range of weapons of siege

- SIEGE RANGE DEBUFF decreases the range of enemy siege weapons