Alt City Trap

To go along with what George and Taem said, another way to defend against this is to have someone be attacking your city in the event of an ambush. Have a friend or someone you know attack the city with your troops that is attacking send 1 cat to the city so that in an event such as yours, the ambusher would have to wait his attack + 10 minutes, allowing you plenty of time to hunt and gather your bearings if to attack back. Plus this means the person warped and wasted 20 coins (or 40 if he warps away again) for nothing

That's a really good idea. I haven't been alt ambushed, but now I know what to do to prevent it. Thanks!

To go along with what George and Taem said, another way to defend against this is to have someone be attacking your city in the event of an ambush. Have a friend or someone you know attack the city with your troops that is attacking send 1 cat to the city so that in an event such as yours, the ambusher would have to wait his attack + 10 minutes, allowing you plenty of time to hunt and gather your bearings if to attack back. Plus this means the person warped and wasted 20 coins (or 40 if he warps away again) for nothing

Good advice along with the others

One thing about the ambush....whether the person being ambushed is prepared or not, it is very difficult to pull off and precise timing is necessary. In the end, it's much easier to just scout pres and hit it rather than try and ambush someone for the simple fact that there are too many uncontrollable factors to make it an efficient use of coins.

I believe it to be a very effective defensive tactic (if you're prepared and get attacked), but to simply wait for the oppurtunity to ambush someone would not be a tactic commonly employed by the best generals.

@George: While not contesting that your server activity may be at an all time low, I doubt it's due to this tactic.

Out of the thousands of pres hits I've attempted, I could count on one hand the amount of times I've warped a city only to attack a target that had attacks stacked on it (though it is EXTREMELY annoying). The tactic is simply too unreliable for this to be the case.

Some servers are very different from others , and certain tactics are contagious , I can count on one hand the times I attacked someone and they were NOT stacked.

I would like to know who you attacked and who attacked you as me and my mate use an account called ponzo43 to hit people on the return. Best thing to do is to pin yourself for ten mins

Following on with their ideas if noone is available
To attack because most friends are same ally a lot the time
Have a city that's within 3:15min away dispatch a single cat
That has a march time of <10 min so anyone that does warp
Just ends up being stacked behind your dispatch, but
With that they will end up fighting your dispatch so just
Do the single cat, you can also do a single of each troop
If you have Lvl 10 turrets and set them up so they lose
More troops...


With this post isn't answering if time dropping someone
Using your alt is fair play or a dirty tactic!