It's all about CATS

the way i see it its not about the number of troops or the types of troops but techs, attributes and battlefield strategy

These are all very important factors, but they don't overshadow army size, rather, the strategy will be dictated by the army size.

Not necisarily army sixe will decide whether you enter a battle you can have the biggest army in the world but it could die because of the techs and strategy used.

ive seen 80k cav beat 40k cats with little to no losses

A good general may lose this type of fight, but there's absolutely no excuse for not hitting the cav....that's poor commanding on the cats part

Edit: cats can win this battle, and should never attempt an attack on a cav army like this without using single troops as meatshields.

That's the pure cav army's main weakness. Even a single troop will hold back the whole horde of cavs for a round, and if the enemy is using inf, cav, and archers as blockers, that's an additional three rounds for the cavalry to get pounded. The presence of traps and turrets (cavs can't doubleattack through traps) only serves to expose them to further pounding. Even with archers taking out some of the blockers, the cavs will still be held back.

I agree, a cat army enables you to win with 0 losses (unless there's traps, of course). If commanded correctly and buffed with techs, stats, and items, cats are probably the deadliest unit in the game.

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Cats are definitely the best to use under most circumstances, people develop the cavs and archers combo to counter the overuse of cats. Are they as good in wiping out low levels cleanly? Of course not, but a good cav/archer combo is extremely difficult to counter with a cav/cats combo.

Cavs with max speed and high defense are absolutely deadly against cats, this is actually becoming a more commonly used tactic for the top players and with a large enough horde of cavs, even with a full set of blockers and defenses the cats stand no chance.

Of course there are ways to counter the max defense cavs, which is to reset the stats of the cats army to 0 speed and max attack and fortune. This sort of cat army will be terrible against other cats army that goes for speed but will destroy the cavs army with ease.

At the end of the day, there are no perfect strategy, a good general will adjust their battle tactic based on the opponent they face, so scout your opponent, obtain as much details as you can before launching an attack. I know I do if I see an army which I am unsure about and by the time I launch my actual attack, I am 100% sure that I will be victorious at the end of the battle.

Thank you one and all for this insightful response. I will work on my speed and defence i guess. Hmmm, what is the max for stats.

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100 is the max stat, then +45 for max level equip, +10 for fortune ;then +30 for speed tech (Marching) or +20 for Attack and Defense tech

Archers can be used to take over cats.... Bugbear in mind that about 10k archers=2k cats

13k cav can beat 9k cav and get massive prestige-if a meatshield isn't used.

Cats are your best option if your looking for prestige. If you just want to kill, cav is the best