Fortresses and Bases (Advanced)

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## **FORTRESSES**

### What is a fortress?

A fortress is a base designed to give a higher degree of protection than the basic bases. It comprises your king being surrounded by rocks in way that nobody can kill your king without first blowing up the rocks around. All Fortresses can more or less be put into 2 categories.

### Two types of fortresses

#### BASIC FORTRESS

###### Advantages:

1. The basic fortress supports an aggressive passive gameplay (where the player ventures far out with the army killing everyone in the way without caring whether his/her king is under attack or not) for getting quick points.
2. Accidental death (getting killed while hiding in bushes due to casual venturing of enemy pieces) is avoided.
3. The base can be set up within few minutes of spawning.
4. In case that you lose all your raiding pieces you can easily spawn a knight in front of the king and get out to raid a gain.

###### Disadvantages:

1. The fortress is very obvious in nature and thus prone to attacks by other players ( primarily raiders).
2. You won't be alerted if an enemy player (intentionally) bombs your base and starts moving towards your king.

#### ADVANCED FORTRESS

( Equipping the basic fortress with an additional layer of security)

###### Advantages:

1. Like the basic fortress it also supports an aggressive passive gameplay and prevents accidental death.
2. The fortress design is in a way that an attacking player will unintentionally kill one of your five guard pieces while trying to reach your king thus alerting you(Keep an eye on your army alive on the field on the top right corner). No other way of breaking into without making a kill is possible.
3. This base provides an optimum use of 10 pieces. (Taking 9 pieces together for an attack is not a nice gameplay).
4. This base is particularly useful against large armies attacking the base and also for defending an attack from all sides.
5. The guard pieces can also spawn armies thus creating more room for new pieces than the basic fortress.
6. Provides an easy kill in the case of accidental death of one of your guard pieces ( usually a recently spawned king).
7. As a last resort, if you feel that the attacking player is too strong and may soon overwhelm your pieces, you can al so evacuate your king by blowing up your own base from the farthest side of the most heavily attacked area. ( This is not possible in case of basic fortress).

###### Disadvantages:

1. Like the basic fortress due to its obvious nature,it is prone to attacks.
2. A very costly base to set up and maintain. (Requiring atleast an eight piece army and lots of spare pieces in the inventory).
3. Due to chances of accidental death of the guard pieces it gives a false alarm thus delaying your raiders by a few seconds. Regular false alarms can be irritating and may allow enemy pieces to escape your raiders. ( This is not applicable in case of basic fortress).

#### So which fortress to choose ?

Certainly the advanced fortress is a much better option in the long run, but if your aim is raise a huge score in a short time by passive gameplay then basic fortress is the right option for you. Also, shortly after spawning, you may build the basic fortress and then gradually upgrade it into an advanced fortress as your score and gold increases.

### Improving The Fortresses

Now That one knows what Fortresses are, one might also want to know how to improve these fortresses. There are many ways, only a few are written here. Feel free to use your imagination!

#### Improving Basic Fortresses

Basic Fortresses can be improved into Advanced Fortresses in the long run, but just like pokemon, you need to upgrade many times before evolving intro an Advanced Fortress. (Pokemon need to upgrade many times before evolving)

* A Very cunning trick is to make a basic fortress, and near it, another fortress. The bigger fortress will be empty and the smaller one will contain the king. Many players will be fooled into attacking the bigger fortress, and when they find nothing, they'll lose the heart to search in the smaller fortress!
* Keeping a few rooks in nearby bushes can be valuable. Using the Map-Vision Alert, which states that if a piece is in the vision of any of your pieces, it'll show up in the map. The Rook's High Vision will certainly warn of any danger.
* Keeping a few tiles empty can help. If your opponent actually destroys you base, you can ***bomb your way out from the other Side!*** And Theres some chance of you getting away outside your base and no chance of you surviving inside your base.
* More people are in the middle where there is more crates and queen spawners. Putting your base on the edge or corner lowers the amount of people who will come in contact and could try to destroy it. It also provides less places to put bombs and to attack from making it easier to defend.

#### Improving Advanced Fortresses

Advanced Fortresses are not really open to improvement, however, there are a few ways

* Add more layers of Rock and Bush. This makes it more obvious, but way more safe.
* Adding more Queens for defense can help, but you can have maximum of 10 pieces.
* This isn't considered strategy, but you can login to another account from another window. Then you can use the pieces of both accounts! This can be considered cheating, so be careful!