Camp Blocking Technique.

At Alpha Knights we pretty much kept a lot of secrets to ourselves and made guides for every adventure optimized to its fullest that we know by looking at multiple german guides and coming up with our own that we found is the absolute best path to lose the least # of recruits. These are all benefits from joining a guild that has veteran people. On top of that there is a technique called blocking.

A good adventure to try this is Horseback. If you do blocking on horseback out of small adventures it is the best ROI for recruit death per xp as you only lose recruits for small adventures. #2 is SFTR.

Due to demand i've decided to release these videos to the public I made a long time ago for everyone in the AK Guild.

Part1 was not uploaded: as it just showed when u go to horseback transfer right away to the other side.

Part 2: Position to take out middle camps: After you take out the first two camps that it shows, this opens up a very sneaky path to hit the middle leader without hitting any other camps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6k5lv_17nI

Part 3: Blocking the leader camp: All about positioning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0Qo-BBQ-Q

Part 4: Blocking another leader camp:All about positioning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXElT-qbtw


Why block? It saves you on this adventure 120 troops? 120 troops cost time and resources to put together.

Watch these videos as this will save you a lot of troops.

BTW. If you kill the leader camps all other camps are killed automatically and you get credit for the XP. so when do adventures dont waste your time killing other camps.. u are just throwing resources away. Make sure you try and find the ultimate path to hit the leader camp to skip other camps.

Note that as the Germans point out, under times of high load blocking may not work because the server isn't fast enough; and you may lose all your troops!

I did find it harder to block because of server latency issues when I began the tutorials but since january its been very easy to block. They also put in the 3 seconds u can retreat which i think now gives you more time to block.

Its a lot easier today then it was before.. Also they may of made server upgrades? not sure. but its a lot easier.

Awesome!
This is great.
There is a post questioning the legality of blocking, but having seen these videos, I am convinced that this is simply a very clever tactic.
Kudos Dynamite.
lease hurry up and release videos for all the adventures. :P

forum.castleempireonline.com/threads/14241-quot-Blocking-quot-legal

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BTW. If you kill the leader camps all other camps are killed automatically and you get credit for the XP. so when do adventures dont waste your time killing other camps.. u are just throwing resources away. Make sure you try and find the ultimate path to hit the leader camp to skip other camps.

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Do you know if this applies to clearing sectors on your island? Do you only get xp and no loot?

Heh these are familiar... You don't actually show the second block which is infinitely harder to land. Maybe people will catch on and learn how to finally read the german wiki so they can stop posting terrible terrible guides that are filling our current CEO forum.

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Do you know if this applies to clearing sectors on your island? Do you only get xp and no loot?

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Yes you get exp but no loot. The loot is quite irrelevant though and even on sector 9 where you may get 300 gold randomly from camps its just a drop in the bucket compared to the gold you'll need to spend to progress.

It's a valid tactic in real life and I believe adds a bit of depth and complexity to the game. Well done on the vids Dynamite.

This deserves a spot on the CEO Guide List

I tried this technique in traitor to block 2 camps in front the castle, never succeeded. :(
any other tips??

The time of day matters a bit, you have to get the timing right and during busy server times the maneuvers are relayed to the server more slowly. (take the BB trivias for example... the devs screen look completely different from everyone elses) Server lag will jack your timings up and you're probably better off doing blocks during off peak hours.

don't forget that it only works with normal generals

It only works with normal generals? What do you mean?
Is that why I couldn't get it to work with my battle hardened generals?...I don't see how that would make a difference though.

It does work with any kind of General, but the battle hardened General does fight faster, so your timing has to be perfect. I'd recommend sending a regular general with 1 recruit, 1 bowmen and 1 militia as that gives you around 8 seconds of fighting. That why your timing doesn't have to be that perfect.

Basically you want the blocking general to hit the camp before your main general gets into its aggro range. Timing is important since he has to get past that aggro range w/o agroing himself and start engaging the other camp. The newer block techniques that have been coming out with advanced blocking are a bit safer once you work out the path timings though.

What are these "newer blocking techniques?" can you tell us how it works or point to a guide?

Get chrome or load a translator onto your tool bar and go to the german site. When you actually start looking at all the tactic cards it will have a legend that says whether it uses reg blocks or advanced blocking. You'll have to do manual translations for text on images though. It's worth it if you don't want to run the half *** adventure guides written in the US forums.

Had what looked like a successful block, as both camps were engaged. I went away from the screen, to find out that the blocking camp had lost as expected, but my main force left it's fight to move to the blocking camp. Looking back (replays) it evidently never was really engaging the main camp even though the graphic showed it was. So trying to save a few hundred recruits costs me almost as many soldiers.

What is the magic number for blocking size, and how to you know that your blocking is actually working. I really thought my main force was engaging the main camp. I had already aborted two attempts because I could tell the that the main force was there to early.

why learn to read a german wiki? XD translate it with google you tards, DUH!

here's another suggestion, try standing ur general at the very outside of the aggro range, the leader camps can only be so far inside that aggro range right? well, send in ur dummy gen. when he gets a little closer then the 1 standing at the aggro range limit, to the blocking camp, send your main force in to the leader camp

BTW, Im still level 10 an solved that, all that timing stuff is stupid. why time stuff 30 secs apart when you can make the window of opportunity larger?

J-Ray, "standing your general at the very outside of the aggro range" is rarely an option. There are "zones" that you have to stand in. If the safe zone is far away from the camp you're attacking then you have to stand far away. It was a good idea, but 99% of the time it's not an option.

So much for blocking.

Blocking still works on this adventure.

Which one?

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Blocking still works on this adventure.

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Horseback

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here's another suggestion, try standing ur general at the very outside of the aggro range, the leader camps can only be so far inside that aggro range right? well, send in ur dummy gen. when he gets a little closer then the 1 standing at the aggro range limit, to the blocking camp, send your main force in to the leader camp

BTW, Im still level 10 an solved that, all that timing stuff is stupid. why time stuff 30 secs apart when you can make the window of opportunity larger?

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How awesome that a level 10 player figured out that everything we've been doing is stupid! Here's an idea, STFU until you've actually DONE some of the stuff you're talking about. Until then, you have no credibility and just make yourself look like a fricking idiot.

YeOldeMan woke up on the wrong side of Ye Olde Bed

I think I tried to make my name YeGrumpyOldeMan but it was too long.

I don't do well with stupid, either. And that's true morning, 'noon & night.

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i think i tried to make my name yegrumpyoldeman but it was too long.

I don't do well with stupid, either. And that's true morning, 'noon & night.

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lol

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Horseback

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It doesnt work for me anymore , maybe Im just not doing it right the "new" way?

great videos,

perhaps you can tell me how to determine or estimate the length of the battle in seconds and what the length of the battle depends on

in other words what is the least amount of time that 7 round loosing battle can last

http://settlersonlinesimulator.com/d...pfsimulator/us - check the "Longest Fight" option when looking at a camp.