Best way to get my Networth up?

[Zelnen]

Ok i was just wondering what's the best way to get my networth value up?

[Ruddertail]

Well, at current, the best source of NW is troops. However, don't get too many troops, or you'll kill your economy. You'll need land to generate the troops, feed them, and pay them if you want to increase in size and strength.

[Zelnen]

Well, at current, the best source of NW is troops. However, don't get too many troops, or you'll kill your economy. You'll need land to generate the troops, feed them, and pay them if you want to increase in size and strength.

Ok so how exactly do i feed them? How do i pay them ect, and when you say troops is the best way to get NW should i buy them or recruit them?

[Ruddertail]

You need money to pay them, and food to feed them. Food is gained through foragers or by hawk foraging. Cash can be gained through markets and tents, or by hawk looting, or by selling food/troops.

However, only people running hawk strat, a strat where you go almost 100% huts and use hawks for everything, can hawk loot/forage. Markets are fairly inefective at higher NWs, unless you're using a casher strat, which is one of the harder strats out there, so you probably don't want to try it.

Thus you're pretty much stuck with getting food from foragers, and cash from either food selling or troop selling. Since food selling is probably the easier of the two, that's the way you want to go for now.

As far as getting troops, unless you hawk, cash, or agrarian (a strategy that depends on food selling and buying troops) you'll want to make your troops through barracks. I find the best build to be 60% Barracks, 10% Huts (so people can't murder you too easilly, and not just anybody can espy you), and 30% foragers. Beatles likes to go 50% Barracks, 25% Huts, and 25% Foragers. Run something to that effect.

You'll make plenty of extra food which you can sell to support your troops. I'd run 100% of your attacking troop right off the bat. After a while, you can start making some other troops. When you do, sell as many of these as you can on the bazzar at the start of each run, then make them back toward the end. Always make sure you have plenty of your attacking troop. Taking land should be your first prority, holding land is a lot harder.

[Zelnen]

Ok that helped a lot, i'll go put some of that into action!