Nohc's Strat Page

[Nohc]

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Beatles' Amazing Indy Strat</span>

Server: BFR
Testing Time:
2,695 Turns Used.
April 5th to 8th.
About 3.74 days.

Money: 1.2 billion.
Food: 196 million.
Troops:
Mice: 28 million.
Squirrels: 13.1 million
Hares: 12.7 million.
Otters: 5.9 million.

Link to strat here.

Notes:
This is a very good indy strat because you don't have to worry about running out of food, and you can produce large amounts of troops. If you are going to take all of your troops of the market at the end of a run, build up a strong hawk defense. Otherwise, build as many huts as indicated only if you plan on killing. If you're probably not going to kill anyone, 10% huts will do. Loyalty should only be used for hawk healing, raising defenses, and preparing raiders. Shrew is probably the best race to pick. If you have a safe amount of excess cash, feel free to build almost all barracks. I wouldn't advise selling troops on the Bazaar unless you are going to run out of cash and food very quickly, or you have a ton of troops on the market already and you're losing too much cash. If you're low on resources, sell a few troops and change much of your barracks to foragers. Selling food will be your main source of imcome. Remember that putting troops on the public market lowers costs by a lot. At the end of each run, sell most of your food so that people don't steal it, and buy stocks that you think will go up. If you are in a clan, use the Treasury for your food. Put as many troops as you can on the public market when you're out of turns to lower losses if someone murders you.

[Nohc]

Eh, could someone move this to the classroom or something?

[The Beatles]

Yes, but before, a brief note. On some games, it is not possible to make all your money by selling food, and on those I generally produce my cash from troop selling. Troop-selling can be very profitable, on FAF too, except that it caps out after a certain amount of troops. If you reach a certain number of troops on only so much land, your barracks will not make more troops than you need to sell to keep up the ones you have. Until then though, you can use troop selling.

[Nohc]

Thanks. I changed a little in the post about selling troops.

[ohmyjapan16]

Ok I got a question. Say you have 35 mil mice aleady and about 1 mil each hares and otters and abot 700k squirrels, but you have 39.5 bil in stocks... is that enough to get that big of an army?

[Zephyrus]

You have this much already?
Wow, I'm far behind.

[ohmyjapan16]

You have this much already?
Wow, I'm far behind.

If you're talking to me, I died so that's what I had when I died and I wanted to know if it could match Nohc's army. Nohc, do you store your troops on the market?

[Nohc]

I got so much mainly by taking advantage of how much land is in the game.

I do use markets, most of my troops were on the market.

Well, rats cost a default of 400, so you could buy 40 million rats with your 40 bil. That's 20 squirrels, or 10 mil hares, and 6 2/3 mil otters I think... but money's much more flexible than troops. Also, you could get more troops than what I said if you bought them at a cheaper price or if you used barracks to produce your troops.

[Zephyrus]

If you were to do a split of:
30 market
20 tent
30 barrack
10 forager
10 hut
That would be what you're aiming for?

(edit) Oops. We need grain in that recipie.

[The Beatles]

No, no, NO!
You saw "Beatles' Amazing Indy Strat". What part of markets are evil didn't you understand? Barracks make the more cash in proportion if you sell troops.

[Zephyrus]

The 'barracks are sometimes self-destructive and Urran believes market stability makes up for lack of gain' part.

[The Beatles]

Aha. Well let me express my regret from the paper-cutters-are-self-destructive-when-improperly-used-too-dept. and the i-don't-care-what-urran-thinks-about-this-dept.

[Zephyrus]

The right-to-differing-opinion department insists this stay, and the there-exist-viable-alternatives department believes in its future.
[asleep, 10% conscious, 12:15 pm here, go figure]

[The Beatles]

The Flat-Earth-Theory-is-a-viable-alternative Society salutes you!

[Ruddertail]

Er, on topic please? Discussion markets fits, discussing random scocieties doesn't...