Best Parish Layout for Age IV

[Carazco]

Hello,
I've found the best parish layout for Age IV. Most of the credit goes to ReiAtur, I just modified it to fit more. This Layout concentrates on military buildings and castle structures.

THE LAYOUT

Spoiler! :

This layout includes:
1 Architect's Guild


1 Sergeants at Arms Office


1 Military School/Town Hall/Church (Whatever you want from these three, but I don't recommend town hall)


20 Barracks (500 troops)


1 Ballista Maker


1 Siege Engineer's Guild


1 Castellan's House


1 Archery Range


1 Pikeman's Drill Yard


2 Production Guilds/1 Tunnellor's Guild + Turret Maker/1 Guild + Tunnellor's Guild/1 Guild + Turret Maker
or
17 Supply Depot + 1 Stable/18 Supply Depot (There is only 17 Supply Depot and no stable in the image but the other one will fit next to the Woodcutter's Guild)


??? Statues

[DekeYoungAtlanta]

I have deleted the military academies from my parishes. Bombards are ineffective.

However if you build the military academy first, build the bombards and delete the military academy, the bombards remain in your villages.

Still, I have yet to see any benefit while defending.

- Deke

[Lord Darko900]

Hi DEKE -

I didn't start the thread i just returned to the game a few months ago and picked World-4 and noticed lots of parish's have been intentionally destroyed by people from other servers, from what i have been recently told....

actually those parishes destroyed by other server people are only few parishes in Oxfordshire any other parish outside of oxfordshire was destroyed by W4 players themselve

[Unknownhost]

one thing to note.


you do NOT, need a castellians house beyond age 1 when a parish is effectively "done" flag raiding. so much wasted space out there collectively with this unneeded building.

nor do you need a stable master.

what are you worried about in age4...that they will steal your flags?=p rofl, no flag sinks inc in age 5 either so get ready for 300+ flag parishes unless firefly gets its head out of it keyster.

these buildings do virtually nothing to stop gold raids, certainly not by any competent player. even then if by some miracle the first hit fails, the second hit wont if they know what they are doing=p



you do want a church, also, lets not be newbie. bombards are highly effective when paired with moat, but its a ton of trouble bothering with them in 1 village held parishes, unless, you are going to upgrade them through pillaging.


this layout is an efficient use of space, very much so. but to any new players reading this, don't take its multiple mistakes as shk gospel.

[HappyHour224]

agree with unknown for the most part

bombards are pretty effective, but they are difficult to level so unless you have 3+ village in that parish they may not be worth the effort

that said, i have found that when castles are filled with 3 bombards, 15 ballista, and 15 turrents, along with multiple smelters and 400+ moat, the castle turns into a very soft target.

luckily there is not a right answer for these kinds of things, otherwise itd standardize the game even more than it is and make it boring

[DekeYoungAtlanta]

Happy,

Please forward me a battle report that shows bombards as effective. In my battle reports, the bombards target irrelevant troops and I do not see them inflicting significant casualties.

My experience is that Ballista and Turrets are effective and Bombards a waste of parish footprint.

Deke = DekeYoungAtlanta

[Unknownhost]

deke, do some testing


bombards target captain first. thats pretty relevant in my book!


otherwise they do suck.. unless! unless...you pair them with deep moat. then they shine by annihilating troops trying to dig through that moat.


as far a them killing troops. not what they are actually for. their damage is seemingly based upon a troops life bar. a full hp troop gets reduced by about half or more. but the second, or even third hit, generally doesn't kill the troop. but a pile of troops, pikemen especially, being reduced by half life from even 1 hit dies to alot less arrows than they would have eaten.