Taking the Farms

The Balearic slingers were among the first people to inhabit and colonize the Balearic Islands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a quick and easy place to find the techniques for taking the farming villages. The following is the basic way, and then the faster slinger way for use in you later city acquisitions. Also check out my guide on how to take the farms even faster than with slingers by using hoplites, and the Hero Chiron here.

The Basic/Standard Way:

Farm #1,.Use 1 sword or whatever you got as there are no defending units in the first city.

Farm #2,.Use 6 swords to defeat the 1 slinger, the requirements for defeating the farm is 6 farm spaces of units trained, and alive still

Farm #3. Use 10 swords  to defeat 3 archers, the requirements of attacking this farm are 10 farm space.

Farm #4. Use 10 slingers to defeat 60 slingers, the requirements for attacking the farm are 40 farm space (fill with swords).

Farm #5. Use 32 hoplites to defeat 60 swords, with the requirements to attack being 100 farm spaces (fill w/ swords & slingers).

Farm #6. Use15 horsemen to defeat 100 archers, with the requirements to attack being 300 farm spaces (fill w/ swords, & slingers).

Farm #7. Use 140 slingers to defeat 300 slingers, 80 hoplites, and 8 horsemen. The requirements to attack are 600 farm spaces (fill w/ swords, slingers, hoplites, & horsemen).

Farm #8. Use 175 horsemen to defeat 150 swords, 150 archers, 75 hoplites, and a lvl. 20 wall. The requirements to attack are1000 farm spaces (fill w/ whatever till 1000).

The Quicker/Slinger Way:

Use 10 swords or whatever you got for first 3 ( for example you can make like 5 chariots with Zeus) then:

For the 4th farm use 7 swords, and 33 slingers you will lose around 3, and 3.

For the 5th farm use10 swords, and 102 slingers, you will lose 3, and 72 respectively.

For the 6th farm use 10 swords, and 290 slingers, you will lose 1, and 37 respectively.

For the 7th farm use 10 swords, and 590 slingers, you will lose 3, and 99 respectively.

And for the 8th, and final farm use 600 slingers, you will lose 370, I like to use even less slingers to get rid of them sometimes but if your making a sling city than I would go as far as using all 1000 farm space on slingers and use that many in which you would lose even less slingers instead of more.

Don't forget to read my guide on how o take the farming villages with the help of Chiron and your hoplites.