The Manti-Trap

This guide will teach you how to make a standard Manticore-Trap, or "Manti-Trap". I will briefly describe what one is, how to get it built and how to use it against all of your enemies, especially during those holiday giveaways of Manticores. I will also give some alternative types of traps such as traps with myth units and traps without myth units, I will tell you how to make traps for harpies and traps that will do good against both harpies and mantis along with all the other flying offensive typed myth units in the game so get ready to hunt cus', "we gettin' our selves some Myth!"

The Standard Manti-Trap:

The standard "Manti-Trap" should obviously be made up of the best sharp weapon defenders the game has to offer, so obviously, that is what our trap is going to be made up of. Also to make a decent enough trap you are going to need your alliance to get together on this one. The main goal is to lure your enemies Manticores that they just earned from the nice and sweet holiday event into you alliance's trap. 

Now what you wanna do is get all of you able bodied alliance members to build at least one city each of purely sharp def specialist units. I would recommend the myth unit Centaur along with whatever amount of Archers to fill it in (don't forget the FT boats). Next all you have to do is wait for when you know they are gonna drop their "Manti-Bombs" and phalanx in all you cities to the city getting attacked and boom dead Mantis, don't forget to have the owner of the city change their god to Athena, otherwise all your Centaurs will just  bounce back to their homes instead of doing what they were sent to do. 

Here is a basic example of what a single city should look like that is prepared to form the "Manti-Trap":

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God: Athena

Centaurs: As many as possible

Archers: a few hundred unless you have enough Centaurs then just forget about the Archers.

FTs: However many you need to carry your units to the Manti-Trap

Remember (about 40 Centaurs will kill about 50 Mantis with a lvl. 20 Wall + Tower)

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The Standard Harpy-Trap:

For the standard "Harpy-Trap" you obviously want the best blunt def. specialists in the game so instead of the Centaur and Archers, you will want the Pegasus and Hoplites instead. At least you can keep the same God though, Athena produces both the Centaur and the Pegasus.

Here is an example of a "Harpy-Trap":

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God: Athena

Pegasus: As many as possible

Hoplites: a few hundred unless you have enough Pegs then just forget about the hops.

FTs: However many you need to carry your units to the "Harpy-Trap".

Remember (about 20 Pegs will kill about 110 Harpies with a lvl. 20 wall + tower).

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The Manti/Harpy-Trap:

For this combination trap, we will need the def. units that not only can defend well against the blunt weapon of the Harpy but also the sharp weapon of the Manticore. For this, I recommend changing from Athena to Artemis. Artemis has the Calydonian Boar which is good against both blunt and sharp weapons. with this, you can be ready for either the Manti or the Harpy, and if you ask me it is the safest bet for the alliance.

My example of a "Manti/Harpy-Trap is:

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God: Artemis

Calydonian Boars: As many as possible

Hoplites and Archers: a few hundred unless you have enough Boars then just forget about them.

FTs: However many you need to carry your units to the "Harpy-Trap".

Remember (about 35 Boars will kill about 50 Mantis, and about 20 Boars will kill about 100 Harpies with a lvl. 20 wall + tower).

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Conclusion:

As you can see defending against Manticores and Harpies is not that hard at all. it just takes some dedication and hard work. If you do not have the time to build the myth units remember to just use whatever units are good against whatever you are needing to beat. A good strategy would probably be to be building these traps when there are no events so when the holiday events do come you will be ready, also these same tricks can be used to defeat any unit in the game even the ones I did not mention, so have fun and good hunting.

P.S. Here is a cool Manticore instrumental beat I found while writing this post: