Evony Advanced Attack Layering Guide for Offensive Marches

To optimize an offensive march in Evony, allocate 70% to 85% of your march capacity to your highest-tier damage dealers, then fill every remaining troop type and tier with small sacrificial layers. Combat resolves in turn-based rounds where each tier acts as an independent squad. Supplying individual tiers across all four troop types forces opposing squads to expend high-damage turns eliminating minor units instead of wiping out your main damage core.

Baseline Layer Allocations for PvP Marches

Because offensive marches are strictly capped by your rally spot capacity, march size buffs, and VIP bonuses, layer counts must remain small. For standard player-versus-player (PvP) marches between two and four million troops, structure your tiers using these baseline proportions:

If your march capacity is under two million, keep off-type lower layers at 500 to 1,000 troops per tier to preserve space for your damage core. Rally leads with larger capacities can scale lower layers to 2,000 or 3,000 troops to keep buffers alive against heavy defensive siege fire.

Layer Adjustments by Main Troop Type

Tailor secondary troop counts to support your primary attacking unit's combat behavior and weaknesses:

• Ranged Marches: Ground and mounted layers must step forward onto the battlefield grid to establish a frontline buffer. This delays opposing ground troops from closing the distance to your archers. Include small siege layers across all tiers to counter defending siege before it targets your backline.
• Ground Marches: Ground units naturally absorb incoming ranged fire as they advance. Keep mounted layers strictly at minimal sizes (500 to 1,000 troops) so they do not outrun your ground force, isolate themselves, and concede easy points to defending ranged squads.
• Mounted Marches: Cavalry rely on burst damage against ground walls but fall quickly to ranged fire. Maintain full ranged and siege layers across all tiers to distract defending archers during round one.
• Siege Marches: Include every individual siege tier from T1 upward. Siege engagements often resolve as long-range duels where range differentials determine which squad fires first.

Adapting Layers Against High-Tier Traps and T1 Walls

Full tier-one through tier-fifteen layering becomes a disadvantage when attacking keeps equipped with massive flat defenses, such as hundreds of millions of low-tier mounted or ground troops.

In these encounters, minimal attacking layers die during the opening round without dealing meaningful damage, granting free battle score and honor points to the defender. When targeting massive T1 trap bases:

1. Strip out non-essential low-tier sacrificial layers that die instantly.
2. Concentrate your supporting capacity into heavier mid-tier meat shields (T10 through T12).
3. Ensure mid-tier units have enough mass to survive early counter-attacks and return damage.

Next Step: Set and Maintain Rally Spot Presets

To avoid manual selection errors during timed events like Server Wars (SvS) or the Battle of Gaugamela, configure permanent presets at your Rally Spot:

1. Open your Rally Spot and select your assigned offensive general.
2. Enter your baseline counts for all off-type tiers and mid-tier bridges.
3. Leave your top one or two damage tiers as floating values so you can fill them to your maximum march capacity based on currently healed troops.
4. Verify that your sub-city debuff generals are active and properly assigned, ensuring enemy debuffs weaken incoming damage enough for your sacrificial layers to survive their intended turns.
5. Update and re-save presets whenever you unlock a new troop tier or increase your rally spot march size buffs.