Lancer Usage

[LordHades77]

Use lancers against mounted troops. And ur right we need a Beginners guide.

[MetalStormx]

Use lancers against mounted troops. And ur right we need a Beginners guide.

you mean use lancers against mounted troops?
how about guardians against lancers?
if i am not wrong, in the units stats, guardians has more attack and defending points then each of any other units except seige.

so overall, guardians is better in attack/defense?
while knights have more haul capability?

[Mynion]

Guardians are better but also much more costly to build

[Akilies]

Lancers will win against any mounted unit. Guardians are good to use but they are expensive and sometimes called a luxury. Its best to attack with zerks and a lot of them. When defending use mostly lancers and sentries.

[DrXerxes]

Lancers + sentries are the best defence. Zerks + knights are the best offense. Guardians are great for a rapid deployment mobile defense.

[drossi]

if you want defensive units sentry and lancer are much better then guardians. just look at the units overview.
exsample: 1 guardian cost 4 population, and have a defence strenght of 140 for infantry, and 110 for mounted units.
for this populatin cost you can have 4 lancers that togheter have 100 for infantry and 200(!) for mouted.
Remember, quantity alvays wins!

[LordOfDonuts]

When attacking a city, do you take any defensive units like Lancers with you? Or just send Knights + Berserkers + Ballistas/Rams?

[Ascanius]

Drossi, you're right. I don't like guardians (or heavy cavalry which is called in Tribal Wars) either. Tey're to expensive for their power.
Their only use is supporting.

[Mel]

Good day folks
I was gain a lot from above conversation. Thanks to those who shares.
But Im still doughting about , it takes 500 total resource to build a knight.
Why not spend a bit more (570) to build a Guardian?
Defensive strength is 300% higher against infantry ,200% with mounted unit.
Maybe , just like other said , quantity is better than quality in this game.

[Alexpelavas]

guardians are best over all troops you can not rely on sentry and lancers for defense once you have 30 cities or so. because once you start to get attacked and i mean when a guild targets all your cities you have no time to move slow lancers and sentry but guardians will make it fast and with a level 25 wall they can be hell to get through. also if losing a city you can switch them to attack and take it back fast or even start counter attacks. i only make them lol

for all you that say it doesn't work I've been rank 1 worlds and i ONLY build guardians and rams haha . i had 2 million points above rank 2 player just last month in one:P