Bah humbug slayer who wants balance? who wants rankings? I hate to admit it by I prefered age 1 when there was more freewheeling attacking. No offense to the people just building defense and covert but it's made for a boring age. Back on topic I used to make judgements based on race. Those advantages seemed meaningfull when noone had much but now I totally disregard, After all I'm a dwarf focussing on attack.    

Don't know what your soldier situation is. If you can wait on TBG do what Lord Lanair suggests. If you need attack turns for gold save up turns and pick a time when you can keep attacking until you have enough gold. You will need a lot of spies to become immune so increase unit production or join an alliance to maximize clicks.

congrats - so whats your next goal.  

Mine keeps changing. When I find an orc I can't take gold from my goal becomes increasing my SA enough to steal from him.

Not too lofty but I sure do like attacking orcs.

Just think where you could take that. You could find someone you wanted to farm. Send them nasty messages saying you were going to attack them and goad them into attacking you first. Sounds fun but doesn't sound honorable.

my rank continues to fall now at 1148 but my SA continues to rise so I'm happy.  

What if one of your farms comes back and warns you their a member of an alliance. Personally you may not care but do we worry about getting TGA in a war? Or just leave TGA out of it?

I've also had the experience while sabbing someone using the same # of spies and sabbing the same weapons I may succeed four times and fail once so there has to be some random factor.  :ph34r:  

Is there a best frequency for harvesting your farms? Every day every other day, everytime they have over a certain amount of gold?    

I'm still not convinced. The number of people who are unsabbable seems to be going up quickly. Now around 3300. As you get a larger army the players your size and larger seem to all fall into that catagory. Your right it is cheaper to waste a spy than a number of mercs. but if the spy gets caught you have to waste the mercs anyways.

Ok that makes sense. I guess I'll put off getting citadel until I have 372 dragonskins, LOL. Uh I don't think age 2 will last that long.

Heh I'd be real happy with a farm like that    

Other than raising you in the rankings I don't think its worth it. I have citadel and level ten as the only upgrades left. I started buying battle axes with the intent of upgrading but all the people I attack are unsabbable and I like having the high SA so no upgrade for now.

Right now I'm saving turns because I'm having trouble finding farms worth the attack turns. In age 1 the longer the age went the easier it seemed to find farms with good money. Why waste the turns now?

I'd be embarassed to say what I'm averaging per attack turn now. Still trying to find consistant farms that have money. Trying to live off TBG.

Hanging around 900 slowly moving down since I'm saving attack turns.