Animus MM Good Politics

The mayor is the most overlooked hero in every city and really shouldn't be. Your mayor is an active hero in every defensive battle you face and provides you with several other advantages. Some players have a mayor for every city while others only have a few for their most important cities. Either way, their importance cannot be overstated. One mistake many players make is keeping their best heroes as mayor, thinking that the town hall is the best place to earn experience. In fact, it is the worst and the experience gained in one hour as a mayor is lower than hitting a devil a mere 20 minutes away.

Mayor affect 4 aspects of city life.
1) Their STR increases troop production speed
2) DEF improves your Attack and Defense of all troops/heroes in the city
3) AGI reduces building time (the least important aspect)
4) DEX improves resource production, though farming should be your main source

Mayors should always have armor, particularly normal armors in blue or green that form a suit. The suit bonus automatically improve STR and DEF and those are your most important mayoral stats. Never overlook the importance of armor on a mayor. It is also wise to use armor pieces that have STR and DEF perks. The city defense provided by a mayor and their troop production speed boost improve with each level, but your gear can have an instant and dramatic effect on their abilities.

The next message will explain the politics skill chart

The political skill chart is often filled out poorly by most players, with an emphasis on resource production. Again, most of your resources should be gained through farming. Consider this, ONE attack with ONE hero and only 1000 troops normally pulls in 20k of each resource. How much did your city produce on its own in the last hour? Not that much? I didn't think so.

The middle column of the political skill chart is your home. GO TO YOUR HOME.

The first box is "Survive." This box should be pushed only to level 10 at first so that you can move to the next box. It will increase your injury barracks by 1% per level. That's not much at first, but at level 20 you're now gaining an additional 20% of your troops back in ANY battle when your mayor is in place. Come back to finish this one later.

"Local" is the second box. This improves your city defense once again and works in conjunction with your mayor's defensive stats. This is hugely important and should be at level 20 before going back to finish Survive. For new mayors, get it to level 10 and move to the next box.

"Military Zeal" is the most important box on the politics chart because it improves troop recruiting times. This box should be at level 20 before finishing any other skill in politics. I'll explain in the next message.

Your military is EVERYTHING. Truly successful players know it and if you don't realize it for yourself, you will never be among them. There is a cycle of growth in this game that starts with your armies and ends with killing the armies belonging to everyone else, but there's many steps in between.

First you need armies that can die for you. Concentrate on anything that speeds that up recruiting, like your mayor perks, stable, and forge. Once you have the armies, give them to heroes and level them up. As those heroes improve, continuously refill them to their larger capacities and repeat.

As heroes grow and begin to carry more troops, this increases the amount of resources that they can farm. At that point, you are able to build more buildings, larger armies, and then repeat the cycle and continuously improve. Gradually, this allows you to fight and defeat your enemies, ensuring that your cycle is not broken.

If you're merely relying on your city to provide you with what you need, you will fail. That is why your mayor needs high STR and DEF. That is why your political skills should be concentrated on military. That is why you fight and level up your heroes. Over time, if you follow these steps and use your time here wisely, you will be a success and perhaps one day one of the strongest players in our server.