If someone is going to block your port, make sure that you have enough ballista0ships in the yard. For example, 20 sec. before the attacking enemy gets there, transport all your attack ships like flame throwers and catapult ships, and when the attacking enemy hits, return them to your town. That way they would do [...]

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One key to becoming big in Ikariam is expansion. Settling a new colony is easy but brings with it the price of corruption. IMHO I would recommend to have your Governors Residence ready in all towns before making the move to creating a new colony. This may sound simple but when you have a few [...]

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Pillaging is a very important aspect of Ikariam. Some people like to play a defensive strategy and some don’t. Although Ikariam is better when you are pillaging. But this tip is more for the people that don’t. If you look at a villages generals score and see that they have 0 there is not much [...]

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If you are foolish enough to have a zero military score, don’t come crying via Diplomacy if you get pillaged. Ikariam is based on that.
You might think destroying your harbor protects you but you likely just spent more destroying the harbor than it would cost you to have even the simplest defense of a single [...]

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Make sure your wall and your town hall levels are equal. This gives you maximum defense bonus to the minimum of 20 phalanx. You should have to keep the newbies from annoying you to much. That really helps because sometimes they REALLY can be annoying.

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Spys, spys and more spys. A bit of groundwork with these guys can go along way in keeping your troops safe. How do you stop the other guys from popping in and keeping tabs on your every move. Upgrade to at least a level 10 hideout. This should keep most of your precious resources and [...]

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Today we starts small series for week or two of short ikariam tips. Stay turned if you’re interested.
When purchasing items be very careful that you will still have the amount of money required to sustain your armies etc. before you click update offers. If you get it down so low that you have only a [...]

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The Town Wall gives all your defending troops a defense bonus. It is very useful if you know how to use it. A Town Wall which is not properly scaled with your Town Hall could work against you giving an attacking bonus to your enemies! In order to optimize the wall you have to check [...]

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Ikariam like Travian have pillage system in the game for aggressive style players. I’m not sure about Ikariam yet but in Travian it was one of the best game styles cuz “best defense is offense”.
So how could you make you win chances almost 100%? Well, the tool I’m loving at the moment and I use [...]

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Introduction
Having defense in your town is the one thing stopping other players marching in and emptying your warehouse while your away. It may seem rather simple to some people but there are a lot active players with no defense.
The Best Defense
Ikariam contains eight unique troops. Although I could complain about the variations and specialty of [...]

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