Food problems

Here is a tip so your always makin food and your troops not consuming it all... make sure your troops are always on a raid soon as they get back send them out for a raid a couple hours away the farm will have time to produce food and troops will also bring back... same for spys keep them searching 12 hours bring them in to collect then right back out for another 12 you'll keep more food and b making it also....

this is true and a basic summary to my Army vs upkeep post, nice first post

it works with armies that you can send out completely. If I send out my troops, I still have thousands of ballistas and reapers in stock that keep me in the negative. The best thing I do is keep thousands of Hussar on hand with fallen and longbowmen to carry back large loads.

The spy thing works fine, I have 10k spies sittin in the bush! =)
We wont need many spies until PVP time, but I have them ready. you only need 1 spy to do your spying or searching.

Oh and don't use spies to look at counties, use a raiding force of at least two troops, one long and one short distance. you will live past one round and get a full report, minus the wall defenses.

If you are having a problem with your army taking all of your food and gold just build a second city right next to your main city. Build only a castle and a command center, and use this as a "storage" facility. Then you can reinforce your main city with your army and attack from there. After your attack dispatch them army back to the secondary city

David02 wrote:

If you are having a problem with your army taking all of your food and gold just build a second city right next to your main city. Build only a castle and a command center, and use this as a "storage" facility. Then you can reinforce your main city with your army and attack from there. After your attack dispatch them army back to the secondary city

As i just found out today, dont build your second city more than an hour away from your main city or else it will cost food and gold to send them back and youll be screwed. if your just gonna use the second city as a storage for your army i advise to put it right next to your main.