When playing Grepolis, being part of an alliance is the intention of the game. Alliances have a forum where all the communication happens. Messaging is avoided as players would just get swamped when the alliance is large enough and when things start to heat up. One of the main points of alliance cooperation is the defense their own cities and the taking of enemy cities. To facilitate communication, alliances use templates.
The use of a template makes excellent sense. It is not so much in what order exactly the information is presented, it is the consistency in the presentation that makes it easy and fast to read for all players. In this post I have turned things around a bit to make it faster for a player to find crucial information. First I will explain the template, then I will show one example filled in, and at the end you'll find an empty one to copy and paste into your alliance forum.
The Defense Template Explained
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Defense Template This is the title of your template post in the alliance forum.
Defense Template This is the title of your template post in the alliance forum.
Title of the post: Ocean number, city name, Red Revolt time, support requested This is the title the player has to enter in his post. Use the 'New subject' button to start.
The ocean number is needed to tell other players whereabout in the map the city is. The city name makes the title unique. The revolt time tells players from when to when the revolt lasts.
Time is shown in the 24 hours format 16:25:08 alliance time.
Support is either DLU (defensive land units), BIRS (biremes) or BOTH.
Copy and paste the bold text below and add the required information.
City under attack: City name in BBCode. This tells other players where to send their support. By using BBCode its one click to get the right direction.
Attacking player: Player name in BBCode. Player or players. This gives other players the possibility to assess the size and expertise of the attacker(s).
Attacking alliance: Alliance name in BBCode. Alliance or alliances. This allows other players to see how much clout there is behind the attacker(s).
Red Revolt begins: The starting time of the red (or second) revolt. When the city is revolted, it first goes into the blue revolt.
Incoming attacks: List all incoming attacks to allow other players to time and snipe their support into the city. If there are no attacks yet on your radar, put in 'none'. You can later edit your post and put in the time(s).
Colony ship identified ETA: If you have identified the CS coming your way, enter the time(s) here. Yes, there are players that send several CS to trip you up. CS is the slowest unit in the game, the next one is the slow transport ship which is 3 times faster. To find the CS, open the attack window to each attacking city and enter 1 slow transport. If the attack takes longer than your transport then it is most probably a CS.
Hero name and level: The hero name is important to tell players what kind of boost the city gets from him. The level gives the strength of the boost.
God: The god determines what kind of mythical unit can be sent.
Wall level: This gives the defense boost the city gets.
Tower: Answer 'yes' or 'no'. The tower gives additional strength to the defenders.
Phalanx/Ram/Divine Selection: Answer 'yes' or 'no'. Each research gives additional fighting strength.
Advisers: If you have advisers active (paid in gold), list them here. The High Priestess addsd 20 % fighting power to mythicals; the Commander 20 % to land units; the Captain 20 % to ships.
Support requested: Support is either DLU, BIRS, or BOTH. If your walls have been destroyed, go for biremes and a lot of them. If you have loads of DLU of your own, ask for biremes (so that other players can use their DLU elsewhere). If you have loads of birs on your own and walls are up, go for DLU. If you have mixed pickles and walls are up, go for both.
Revolt report: MUST HAVE! It is essential to include the revolt report in case you messed up with the time. People can check it here. For the revolt report, click Report in the left hand menu on your main screen, select the report from the list, press publish and then paste into the post.
After the revolt(s) has ended, please edit your template post and insert 'saved' or 'lost' at the top to allow a forum moderator to edit the title and to delete the post later.
Please find a full explanation of this template on this homepage:
https://grepotricks.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-template-for-defense-in-revolt.html
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https://grepotricks.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-template-for-defense-in-revolt.html
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Example of a Filled in Template
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Defense Template
Title of the post: O43, Athens, RR 16:25:08, BOTH
Copy and paste the bold text below and add the required information.
City under attack: Athens
Attacking player: spartacus15
Attacking alliance: Lollipops
Red Revolt begins: 16:25:08
Incoming attacks: 16:25:31, 16:25:40, 16:25:42, 16:26:15
Colony ship identified ETA: 16:26:15
Hero name and level: Leonidas 12
God: Athena
Wall level: 25
Tower: yes
Phalanx/Ram/Divine Selection: yes/yes/no
Advisers: no
Support requested: BOTH
Revolt report: (report shown here)
After the revolt(s) has ended, please edit your template post and insert 'saved' or 'lost' at the top to allow a forum moderator to edit the title and to delete the post later.
Please find a full explanation of this template on this homepage:
https://grepotricks.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-template-for-defense-in-revolt.html
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https://grepotricks.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-template-for-defense-in-revolt.html
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The example above would be petty standard for me. I'm a mixed pickle kind of guy and therefore always need both kinds of defense help.
Below is the clean template to copy into your alliance forum.
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Defense Template
Title of the post: Ocean number, city name, Red Revolt time, support requested
Copy and paste the bold text below and add the required information.
City under attack:
Attacking player:
Attacking alliance:
Red Revolt begins:
Incoming attacks:
Colony ship identified ETA:
Hero name and level:
God:
Wall level:
Tower:
Phalanx/Ram/Divine Selection:
Advisers:
Support requested:
Revolt report:
After the revolt(s) has ended, please edit your template post and insert 'saved' or 'lost' at the top to allow a forum moderator to edit the title and to delete the post later.
Please find a full explanation of this template on this homepage:
[url]https://grepotricks.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-template-for-defense-in-revolt.html[/url]
[url]https://grepotricks.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-template-for-defense-in-revolt.html[/url]
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