There is no easy answer to most of your questions, since they will for the most part depend on field size.

Battlefield for land will depend on level of town hall and level of town wall, BUT if you exceed the garrison-limit of the town you will fight outside of wall, regarding of the size of the field that is shown.

The number of units will vary based on the size of the battle-field.

This link will be helpful with the different units and both land and sea.

This page will provide you with the different field and number of units needed.

The 2nd line will vary based on type of unit. For sulphur carabiners (land) its ammo for 3 rounds, same for mortars (as I never use other than mortars or rams, I don't remember for catapults)-

2nd line for fleet (mortarships) is 5 rounds.

Try this old old one: Guide to Military Training

I agree about the length of that post...I myself had a hard time going through it.
Unfortunately, A LOT of the older posts concerning battle tactics were deleted before the migration to this new board.

However, the wikia link posted by mea gave clear details of unit numbers in each spot for the different battle field sizes.
As for waving, the one I posted does give an idea... just need a quiet moment to read through.
And for how many will die at each round, assuming the exact same configurations in each side for each field size....I should think that would require a lot of re-testing in the Test Server. I myself have not touched battle for a very long time now.

Sadly, most of the older warriors who actually have the 'mathematic know-how' are not here anymore..

Some of these questions have already been answered, but I'll give a go to try and give more detail.


The town hall size effects land battles. The shipyard/trading port size (whichever is larger) effects naval battles. To see what each battlefield size looks like, you can go to the help tab with the following path. Help >> The Art of Warfare >> The Land/Naval Battlefield. It will show you a number of blocks (the little boxes) with a number in them. That number will show you the max capacity of such a block, or in other words the total size it can hold. To figure out the size of a unit you will go to Help >> Units/Ships and look at the size statistic to the right of the unit's picture. Once you have the size you will divide (block size)/(unit size) = max units held in block. As you can't field a partial unit, round down any decimals. (Even an answer of X.999 would be X and not (X + 1).)

Side banter: I personally always found the Help tab to be pretty useful for the basics and figuring those things out even if it doesn't give much in the ways of strategy tips at all.

But while town hall and port size effect battle field size, also keep in mind the overflow battlefield. To lift from the posts of mine Mea linked:

Land Overflow wrote:

The overflow battlefield occurs when the defending army goes over the garrison limit. This means that the battle takes place outside the wall of a city (which will reappear when the defending army goes under the garrison limit) and is the largest field possible.
Garrison limit on land is calculated as
250 + (50 x (town hall level + town wall level))
If the number of units defending exceeds that number the battle will become an overflow.

A strategy with overflow battlefields that can be used is to exhaust your enemy's artillery ammunition and then bring the battle out of overflow into a battle where the walls come into play and being able to hold indefinitely.

Naval Overflow wrote:

Just as on land there is an overflow field. The only difference with overflow is that it just makes a larger field as there are no walls to overflow over. To calculate overflow at sea
125 + (25 x highest trading port or shipyard level)
Fleets with more ships than the overflow will go into the largest field possible.

To retiterate in case it's missed: (block size)/(unit size) = max units held in block.


There are too many battlefields and too many different scenarios to really answer that exactly. As I was more of a naval fighter, I can really only give a few things.
1: Should I recall correctly, flanks (both land and sea) have half the units dying each round.
2: At sea on a lv15+ all 21 flames dying when using the three flameblock technique.

But overall one way to help understand this is to go the the help menu. Going to Help >> Units/Ships will give you three important stats for the basic computation. Hit Points, Armor, and Damage.
When a unit attacks another unit, the damage suffered by the unit attacked = Damage - Armor.
So let's imagine 2 swordsmen are fighting 2 swordsmen with full upgrades and lv 5 forge.
Stats of each swordsman.
Hit Points: 18
Armor: 0 base + 3 from upgrades + 2 from forge = 5
Damage: 10 based + 3 from upgrades + 20% from forge = (10 + 3) * .2 = 15.6
So when one swordsman attacks another, the damage suffered by the attacked unit is 15.6 (attacker's damage) - 5 (defender's armor) = 10.6. Then the second sword will attack again to deal another 10.6 damage and as 21.2 (total damage) >= 18 (unit hit points) the attacked swordsman dies.

Now there is another stat you'll notice called accuracy. Accuracy does not effect whether or not the unit will hit (all units hit every round) but whether or not the unit will hit a unit that's already damaged. (So in the example above it determines whether the swordsman hits the damaged swordsman or the starts damaging the second.) I do not have the formula surrounding that, but knowing that will help you understand why any math you do may have a different result than the reality, though I imagine it'd be slight.


Mea gave a nice overview of that, but also remember that when you whiteflag it takes 1 hour + travel time (unless you're defending in your own town from your town) to get back to the town they were waved from to reload and then travel back.