Getting intelligence before making attacks in Evony is really important so you don’t end up loosing battles and wasting troops attacking someone with no resources. NPCs in Evony don’t have any scouts of themselves, so you don’t have to worry about loosing your scouts in a battle when you try to scout them. The only problem scouting NPCs in Evony is that you need high enough informatics technology to get an accurate scout report. If your informatics level is too low, you won’t get any information at all from your scouting report.
Usually informatics is the first technology I get to level 10 starting on a new server, that’s how important I believe intelligence is in Evony. To find out how many troops there are in NPC cities, you can just look at tables for that, they are posted everywhere on the web. When it comes to valleys however, how many troops and what types differers a lot so you have to scout first to be sure what kind of an army you are facing. I usually use 1,000 scouts when scouting valleys, no reason to use more. You need the same level informatics or higher to get an accurate scout report when you scout NPCs, else you will just get estimates like the ones listed below.
- Few: 1 – 24
- Pack: 25 – 49
- Lots: 50 – 99
- Horde: 100 – 249
- Throng: 250 – 499
- Swarm: 500 – 999
- Zounds: 1000-2499
- Legion: 2500 – 4999
- Bulk: 5000 – 9999
- Giga: >10,000
When you scout players you need enough scouts to beat theirs in a scout battle if they happen to have gates open. I usually start with 1,000 scouts when I scout players. If they die with no report I know they have a lot of scouts and I have to send a much larger scout force at them to get a report. If none of my scouts die that means that they either have gates closed or that they don’t have any scouts at all. With high level informatics you can get all kinds of information about their city. You get to know their fortifications, number of troops, buildings, number of resources and also all their technologies and their levels.
