BRB said:
1. If you do have spies forget about trapping with ranged gear.
Why ?
I have hero stronghold gear for archer with generic gem for attack/defense/health, who add 60% to my spy too...
I have archer shaman with archer gear but with the same gems... again 60% more... half of the shaman tree is generic too and again some more %
Research are done on both archer and spy
Have less spy that archer but with 2 mil t1/t2/t3/t4, 5 mil t5 and 1 mil t6 spy, i can resist a spy attack, specialy that there is no onslaught for spy, it is city against city...
Until now, it have work good for me... defend against spy or other attack, and offense with spy... yet suck at attack big guys with over 50 bil influence with archer but i am yet only medium size lvl 27 near 3 bil influence...
As spies, you need at least 1, so you know when somebody spies on you ... and you need only one for spy on tile and find these where idiot put a lot of troops...