Tribal Wars - Backtiming
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So, your under attack. You are playing offensively, and you will lose all your troops if you keep them in your village. What can you do? Request support and hope it arrives it on time? Or, you could play it smart, and follow this guide in what to do under this situation.
Backtiming
Backtiming is what you do when you have a clearing attack incoming to your village, and your not sure you can defend against it. The idea is to send your troops out to dodge the attack, but then bring them back in again to attack him straight after his attack hits you. This means your attack will land in his village a short amount of time after his do, and he can't dodge them in time, meaning he loses all his troops, and you can take out his wall too. You win. But its a bit harder in practice, than it is in theory...
First of all, you need to go to www.zomgtw.net/, select your world, and then click 'Backtiming calculator' on the far right. Fill out all the details, and stay on the screen it takes you to next. This tells you what time (server time) you need to send your attack, depending on your slowest unit. If you are using the same unit that you are being attacked with (most likely will be rams), then you basically need to send the attack back at the enemy a millisecond after you get hit.
You can do this by opening a few other windows; one that shows how long until the attack hits/the arrival time (click on the incoming when you are on your village overview, and you get all this information), one that has the troops ready for attacking the person attacking you, and one that shows the attack you have ready to send (at a barbarian village that you know is empty). When the arrival time for the incoming attack is in 2 minutes, send the attack at a barbarian.
Now, when your attack has 1 minute until it lands, pull back the attack. Get the window that has you attacking the enemy back open, and watch the timer for your troops coming home (this should be a just after the enemy attack hits). When the timer hits 0, press 'ok' . You should now have an attack on the way to hit your enemy, landing around 1 second after his troops get home. Unlucky.
Remember, this takes a lot of practice to perfect - my first attempt ended in me losing all my troops, and the second attempt landed 5 seconds after his troops got home.
Good luck, and have fun!
