Hiding Troops

While you are attacking with your main fleet, you cannot shield and your city will be vulnerable to counter-attacks. There are a couple of options to minimize losses or prevent any troops from being destroyed. If you have fewer troops than 5 times your fleet size, you can send your main attack and then effectively hide the remaining troops by setting them into a rally. Choose a dead city (c5 commander12345 account) or a nearby farm and set a fleet into a 30 minute rally. This removes the troops from defending your city. If you remove all of your troops (and don’t have zombies defending the city) then the enemy will only be able to take your resources and refugees. It is better to give these than let your troops be killed. You can keep some troops in the city to defend, but remember you have an attack out so beware of having your hospital fill and then troops being killed by surplus.

When you get to the later levels (c28 or c30? Someone help), the doomsday challenge will appear on the ruins. SAVE THIS. This is your get out of jail free card if you have many troops. You can send all troops (like tyrant of doom) to the doomsday challenge. You can send your entire fleet to the ruins and then recall to dodge incoming attacks. The enemy might get wise to this and try to catch your fleet on return, so use this time to bubble or have reinforcements coming (or be really really fast and resend the fleet)