Defending against attacks

That's a good case. Actually we don't need him to stop, we need you to be able to fend off such attackers easily since in real game there will be may of such people. The advisor quests will be telling you how to build up your defenses, but since at the moment they are not present, I will give the advices myself.

1. I assume that you are plaing with Communality (default) polity selected which gives you great defense bonuses and 50% strage protection. If not, then you shouldn't comlain as you have selected aggressive mode consciously :)
2. Because of those defense bonuses, your troops are roughly 3 times stronger than attacker and thus you need 3 times less to defend.
3. 50% storage protection means that as long as you keep your resource green (not bigger than 50%), the attackers wont steal anything. Upgrade your stoage to upgrade protected limit - when attacker won't steal anything a few times in a row, he will loose interest.
4. If you dont want to have your hero and units killed - store them at quest locations like Herald's Home when you are away! Other players cannot access your quest locations so it's a safe house for them. Just make sure you have enough food there because your troops might starve.

Now as I've outlined some basic bits, there are some defensive strategy that will work even better:

1. Towers! Just like in TT1 towers are great - they are just like warriors, but cannot be destroyed unless your opponent attacks with Primitve Rams. Build towers and upgrade them and your enemies will thin twice if it is worth it to plunder you when they loose troops on each attack. Especially since today I've increased the power of towers.
2. If you have defending troops - upgrade your Palisade as it increases health of defending troops. You will be upgrading it anyway if you will be building towers since it is required.

Combine all those suggestions for the best effect :) Hopefully those tricks will help you and other suffering to stand against attacking players. In the real game there will be 7 days of beginner protection during which you will be taught how to defend, but now for the same of testing we need you to handle that menace on your own to see if the game provides proper means to do so.

Just a note - units from other player will not have their defense bonuses from Communality. They have them only when garrisoned in native town.

Also since you play with Leaderism, you might want to research and build stashes to protect your resources from plunder.

Those tips will given to you by Bulat right in the game :)

So do those defense advices helped?

This defense system is really fun. I faced two attacks and only lost 9 fighters and one tower decreased from lvl 3 to lvl 2 while the attackers lost all in all 90 fighters and 2 heroes. Warning to the attackers, I already upgraded stuff even more. *lol*

Quite interesting. Can you post screenshot of the report?

first attack:   http://d.pr/i/qyE3

second attack:  http://d.pr/i/3gYg

Well, let me comment on the reports :)

The first player Live actually has defensive polity selected (Communality) and therefore he has like 3x bigger defense and 3x smaller attack power. Taking into account that your defense is also 3x stronger (as you selected communality too) this means that his army is 9 times weaker that it actually is (due to your bonuses and his penalties combined).

The second player has Leaderism and does not have attack penalty, therefore only your defensive 3x bonus applies, but apparently you have a lot of towers and high palisade level that helps you siginficantly :)