You've either hit them recently before or there was someone a tick behind.
No different to any other route.
Total land stolen: 695
I havnt exactly attacked many people
Anyway i turns out i have attacked him before, i sent a few million too few gardeners and realised that after i had attacked at ranged, so i recalled and resent with some more.
So you make a valid point about sending twice. HOWEVER, if i was a lethal, i would have killed a lot of units first tick and would not have had to distract those units every single tick, so i would not have lost as much honour the following ticks (or am i wrong? please correct me if so)
Also, i did no damage (in fact i took a bit), and stole no land the first time, thus when i resent it may as well have been my first attack, so i guess i am pointing out a flaw: that someone who sends an attack and does no damage or steals no land (ie only suffers loses) loses honour on a second attempt. The whole point of L/F is to reduce repeat attacking, but the motive for this is to reduce people losing land/getting zeroed.
So if i send some non-lethals to an SA to try and see how many SAs, assassins, ninjas they have, and then i find out they have few enough for me to get through, then if i try and send a proper attack, i will lose honour, simply because i was trying to gain intel.
So i think that the amount of honour you lose on a repeat attack should be proportional to the kill damage you have done and the land you have stolen (as percentages of valuation)
I would like to point out that the only advantage of having good honour is getting white knights and wizards (unless you want a profile award). Now i will point out that if a pom get these they are the only lethals they have. therefore a robo (for example) sends his army at you. The few you dont distract target your white knights and they are all dead.
And this happens: since i built some up i have been attacked three days in a row, just to kill them (and not all by the same person)
This is not a gripe (did that elsewhere
), just making a point
Wtf you complaining at, pom is the easiest route to farm H/F and if you cannot do it, don't blame the route, blame your skills and knowledge of the game.
And i presume that to gain L/F i have to just repeat attack people at 100% or above? cause im not going to go around asking people to attack me.
therefore i have to waste time sending my troops to attack people just to gain L/F rather than land. Sorry to break this to you, but some of us people arent online 12 hours a day to attack for both honour and land
Or is there another way? please share your vast knowledge of the game, so noobs like me have a chance
[edit] Thanks for the response Willy.
Very good points and a couple i didnt know:
-if a target has bounty you can not claim bounty(above base) but can gain even better h/f returns
-the more of your total man power you send the better the gains