Thats make sense as initial state of catapult is half as mortar's strength.....put numbers of spies to crack more holes.
i would never face a town with lvl "26" town wall all by my own on a battlefield...gosh..now i knew how you feel,that WTFE guy is surely tough...

technically and proportionally, still relevant:-

50 catapults VS lvl "24" town wall------------------>7-9 holes in 1st round.
37 mortars  VS lvl "26" town wall------------------>20 holes in 2nd round.

Above all,we still have to depend on luck.(thats why i put my breaches in range between 7-9)

Mr Bomba is way too expensive for me thus i still use hundreds of Mr Giants as my base units ......=(
So far,Mr Giants haven't fail me yet.

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Added on April 9, 2009, 10:28 pm

Im afraid we cant......every single of us here are already committed with our current alliance.
Theres still a lot of fun even we come from different alliances as this give us several chances to have a lot of circulates of friends...

Fyi,kappa is the most peaceful server ever exist in ikariam.org
Our board is the less popular among others.
If there is any war in kappa,its gonna be something that is really...really....."happening"!! xD
You can ask those AIA peoples here(some are exmembers of LYN-e) that are very used in war preferably in kappa....and SekTa oso.
I'm not that rich...-__-''
Currently i'm selling those goods that i loot at a very low rate price to cover up my overtaxes army.
Compared to you who got thousands of Markers,i'm nothing....>.>

Yup,this "evil" former HS of LYN-e,Alvin rejected my application....booooooo 
Till now,i still hate him.....

ah okok. im now trying to lower my corruption as fast as i can so i can gain my sulphur. den i can stabalize my economy edi

Save one application form for me...as my towns located just beside Stacy's islands.....
I will leave my position and join AIA if she ask me to do so....awww~

Congratulation~! Philfc@Diomedes, leader of A-A would be happy to have you.
He is exactly similar like Nelson Mandela in ikariam version who believe peace is everything and warmongers are psychos.....xD
You should have a talk with him....he is nice anyway.

ok..wat are my choices then?

To be precise short-haired blonde,blue eyes,25 years old housewife.....>.<
Nyuuuu.....cut it off......me and Mia(my general) always tease her.
LoL......i knew her hubby,Tang Dynasty anyway,he offered me a cultural treaty......
As a matter of fact,i do always interested in young house wife.......whooops 

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Added on April 10, 2009, 1:22 am
kappa got plenty of SimCity players,i love kappa...kappa ftw...>.>

oh..i think an alliance that can defend others in case in situations then. reasonably strong army..yeah..thats good

Too lazy to quote posts here:

I remember generating 6 - 7 breaches with 40 Battering Rams on a Lv 24 wall, but since everyone says that Catapults and Mortars can generate more breaches per round I'm starting to use it in my battles. I sent 10+ spies to a town and it only translate into only 1 breach every time, so I don't bother sending spies anymore except for espionage missions.

Kappa is the most peaceful of all the servers. That's why it has the most 1mil+ players, and hosting the largest alliance of all the servers, eXa.

little correction on ur post:
siege unit's breaching chances is as follow:
ram: 2 or 1 (i forgot already) cataput: 2.5 mortar:4

breaching per round = (breaching chance of siege unit) / town wall
so for 40 catapult to attack a lvl 20 town wall, it will possibly get roughly 5 breaching per round. 2.5/20*40 = 5. the breaching result is kinda accurate from low to 20 town wall. for higher town wall, u better bring in extra siege unit to boost the breaching chances.

spies working in breaching now. it works well when u send in several wave between 1st wave and 2nd wave.

Mine....i always slack off....i'm a sloppy diplomat anyway.
I could figure out something for thwg depends on his island's locations.
Owh DT~!!
Maybe we should post 1 CR here....later lets discuss about this town wall breaching part.Sometimes,when we send 5 spies,we still could crack 2 holes in return......now i'm not sure how does it works.

Woot thwg already join SekTa.....make use of Prime_M to the max.......

I envy those people from MY......their server is full with wars all over the place.

Is MY is better in player population compared to kappa?

I feel like kappa is well-populated as we do have the least war in here......

haha....yeah.
Still calling me banana....-___-''

Hope,ikariam will get better and better.

And kappa is getting hotter than ever.....ahahahah.

Same. my island mate on Ny's raiding me non stop. I'm just waiting for a chance to wipe him off the map.

lucky, after update i cant check back who is it. forgot d...=.=

i got 50 swordsman now. waiting for him only...

You can either build a wine colony, trade with other, or pillage inactive towns with no defences.
My recommended order for colonisation:

Marble -> Wine -> Sulphur -> Marble

You can buy Crystal Glass at a really low price so there's no need to build a town for it.

Now if you excuse me I have a world war to fight now. Biggest World War in Kappa FTW!

Same gameplay but........
Ikariam>>>>>>( far better than)>>>>>>travian.

Glad you chose kappa.....wise decision...hehe....

lol, count me in too!

10k offence score, finally something in the top 100.

Hey guyz, I want to play this game. What server are you all on? Any tips?

no big fuss EroS.We'r just kidding in here.
Actually both me and Alvin oftenly do talking via MSN....and we love to tease each other hahah......right mr Jedi Alvin?

Its kinda hard for me...as i need to oppose plenty of good friends from AiA and WPX like this "jedi"wannabe Alvin,thracey,DT,viavia,prime_minister perhaps and etc during this world war.

I only got "kungfu" pandazz in my side that still WoWing in this crucial period...

Well...this world war is kinda good for all of us.At least we'r able to expand [eXa] our friend's zone..