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Since the introduction of battles, the life in drug wars haven't been so rosy: my initial troops got wiped out on the first day.

And trying to rebuild my defences, they got wiped out again last night. Though it is pretty much my own fault because I have been too careless and have exposed myself to situations where attacking me is profitable.

Also, I probably should've gone much heavier to building an army when the disclaimer came from @drugwars that battles will be re-introduced.

The problem with this situation is that I cannot wait to accumulate my resources to upgrade big buildings, so now I'm stuck doing what I probably should've done in the beginning: upgrading storages. It's going to be an expensive strategy, but if I want to have any hope of avoiding attacks and being constantly wiped out, it is necessary, like @ladyrebecca put it well in a post:

Even the poor defense I had put in place got wiped out so I need to rethink my strategy as it is obvious that as long as I have stuff people want I will be attacked.

If there's no resources available for enemies, no one will attack you (this is excluding away social dynamics such as gangs whose aim might be pre-emptively destroy someone's army). Big enough storage keeps your resources safe.

So, now I'm really going turtle mode and making sure I'm not going to be attacked and stolen resources and then maybe build an army again while making sure I have nothing to be stolen.

A Bug?

With all that out of the way, I wonder what's up with this:

Both of those attacks happened yesterday night. But when Kobusu, attacked me, shouldn't I had gotten a shield so that Stmeme wouldn't had been able to attack me? And why is the chronology reversed here? Maybe I should ask in the DrugWars discord about this.