EVONY PRESET GUIDE
RANGED PVP ARMY
Goal: Win field battles. Setup: Set your highest Archer tier to 90%. Fill the remaining 10% with 100 units of every sub-tier to absorb incoming hits. Strategy: Use this for wall hitting and sniping ground marches. Hint: Ensure your Sub-City debuff generals are active before launching.
CAVALRY BOSS
Goal: Zero casualty PvE. Setup: 100% of your top-tier Cavalry. Strategy: Assign to your primary boss-killing preset to rapidly clear high-tier monsters like Ymir or Hydra. Hint: Use a skill book for 'mounted troop attack against monsters' to lower the wounded count on higher difficulty.
GROUND FORCE
Goal: Penetrate range walls. Setup: Massive infantry bulk with T1 layers. Strategy: Ground troops are the late-game answer to high-buff archers. Use this preset during SvS to target cities with heavy range defense. Hint: Defense and HP refines on gear are essential for this troop type.
HARVEST SQUAD
Goal: Maximize resource yield. Setup: Focus on Siege units and Jindeoks. Strategy: Configure this to hit level 15+ resource tiles instantly when they appear. Hint: Modern 'gathering' armor sets have specific bonuses for different resource types—match your preset to your current gear.
TACTICAL WAR HUB
INFO
COMBAT EFFICIENCY
QUICK SET
PRESET ENGINE
- Goal: Master the arts of combat timing. Strategy: Presets are essential for 'ghosting' your troops to 60-minute rallies, protecting them from incoming attackers while you are busy. Safety: Early game players should always keep one preset empty specifically for emergency troop evasion.
ATTACK STACKS
ARCHER SNIPER
- Goal: Precise archer strikes. Setup: Heavy bowmen. Strategy: Break ground defenses with range advantage. Hint: Layering t1-t13 units prevents your mains from being targeted too early.
POWER
RANGED ELITE
MOUNTED DASH
- Goal: High-speed Boss clearing. Setup: Pure Mounted. Strategy: Blitz the map for Alliance events. Hint: Use Theodora or Caesar to reduce monster stamina costs when running these presets often.
FAST
MONSTER SLAY
INFANTRY BLOCK
- Goal: Absorb range damage. Setup: High-tier Ground. Strategy: Send these against range-heavy castles to force a win. Hint: Focus on March Size buffs to ensure your ground wall is thick enough.
TANK
GROUND CORE
SUPPORT MARCH
Reinforcing is a core TKR mechanic. Use dedicated presets to send high-tier Siege or Ground units to allies. Fast reaction times determine if a city survives a rally or burns to the ground.
GHOST TAB
Hint: To 'ghost' effectively, create a preset with your full army and quickly assign it to a long-duration Alliance War against a distant boss to vanish from your city.
SHIELD
Hint: High-tier players use presets to reinforce with Siege from the Academy. This provides a deadly surprise for attackers who expect an easy ranged-only victory.
LAYERING STRATEGY
Goal: Maximize unit efficiency. Setup: Use the '1,000 of every tier' rule. Strategy: In Evony, every tier acts as a separate target. By adding small layers, you force the enemy to attack those first. Hint: This is the difference between an efficiency win and a loss.
T1 DEFENSIVE MET
Goal: Unstoppable City. Setup: Millions of Tier 1 Ground units. Strategy: This late-game tactic uses a massive T1 wall to soak up nearly all damage while your high tiers kill the attacker. Hint: Ensure your flat-stat refines on gear are perfect for T1.
OPTIMIZED COUNTERS
Goal: Adapt to the enemy. Setup: Siege-heavy or mixed presets. Strategy: In All-Stars or Battle of Gaugamela, use these to specifically target the enemy's March composition. Hint: Scouting is the key to choosing the right preset—never fire blindly into a city.