Getting Started

How to defend my city?

As a defender in the conquering process, you have a couple of options.

Detecting the conquer attack

You will know that a conquest attempt is on the way as the attacker will have started a revolt in your city.
- However, the attacker could try to land their Colony Ship at any point during the second 12-hour window so you still need to look out for the CS.
Look out for an abnormally long travel time on an incoming attack.
Note that the final attack is not always the CS, some people send attacks afterward in order to confuse you.

Preparing for the attack
Remember that you still have control of your city.

Ask a friend to send you support to arrive just before the C-Ship lands (if you don't know when the CS is landing, ask for it to land just before the first 12-hour window ends).
Send out your defending troops to attack a 175-point city far enough away that your defensive troops will arrive right before the C-Ship, but do not send defensive troops to any city that might have troops of its own
If you have any Fire Ships, then keep them in your city to destroy the clearing attacks. They will not be able to harm C-Ships or transport boats, so if you send them out with your defensive or offensive troops, then they will end up assisting the conqueror

Note: If you have any buildings, units, or research queued and a colony ship lands in your city, all of these things will be canceled.