Encampments

Encampments are created when you send troops to empty tiles on the map. Your troops will march out, set up tents and sit there until you recall them.

Sometimes you can do this accidentally and think you have lost your troops. To find them again go outside of your city, click on the icon upper top right of screen showing your marches. Click GO HOME to send them back home.

Strategies: some alliances ask each person to sacrifice one march to send a single troop out on an encampment surrounding their hive. Their reasoning is that players who teleport in cannot get into the hive and have to travel a little further to attack each player. This gives a little more time for people to react, their watchtower will alert them by push notifications so they can log in and take action such as retaliating or sending their troops out to protect them.