Enemy attack detector

The Enemy attack detector keeps an eye on your villages while the bot runs and warns you as soon as one of them is under attack: with a popup on your PC and, if you want, a WhatsApp message. It can also move your troops out of the way before the attack lands.

Defense

Video

Enemy attack detector video: the Strigard owl holding a map marked with an attack, next to a phone showing a WhatsApp notification that reads Incoming attack, and armies closing in on a village. Plays on YouTube

What it does

The detector watches your villages the way a player would. When one of them comes under attack, Strigard shows a Windows popup that stays on top of every other window, with a sound: Incoming troops detected! Village: <village>.

You get one alert per village. While that village is still under attack, it does not warn you again. It picks up both attacks and raids.

Turning it on

  1. Open the Account settings tab and find the Enemy attack detector group.
  2. Tick Detect incoming enemy attacks.
  3. Turn the bot on (BOT ON). The detector only watches while the bot is running and inside its active hours, which you set in the Daily active group of the same tab.
The Enemy attack detector group in Strigard: Detect incoming enemy attacks ticked, the Notify by WhatsApp option with Phone and API key fields and a Setup guide button, and the Auto-evade (dodge) section with a village picker, Enable evade for this village, troop checkboxes grouped as Infantry, Cavalry, Siege and Other, and Send to X and Y coordinates.
The Enemy attack detector group, in the Account settings tab.

Alerts on WhatsApp

Optional and free, through CallMeBot. With it on, every alert also reaches your phone as ⚔ Incoming attack on <village>, so you hear about it even when you are away from the PC.

Get your API key

You only need to do this once.

  1. Add CallMeBot's number to your contacts: +34 694 26 48 06. It is the same number for everyone.
  2. Send it this exact WhatsApp message: I allow callmebot to send me messages
  3. It replies with API Activated for your phone number. Your APIKEY is 123123. That number is your API key.
No reply? If nothing arrives within 2 minutes, try again after 24 hours. CallMeBot changes its number now and then, so if it does not answer at all, check the current one on callmebot.com.

Fill it in

  1. Paste the key into API key:.
  2. In Phone:, enter your own WhatsApp number with your country code: +34 for Spain, +52 for Mexico, +44 for the UK, and so on.
  3. Tick Notify by WhatsApp.

The Setup guide button next to the API key has these steps in the app too.

Auto-evade: move your troops out

Auto-evade sends your troops away from a village just before an attack lands, so they are not at home when the enemy arrives. You set it up for each village separately.

  1. In Auto-evade (dodge), pick the village in Village:.
  2. Tick Enable evade for this village.
  3. Tick the troops to send away. They are grouped as Infantry, Cavalry, Siege and Other, plus the Hero.
  4. Enter the coordinates to send them to in Send to X and Y.

When an attack comes

The bot checks at the Rally Point when the first attack lands. About 40 seconds before impact, it sends every available troop of the types you ticked as an attack to your X / Y coordinates. They come back on their own afterwards, like after any attack. If a faster wave turns up behind the first one, the bot works out the departure again.

Pick a close, safe target. An empty oasis nearby works well: the attack costs your troops nothing there, and the closer it is, the less time they spend away. The village also needs a Rally Point.

Good to know

  • The bot has to be running. The detector only watches with BOT ON and inside your Daily active hours. Outside them, it does not watch.
  • It is not instant. It notices attacks while the bot is working. When the bot is idle, it checks your villages every so often: every 20 to 60 minutes, or every 5 to 15 minutes if auto-evade is set up.
  • It cannot tell you which troops are coming. The game does not show that either, so the alert only says which village is under attack.