(Note: For Casting spells and attacking your exp get's cut by 50% at level 35 and by 25% at level 25.
For defending against spells and attacks your exp get's cut by 50% at level 25 and 2/3 at level 35.)

When attacking a monster or a kingdom, you must always send at least 1 character and at least 10 military units must accompany that character. Remember that when you send that character out, it will no longer be home on defense for you. Watch how much defense you have. You do not want to open yourself up for attacks. There is no DPA (Defense per acre) established in the game at this time. It’s always best to try to keep 60% of your defense at home, at all times. If you send out more than that, you may be considered as being open. Suiciding is considered as having less than 1/3 (or 33 percent) of your defense at home.

When you look at an Empire's information page, you will be warned if they are small enough to be considered a bash. Attacking a kingdom less than 1/3 your size is considered bashing. You will receive less experience as well if you proceed with the hit.

Level Bash: If you attack a player who’s highest level character is 10 or more levels below your highest level character, you will lose 25% of your experience gains. The defender will gain 10% more experience from the battle. Level bashes will not show in the news, so defenders will not be made aware of them.

If you want to attack a kingdom, the first thing you need to do, is to spy on the kingdom. You need the kingdom stats in order to attack them. When you successfully spy on them, you can click on “Click here to Battle Calc” which is located at the bottom of the spy results. That will feed the results into the battle calculator.

 Check off the characters you want to send and type in the amount of military units you want to send… then click on “Test”. You can adjust the number of characters or military you want to send as many times as you need to in order for the calc to reflect that the attack will be successful. Each time you click on “Test” it will also show you the attack and defense points along with the bonuses for each character. This can show you how close you are to winning or losing if you send that attack.

The calculator will give you a link saying that the attack will be successful. Click the link and the attack will deploy. The screen will refresh with the attack results. The attack results will show you how much land and gold you received as well as your military losses and your experience/level gains.

Troop casualties for battles between players are 8% plus a random 1%. So basically, you can lose 8-9% of the troops you send out if attacking… and 8-9% of troops you have home if defending against an attack. Troop casualties do generate good character experience for battles.

 IMPORTANT: You never want to send the exact number of offensive points to match your opponent’s defensive points. Even though it says the attack will be successful, it will fail. You always want to send a little more. Also, as a bonus, if you send 5-10% more military then needed, your military losses will be a lot less.

FYI: Attack bonus doesn't work against monsters. Geoff is mean.