I have just found out some good defnsive tactics:
1. When you build a wall around your town have a small opening facing your opponents direction. Your enemies will most likely try to go through the openings instead of trying to destroy the gates.
2.Place towers beside the openingso if the enemy trys to get through, the towers will lay arrows on top of them, and also try to make the towers side by side making a path so they can go in, and you can also place extra units preferably archers beside the walls.
3.Place walls around the towers so that they would have to destroy the wall before they reach the towers, and by the time that happens half of their men would probally be dead.
4.Or if you dont like making walls, when your enemy is attacking your town they ussually make a group of men and send them to attack and their city would be with no men, so once they are at your gates you send a group of men to their city and you have just caught them off guard.
Thanks and hope this helps to any Newbies or anybody else!
Marek Komar,
Ra
"Placement over Power"