
Once you know the size of their army you must decide whether the size of their town is worth killing an army for profitwise, if the army is small you may wish to overwhelm it if the army is large you may wish to move to the next town option. If it’s successful you will have an idea of how the army size in the town if it says your spy doesn’t answer anymore it was unsuccessful and your spy is gone in this case you can either send another spy and try again or if you can afford to lose a slinger send a single slinger at their town to recieve a combat report telling you how much defense they have (this will also tell them who plans to get them where as a spy being captured only gives limited information so only attack people you believe you can overwhelm). Go to your hideout and select “spy on garrison”. Once you find a town with a low town wall the next step is to find out how many units they have there. Generally unless they have no defense and are on your island level 1 and level 2 walls they will not be profitable and you can remove your spy from the towns without having to conduct any missions.

Once you’ve sent your spy and it has arrived at the town in your hidout you are given an option with missions you can undertake, however before conducting any missions double click on the town you have a spy in from the island view and it will allow you to see the buildings within the town the only building of importance to you at this point is the town wall as each level will affect how easily you can pillage. To send a spy to a town click on the town in island view and select send spy. It is worth sending spies to many potential targets and sorting through them to find the ideal one (start with inactive towns). When finding a target to pillage your first step should always be to spy their town, to do this you must have researched espionage and built a hidout where in you can train spies (at very early stages of play however you may not be able to do this as espionage takes a little while to get to in the research tree).

Ikariam Finding a Profitable Target Guide by Leele
