Scouting the enemy kingdom prior to the start of a kvk.

I've developed a method to scout for enemy players and keep track of their movements so we can easily send coordinates to players that have the troops and attack bonuses to score heavy hits.

The first step in this process is to scour the enemy map and find their big clans. I always start at the place of power and in the forest, that way you can immediately locate the clan of the Konung and most of an enemy kingdoms top clans. It is also helpful to check if any players have been given negative reputes to locate any clans that have grievances with the konung's clan. Depending on the level of distrust and or hatred between these players you can sometimes use that animosity to get insider information about the enemy kingdom, so feel free to chat up any players with negative reputes.  

Once you have discovered a town that is in one of their main clans you can access their clan page and membership list by clicking on their clan banner in their town information page. You then need to add at least one player from each clan to your contacts and it is helpful to write a note with the clan abbreviation and the clan's total influence so you can find them again. For clans with a number of large influence players save all of them to your contacts. It is also helpful to write the name of the clans and players you find down on a piece of paper so these can be easily referenced which you can then use to search within the interface of the game in both the clan and your contact list. Writing down the listed alliances of each clan also helps in giving yourself an idea of which clans you have yet to locate. I addition to saving their big influence players my contact list I also use the grid map of the kingdom I made and posted to this blog to plot the locations of any large hives I discover. Large hives are quick and easy targets and should be exploited.

Access to their full clan list can't be opened until the kvk starts and you relocate to the enemy kingdom, but using this method, although somewhat tedious, gives all of us a head start in figuring out which players will be their heavy hitters and who we should be following and keeping track of.

If any of you think of ways this process can be more effective please share your thoughts with the rest of us.