How Tactica works

Tactica is a Windows desktop application for Evony that imports battle reports from the game — Fast Read on MuMu loads hundreds of full reports in minutes from the Saved mailbox, or Read / Bulk Read walks every screen — then a structured library, analytics, visualizations, and Tactica’s Battlefield Analyst for custom analysis of one battlefield at a time.

How does Tactica import Evony battle reports?

Tactica pulls battle reports out of the game into your library. You do not screenshot the report, assemble a PDF, or pick a folder of images. There are two import paths.

A battlefield is a two-hour event with many individual battles. The more of those battles you take the time to scan, the more useful the library and Battlefield Analyst are for that battlefield.

What is Fast Read?

Fast Read loads hundreds of full reports into Tactica in minutes — what Read / Bulk Read would take days to walk screen-by-screen. It does not open each report in the game. It still captures the full main, buffs, and details data, not a summary-only skim, and it does so without the OCR glitches Read / Bulk Read has always had to contend with.

Fast Read is supported on the MuMu Player (official site). A dedicated MuMu instance just for this is enough. It does not work on BlueStacks. Tactica does not sell or support the emulator. Use the Saved mailbox — not Battlefield, PvP, or the other mailboxes. Empty keeps are skipped. Capture can miss some reports; run Fast Read again on the same mailbox and it continues without duplicates. Keep Tactica open until it finishes. Tactica gets what it needs from the game on MuMu and sends it to Tactica’s systems.

What is Read / Bulk Read?

Read / Bulk Read is the other import path: Tactica drives the Evony UI. You can import one report at a time, or sweep a mailbox for all reports from a single battlefield. For each report it opens the report, taps and scrolls through the main screen, the buffs screen, and the details screen until every number has been exposed, then stores a structured record and returns to the mailbox. That is specialized UI automation for Evony — not document parsing of screenshots you captured by hand.

That path takes minutes per report, not seconds. How long depends on the number of participants (attackers plus defenders) and how many layers of troops they have. Rally cards will keep you joining monster rallies — and collecting those resources — while you use Read / Bulk Read. And with the alliance option, you can spread that effort across multiple accounts. Use Read / Bulk Read if you are not on MuMu or not in the Saved mailbox.

Does it require manually capturing every page of a report?

No. You do not screenshot every page. Fast Read does not open each report in the game and still captures main, buffs, and details. Read / Bulk Read completely automates tapping and scrolling through every element of the battle report and retains every number for later analysis.

What data does Tactica extract and store?

Tactica stores the numbers from the in-game report, not a summary-only rollup. Each structured record includes marches and troop layers (type, tier, survived, killed, wounded, deserter, holy palace, killing), generals, buffs and debuffs, and timestamps.

That granularity is why Battlefield Analyst can build views such as a defense timeline with rein swaps and missing layers, or an attack sequence breakdown. Reports are kept indefinitely; there is no storage cap. The on-disk format is proprietary. There is no CSV or JSON dump of the library. Tables generated in Battlefield Analyst include a copy button so you can paste them into a spreadsheet.

What is Tactica’s Battlefield Analyst?

After a battlefield’s reports are loaded into Tactica, you start by telling Battlefield Analyst which battlefield to look at. It immediately summarizes what is there, so you are never flying blind. From that, you can let it guide you through what it found, or send it off the beaten path: you describe the analysis you want in plain language. Battlefield Analyst plans the work and runs it against your structured battlefield data — returning answers and enriched views (timelines, movements, team/player behavior) that you cannot practically assemble by reading reports one at a time or by pasting a few screenshots into a general AI.

Chat is how you ask. Battlefield Analyst is the product. Analysis focuses on one battlefield at a time. Runtime is in minutes. Your reports stay in your Tactica library; the Analyst runs on that data in Tactica’s own systems — not by uploading reports to a public chatbot.

What can Battlefield Analyst show me from a whole battlefield’s reports?

You identify what you want found in the data, and Battlefield Analyst works with you in plain language to design fully custom analysis — not a fixed menu of reports. That holds whether you are looking at 2 reports or 200 from the same battlefield. Ordinary reading cannot practically do either at this depth. The Analyst finds what you asked for in the structured library and returns answers plus enriched views.

One example of that class of view: ask it to look at all of a team member’s defenses. It can produce a timeline diagram showing not only the sequence of incoming attacks and that player’s healing along the way, but every movement of reinforcements in and out of that player’s city — including when someone reinforcing the defender swapped depleted reins for fresh reins, and which reins in the city were missing layers after previously being depleted.

The same data supports other enriched views, such as an attack sequence breakdown of how layers were affected across a fight. It also computes Effectiveness — Tactica’s cost–benefit metric for troops in a fight: what they returned relative to what they put at risk. Evony’s scoreboard shows points scored, not points given up, so it cannot measure that trade. You can compare troop types and tiers, teammates, or full rally joins versus depleted (dust) joins. How to measure the effectiveness of different troops in Evony.

How is this different from pasting reports into ChatGPT / Perplexity?

Pasting a few screenshots into a general AI is not bulk collection and cannot surgically analyze a full battlefield’s reports. Tactica imports reports into a structured library first. Battlefield Analyst then plans custom analysis over that data in Tactica’s own systems and builds enriched views — so you are no longer forced to ignore most of the data.

How does alliance sharing / the shared library work?

If multiple users from the same alliance subscribe, they can join up in Tactica to share their library of reports and split responsibility for reading reports into the system.

If connected members set up bulk reads of the same battlefield at the same time, Tactica coordinates between them so the same report is not scanned twice. That lets the alliance cover more of the mailbox without duplicating the minutes each scan takes. Alliance view-only is $2.49/month; Rally Squad is 10 seats for $17.99/month (about 28% less than ten $2.49 seats). Those seats can use the shared library and notes without an emulator; bringing new reports in still requires a full subscription. Right after a battlefield, star reports into Saved, Fast Read, then ask Battlefield Analyst while it is fresh.

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