ARCHERY vs. HORSEBACKRIDING(a must know before using balistas)

Most ppl probably think that having the fastest balistas in town is good cuz it will speed up your trips times to and from looting. wrong.I made this mistake earlier and lost 800 balistas on a level 5 so be careful.There and a few combinations that work very well together in hitting NPC levels 4,5. Mostly though if u wanna be successful by rights u wanna have level 8 archery to be confident. i have done a level 4 NPC with level 7 archery but its not recommended due to high losses. and the goal of this game is to keep as many troops from one attack for the next one. otherwise your backpeddling so heres the combos to use between archery and HBR (horsebackriding) that work well, and the ones that dont. theres nuttin here for level 6 NPCs due to the fact that level 6's have trebuchets(rockfall) on walls and will give u casualties regardless due to there range of 5k. these numbers are refering to using just balistas and transporters for robbing the goods, if u use troops u will have casualties obviously,enjoy.

Archery 08 / HBR 03 (Massive losses due to being in tower range)
Archery 08 / HBR 04 (Smalls losses from units but @ tower safe range)
Archery 08 / HBR 05 (0 Losses )
Archery 08 / HBR 06 (0 Losses )
Archery 08 / HBR 07 ( Small losses )
Archery 08 / HBR 08 (Massive losses due to being in tower range)
Archery 08 / HBR 09 (Massive losses due to being in tower range.)

Archery 09 / HBR 01 (Small losses from units but @ tower safe range)
Archery 09 / HBR 02 (0 Losses when using over 575 ballistas )
Archery 09 / HBR 03 (0 Losses )
Archery 09 / HBR 05 (Small losses from units but @ tower safe range)
Archery 09 / HBR 06 (Small losses from units but @ tower safe range)
Archery 09 / HBR 07 (Small losses from units @ tower safe range)
Archery 09 / HBR 08 (0 Losses )
Archery 09 / HBR 09 (0 Losses )

Archery 10 / HBR 05 (0 Losses )
Archery 10 / HBR 06 (0 Losses )
Archery 10 / HBR 07 (0 Losses )
Archery 10 / HBR 08 (0 Losses )
Archery 10 / HBR 09 (0 Losses )
Archery 10 / HBR 10 (0 Losses )