Tents???

[SiegeMaster]

If im a stoat and im leadering should i even bother with tents ???

and if i build a city i lose like 1/3 of my resources

[Shadow]

academy turns workers into leaders. To get workers, you need tents. You can build them directly without making a city though.

[Gen. Volkov]

City's are useful if you think you are going to be killed. And yes, if you are a stoat, you should have tents for at least part of your run. They make workers, and workers are converted to Leaders by the Academy spell.

[SiegeMaster]

so should my land me 1/2 hets and 1/2 tents???

[Sharptooh]

so should my land me 1/2 hets and 1/2 tents???

I'd probably go for about 1/4 tents and 3/4 huts, if you have your tax rate as low as it can go you should get a fair amount of workers from that

Although saying that I can't remember the last time I played as a stoat, so there's almost definitely a better ratio than that, 1/4 tents to 3/4 huts just sounds about right to me

[Shadow]

You want to do this when academying:

while atacking, move to mossflower, and build all huts so that a lot of leaders join you

when you are done attacking, demolish huts until you have 100 leaders/hut, and build the extra land on tents. Set tax to 5% and move to southsward. Cast academy until you have 170 leaders/hut. Then demolish tents and build the freed up land into huts until you have 100 leaders/hut again. Cast academy to 170 leaders/hut ratio again, and repeat until your leader/LAND ratio is about 130. After that it is no longer really worth it. Demolish all your tents, and build all huts, move back to mossflower, and cast loot/feast until you are out of loyalty/turns.