Age of Empire- Tower strategy

Strategy in the tower is fairly straight forward and based on attack patterns.

locked	2	locked	Xxxxxx xxxxxx	locked	B	locked
5	3	1	Xxxxxx xxxxxx	A	C	E
locked	4	locked	Xxxxx xxxxxx	locked	D	locked

You never really know what your going to be attacking (at least I haven't analyzed the defenders to see if there is a pattern.) But you can use a general attack pattern to minimize your losses. 

So in position 2 you want to have all the Infantry you can hold. 

Position 3 should be 3 archers

position 4 should be all the Catapults you can hold

position 5 should be 3 archers as well

have the 3 archers will help you minimize your losses. You will be able to attack first so your infantry will take out all in square B, then your archers will be attacked. even if all 3 are killed due to the regeneration properties of the tower you will get 80% back. so in this case loose 3 retain 2. then your catapults will attack and kill all on square d. then your other archers will be attacked and possibly all die. your inf will attack square a or c depending on where troops are. they will attack your infantry with whatever they have left due to your infantries high defense you should only loose a few troops. Your catapults then will take out the rest of their troops. And voila you have taken the tower level with few losses if any and gained quite a bit of experience for your hero in square 2 and square 4.

 Experience seems to be based on how many soldiers are killed by each hero. The orange numbers in the recap. When you use a double xp. inventory item these orange numbers are double the number of soldiers killed.