Basic Tower Guide- Dec 2013

 Some basic tips on getting through the Tower:

1. Troops are numbered in their attack order 1-4 in this way you can figure out which of your troops will get hit. You always get to start first, so your "1" will attack in front of him, if their is nobody in front of him they will attack up then down but always the troops in the front. then their "1" will attack in front of them or above then below. If you have already killed their "1" then their "2" will attack. Then your "2" then theirs and so on. Paying attention to the attack order can save you a lot of troops in the long run. 
2. Use sacrificial troops. I am an advocate of the 2&2 method. I have 2 defensive heros and 2 attacking heros. My attacking heros I attempt to position where they will take no damage. If one has to take damage I use the one with the highest defense rating. My defensive troops consist of 2 heros each leading 3 archers. I use archers because they cost the least in materials. I use 3 troops because even if you loose all 3 in one battle you will still regenerate 2 of them thus you get 3 rounds without having to replenish your troops. In this way you can hopefully make it through each fight loosing only 2 troops.
3. Defensive troops make an excellent way to quickly level new heros. After each battle all heros who participated each gain the same amount of experience. So it doesn't matter that they can only command 50 troops you only need them to command 3.
4. There is a correlation with the amount of troops you loose and the experience you gain. I am working on the numbers currently but do not have enough data to say for certain. But I can say the more troops you loose the more experience you will gain. So if you are not worried about troop loss then equip your max on each hero and rack up that experience. 
1.  [EDIT] The correlation seems to work like this:
1. less then 100 troops fought gets you 1 EXP, 100-199 troops fought gets you 2 EXP, 200-299 troops fought gets you 3 EXP.
2. Thats the basic formulation, now on top of those numbers you also get 1 additional EXP per permanent troops loss of yours. So the ones that are resurected do not count towards the EXP number.
3. EXAMPLE: you kill 243 of their troops but loose 2 troops in the process you would have 5 EXP per hero. 
4. In a few weeks I will start posting the Average troops per battle per tower level and you can calculate the best level to suit your needs.