What calibre of player are you playing? It won't work against a top 20 player.
i dont always get paired with rating higher than me.Dont know why
this is gona be really embarrassing but it's possible to lose to 1700s who go castle archers >_>.
lag is a factor but even if it wasn't lagging i still have trouble with some of them :P mainly cuz im used to playing the meta at the higher level xD.
lots of my strategies were also derived from lower rating players. just i can control and macro better then them. so im gona listen to aimen.
what do u do after getting a castle archer? whats ur game plan.
well, because castle archer repels 1-3 swordwrath, swordwrath & archer, 1-3 crawlers i use them.(if he rushes with spearton or ghost spearton, ill make walls)
Anyway, after I research castle archer, I go for miners. once I have 11 miners (8 mining 3 praying), I start making allbowtross. If enough money, ill research blazing bolts.then go to the centre to take tower. There are always some army there.if have archer, target that first.If no kill.If there are albowtross,kill it (first strike advantage(if you get it ). If there are 3 archer/2 albowtross, retreat.make another and a spearton. with 3 albowtrosses and 2 spearton. go back to centre. if there are stronger army (giants) make more spearton and albowtross with a magikill.research both poison and electric wall. by this time i have 7 spearton, 5 albowtross, 1 magikill all full upgraded except for spearton.if there are more space in pop, choose to make spearton or giants