In my opinion it completely depends on play style. I myself max out swords and archers, with a few points in Magikill and just play a survival game to starve out my AI opponent. Eventually their gold supplies get so far out from their base that my eco catches up on its own, and before that time all I have to do is drag out the fighting.
I don't tend to buy Spears because in my opinion they need far too many upgrades to be useful.
I myself prefer kiting all day with swords and just stalling the match in the middle of the field. I go for the push when my opponent fall on their knees from running out of resources. On insane its frustrating with every arrow 1-hit-KO-ing my Swordwrath but I still find it fun.

A friend of mine just plays mainly with Spears, and I've tried games spamming Magikill. All comes down to what sort of game you want to play really.

i voted for giant because giants are big and manly.

Will...for me I upgrade spearton's sheild & spear cuz if the spear was fully upgraded he can kill (swordwrath , miner , and archer) in one hit.
and he can increase 174 health points from the giant in each hit wich that means he can kill a giant in 9-12 hits.

Swords, then archers, then mages.

What about miners? Isn't it a good idea...?
I'd upgrade miners, swords, and archers, then maybe spears and mages.

Get swords and Mages to max and nothing can possibly stop you.

Miners will help to max it out quicker though, won't they?
Also...how about going Archer-Mage? Just a thought. The mages will meatshield with the minions and can stun-spam if anything somehow breaks through, while the archers give lots of dps.

P.S. Anyone else notice that the mages from SW1 are EXACTLY like trees?

I always invested some in castle income. Then I fully upgraded the spearton and had fun trying to solo the enemies army.

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Miners will help to max it out quicker though, won't they?
Also...how about going Archer-Mage? Just a thought. The mages will meatshield with the minions and can stun-spam if anything somehow breaks through, while the archers give lots of dps.

P.S. Anyone else notice that the mages from SW1 are EXACTLY like trees?

1: I mean max out their upgrades.
2: No, trees are tanky and don't have a mass-killing spell.

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1: I mean max out their upgrades.
2: No, trees are tanky and don't have a mass-killing spell.

I'll amend that statement. Mages from SW1 are almost exactly like trees, apart from the fact that their health is low and their stun spell can hit multiple units.

I definitely stick for spearton. Fully upgraded, with user control a spearton can beat a giant without running back and forth. Castle archers are a good option, since they're overpowered in the first place.

Swordsmen early on before I unlock speartons, then definitely speartons. They are by far (in my opinion) the most useful infantry unit here, and controlling one lets you take down a giant with only about three speartons, like KoKoPrince just said.

Definitely miner pick upgrade. Manually controlling the miner lets you get an almost full bag in 2 swings, and you can support constant production of swordwrath with only 3 miners with manual controlling one miner. After miner is fully upgraded, you upgrade swordwrath speed so that when you attack your swords can constantly resupply and when you micro a sword you can avoid every attack if you micro well. Even when you micro incorrectly, you have a ton of other swords because you upgraded miners. I can easily beat the game on insane with this strat, and I do mean easily. Once you know what you are doing and use manual control to its full potential, the game is really easy. Its still fun for me though, since you do have to do a bit of microing and its a good game.

I think it's only worth controlling miners in the beginning. They're the best thing to upgrade after swords and passives excluding magikill though.

Honestly, I think the Spearton is the best troop in the game... I mean it has both the health (even more than) and he power (again, even more than) the Swordwrath and the long-range capabilities of the Archidons. The Speartons them selves are amazing... just one (player controlled) can take down Giants, Magikill, can use it's spear to kill off Archidons and has more power than the Swordwrath. I mean. With a fully upgrade spear, he can take down a none-leveled giant in maybe 20-25 hits! (I didn't count...)

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