I just started playing about a week ago I believe it was, and I'm currently at 1503 rating by almost exclusively using this strategy. My main reasons for posting here is to see how I can improve it.

Start by building 2 miners and one sword. Put the sword in the middle to watch for attacks and capture the tower. Once the tower has been captured move your sword closer to the enemy to check out their forces. Continue to make miners whenever possible, unless you see the enemy has 3-4 swords, then you make swords until you have 1 less than them. If they have more than 4 swords, get a castle archer so that you are prepared if they attack, and cease sword production, as your castle archer should be plenty of protection along with your 2ish swords you built. Continue making miners until you have 8 on gold and 2 praying. Buy miner speed, then levels 1 and 2 passive income when possible. Once you have this amount of miners and those upgrades, you should be able to support almost continuous production of archers and speartons with a couple merics. Once you have a good amount of speartons and archers, and at least 1 meric, you can move out and attack. Never forget to continue making speartons, archers, and merics. Pull back if your speartons all die, unless your enemy's army is extremely crippled from the attack.

A general tip I have for almost any build is to always attempt to keep your gold and mana low, as this means you are spending it on army/defense/economy instead of it sitting uselessly in your treasury.

Please give any constructive criticism, as I am sure this strategy isn't perfect, as I don't think I have faced many good players yet. If you are new to the game like me, hopefully this will help you get some easy wins. :)

Alrighty, lemme just tell you about your beginning. As you rank up, you will find no one generally just gives up tower, unless ninja spammers. You will need to make an archer. PS. always keep sword behind archer(unless you scout with sword[but send it behind archer so he dun get hit]) because(1) everyone else is doing it[for a reason](2) If he sends a troop forward Your archer will get a few hits before melee trupz fite. also to backwards kite click + g to shoot whilst running backwards after archer reload animation. to forward kite click + attack select/ army attack command to shoot forwads. blah blah blah. just watch replays, lotsa replays and you will gain valuable knowledge. anyways kaito out

Thanks for telling me how to kite, I have been having trouble microing archers, but I thought it was just me lagging that was messing it up. I was trying to right click back and aclick. I actually have been trying out archer+sword start now and I do think its better. It took me 2 losses to learn that though, lol.