1. Do not forget about your heroes!
2. Do not use medals to reward your hero. You will need these later. Use gold, and keep them at 100%loyalty.
3. Reward them BEFORE you upgrade, as each upgrade costs you more in salary and rewards.
4. Make sure you select them wisely when recruiting. Each hero should be good at ONE thing only.
5. You should have 1 good politic and 1 good intel hero per city, and the rest should be high on attackpoints.
6. Your Mayor can (and should) be changed around depending on what you are doing. Their attributes affect the time it takes to do certain things around your town. Your mayor will gain xp just by being mayor (although it is slow) so send your mayor on easy attacks to speed up xp growth from time totime.
7. Politic heroes make the best mayors. High politic scores will speed up the production of resources.
8. Intel heroes can be sent with scouts to increase the amount of info you get back. BE CAREFUL though as if your scout/s die, your hero will be lost. Intel heroes shorten the amount of time research will take, so switch your mayor to your intel hero before starting any research, then back to your politic hero once its started.
9. Attack heroes are obviously the most important. You will want their leadership points to eventually be above 85, as this significantly reduces troop losses on attacks. Get as many heroes as soon as you can, and send them on regular attacks to increase xp. You will need multiple heroes in order to send“waves” of attacks (see strategies further down)
10. Your Workshop building allows you to make “gear” for your heroes and further increase their strength, speed and ability. Every 10 levels, your hero can use a new gear level, and increase their power. Research “Charm” and “ring” first, as these are counted twice for some reason (see the gear list to the right in your hero screen). Do not increase star levels until your gear has reached its max level, as each gear upgrade reduces the star level.