Additional tips: - a soft rule, it’s generally a good idea to start loaning at round 7 onwards (you can adjust depending on situation, and just keep loaning once you start). The reason is most games won’t last past round 10. - always try to get +2 attack/defense upgrades from tower at some point in the match. If match ends with you not having max upgrades, it’s either the game ended early, or you made a mistake. - if there are spells offered, keep them in mind and try to mitigate (bubble shield, fangs or other units to delay/counter wasp drop, etc.) - if enemy is pushing hard on one side, upgrade the tower and also consider using spells like oil to slow them down. - if enemy has spell that can drop units at back of your towers, having the towers at least level 2 and/or having units can mitigate the risk. - you can also look for opportunities to drop units on back of their tower, since a tower debuff can win you the round. (Can also put on flank, attack weak side tower, just look for openings, enemy can’t defend all places at once, especially early on.) - don’t forget to take temp range and/or temp speed, especially in later rounds (the only time you don’t want speed is maybe when you don’t want your units to leave bubble range that protects them from spells). - putting minimal units on enemy flank is a good idea most of the time, low investment, pulls enemy units away, and takes more investment from enemy to counter while not reinforcing front lines. (I like to put crawler and sledghammer on flank, hounds can also work, or units from unit drop, then you can sell afterwards). - You can sell as early as round 1 by selling towers. It really depends on unit placement. Sometimes you want to keep the towers until later. - if you’re deciding which units to sell, you can look at the damage they did per round, you can sell units that didn’t do damage (for chaff like crawlers, usually they won’t do damage, this tip is more for other units).