First off, I'd like to thank iamlbm for taking the time on setting up this forum for all of us. In this section, I'll be covering my own personal strategies, as well as my own formations that I've been using. Keep in mind that I'm not here trying to write up an essay, so don't be judging the spelling/grammer. I'll be adding stuff to the forum as time in my real life allows. So, bare with me as it will look incomplete for a bit.

Base structure: The first base I started with I made for research and resource production. You don't need to much troop supply there, as at the moment, no one can attack you there. Keep upgrading buildings and recruiting troops to get your character enough fame to obtain a second base. Once you can, capture a base asu soon as possible. This second base, I chose as my main location with all supply and recruiting buildings. This is where I conduct most actions at. Any other bases that I capture after will be turned into resource gatherers and all resources get transported to my main base.

Resources: to gather enough resources you would spam attack prison berserker till you max out and recruit/upgrade with it. If you keep repeating this you'll gain fame extremely fast. Don't be too excited about fame, it has no meaning to me as a player.

Hero: Select one hero that you'll make as your main as well as a secondary hero. Use your main hero to fight in dungeons till you get the hero to lvl 17. Once that hero gets there start using C to train him/her on ten hour training time. While your main is in training use your secondary hero to fight in prison berserker for resources. Keep repeating these steps till you are about to finish off lode area. Once you're about to finish lode you want to save all your C so you can upgrade to Lvl 10 buildings fast. If you need equipment, take two to three days and fight in the prior raid dungeons.

Formations: I have two main formations that I use. The first is center bar formation, known as CB. In a CB formation you want to use the three middle boxes starting from the very far right and stack your troops right behind the first bar and so fourth.
Now there are sub formations within this one I use as well. CCB is a sub formation that I use to defend. With the same cb formation in the front you have a large formation in the very back that looks like a C. Anti invis troops are located within the middle portion of the C and on the top/bottom are invisible troops.
My offensive CB formation I call CBP(center bar power). With the same center bar set up you also add in a group of long range troops in either the very far right top or bottom spot. This formation gives me the advantage of an enemies area of focus. Therefore, you add more attack power into a certain area to get rid of certain troops as soon as possible.
CB Formation:

X X X X X
X X C B A
X X C B A
X X C B A
X X X X X

CCB Formation:

E E E X X
D X C B A
D X C B A
D X C B A
E E E X X

CBP Formation:

X X X X D
X X C B A
X X C B A
X X C B A
X X X X X

OR

X X X X X
X X C B A
X X C B A
X X C B A
X X X X D

V formation is my other formation I like to use. > is how it looks like and starts from the very far right from center. In this formation I'd form it to the center and stop there to add in my sub formations.
Defensive V formation, I call BV(bar v) with the bar formation in the very far back. The bar fills in the three middle vertical left box. The center of that bar should have a small group of invis troops and on top/bottom add anti invis troops.

V Formation:

X X C X X
X X X B X
X X X X A
X X X B X
X X C X X

BV Formation:

X X C X X
E X X B X
D X X X A
E X X B X
X X C X X

Offensive V formation I call

Awsome

And what troops are represented by A-E