Getting to Crystal 1 fast and cheap!
This is a simple guide for getting to crystal 1 with ease because i struggled a bunch trying to compose a quick army and nothing seemed to work until now.
First off i have a 200 army camp and the army composition is simple. set 2 barracks with 5 wall breakers followed by barbarians. Then use 2 barracks of full archers. For spells use 3 healing spells and make sure you gem just the spell production. It's pretty cheap (25 gems) and this means you have a full army with full spells every 24 minutes.
Seek out a base where its pretty assuring you can reach the TH and use a few barbs to clear out buildings to keep them from going round about the base.
If possible, if you have lvl 6 archers seek a base that doesnt have lvl 6+ motars to ensure the healing spell to be effectual even on your archers. (so they dont get one shoted.)
Use the WB once defenses are distracted then flood it with barbs. Once the barbs start taking heavy splash dmg hit them with a heal spell & then flood all your archers. Just keep using your heal spell where theirs heaps of barbs or archers and splash dmg is assaulting them. I got to 2200 with ease, didnt lose one battle.
I've switched the barbs for Giants now and i use one of the archer barracks to start off with 5 giants then the rest archers. This is still going great (Roughly 20-25 giants is the finished result with 10 WB followed with pure archers left over.) With Giants heal spells are all the more effectual! If they're taking heavy splash dmg let them lose 25-40% of their hp then hit them with a heal spell to get them back to 100%. Happy hunting and farming!