Hey guys, revisiting this after getting some luck with the w3k portal and observing some high level defenses:
The tank needs to be a healer. A percent heal tank is probably preferable to a boosted healer tank because of all the anti boosted health tech + the large health increases from 5 star troops. Nautica seems to overwhelmingly be the strongest tank in the game right now. cHathor has some flexibility as well it seems, but mostly to serve as a buff provider in the flank position while you run w3k in the flank to get value from passives. Considering what ive observed and applying to what i have, this is the defense i am considering now:
wing: Lemonwood
flank: Dreadstar
tank: cHathor (no costume)
flank: Satori
wing: Nogu
Other than hathor who is already 2lb, these will be my first lb1-2 heroes that i want to set up for war defense. Some alternatives are:
Yellow: Persa, Christine daae, Meg Giry, Tang Sanzang
Purple: cHel, cSeshat, Eros
Red: Cupido, cZimkitha, Norman
Blue: Firman Richard, Miss Ethel, Mariol, cAthena
Green: Sha Wujing, Evelyn, Spartoi, Ma’at, toon Lianna
An alternative, and maybe stronger considering what I have observed above is having Meg Giry as tank instead of Hathor, run Hathor with costume in flank, and add Sha Wujing, Dreadstar, Satori for damage? Or maybe the VF Tang Sanzang is superior to average Meg Giry despite/because of the health boosting? Maybe then Firman Richard along with Tang Sanzang and Sha Wujing for buff synergy instead of Satori?
Anyway, I am mostly asking people who have experience going against these characters and know how strong / weak they are because all I have is conjecture. I have a single 5* ranger/wizard troop and a rainbow squad of mana troops at 29.
Thanks for any help guys.