Talk:Gold Storage/Home Village/@comment-60.241.234.162-20130607235953/@comment-2170536-20140610010030

The problem with spending your resources on defenses first is that defenses are expensive and take a long time to build! Of course they are extremely useful for protecting your resources, but first you have to obtain them. And once you reach TH6 or so, your resource collectors start being a very minor portion of your overall resource generation. A strong army is critical to attacking profitable bases: If you have TH7 but only a TH6 army, you are going to struggle against bases that have enough resources to cover your expenses, let alone turn a profit. I suggest giving User blog:Spottra/Upgrade Strategy a read and see if that helps.