This guide is for the general LC Hansel. However, it will work if you have explored the highlands as well. STEP 1 The first step here will be to take your T3 building and upgrade it to a level 3 Circle of Elementals(T4 balance building). This will increase your plunder and give you 2 extra hits per unload, thus increasing how much gold you make. STEP 2 Now here comes the part you may not understand. What you are going to do now is either save up 45 bil or buy 4 level 2 CoE's(T4 balance building) or level 2 Cursed Foundrys(T4 attack building). You've currently spent 71.25 billion on these 5 buildings. STEP 3 After you get all four of those buildings, upgrade one by one to level 3. Each building will cost you 15 billion. This will nearly double your stats, and you should have around 400-500k attack stat depending on what buildings you bought. STEP 4 You should be making 15-20 million first hit. Now you're gonna need to stock up about 10 billion in allies, so you don't have to stock up on allies for a long time. This will make you Max Plunder. STEP 5 Nice job! You have all the necessary components to expand into the highlands! However, you're only going to buy the first four highlands. On these four highlands, you are going to build level 3 T4's. OR you can buy 4 level 2 T4's and then upgrade. (If you already have these four lands, then replace your buildings with these T4's.) STEP 6 Now you are going to convert your guilds to T4's until you have one guild left. The T4's are 26.25 billion(26,250,000,000) each. STEP 7 Now, you should have 27 T4's level 3. You have one guild left. This is your personal choice here; you can either turn it into a level 3 SoS(Stronghold of Shadows at 27.27 billion), or become pure attack and put a T4 building. STEP 8 COMPLETE THE HIGHLANDS AND BUILD T4's ON THE LANDS!! Congratulations, you have successfully converted from a hansel build to T4's. Hope this guide helped you!! ***NOTE: This will also work for an attack build going T4 from T3 buildings. It will also work for upgrading your guilds to SoS's. However, do note that SoS's decrease spy plunder until 2/3 of your build is SoS's and it begins to rise again.***
On step 1 CoE's take 10 mins longer to regenerate all soldiers then a CF does, you may want to add that. I also don't see the point in adding 5 Atk builds converting to T4 when guilds give more plunder, so when you explore 4 highlands you'll have 28 lands. I'd with 1 CoE and castle upgraded is 130k atk/def why not just keep guilds until you save enough to get to 35 lands and able to place guilds on them. Then start converting to CoE or CF, just an idea though.