Go balanced, a lot of people are going more balanced with their builds lately. If you plan on doing any of the new system wars, then balanced will be much better than Hansels.
Mmmmmmm Why don't I agree with Don. Hybrids are great at EBs. Very versatile in many areas of EB whether Spy intensive or troop intensive. In War, they're great as sweepers. Able to hit Hansels n steal from attackers. Attack build. As name applies most of the gold come from Plunder n not so much from Ally Bonus. Very good in was bcos of Plunder. Hansel, really bad for EBs, can only hit without pot up to The Destroyer. Needs to use a 7.5m pot for the Haunting n above need to use combination of pots. This despite the Ally Bonus, once you minus if the pot cost, well you're worse off than an Attack build. Don't want to use pots for Haunting? Very good, please get 459b in allies if you are a T2L3 SoS HCBC Hansel. With Volary, you need more allies to maxP. And believe me you still need the 7.5m attack pot for success at every hit. Oh yeah, you want to drop the attack building n become a spy. Errrr don't forget you have allies. If you're sleeping and someone strips your allies n attacks you relentlessly. Well you pay really well as an OSF. You'll be stripped of all your allies and gold within 2-4 hours max. It cost Team Lust the ASW2011, it cost CdG a lot of gold, because a lot of people don't really know how a Hansel is used in war. Everyone is only interested in making gold without understanding the pitfall of being a Hansel. Lol. Ask D's advice on being a Gretel instead. Roflmao.
Agree with FFNow. Every time I war I tear the heck out of hansel builds and make about 50mil a hit on em. 2nd advantage is that spies have a harder time stealing ur gold when stripped. Personally I have spy towers in my hybrid build to further help fighting off spies. atk builds end up needing full pots, or close to it to hit hybrids as well. Basically your a harder target for atk and spy to hit. Now the disadvantage to hybrid builds is that I find myself having to use a lot of attack pots during either a spy or regular attack which can get costly.