Id say use either attack or hansel (what fits your play style) The devs will surely nerf the tower builds' mechanics soon.
I'm going to disagree with everyone here. I think guild hansel builds are the best for estoc wars, and I'll give my reasons: 1) Low CS: Low CS means an advantage in matchmaking, a clan of guild hansels would face far smaller numbers of tower or attack builds. 2) High plunder: Through equipment and mithril spells (no good guild hansel is short on equipment, and they earn enough to guarantee all 4 stat boost spells every war), a guild hansel can attack people with larger stats than their own, plus they have high plunder from allies. War is judged on plunder. My main is doing very well in wars as a guild hansel, and will not convert to a t5 build (OK, probably a tower build of some kind) until after land completion. For those who still think tower builds are better, think how your tower build would fare against a horde of teeny guild hansels. You cannot get much plunder at all from those small stats, they can reap huge plunder when they can hit you, and it is hard to get KOs when you are hugely outnumbered.
Think about a horde of towers facing the horde of guilds. Exactly but guild hansels still kick ass. And hybrids are great if used properly.
Good person with a tower build? CanadianGal. I'm not quite sure how many defense towers you need since I never made a tower build.
Tower build only work if you have 20 spy defense HAS to be 20 and Doesn't work as 20 attack and rest spy
Hansel is good for war but bad for EE. What ends up happening is your troops get annihilated and pinned all the time while the attack builds scout you to ****.
Teamwork is vital in wars... Pretty sure 1 hlbc tower and 1 hlbc hansel will tear apart 2 hlbc hybrids with ease (provided they coordinate their efforts). I still think guild hansel is the best possible in terms of effectiveness vs matchmaking weighting. For your 1 hlbc hybrid, you would face about 8 land complete guild hansels after matchmaking. Assuming full equipment for everyone, you would be toast.
I think a good BFA is número uno for these wars since most of it takes place at low troop/spy strengrh. Aside from that regular defense towers now hold a more important purpose since there is no dtw for attacks.