Waterfall Training:
How it works:
Let's say you have 4 Barracks,
Barracks 1 (highest level) can train T8 troops
Barracks 2 can train T7 troops
Barracks 3 can train T6 troops
Barracks 4 can train T5 troops
What you do is train 1 level lower then your lowest Barracks, so here we would train T4 troops all week.
Then on Total Mobilisation Day (day 5 of VS) we train up through the ranks like so.
Barracks 4 upgrade T4's to T5's
Barracks 3 upgrade T5's to T6's
Barracks 2 upgrade T6's to T7's
Barracks 1 upgrade T7's to T8's
This creates an upgrade ladder or what we like to call waterfall training.
This also improves your ability to earn high points on Day 5 of VS.
This is because you get points for each level you train.
For example training 1 troop straight to T8 would give me 220.5 points.
but using this method my points for 1 troop would be:
T4 to T5 = 147 points
T5 to T6 = 171.5 points
T6 to T7 = 196 points
T7 to T8 = 220.5 points
for a total of 735 points for 1 troop upgraded using the waterfall method.
*your points may be different depending on what level your alliance duel tech research is.