My favorite game still after 10 years.
Spoiler Alert. I use 2 cool tricks you might want to find out for yourself so don't read this.
My home strategy is to:
-Take the chance and kill 3 castles to get extra ball lit
-Then bring the drawbridge down to setup the 4th.
-Only then shoot for extra ball so I might get destroy castle gate from Merlin. Don't shoot if Trolls is lit
-Get minimum of 2 madness lit and if I don't have trolls lit. Shoot the lock until I start Castle Multi-ball or light trolls.
-Once Trolls is lit I try my luck with the other 2 madness before starting Madness Multi-ball
-Once Madness multi-ball starts I try to destroy trolls to start Troll madness.
-If I get Trolls and start Troll madness, i bash trolls until I get Master of Trolls.
-Then I go for castles until the end of multi-ball
-Then try to pick up any madness I didn't get and start Royal Madness.
-On Royal Madness shoot Catapult with first shot. Then try to get 1 of every shot to advance 1 of every champion to BFTK or hopefully get the extra ball
-I then try to advance Madness but always try to light trolls before starting it. If I have Master of Trolls I spend my time on castles
-At this point I shoot the lock to start Castle multi-ball either for an extra ball or to get Castle Crusher
-If I light BFTK, I see if I can start Royal Madness first because that is so cool to shoot BFTK with Royal Madness going
-There are other things that come along that I let happen but don't shoot for
858MM is my best with a drain with the 3rd BFTK lit. I still think about that.