I am not certain about world settings etc, however that nuke looks to me to have only been built to about 15k farmspace.
I myself am a proud user of the Hc strat. I have found though that for Hc nukes you want to build to at least 9k axes, otherwise they tend to become just a little too weak.
Yes the nukes are weaker, but I really don't find this to be too restrictive.
What I find curious is that one of the main criticisms of the Hc strat is build time. That said the strat lends itself better too slower world settings in practice. With the ability to stack deeper more easily combined with easier and more effective sniping (due to the greater pool of available sniping villages) the loss of defensive troops is significantly less on a Hc strat account than a Lc strat account when under significant fire.
Furthermore though the axes in a nuke build quite slowly, the Hc component builds relatively quick. So your defensive regeneration is very rapid.
For someone new to the strat though I would not reccomend following the original openeye guide to the letter.
For defensive villages you should run a slightly higher ratios of spears to Hc than you would in a standard defense. 10k spears 1800 Hc as an approximate is a suitable ratio. The reason for this is that if you build to the letter of the guide and have 11.5k spears/1250 Hc in each defensive village for long distance stacking you will either need to put a spear heavy imbalanced stack in place, or take the Hc out of offense villages making these offense villages far less effective.
For offense I would advise using a minimum of 10k axe with approximately 1.5k Hc as the nuke retains a decent strength, has a slightly better build time, will fare better against sword based Ds and provides more defense over a 11.5k axe build.
For early world I would suggest considering building a couple of 4.8k Lc nukes, as these will save you mincing nukes uneccessarily against sword based Ds and reduces the slight farming trade-off compared to the Lc offensive strat. I would only build one of these say every 5-10 offense villages below 500k, once past this point losing nukes should not be as big of an issue.
Ratios are a matter of choice, the fewer villages you have in my opinion the more you should emphasize offense in my opinion. My personal feeling is even with the Hc strat in offense it makes sense to have more D villages than offense at the multi mil stage.
Hybridising the strat can also be very effective, Hc nukes on the frontlines, Lc backlines. Sending the Hc of a nuke with the last noble is an easy way to reduce the likelyhood of getting recapped. Not too mention the fact that it is easier to set up the troops in a Hc nuke noble train to prevent overnobling (more important on packet worlds) than it is with Lc strat.
I hope some of my experience of the strat can prove helpful. It entirely comes down to personal preference, but I would highly advise running slightly more Hc in both Offense and Defense than the original strat calls for.
