In my experience of TW, Archers are one of the most valuable defensive units.
My defensive villages will eventually consist of 3000 spears, 8000 Swords and 8000 archers + 500 scouts.
.
You could build more spears and less archers spears have highest CD of all.
The most useful defense i saw on archer worlds is
5000+ Spears
5000+ Archers
1800+ HC
10 Swords
25 Cats
Adjust how you like it more archers/spears or more HC i going with more HC
Strong as your but much faster to build and in later stages of games when you sending defense from far away you want they arrive fast and swords just slow it.
Swords are there to get sniping speed
Cats are for faking,great defense strength and for catting backline and to get sniping speed if needed
Or for non-archer
8000+ Spears
10 Swords
2000+ HC
25 Cats
Some people like 10K swords/spears sure is strong but time factor is huge you need around 35 days more or less depends how fast or slow world is.
also those are slow to support cause of swords.