You know I have played this game a lot BITD and now occasionally in MAME. Yet I still don't understand strategy in this game.
When you have the bridge built is it to your advantage to immediately face the pitchfork throwing devil?
I've been putting it off until I get to a stage where there are a ton of bad guys bombing the crap out of me at which time I go across the bridge to escape. Then when I kill the devil I get a boatload of points.