It's pointless and rather boring to play random strat battles, especially for villages.
Not nearly as fun as regular battles, very laggy, equipment makes it look like neolithic, long periods of archer skirmishing, take far too long and you get nearly no XP and no gold for them.
The current XP gain is quite pathetic and might as well not be there, I understand that a new system is probably going to be implemented - but just why not make it flat x2 or even x3 for all strat battles for now? Really no incentive to play them for non-diplomatic and non-strat goal reasons.