I don't know how to attack

Stopped clashing for months and months. Playing since February 2014 and my defenses are barely TH8 like.
I don't know how to farm. I don't know how to place my troops. My spells. I even started gemming the 1000 gems I got from a♥♥♥♥♥.
Tried Barch. Can't enter any base.
Tried Barch+wb. Can't even do 50%.
Tried GiBarch with 70 barbarians and 60 archers+1 heal spell. It costs around 80.000 to 100.000 elixir but I can't attack any village that has 100.000 more than this, making elixir farming to upgrade troops very long and tedious.
Tried the same with 24 barbarians, 60 archers. Better, but I can't find good loots that cover the cost of my attacks and that won't wipe my army like an inferno tower.
Tried gowipe, giwi. Too expensive and takes too long to create.

I'm kinda lost right now. I can still play like this with gibarch but it takes ages to farm, like, 300k gold? and I always seem to lose my giants mid-battle and I have to fight for 50% most of the time and not cover the cost of my attacks.

Pls help :unsure:

What trophy level are you? In your position id farm in silver and gibarch...if you have the gems boost your Baracks and farm consistently for an hour

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Originally Posted by YourFantasy

What trophy level are you? In your position id farm in silver and gibarch...if you have the gems boost your Baracks and farm consistently for an hour

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It's in my signature: Gold II, 1560~ trophies.
And yes I might boost my barracks as I have 837 gems left from a♥♥♥♥♥ and removing trees.
Thanks for the advice

Edit: So I drop trophies? Can't I stay in gold 3 at least because I want the 5 star DE bonus.

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Originally Posted by JustElisha

It's in my signature: Gold II, 1560~ trophies.
And yes I might boost my barracks as I have 837 gems left from a♥♥♥♥♥ and removing trees.
Thanks for the advice

Edit: So I drop trophies? Can't I stay in gold 3 at least because I want the 5 star DE bonus.

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Sorry I'm on my phone so can't see your signature...gold 3 should be ok just go for easy bases you'll get up there in no time

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Originally Posted by JustElisha

Stopped clashing for months and months. Playing since February 2014 and my defenses are barely TH8 like.
I don't know how to farm. I don't know how to place my troops. My spells. I even started gemming the 1000 gems I got from a♥♥♥♥♥.
Tried Barch. Can't enter any base.
Tried Barch+wb. Can't even do 50%.
Tried GiBarch with 70 barbarians and 60 archers+1 heal spell. It costs around 80.000 to 100.000 elixir but I can't attack any village that has 100.000 more than this, making elixir farming to upgrade troops very long and tedious.
Tried the same with 24 barbarians, 60 archers. Better, but I can't find good loots that cover the cost of my attacks and that won't wipe my army like an inferno tower.
Tried gowipe, giwi. Too expensive and takes too long to create.

I'm kinda lost right now. I can still play like this with gibarch but it takes ages to farm, like, 300k gold? and I always seem to lose my giants mid-battle and I have to fight for 50% most of the time and not cover the cost of my attacks.

Pls help :unsure:

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So... You need to find an army composition that works for you. I am currently using a combination of giants, wizards, healers , and wallbreakers. This takes about 50 minutes to train up, but it is fairly effective against a wide range of base designs and levels. I use this for TH7 and TH8, all through the Gold leagues (mostly Gold II and I right now). I like running this while I'm doing something else; say, binge watching a show, for example. I'm particularly good for running an army like this 8 or 9 times during a light work day, just picking up in between meetings. �� You can boost barracks with something like this, but you'll only get 4 attacks per hour anyway, so I prefer to multitask unless I have a particular upgrade in mind.

Barch worked fine in the old world, where you could catch someone off guard or when we were boosting collectors, but it's just not as effective anymore with the stronger village designs we see now. Some players still use it, especially in higher leagues or lower TH levels, but I just don't see much value there for my TH7 and TH8 games. Gibarch is ok, lots of folks using it, but even there...I just find the stronger armies are more effective.

I fill each barrack with one healer, 5 giants, 2 wizards, 1 wallbreakers; one more gets an extra wizard to hit a total of 200 troop units. For spells, I go with all rage spells, a poison spell donated to me, and an EQ spell. I typically use just one rage, but sometimes use a second and/or an EQ to make my WBs more effective.

You may also want to focus your efforts on just one resource as you raid, rather than all three. It used to be that we'd look for bases with 250k/250k/500 as a rough minimum. Now I focus on bases with 1500 DE and at least 125K elixir (to cover my army) and ignore gold; or 300k gold, 125k elixir, and ignore DE; or similar setups.

Also, be sure to use the daily star bonus to build up a little extra loot as well. It goes into your CC but after a few days, you'll find it is enough to supplement your other raided loot for an upgrade. For this, you'll want to push into at least Gold II or I.

I think it's a good idea to drop to at least Silver 1 first, you'll find plenty of rushed TH7/TH8's more often so you can practice barch/Gibarch attacks. Don't focus too much on loot, the idea is to crush easy bases and get comfortable using this strategy again, because it works across the board. Try not to mess around with other army compositions until you get this one down, there is no need to complicate things.

You'll also get a lot more than the 200 DE bonus from Gold 3 by sniping town halls and exposed drills alone.