Explain BAM to me

This is the latest in vogue way for farmers to maximise their attacks per hour and thus loot. As I understand it it involves just Barbs, Archers and Minions, hence the BAM! Training times are very attractive at around 14 minutes for a full army I believe. I have never tried this so have a few questions before heading in.

1. What are the correct ratios of each unit? I know this will differ for many but just general numbers would be great.

2. What is the typical deployment and order of deployment? Is it along the lines of

a. Release line of Barbs and Archers to clear buildings
b. Single Minion to clear Air Bombs
c. Second line of barbs along wall
d. Focused bunch of barbs to punch through specific point
e. Rest of barbs/archers/minions in spread out formation along single boundary

3. How do you deal with a lack of WBS? Once the first wall is breached doesn't everything (bar minions) just bunch up and get owned by splash?

4. Is the strategy only for fairly open bases or can heavily segmented bases also get taken down?

5. How much is AD an issue v the minions?

6. I am a new TH9 so don't yet have any Level 6 troops and my Minions are level 2 only. Should I wait until everything is at max level for TH before trying this?

May have more questions later if I get some good responses. Also if anybody has any YouTube vids showing the technique in action that may help answer a lot of the above.

Thanks in advance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDku...e_gdata_player
This video and the three others he has on BAM are amazing. Worth the time to watch

I use 80 archers, 4 wallbreakers, 72 barbs and 20 minions. I only use the wallbreakers and theMinions when I have to, and remember, you don't have to use the whole army, assuming that your goal is resources.

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Originally Posted by ghostxmarksman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDku...e_gdata_player
This video and the three others he has on BAM are amazing. Worth the time to watch

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Thanks for link. It seems to me that the sole purpose of the barbs and archers is to clear a path for the Minions to the storages so that they don't get distracted and go around the edges. Is this right?

Is it wise to add goblins to the BAM-party? Their damage towards mines and pumps are high..
Could help clear surrounding buildings faster?

I use 80 barbs, 80 archers, 10 minions, and 10 wall breakers, hence BAWM.

Use the barbarians to clear a path and as distractions while the archers shoot over the walls or so they don't take the splash damage. Use minions to get 50% only if needed.

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Originally Posted by TheT3acher

Is it wise to add goblins to the BAM-party? Their damage towards mines and pumps are high..
Could help clear surrounding buildings faster?

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No! They will take up space and that is BAD for BAM.

It's a good army but the whole point behind BAM is the troops are REALLY quick to build so you can spend more time raiding. The more raiding you do the better the chance to find those sweet sweet 300k+ gold collector bases :)

I'm thinking of naming the west wing of my base "Thank you god!" which is what goes through my mind when I find one.

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Originally Posted by Saturn031000

I use 80 barbs, 80 archers, 10 minions, and 10 wall breakers, hence BAWM.

Use the barbarians to clear a path and as distractions while the archers shoot over the walls or so they don't take the splash damage. Use minions to get 50% only if needed.

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I use BAGW

12 giants 8 wall breakers rest archers and barbs. Also the occasional rage spell

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Originally Posted by Derpyusername

I use BAGW

12 giants 8 wall breakers rest archers and barbs. Also the occasional rage spell

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That kills the purpose of BAM. Its to be attacking as fast as possible.
@op I'd use half archers and half barbs in each barracks and have about 22 minions. Dont que them just make the minions to order