Balloons

Any reason to have more than 1 balloon bomber (if any) in your arsenal? Archers, towers, wizards, air defenses, etc., all take this expensive attack unit out with one or two shots. Bloooooop, fizzle, splat! Just curious how often they are used by other players and to what avail? Clearly, if the defending player's base is all but destroyed (no remaining archer towers, wizard towers and other ground-to-air defenses), sending in a balloon will eliminate the few remaining (if any) ground-to-ground defenses with impunity, but if the base is already 2-starred at that point, why bother spending the extra elixir cost on overkill? You can't send them in before all the air defenses are destroyed, so why bother with balloons at all? I'm sure there must be a good reason. Just need to get a clue, because they take a long time to cook and they are pricey.
Signed,
Clueless

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Originally Posted by Snofebutt

Any reason to have more than 1 balloon bomber (if any) in your arsenal? Archers, towers, wizards, air defenses, etc., all take this expensive attack unit out with one or two shots. Bloooooop, fizzle, splat! Just curious how often they are used by other players and to what avail? Clearly, if the defending player's base is all but destroyed (no remaining archer towers, wizard towers and other ground-to-air defenses), sending in a balloon will eliminate the few remaining (if any) ground-to-ground defenses with impunity, but if the base is already 2-starred at that point, why bother spending the extra elixir cost on overkill? You can't send them in before all the air defenses are destroyed, so why bother with balloons at all? I'm sure there must be a good reason. Just need to get a clue, because they take a long time to cook and they are pricey.
Signed,
Clueless

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You can use one or two the way you have; late to help clean up - but time will be your enemy that way.

Balloons work in packs - BIG packs. If you have 20+ with a rage spell, aim at air defences first [or lightning blast the an air defence if rage isn't your thing] and witness a base crumble before your eyes.

That is when the power of balloon is realised.

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Originally Posted by daz258

You can use one or two the way you have; late to help clean up - but time will be your enemy that way.

Balloons work in packs - BIG packs. If you have 20+ with a rage spell, aim at air defences first [or lightning blast the an air defence if rage isn't your thing] and witness a base crumble before your eyes.

That is when the power of balloon is realised.

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Thanks!!!!

at lower TH levels, before more than 3 AD. Skillful deployment can make it useful - taking out key defenses

I personally I didn't like the tactic, as balloons are slow but their are some youtubes on using barbs and archers with one balloon

i use 1 Drag, rest Balloons, and have CC full of lvl6 Balloons, and i have 3 Rage Spells and 1 Healing Spell

Attack the air defense and once wizard towers attack the balloons, drop a healing spell on them to give them some health to last a bit longer

Balloons are the elephants of clash. They absolutely destroy anything in front of them.

Since i don't use minions for anything i don't upgrade them so therefore I've never tried the balloon minion strategy but i use 24 balloons and 4 drags to quite a high stature. It is quite expensive but using the balloons to take out the ADs and then have drags destroy rest of base works well. It'd be better with minions since there's less cost and minions are only 2 space you can use less of them and more balloons.

Before th7 doing all balloon armies with maybe 10 archers is extremely effective for when you wake up (train it only overnight or when gone for long periods of time). People only have one air defence and can easily be destroyed. Send them in groups so splash damage doesn't kill them all.

To use the baloons you must first destroy air defences and most of archer towers.Then deploy an army of baloons.I will make like that.