Felkaroth's Forbidden Fortress - A TH8 Design

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Tired of cheap shields but can't find the right hybrid design? Are you wondering if there is even a way to protect your Townhall AND your resources? Wonder no more, for I present to you my Forbidden Fortress layout, a Townhall 8 hybrid base!

While Pingfao's Tesla Theme Park, Juliang's Pokeball, and other famous rotational farming base designs are among the strongest possible TH8 layouts, they never satisfied my tastes when converted into hybrid formats. With influence from these well known designs, I took it upon myself to build this hybrid base, which I believe will more than adequately protect your Townhall as well as your segmented resources. While protecting the Townhall always means sacrificing some amount of protection for your resource storages, this base minimizes that disadvantage by separating the resources widely in the event that an attacker does manage to breach your defenses. For your consideration, I give you...

FELKAROTH'S FORBIDDEN FORTRESS

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Design Goals:

1. Protected Townhall

Townhall is placed directly in the center of the central compartment, forcing an attacker to commit an entire army to even get close to destroying it.

2. Optimal Splash Defense Coverage

Created two triangular formations for Wizard Towers and Mortars. Spaced out to avoid losing multiple defenses to lightning spells.

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3. Semi-Centralized Clan Castle

Clan Castle positioned in such a way as to make luring of defensive CC troops difficult, and impossible to do without coming in range of outer defenses.

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4. Optimal Air Defense Coverage

Positioned Air Defenses in a triangular formation to allow for full coverage of valuable compartments.

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5. Forced Spawn

Non-essential buildings and resource collectors positioned outside to force attackers to deploy troops a distance from essential compartments.

6. Giant Funnels

Giants deployed to either of the side resource compartments will be directed into a funnel containing multiple spring traps.

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7. Optimal Point Defense Coverage

Remaining defensive structures positioned in two overlapping pentagrams with Cannons evenly distributed between Archer Towers.

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8. Protected Resource Storages

Resource Storages separated into 3 well protected compartments forcing attackers to choose one compartment to focus on, and minimizing resources lost to successful breaches of a single compartment.

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looks good:cool:

Thanks Ryan :cool:

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Looks nice in theory, but the proof is in the pudding, i.e. how has it performed so far?

And what on earth is the purpose of such a design, at such a low trophy level?

I will be posting evidence soon about the effectiveness of the design, and am merely waiting to finish some of my defenses before I push this design to higher trophy levels. Thanks for pointing those things out, hastur.

The building placements are good. The storage segmentation is good. The splash coverage is good (although they aren't in equilateral triangles, more like isosceles :P). Point defences are well positioned and the CC is semi-centralised.

The only thing letting you down are the junctions. They aren't staggered on the outer layer, nor the inner layers. You also have a few X-Junctions. These can be real weaknesses against wallbreakers. It seems to be the curse of symmetrical designs, that's why I often prefer rotating designs.

I don't know how feasible it is to fix these problems without a rather major redesign. It is a nice layout though, and it is certainly one to be proud of.

Richard

Your wiz' are upgrading and your gold stores are in your mortars blind spot lol GL

Looks very nice, the only idea for improvement I have would be to leave one square of space between the bombs and the springs, to keep fast-than-giant troops from triggering the springs even when the last bomb takes them out. So I'd take that bomb and put it in front of the other two.

I think this base is awesome! Nice job :)