Reinforced Wall T-Junctions

As you know, a typical wall T-junction separates three compartments. If an attacker's ground army breaks the single wall segment at the intersection of the T, all three compartments are open to each other. From the defender's standpoint, it would be ideal to force the attacker's army to have to break two wall segments in order to get into the same three compartments. What are the community's thoughts on the effectiveness of placing a spare wall segment at the T-junction to reinforce the joint? If the attacker's army breaks the single wall segment at the intersection of the T, now only two compartments are open to each other.

I have committed six wall segments to this objective with my war base as shown here. Attachment 199034

Jump spells and earthquakes make reinforcement irrelevant in one to two locations in the base; however, six evenly and well spaced out reinforced T-junctions means the remaining four should be effective at damage control. They make better use of high level walls in helping theoretically delaying and defending ground attacks.

I've just implemented this into three war bases and will report back the results in a week. And with the 24 hour lockout, I haven't had a chance to test it yet either in friendly challenge.

Other questions and considerations are:
- How many wall segments at most should be committed to reinforcement? For example, even if only one of my six segments delayed an attacker's army by forcing it to go through one additional wall segment at the end of a war attack, that can be the difference between two and three stars.
- Valks and wall breakers generally take out two to three wall segments. They may take out the entire reinforced joint. How should buildings be placed behind walls relative to the T-intersection so troops like valks don't take out the reinforced joint?
- Reinforced joints can also help create dead zones or hide bomb and tesla locations.
- Air armies don't care as much; however, this can stall heros used for cleanup. Heros can only kill one wall segment at a time.
- Do reinforced joints make rage and heal spells more effective for attackers? (Units are less likely to disperse out of the AOE.)

I think it's smart to do this, when your design allows you to. It also creates lots of gaps for potential traps.

With cleverness you might be able to steer attackers in a certain direction. With that in mind, looking at your posted example, you might want to switch a couple in order to steer attackers away from the core, not into it.

This probably makes the most sense when attackers bash through wall with something like giants or BK. Seems like TH9 or even TH8 might benefit more.

This won't do anything except waste a wall. Wallbreakers will always pick a single wall over a double wall, so they won't even go for the spot you reinforced.

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Originally Posted by 842

This won't do anything except waste a wall. Wallbreakers will always pick a single wall over a double wall, so they won't even go for the spot you reinforced.

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But this would cause them to break into walls that do not lead into the core, seeing as he placed the walls near the core. I would think that this would cause troops to go around.

To be honest your current base design is an easy 3* for any air attack. What does a wall really do? Kill squad with jump spell and then lavaloon deploy. I think you're overthinking this

Good points! The core has still been a weakness as this base gives up a mid 70% two star attack fairly easily to many popular ground armies. Because of this, I am experimenting with ring bases now. Big walls just feel so underutilized in a ring base, but I'd rather give up a high percentage 1 star attack rather than 2 stars.

Regarding reinforced T junctions, I'm happy to report back in watching war replays on an xbow-less TH9, and xbow-less, inferno-less TH10, and an inferno-less TH10 (as shown in the original post), they do make a small difference in strengthening the overall base and forcing ground troops that get hung up on walls to get hung up on one additional wall. Granted, only one of the six individual wall segments used for reinforcement was relevant in the attack toward the very end (the others were earthquaked, jumped over, or all buildings around them were destroyed earlier in the attack making them irrelevant), it was fulfilling to see the last remaining defenses finish off the last remaining troops. This occurred moreso with the TH9 and xbowless TH10 where valks, giants, golems, and pekkas were used on me.

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Originally Posted by 1jeffrey1

But this would cause them to break into walls that do not lead into the core, seeing as he placed the walls near the core. I would think that this would cause troops to go around.

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Wall breaker diversion was not the intent here.

What usually has happened in the last 30 seconds of strong attacks against me are the archer queen, valks, king, or anything else that is alive targets a T junction of a wall. When they break that segment, now they have access to two compartments as opposed to one. That subtle difference can be the difference between a two star and a three star attack. What I intended was to insert and space out a couple reinforced T junctions that would then force the remaining troops of an attack to break through two walls to get to the last two compartments.

Some will say this doesn't matter because air and hog attacks ignore walls. True. The point of this post was to gage the optimal number of wall segments that can further impede conventional ground troops (valks, golem, pekka, wiz, heros) and make a three star just a little bit harder. Perhaps I'm overthinking this, but who hates losing close wars? Every little detail matters. Plus, if a couple reinforced junctions (not wall spans, just corner junction) encourages more air and hog attacks, then one can place traps with greater purpose.

Ah, I had misunderstood. Thanks for clearing that up OP.