Assassins and Trebuchets

Two troop ideas

First idea: Assassin
100 DE (level 1)
5 minute training time
3 unit housing space
150 damage on first attack, 30dps thereafter (x2 against troops)
35 HP
32 movement speed
Description: A new stealth unit with the favorite target of (ground) clan castle troops, Barb King, Archer Queen. This unit is invisible to defenses and enemy troops until engaged, at which point it becomes a glass cannon (high attack, low defense). A desirable unit to have in low quantities to take out roaming heroes or poorly placed clan castles troops relatively easily. Also great on defense in clan castles. This is really an anti-personnel troop (hence its double bonus against troops), though, and relatively useless against buildings/storages/defenses/walls.
see: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...background.jpg

Second idea: Trebuchets (a fancy name for catapults, which is something I've suggested before)
20,000 Elixir (level 1)
15 minute training time
16 unit housing space
20 dps (super slow attacks, though, so high damage per attack and perhaps X2 dmg against buildings)
250 HP
4 movement speed (is something this slow even in game? i'm thinking SUPER slow)
Description: a building destroying unit. something with like a 2-5 tile range that must be used strategically (i.e., used with giants to absorb attacks so that it can launch attacks). With a 5 tile range, however, it will still be susceptible to longer range attacks by defenses -- particularly single target defenses. Moreover, with a minimum range of 2 tiles, it will be super vulnerable to clan castle troops or poor placement.
see: http://blendernerd.com/wp-content/up...16-494x494.jpg

Like the trebuchet, but the assassin thing has been proposed to death.

Seems like a trebuchet would be more like a hybrid between a mobile mortar and cannon- not a splash damage unit, but should have up close vulnerability (with a big swinging arm, how on earth would it get someone up close?). Maybe increase its range to 7 or 8, so it can hit defenses and outer perimeter buildings, with a long reload time, and a weakness up close?

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Originally Posted by jmb23007

Like the trebuchet, but the assassin thing has been proposed to death.

Seems like a trebuchet would be more like a hybrid between a mobile mortar and cannon- not a splash damage unit, but should have up close vulnerability (with a big swinging arm, how on earth would it get someone up close?). Maybe increase its range to 7 or 8, so it can hit defenses and outer perimeter buildings, with a long reload time, and a weakness up close?

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i've not been keeping track of this section of the forums, but your point re: assassins is well taken-- there are 4 posts about assassins on the first page alone!

my general thought on new units is this: introducing a new unit that players would use in mass quantities would likely indicate that the new unit was OP. see, for example, the original witches.

my hope is that any newly introduced units are used strategically -- in small quantities -- to entice risk/reward in base design and raids. the trebuchet (and my assassin idea) are in that vein. they are units that would be used sparingly and deployed with care. no one would deploy 24 trebuchets as a guaranteed IWIN button, but having one or two trebuchets used effectively could help take down tougher bases.