I Present to you my TH8 DE farming base version 1.1

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This is my Dark Elixer Protection base. It has been modified once after the first attack and I don't think I could be any happier with it. I don't know how to feel about the funneling on the corners quite yet. A second tesla will replace the centralized giant bomb when it's done upgrading. I have not decided what to do with the 3rd tesla once completed.


My Thoughts Inspiring Creation

-Looking at the well respected bases, I wondered why the Teslas were being scorned so heavily.. Left on the perimeter to be easily distracted/destroyed.. the ability of these bad boys to shred through both tanks and swarms alike seems to be greatly underestimated.
-Near my final stages of TH8, I never have gold on hand, and could give a hoot about losing Elixer. I want that thick, black (get your mind out of the gutter) Texas Tea and I want to keep it all.


My Thoughts During Creation

-The Main Core
1. CC that cannot be drawn out without dropping a significant amount of troops.
2. Give the Teslas the respect they deserve and use them to guard my most important resource.
3. Revised from original- Moved in the Wiz Tower to main core to put it within range of DE Storage.

-The Secondary Core
1. Coverage from all splash (123 total splash dps is on the DE Storage; Even if one side is taken out, it will still be covered from the other half- no matter what side is rushed)
2. Keep 2 air defenses centralized to have a fighting chance against Drag revenges, leaving the 3rd a little more exposed, which I am fine with as it is still highly defended and the 3rd defense that would be targeted by giants.
3. Separate and cover gold storages as I still don't want it stolen :) and use Elixer storages as bait/buffers

-The Outer Core
1. Improper Junctions
2. Funneling with resources and defenses (may be temporary- let's just see how it works)
3. Point defenses spread out and overlapping

My Thoughts After Creation


-Pending until I get attacked by something other than 170 archers




Please give feedback! How you would attack if going for me DE, besides lightning ;)- Whether you think it's good or sucks- any adjustments you would make

Thanks and for checking it out and keep it clashy there, CoC Forum Readers!

It looks really effective!

Update:

I have now seen 2 full on attacks (as well as people picking off town hall), and I am pretty pleased with the results.

-The first attack, as you can see, was with maxxed TH9 troops and 3 rage spells -a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off revenge as I had just stolen 2,200 DE from the guy :). He was able to take out 80% of the DE storage which I was not happy about, but keep in mind the base is weakened greatly by 2 teslas being on upgrade. But he also exposed a couple weaknesses on the right side that I have since fixed. **Version 1.2 will be posted below.

-The second attack was with TH7 troops and they got pummeled rather quickly. It was a very poor attack with moderately upgraded troops. But still, the base did what it was supposed to do and only the perimeter core got penetrated.

I have been pleasantly surprised at how difficult it seems to be to gain access the gold storages.

Here is the modified design after the first round of attacks. I really like the new AD placement and the further fortification of the lower right side. However, I still don't like the Wiz Towers and mortars being close, especially on that right side segment, so I will hopefully figure out something to improve that soon. If you have any ideas, please let me know.

I will keep this thread updated with the future rounds of testing and adjustments.


**Edit: I'm not too savvy with the image editing, so if any moderator could make larger and embed photo1.2 I would appreciate it.

Nice base!

-This base has been edited extensively, however I am unable to add any more pictures for some reason.

-It has been very effective against all troop compositions and I strongly recommend it to any player in the final stages of TH8, farming for Dark Elixer.

-I will be changing my base to a new TH9 layout within the next couple weeks, but the final version of this base can still be viewed by visiting me in game.

-Clan Name: Wizard Sleeve (Blue Shield with Yellow marks); IGN: Negradomus.

-Also, if anyone can help me with the pictures please message me or direct me to the relevant thread.

here it is

http://i.imgur.com/muVRj3h.png

a way on how to upload images, is to upload them to imgur, and then copy the BBcode and paste it in your thread.

good luck

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Originally Posted by saymin

here it is

http://i.imgur.com/muVRj3h.png

a way on how to upload images, is to upload them to imgur, and then copy the BBcode and paste it in your thread.

good luck

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Thank you Saymin! :) I will try that and get an image showing teslas and traps up. Teslas are centralized and need to be level 5 or 6 and DE balloons are spread across bottom since that is where people try to attack with giant/healer and they usually take out that AD.

Looks good, and yes, good tessla are defnitely the best defense at TH8, centrally placed to guard your DE works a treat especially against those pesky archer queens.

I like it! It probably works well from what i can see i would use it if it was my choice. I wonder if hogs could beast that layout though seems vulnerable to dragons too

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Originally Posted by Colton009

I like it! It probably works well from what i can see i would use it if it was my choice. I wonder if hogs could beast that layout though seems vulnerable to dragons too

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-Thanks for the feedback Colton! It was actually very strong against dragons, and would now be even more cost efficient with the seeking mines costing gold.
-I would frequently get the mass dragon revenge attack and there was just one time they got more than one breath of fire on the storage, when the attackers' queen was able to take down the full storage because the drags had taken down the teslas. I feel like a 4-5 dragon based mixed attack would have been successful though.
-It got attacked by hogs a few times and they were all unsuccessful, but I already had a level 2 xbow up so I'm sure that helped. Generally the attacker would spam hogs at the bottom and hit all the spring traps scattered around those defenses, leaving them with a handful of hogs that would get killed before taking down all 3 teslas. Granted, none of the hog attacks were executed that well, so I'm sure it would get pummeled by a better attack.
-The main strength was definitely the CC, like most bases. I only saw it get properly lured once, and it still cost the dude about 50 troops to kill 25 archers.
-It was very common to lose 4/6 gold & elixir storages, but whenever i made the base, I just didn't care about that.

very nice base.

i'm surprised dragon attacks doesn't work as you said, 10 dragons attack the bottom AD and with rage can penetrate to the DE but that's what i would have done. Also, I would try to attack your base with giant, archer, goblins in the same area and use rage and heal spell where the southern AD is, but that would take a lot of work and 50/50 it would fail. great base!!