TH 6 - The monkeys guide to making it work

I have been debating with myself wether to to post this or not. I don't claim that I am the best base-designer in the world, or the best strategist for that matter. I am fairly experienced however, this is my second account and my first one is a TH 9 that I enjoy very much. What I am saying is "this worked for me" I guess, and it worked very well.

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Sorry for the picture editing btw, but I prefer to stay anonymous. Or somewhat anonymous anyway. I am posting this cause I am 2 days from upgrading to TH7, so I wont be using this design anymore. It is kind of stupid, since I will get harder oponents if this becomes popular, but it is beatable by a TH7 that know what he is doing. Every TH 6 base is.

It is nice that the vast majority of the TH 7 owners have no clue though. No offense intended, but most are rather inexperienced.

The base is desgned after a few principles:

- Most attackers will go for the TH in one way or another to make sure they win. This is not a clever move if you attack with ground troops since most of them will path around the base while the mortar is hitting them. Your town hall is a crafty building, it takes a while for low level troops to destroy it.

- The spikes protect the innermost wall. It's impossible to protect the first wall with spikes in every angle. There's not enough walls for that at TH 6. Many TH 7 owners are also inexperienced in using wall-breakers. I haven't seen even one attack with wallbreakers that was successful in penetrating both layers of my walls.

- Almost all giants will path around the innermost wall first and hit the spring traps. One after another. While they do that they will either go flying or die from hits from the wizard towers and the mortars.

- The Clan Castles placement is crucial when someone attacks from the corners closest to the town hall since the CC troops will hit most attackers when they have their hands full with the defensive structures.

- Circling this base with barbs and archers or just archers are probably a guaranteed win. For the base defenses. The last attacker that did that didn't even manage to kill an archer tower.

- The base is vulnerable to air attacks (hello only one air defense), especially from the bottom side if the clan castle is empty (with lev 5 archers it's a different story) but large scale air attacks are very rare. I haven't seen one big balloon attack on this base yet. And as long as it's just a few the wizard tower and archer towers will take them out.

That being said i repeat that it can be beaten. I checked my logs before writing this and there's been 1 successful attack in the last 3 days. Giants, BK and lots and lots of goblins. He got one of each storage and all my mines and pumps. The vast majority of the attacks from TH 7 owners fail though. TH 8's wil hit you hard, even if some of them are rather easily fooled as well.

I'd also like to add that the reason that I maxed TH 6 is that this account sits on my gf's Ipad, so I raid pretty few times every day. Simply put I want to make more than I lose raid for raid. And I do that with a wide margin. I was also maxed at level 5 when I upgraded to 6.

I have pointed to the strengths of the base and avoided to point to the weaknesses. There are a few, but spelling them out would contradict the purpose of this post, which is to help other players struggling with TH 6.

I hope it helps someone. Simple as that. Feel free to criticize the design. I don't mind.

(Edited a couple of typos)

Bah, forgot to add one thing.

I should have spread the mines and pumps out more. But I liked the symmetry and it has worked anyway, so I allowed that

Very nice--I will pass this on to a few buddies of mine in my clan who just finished upgrading to 6, if only for the ideas.

I particularly like the circle with the traps. Nothing better than a design that sends attackers on a long walk while getting flung or pummeled. I guess I have already forgotten about what TH6 attacks are like because I am surprised to hear you don't get hit with effective WB/goblin (I would never use giants on this) attacks from the south/west. I am only at TH7, and I have 3 walls to go through, and it happens all the time.

a nice setup indeed!! your right.. it's beatable but for the majority of players around that trophy range/ level range you will hold up.

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Originally Posted by Seamus

Very nice--I will pass this on to a few buddies of mine in my clan who just finished upgrading to 6, if only for the ideas.

I particularly like the circle with the traps. Nothing better than a design that sends attackers on a long walk while getting flung or pummeled. I guess I have already forgotten about what TH6 attacks are like because I am surprised to hear you don't get hit with effective WB/goblin (I would never use giants on this) attacks from the south/west. I am only at TH7, and I have 3 walls to go through, and it happens all the time.

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Thanks, glad you like it. Yeah traps can be fun to watch in replay hehe :)

Successfull wb-attacks are rare. Most go for the option of breaking through to the gold and elixir, and for that an attacker will need at least 8 level 4 wb's perfectly deployed and timed without losing any to either defenses or a slightly less perfect aim. So in reality it would take 10+. Goblins will work though, but they will take losses, and unless there are a lot of them (again, level 4 goblins) they will die after the first storage more often than not.

I've saved that pic for when I eventually upgrade my TH. cheers :)

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Originally Posted by Bumburgler

I've saved that pic for when I eventually upgrade my TH. cheers :)

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Thanks, hope it works for you :)

One thing I would change would be to not put your bombs in front of your spring traps. Put your spring traps in front of your bombs. If a giant hit the bomb and then the spring trap, it's basically wasting the bomb. Putting the bomb behind the trap will save you a bomb for the giants or whoever survives the trap.

One thing I would change would be to not put your bombs in front of your spring traps. Put your spring traps in front of your bombs. If a giant hit the bomb and then the spring trap, it's basically wasting the bomb. Putting the bomb behind the trap will save you a bomb for the giants or whoever survives the trap.

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Originally Posted by Play3r1

One thing I would change would be to not put your bombs in front of your spring traps. Put your spring traps in front of your bombs. If a giant hit the bomb and then the spring trap, it's basically wasting the bomb. Putting the bomb behind the trap will save you a bomb for the giants or whoever survives the trap.

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Yeah, I have been trying both out. Switching the positions between bombs and traps several times. But this is actually what have worked best, believe it or not. I started out the other way around, much like you describe. I am still not 100% sure though, maybe I should swap them around again and try some more.