Calling all BAMmers

What is your army composition?

Right now I'm using:

84 - lvl6 archies
80 - lvl6 barbies
20 - lvl5 minions
8 - lvl5 wb's

Usually cook 3 rages and 1 heal.

IGN: orion
Clan: korean ACE

umm BAM has no certain combination
2 barracks barbs
2 archers
2 minions

If you manage it you can usually have the same composition. It's more about keeping troops training constantly.

Does it matter how I train my army?

I am curious at what others use for their composition.

100 barbs
20 minions
rest is archers
4 lightning
all maxed

In cc, usually wizzies or archers/minions

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Originally Posted by HiiHuu

100 barbs
20 minions
rest is archers
4 lightning
all maxed

In cc, usually wizzies or archers/minions

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Thanks.
10 chars

I do it slightly differently

2 barracks - 38 barbs in each
2 barracks - 38 archers in each
2 barracks - 17 minions in each

Makes 76 archers and barbs and 34 minions.

I use 1 lightening, 2 heal and 1 rage

2 racks barb, 2 racks arch, 15 minions 3 rage 1 heal

all maxed

BAM isn't a science but general principals are

Minions 10-40
Barbs at least 40 but 60ish is a great number
Rest archers


These numbers figure in 15 wallbreaks that are used sparingly and are mostly around in case I get the itch for a full out attack

I use 70 Barbs (lvl 6), 70 Archers (lvl 6), and 40 minions (lvl 5). In 2 barracks I queue 32 archers, in 2 other barracks I queue 3 archers and 35 barbs. I have 20 minions per dark barracks. I also always carry 2 rages with me and usually two lightnings in case it makes sense to take out a mortar.

You don't need wall breakers with BAM, it's a waste of troop space in my opinion. The minions are your cleanup crew and fly right over the walls. It's easy enough to clear out the WT's, Teslas, AD's, and AT's with ground troops and let your minions break through to the storages. If you can't clear out enough defenses for your minions to break into the core, rage is your friend.

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Originally Posted by TrentSabanRobot

You don't need wall breakers with BAM, it's a waste of troop space in my opinion. The minions are your cleanup crew and fly right over the walls. It's easy enough to clear out the WT's, Teslas, AD's, and AT's with ground troops and let your minions break through to the storages. If you can't clear out enough defenses for your minions to break into the core, rage is your friend.

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This depends on your objective. If your pure collector raiding, sure they're not useful. But I will occasional throw my BK in front, drop some rage spells and hit collectors. Have some WB for this is very handy. Otherwise your ground troops just clump up on the outside of the base

(I have to correct myself though, I only carried 10 for just in case)

I make 2 barracks archers, 2 barbarians and one dark barrack minions. That normally ends up in 100 barbs, 20 minions and 80 archers. Ionly use 4 rage spells.

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Originally Posted by NioTheDreamer

This depends on your objective. If your pure collector raiding, sure they're not useful. But I will occasional throw my BK in front, drop some rage spells and hit collectors. Have some WB for this is very handy. Otherwise your ground troops just clump up on the outside of the base

(I have to correct myself though, I only carried 10 for just in case)

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I agree, different players have different styles and there isn't a right or wrong way to do it. I just do fine without them and don't see a need for them with BAM.

I actually rarely raid mines with BAM. I'll take a collector raid over a storage raid all day, but I almost always find storage raids. I can usually reach all of most of the gold storages and the DE storage without WB, regardless of where the storages are located in a base (segmented, center vault, perimeter, etc.), which is why I say they're pointless to me.

If I was a little more tech savvy I would post a replay of what I mean, but it's very possible to get the penetration you need without WB, which helps keep the cost and train time of your BAM army to a minimum (which is it's main strength).

The true trick is to get as much loot possible with the least amount of Troops. I try not to Dump all and run. I like coming back to my base with 15-20 troops and most of my spells unused.

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Originally Posted by 1Sik1500

The true trick is to get as much loot possible with the least amount of Troops. I try not to Dump all and run. I like coming back to my base with 15-20 troops and most of my spells unused.

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This!


I am terrible at it, and I would say 95% of my BAM attacks i end up using all my troops. I tend to be a little cautious about "not getting the money" so i dump hard on one side. I like to spread down the barbs first, archers behind and pick off as many worthless buildings as i can. The goal is to clear a path to the storages. Once pretty much all my barbs and archers have killed things and died, i drop a few minions to test for air mines. If none come up or i trigger 1 or 2, then i drop all the rest praying they bee-line straight for the storage. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

I'm, admittedly, not the best BAM'er yet :/

Wow!

Thanks everyone, great info. :)

-20 Balloons
-60 Minions

3 rage spells and one light.




CoC name: Joel-00-
Clan: Swedish Empire2

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Originally Posted by TheSweClasher

-20 Balloons
-60 Minions

3 rage spells and one light.




CoC name: Joel-00-
Clan: Swedish Empire2

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BAM sir, not BAMI :p

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Originally Posted by TheSweClasher

-20 Balloons
-60 Minions

3 rage spells and one light.




CoC name: Joel-00-
Clan: Swedish Empire2

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I only cook balloonions/miniball overnight.

We're talking BarbsArchersMinions = BAM

I just fill up all my barracks constantly and go with whatever is there. For me, the troop composition it totally irrelevant. Most of the time after I hit 3 or 4 bases I will end up having a battle with about 70-80 minions because I try to be as efficient as possible with my troops and I never use more than I need to on collector raids. It's good because it breaks up the monotony of farming and makes for some nice replays. I usually get in about 10 attacks per hour.

For spells I cook 3 rage and 1 lightning for CC troops and I really only use the spells if I see a fat DE target.

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Originally Posted by Smalls

I just fill up all my barracks constantly and go with whatever is there. For me, the troop composition it totally irrelevant. Most of the time after I hit 3 or 4 bases I will end up having a battle with about 70-80 minions because I try to be as efficient as possible with my troops and I never use more than I need to on collector raids. It's good because it breaks up the monotony of farming and makes for some nice replays. I usually get in about 10 attacks per hour.

For spells I cook 3 rage and 1 lightning for CC troops and I really only use the spells if I see a fat DE target.

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10 attacks per hour with boost, maybe. No more than 5 without.

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Originally Posted by TrentSabanRobot

10 attacks per hour with boost, maybe. No more than 5 without.

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Wrong. The key is to not use all of your army. If you blow through 220 troops every time you attack then you will only get 5 attacks. If you only use 100 or sometimes 50 troops then you will get 10 attacks per hour.

I will admit I bleed trophys like crazy when I farm so I will generally farm my way down from around 1800 trophys to 1400 then I will start 50% and th sniping to get back up to 1800.

Rinse, lather, repeat!!!

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Originally Posted by Smalls

Wrong. The key is to not use all of your army. If you blow through 220 troops every time you attack then you will only get 5 attacks. If you only use 100 or sometimes 50 troops then you will get 10 attacks per hour.

I will admit I bleed trophys like crazy when I farm so I will generally farm my way down from around 1800 trophys to 1400 then I will start 50% and th sniping to get back up to 1800.

Rinse, lather, repeat!!!

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Props to you sir for pulling it off.

I use as little as possible as well. But, when you go after DE and gold storages, I just don't see being able to only use 50-100 troops per attack.

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Originally Posted by TrentSabanRobot

I use 70 Barbs (lvl 6), 70 Archers (lvl 6), and 40 minions (lvl 5). In 2 barracks I queue 32 archers, in 2 other barracks I queue 3 archers and 35 barbs. I have 20 minions per dark barracks. I also always carry 2 rages with me and usually two lightnings in case it makes sense to take out a mortar.

You don't need wall breakers with BAM, it's a waste of troop space in my opinion. The minions are your cleanup crew and fly right over the walls. It's easy enough to clear out the WT's, Teslas, AD's, and AT's with ground troops and let your minions break through to the storages. If you can't clear out enough defenses for your minions to break into the core, rage is your friend.

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I use exactly the same composition for bam. sometimes I will use 30 minions though and add 4 wbs...for the fact barch and bam with the barb kings ability is so awesome and so helpful. spells are most important and most valuable to winning raids with bam if you are going for storages. Try 1 heal 1 rage 2 light spells, if ur a th9
:rolleyes:

I don't have anything specific... Just 2 barracks for each troop. It never comes out evenly but it's the fastest.

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Originally Posted by TrentSabanRobot

Props to you sir for pulling it off.

I use as little as possible as well. But, when you go after DE and gold storages, I just don't see being able to only use 50-100 troops per attack.

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You are absolutely right. My method is basically power farming collectors and mines and I should have put a more complete answer. When I go back up in trophys I tend to farm DE and go for the 50% and I do only get 5-6 attacks per hour. So it all depends on what I'm farming.

What is your loot range for these kinds of raids?

I'm interested in trying it out because of how quickly you can turn your army over. Using my current configuration I get 3 raids per hour, 4 if I'm lucky, and my army cost is roughly 100,000 if I deploy 100% not counting spells.

Although my army is a bit expensive and time consuming I don't see many bases that fall within my loot range (200k+ gold) that I won't consider raiding. I'd guess that I get at least 80% of the loot 90% of the time.

i guess what I'm trying to figure out is if the trade off is worth it because I'm pretty sure BAM or BARCH isn't going to get me that kind of a success, but if it opens me up to lower loot range maybe that will make up for it.

Any thought/suggestions for a BAM virgin?

1 barrack macking barbarians and the other 3 making archers, and the 2 dark barracks makin 10 of each :)

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Originally Posted by okayterrific

What is your loot range for these kinds of raids?

I'm interested in trying it out because of how quickly you can turn your army over. Using my current configuration I get 3 raids per hour, 4 if I'm lucky, and my army cost is roughly 100,000 if I deploy 100% not counting spells.

Although my army is a bit expensive and time consuming I don't see many bases that fall within my loot range (200k+ gold) that I won't consider raiding. I'd guess that I get at least 80% of the loot 90% of the time.

i guess what I'm trying to figure out is if the trade off is worth it because I'm pretty sure BAM or BARCH isn't going to get me that kind of a success, but if it opens me up to lower loot range maybe that will make up for it.

Any thought/suggestions for a BAM virgin?

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Lol, I will strongly argue the point that the most popular farming range for this strategy is gold ll/l.

60 barbs
60 archers
10 wallbreakers
30 minions

2 barracks train archers at all time
1 barrack train barbarians at all time
1 barrack train mixed between archers and barbs at all time
2 dark barracks train minions at all time (12 minions each)

3 level 5 lightning spells

I am TH 8, 200 army camps. works great for me!