Peace,
Chip
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Peace,
Chip
get your giants to 6.. and start farming and building up your splash defense
The good news is that your troops aren't too far behind. You are going to want to farm, which means hanging low in trophies, putting your TH outside to get shields easily, and raiding with cheap and quick to build armies.
To elaborate, I mean your barbs and archers are at good levels, so use those to farm. You will want to focus your lab on getting giants and wall breakers higher asap. Expect to get destroyed 100% on defense, and plan accordingly by not logging off with large amounts in storages. Don't break a shield unless you can get in multiple raids.
The advice so far is good, although I myself would rather go with goblin upgrade over giant upgrade, since BAG (barb archer gob) is faster cooking than a giant-centered army - that's user preference though. BAM is also good and could work, albeit your minions are on the lower side. Check youtube for guides. Either way you should be farming at lowish rating, somewhere between mid silver and mid gold would be my guess - where ever you find decent loot. Look for bases with exposed collectors with goodies in them, or easy/premmie TH8+ bases.
Building-wise, you need to max your army camps, 20 extra troops adds a lot. You have to work on Mortars, WTs, and getting X-bows up and running. After that you can focus more on point defenses, and don't neglect walls - get them to level 7 at least, but preferably 8 and your core surrounded by 9s (before moving on to TH10 that is, don't need those right away, they're a grind).
When you have your army camps done you can work on your DE drills or storage if you have excess elixir. Elixir usually maxes fairly fast if you BAM/BArch or BAG, due to the low troop costs.
Hope this helps, and this is a really neat thread that everyone in your position should read, there are lots of good tips in there:
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ture-Town-Hall
Good luck! You're in for a hard grind, but it's possible to recover!
Goblins would also be my advice, and wallbreakers.
personally I farm with barbs, archers, gobs and wallbreakers and it is extremely efficient. BAG strategy.
maxing army camps is also a good advice.
once you have done so, you can farm like any other TH9, just nake sure you spend all your gold before you log off, until your defense is able to withstand attacks better.
Peace,
Chip
Oh dear. Raid like cray til you can upgrade get most troops to maxed for th 9
all i can say is raid and dont go to th10... if you were th 10 i would tell you to find a different game :p you're kind of lucky
Peace,
Chip