Originally Posted by
Smalls
Well I'm about 1.5 months into th9 so I've just passed where you are going and here's what I saw early on in th9. First of all, the lab is a no brainer, do it first and then upgrade your farming army. I'm a BAM user so I upgraded barbs first. Barbs give you a nice boost at lvl 6 and are relatively inexpensive. I wouldn't do archers until later because they require 7.5 million elixir, which means you have to fully upgrade your 4th elixer storage b4 you can upgrade them and the jump in DPS is negligable.
Also, upgrade your camps ASAP! Offense is the name of the game here and getting yourself and additional 20 slots is huge.
Defensively, of course xbows are huge and that should be the first thing you spend your gold on. Then get all of your other new defenses up to th8 levels. From there you will see what you get hit most with. I personally am upgrading all of my point defenses first because of lvl 6 giants. At th9 the mortor turns into the least effective upgrade as it already one shots those archers.
For a base, use Ringus (just search the forums for it and you will find it). Not only is it good against hogs, but it's also great against giants because they go in a merry go round around the base.
Farming will get tougher but just use the same strategies you did at th8. With the extra 20 slots you still should be able to farm fairly well. I personally love BAM because it's just so fast. Around 1500 trophys is usually a good spot for gold at th9. Be careful not to drop under 1400 cuz then you get into th7 territory and the loot penalty kills you.
Good luck!
