Originally Posted by
ragnus
Chapter 7: battle formations and troops deployment.
First a couple basic combat principle of warfare:
1. You should not be out-flanked by your enemy, and be attacked from 2 or more sides.
2. When u have gathered enough momentum, accelerate and concentrate your forces to attack at a single weak point for maximum depth
What the first one mean for CoC battles: in the opening: you should not put all ur giants in one point and have it being hit by 3 different towers. After you choose to attack one side, count how many towers are in range, and deploy at least that many columns of troops so that each column is only getting hit on by one tower. This is great for conserving your forces.
The outpost, or outter ring of a base, typically have far less fire power than the core. So you are going for width at firsts and just deploy enough troops.
The second point is about gathering momentum: deploy more troops, specifically DPS or ranged troops like archers, wizards minions. You also want to re-enforce your tanks.
After you have destroyed some of the outpost, and have gathered enough momentum: archers arrived and is shooting on the second layer, for example, it's time for a blitz attack. You can do this with a rage spell, or just piling on troops to a single point somewhere inside.
The key is looking at the red circle when you drop an archer. Is the red circle somewhere close to the target your aiming for, or is it off to to the side? It to the side, it means you have to adjust the deployment point, or it means you haven't destroyed enough buildings in step one.
The target here can be the TH, or a storage, or some arbitrary point somewhere inside the base like a wiz tower. You are doing a single mission: surgical strike to take out a target. And you will want to have at least 2 or 3 or 4 missions. For every mission: obtain width first (step 1) then go for depth (step 2).
How big should be each mission? That's a trade off between width and depth. You can have a single mission to take out the at TH, and you will have an advantage in the momentum, but you sacrifice in width, since you cannot have a frontline that's too long, making ur troops too dispersed. It's like taking a bite too big.
