Attack advice?

Hello, I am looking for advice on attacking because half of my attacks I lose and it is getting annoying. Some basic info about my village and attack-related things:
My level (if that matters:) 35
I have 3 barracks buildings: levels 4, 5, and 8.
I can hold 120 troops in my army camps.
I have level 3 barbarians, level 3 archers, level 2(upgrading to 3) goblins, level 2 giants, and level 2 wizards.
If anyone uses any strategies, that would be great.
P.S. My current stragety is 50 archers to destroy town halls and 70 goblins for looting.

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Originally Posted by Somerandomguy64

Hello, I am looking for advice on attacking because half of my attacks I lose and it is getting annoying. Some basic info about my village and attack-related things:
My level (if that matters:) 35
I have 3 barracks buildings: levels 4, 5, and 8.
I can hold 120 troops in my army camps.
I have level 3 barbarians, level 3 archers, level 2(upgrading to 3) goblins, level 2 giants, and level 2 wizards.
If anyone uses any strategies, that would be great.
P.S. My current stragety is 50 archers to destroy town halls and 70 goblins for looting.

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When i was at your lv i would simply send in 60 archers and 60 barbarians. your should only attack ppl you own Town hall lv or lower to succeed. Look for a village with a mortar close to the edge of its walls and then send in your archers/ barbarians onto it spread out. Make sure that you do the same to their wizard towers, as they are even more dangerous in my opinion.

Honestly there are a lot of tactics, if you are looking for a WIN, there are several ways, destroying the TH is a guaranteed win, but you may not have easy access. Destroying 50% of the buildings gives you 1 star (a win), TH is your second, 100% is your 3rd.

Winning depends on the defense of your opponent, some stick some buildings in the corners away from everything else, those are freebies, stick 1 barb on each and then focus on the center. Use archers where you can to pick off buildings w/o taking casualties. Use wall breakers to punch in and dump either giants to soak damage and barbs/arch/gobbies to follow up. Staying away from, or power hitting AOE towers (mage/mortar). There have been pages and pages written on tactics, and there are 5x as many attack strategies as there are defense strategies :P.

You have to learn from your attacks and adapt to what you see. You could always just hit 'next' if you see something you can't win against.

Oh, and 'win' is relative, some people consider a win 1 star, some people consider a win at 0 star but snagging most or all the resources.

Determine what you consider a win, and adapt your attack to make it happen.

-K

-Edited to correct percentages

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Originally Posted by Knall

Honestly there are a lot of tactics, if you are looking for a WIN, there are several ways, destroying the TH is a guaranteed win, but you may not have easy access. Destroying 40, or maybe its 41% of the buildings gives you 1 star (a win), TH is your second, 100% is your 3rd.

Winning depends on the defense of your opponent, some stick some buildings in the corners away from everything else, those are freebies, stick 1 barb on each and then focus on the center. Use archers where you can to pick off buildings w/o taking casualties. Use wall breakers to punch in and dump either giants to soak damage and barbs/arch/gobbies to follow up. Staying away from, or power hitting AOE towers (mage/mortar). There have been pages and pages written on tactics, and there are 5x as many attack strategies as there are defense strategies :P.

You have to learn from your attacks and adapt to what you see. You could always just hit 'next' if you see something you can't win against.

Oh, and 'win' is relative, some people consider a win 1 star, some people consider a win at 0 star but snagging most or all the resources.

Determine what you consider a win, and adapt your attack to make it happen.

-K

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50% is a 1-star win .... 40% gives the defender a 12-hour shield ,but is still a loss short of 50%

Ive had several 49% losses

I'd use 5 giants 20 barbarians and the rest archers. Try get 50% with the archers by picking off easy unprotected buildings

Like the above said about power attacking mortars or wizards... It's something I like to do especially when they are just inside the wall. Send in Giants or barbs to be the meat shield. Then let your archers take out the mortar and/wizard tower. If both defenses are close together... Great. If they are across the village from each other, you can take out one only. Then I just bum rush all my troops. The chances of archers being wiped out in one shot are less now and you can use your enormous force to steamroll through your opponent. Don't forget to keep upgrading your troop level not just barracks or army camp size

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Originally Posted by HBCA25

50% is a 1-star win .... 40% gives the defender a 12-hour shield ,but is still a loss short of 50%

Ive had several 49% losses

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I am doing my best to forget all the massive back to back resource losses with no shield between them, so am blocking out the percentages.

-K

I think the army you build depends on who you attack and since attacking is a draw of a hat (unless you're doing revenge) it's good to have diverse ones, I typically like to have a few balloons, a few bombers, wizards, middle on the giants, some goblins and a lot of archers.

i am just figuring out that certain players, like the balloon one, can't be hit by cannons or mortars but can bomb them pretty good before I send in other troops

if anyone knows what troop is best for hitting those archer towers...much appreciated!

Army

I use this army. I have 185 spaces in my camp.If you have more spaces in the camp i would get giants or archers.This army does cost a bit much.
1 Dragon level 1-2
2 Healers level 2
12 giants (if you got more spaces in camp maybe get goblins because your farming unless you want giants) Giants 4-5
7 wall-breakers Level 5
25 archers Level4-5
Rest goblins Level 4
CC troops:Try and get archers or about 5 minions to destroy the barb king.Minions any level but if have archers try and get level 4.
I use 1 lightning spell to take out any enemy clan castle troops when they are together.Level 4 lightning spell
I use 1 healing to heal my giants when they have low health. I have level 4 healing spell
I use 1 rage spell to make my giants powerful if there's something hard to do like destroy a level 9 wall without wall breakers.

Things not to do

1: RUSHING Town Hall
This is extremely common. Have you ever seen a level 8 Town Hall player with level 4 Walls? Players rush their Town Hall because they want to unlock more buildings, or they want to progress faster in the game.

These are the downsides of rushing your Town Hall:

-Match Cost
Every time you upgrade your Town Hall, your Match Cost increases. The Match Cost is the cost of pressing the 'Next' button when finding a base to raid in Multiplayer. Imagine that you rushed your Town Hall to level 10. Each time you press that 'Next' button, you lose 1k Gold. If you press it 100 times, you would lose 100k Gold! That would not be a problem for high level players, but for a rusher, it is extremely costly.

-Loot Multiplier
The higher your Town Hall level is, the lesser loot you get from bases that have a lower Town Hall level than yours. This problem is carried forward to the next step.

-Competition
As you cannot get good loot from the lower leveled Town Hall bases, you have to get the loot from higher leveled bases, meaning that you have to increase your trophies. But then again, these high leveled players can demolish your rushed base and you have no way to get back at them because your troops are too low leveled to hardly destroy anything! This makes looting tougher.

What to actually do:
Max out at least
-Your Mortars, Wizard Towers, Archer Towers and Cannons.
-Walls, Air Defenses and Hidden Teslas can be 1-2 levels away from the max upgrade.

before upgrading your Town Hall.

#2: PROTECTING Town Hall WHEN FARMING
Some would place Bombs and Hidden Teslas near their Town Hall, and even wall it up, even though they are farming have their Town Hall outside. The point of placing your Town Hall outside is to obtain a shield when it is destroyed, so you should always make it easy for your enemies to attack it. You can have your Town Hall in range of defenses, so long as the defenses are placed there for mainly other purposes. If necessary, place your Town Hall at an undefended corner.

#3: NEGLECTING Air Defenses
Air Defense may not be a problem until Town Hall level 6. Air Defenses are able to target:
-Balloons
-Healers
-Dragons
-Minions
Air Defenses deal a lot of damage, that even a level 1 can deal 90 damage per second!

The problem is, some people do not understand how important it is to have an Air Defense, and once they build it, they put it outside and never upgrade it again.
If Air Defenses are not well protected an centralized, attack strategies such as Giant Healer, Mass Balloon and any strategy with Dragons in it will decimate your village. So always have your Air Defense well centralized and upgraded.