I keep hearing people saying stuff about keep your TH outside and you'll get a cheap shield. What is the point if that? Just sit around and do nothing until your shield ends?
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I keep hearing people saying stuff about keep your TH outside and you'll get a cheap shield. What is the point if that? Just sit around and do nothing until your shield ends?
It would protect u from being raided, therefor from ppl stealing ur loot. Tht is the purpose.
For one,
It adds more loot to the system especially if you are in a higher league (the league bonuses) plus uses very little loot if the TH is only sniped (troop usage minimal). Also considering people pay gems for shields it shows just how needy some people are for them.
It may not be for everyone but I personally love them.
I am able to play to a certain time of day during the weekdays, then put my TH outside and log off hoping to get that free shield and leave to work without any worries of being raided more than once (because I always lose on defense LOL). Then when returning home from work, have about a half hour left on that 12 hour shield (or 4 1/2 hours if three starred on defense) to clash a bit before bed. :cool:
And as person above noted, it protects your resources from multiple raids that could drain that hard-earned loot from your coffers.
The reason is that some people will only target your th. If your th gets destroyed then u hav a shield so no one else can attack u while ur offline. Also, some people will only target your th and your loot will be kept safe. The purpose is to save your loot, not your trophies.
This is also known as a "farming" layout, but can be very beneficial for lower levels when trophy pushing as well. If you leave your Town Hall outside, it is likely someone will attack your town hall and leave, leaving your precious resources to you. However, you will lose a small amount of resources/trophies. Although you will lose some of each, if you raid consistently you should be able to gain a lot more trophies and resources than you lose from getting your Town Hall attacked, or at the least you should break even. Occassionally if you have tons of resources someone will try to go for your whole base.
TLDR: Getting your TH taken down automatically gives you a free 12 hour shield, protecting you from people who might have rathered wipe your base to the ground and steal all your resources.
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Originally Posted by Ali7861
If you do not sleep or go offline, u do not need shield...(take a break would still kick u out ;) ) even when your loot is low u do not need shield.
I get and break my shields .... many times on an active day.
And pray the god of th snipers ... before I sleep ;)
This is the plan when I go to bed. I'd rather lost 1000 of each resource from a TH sniper than a full on raid, wouldn't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ali7861
As for the rest of the time when I can raid a bit more often, I would STILL rather get raided by a sniper than by a full on attack. When would you ever PREFER to be hit by a full on attack rather than a TH snipe? Even if they don't take down your storages, they'll likely set off your traps and if they set off multiple big bombs, that can get costly just as if you got your storages raided.
Other than the "unbreakable" achievement or to trophy push, there's no benefit of leaving your TH protected. Even if you break the shield immediately just to raid again, that's still worth it to get sniped than to get full on raided.
Make sense?
If I don't need to raid because I've got a fair amount of loot already and I need to wait 10+ days for my builders to finish...then yes I would like to have a shield up for as long as possible.
For example, right now. I'm maxed for gold and elixer, half full for DE. I need 1.5 days until a builder is free.
So yes, I will sit around and do nothing.
I don't have much more to add here but to only say, I will gladly give up my TH and maybe 1k resources and a free 12 hour shield over losing 100K in resources over someone plowing through my village.
-Alaeth
My strategy is that once someone attacks your townhall and gives you a free shield, just keep on attacking for more loot. This would give me a profit as I am not losing gold on defence. But if someone steals a reasonable amount of my resources, I would also break the shield and attack to neutralise the loss. I dunno thats just the way I play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ali7861