Sub-200 raiding tip

Farming the underworld is a bit hard to teach as its more of a thing you get the feel for. You begin to learn what to look for. Realize what base shapes and coverages will be worth it and which ones wont. You get to know goblins like no other at times placing them super far away at an exact spot even if it means elthey get shot just so you can get the storages without giving them a sheild ect.

Ultimate look for 1k per gob or more and unless the 10k gold is real easy i usually skip it. Usually I'm aiming to stay above the 20k gold per raid and around 2 mil an hour of none stop raiding.

OAH and Arom,

What troops do you favor down there? I use 6-8 wallbreakers and about 6 giants. All the rest are goblins.

The WB's and giants are for the poorly designed higher level bases with exposed storages. The goblins, well, they kind of explain themselves :)

Also, do you boost any of your barracks? If my gem farming (obstacle removal service) has gone well, I will.

I usually run with all goblins or goblins with maybe 25% archers. I like having the archers, but it is hard to keep multiple troop types training in the background and keep the numbers balanced. So to minimize downtime and oversight, most of the time I just use all gobbies. I often also have a dragon on hand for donations, so if a base is particularly juicy, I might throw it in the ring.

I used to keep a few giants & WB's on hand like you mentioned, but I realized I was relying on them and they just slowed down my retraining. So I decided on no more breaching attacks. If money is in storages that are well protected by walls, I very rarely bother. I like that with mines/collectors, the goblins can eat through them ahead of a mortar strike. When I dumped the giants & WB's, it was somehow liberating and I seem to stay in action longer.

I haven't boosted barracks in the past, but if Supercell runs a special for one gem each, I might. I'm pretty much anti-gemming, otherwise. I boosted my BK and SF when they ran that special, and it was really nice. But it's tough to swallow 10 gems apiece for 2 hours of hero and SF boosting. If I start getting low on troops, instead of boosting barracks or waiting, I'll start taking more time on bases by searching more discriminatingly and dropping only one troop on a group of resources to slow things down. At least that way, it doesn't feel like I'm sitting idly by waiting for troops to train.

The 1K per goblin minimum that Arom mentioned is a really good target. That is pretty much my own unofficial goal as well. I love dropping 5 or 6 goblins on a 50K base and realizing they just brought home 10k each!

I also only farm the resource that I need for the next upgrade. It doesn't do any good to load up on gold when you need elixir, just because it is there. I will go out of my way to leave it for somebody else (not because I'm kindhearted, but because a large purse just makes me more attractive to attack), and that also helps to stretch my troops a little further. I skip bases all the time that might have 10K of the resource I need and 100K of the one I don't. Right now I'm waiting on a TH upgrade and everything else is maxed, so I have no use for gold, and I only need enough elixir to make troops/spells. If I get over 500K in gold, I throw away 450K of it by selling and re-buying the Ancient Skull. So any gold I take from bases right now is just going to waste and is a waste of my troops.

Sorry, more info than you asked for, but it just comes pouring out. :)

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Originally Posted by OAH

I'm only a few days away from finishing my upgrade to TH8, so hopefully soon I can report on how things differ from on level to another.

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I can report that TH8 is great in sub 200 too. 1-2 million per hour in gold using only goblins (level 5). What you lose in loot penalty against TH6's and TH5's you gain in raiding speed with higher level goblins. I have 205/225 skull walls done after farming not too long down there.

-Lor

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Originally Posted by EmptySea

I found the opposite end of the spectrum beteer, from 0-50 trophies. Lots of bases between 40k-80k of gold that you could take with a 6 archers+6 gobs; as soon as you grab the loot, your trrops are already replenished and your ready to go again. Often right back to the same base, as long as you hit the End Battle button before you get to 40%.

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how can you attack the same person twice?

How much monies per hour where u getting mate

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Originally Posted by Monkeyman117

how can you attack the same person twice?

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Don't destroy more than 40% of their town, thus giving them a shield. Kind of the point of this thread :)

When I used to grind in the SUB, I did so through TH8, esp at the beginning of every TH.. and they all were profitable.

I stayed for all of TH5, skipped TH6 to get 4th camp and barrack on TH7, then went down on weekends when I could grind walls as it afforded me more time to staying (fighting for my position) down there..

When I got to TH8 it was no real difference, only a smidge fewer targets and a small sting from the loot penalty (at that time in the games evolution) but gaining the lvl 5 troops allows for more shots at the Bigger Guns that hang down there.. and usually fewer troops to dispatch as well.

I always ran BAG'M.. (Heavy-Archer, lots of Goblin and few Barbs; 10 or fewer Minions once they were available) I always had a few WBs in the back pocket too incase the stores were behind a wall but not well protected.

it was about the constant raids for me, the loot I did not track per hour per say, but if you have 1-3 hours straight then its bound to get you some TH7 or lower upgrades going, or a chunk of walls upgraded to be sure.

I never tried TH9 as the horror stories of seeing a lot of nexts and the loot penalty on the TH3-6 was enough to keep me in the leagues.. so I stayed low, like 1200s initially and it was a good spot to get sum loots and shields when I was off. once you get your lvl6 troops there is no real need to be hanging down there unless you have massive time to kill, and don't mind the struggle to stay low. but I ALWAYS came across them in my searches so it must have some profitability.

Thanks AFRO - that is some really great info!

You bring up a good point about not really tracking loot/hour on raids. I never really did either.

It's only when I first upgrade to a new TH that I can outpace my builders anyway. After that (for me, at least) it's more about trying to stagger the builds and only loot what I need for the next upgrade. Wall upgrades are the other exception, but I have weeks (if not months) to dump extra cash into walls between other upgrades. I hit wall upgrades hard when I first started TH7, and it was to the detriment of my defenses getting upgraded. Not smart. Plus, after I maxed out all of my "instant" upgrades, I no longer had a place to unload gold.

I have had 5 builders since TH3. I'm not a gemmer, but somebody gave me some iTunes gift cards for Christmas that I had no other use for, and I figured it would be a good investment in the game. It was, but even so, builders will always be the bottle-neck.