Originally Posted by
Jonah
Farming is not about dropping trophies to fight easier opponents. You drop trophies if you climb too high and lose your "sweet spot" for whatever resource you are focusing on. It's about getting a free shield, not focusing on winning the battle every time but mostly on the resources gained and keeping others away from your loot so that you can upgrade your defenses and eventually climb higher into Crystal, Masters and Champion leagues. No, you cannot deploy air troops in mid-base unless there is a "spawn-hole" left inside the base. You may be wondering...a spawn hole is the red outline that appears when you move your buildings around and you leave too big of a gap or when you get attacked and all their ground troops are inside your walls without breaking them.
I would recommend farming with your TH outside the base until about TH8 or 9 or you go for the gem achievements. And then go back to farm some more even at TH10. BTW it took me a year to get to maxed TH9 with lvl 8 walls and now I am leveling up heroes and walls again before going to 10...that's the most rewarding way, IMO.