I am currently a trophy hunter, but was a farmer for a long time (I did max out th9 with farming, except walls and hero's). I see zero use for the new troops for farmers. Maybe a few minions if you don't really care about dark elix because then you can build your armies faster (i.e. you essentially have 5 barracks pumping out archers as minions are really just flying archers).
As a high level player (Jeff in 'The Uprising') that uses dragons only (shameless plug https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNh...7PPuMSw/videos) there is no change to my strategy with dragons. For high trophy players that use pekkas (which I never do) there is some potential to swap out a few pekkas for valks, seeing this used more at the high levels, but pekkas are still better. Otherwise I do not see these troops being used for attacking at high trophies or for farmers.
Mr. T sucks, I have no clue how anyone could make effective use of this troop, insufficient health to survive the front lines, but because he can jump walls he will always be in the front lines. Only potential use is to use a few with a giant/healer army when the air defense is close to the edge, then they can be used to take out the air def. But 2 wall breakers and giants would do this anyway!
I was really excited for the new troops, but seems like a let down. I have to thank supercell though, I am a gemmer and this update cost me $0 (well, I did gem the dark barracks, but that was only ~500 gems). For anyone that says supercell is greedy, I hope you take note of this update, they reduced the cost of dragons/pekkas (most gemmed troops in the game) and even reduced pekka build times. This update was in no way a money grab. But I have not seen that point being made on the forum yet .... upcoming general thread post :)
