New Troop: "The Squatter"

The "Squatter" has one objective: Get to the Town Hall.

The Squatter would be a Town Hall seeking troop. It ignores all other defense, resource, and support buildings. The Squatter must remain agile and quick; therefore, it carries no armor or weapons. However, if it is able to reach a TH, it does 2x the damage to the TH (much like a goblin does 2x damage to resources). Being an agile TH seeking troop, the Squatter can also jump walls to gain access to the TH. However, he is not immune to traps (springs and bombs).

Once the TH is destroyed, the Squatter becomes useless (since he carries no weapons) and self destructs (like Balloons when they are destroyed) causing a small amount of splash damage. If a TH is destroyed before the Squatter destroys it, he self destructs in his current location.

I feel this would balance attack/defense since the multi-target inferno towers/ inferno targeted-non healing update was released. All too often, I have seen replays of troops that have the TH right in front of them but their AI locks them onto other targets.

This is way to OP

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Originally Posted by Zmando

This is way to OP

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What's op about that?
It's not like he said the troop has 5000 hp.

In mass, it would be a cheap ♥♥♥ way to get insta * on everything, regardless of the real outcome: reserve some and swarm them to TH if you lose.

They would need A LOT of tweaking or a very balanced stat build to prevent that becoming OP.

We have enough wall jumpers with hogs and float spell, and I do not think that being trap-springers is fair either.

'Tis my opinion, though.

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Originally Posted by Zmando

This is way to OP

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Rename them hobgoblins, make them a dark troop that had stats just slightly better then goblins, cut the wall jumping, cut the inability to attack other buildings, and this would be a not so bad idea.

Lame.

This game isn't just about TH sniping, we don't need a troop to only target Town Halls in my opinion. The big part of this game is its genre: strategy. Dropping in a bunch of freeze spells and "squatters" isn't strategy. Fighting off defences and breaking through walls to get to the TH is strategy, you have to plan your attack if you want to get the TH, not just drop in squatters to do it for you. Therefore, I'm going to have to say no to your idea.

I think goblins should go for the cc (if it has loot in it) and the TH when all of the other resource buildings are destroyed.

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Originally Posted by Spartan1

The "Squatter" has one objective: Get to the Town Hall.

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200 space of these and some heal and rage spells and what do you know, you've won!
Doesn't even need jump.

Could a mod possibly find out if "Troops to target town halls" could be ruled out, because surely SuperCell aren't going to do something like this.

I think this would make it to lop sided. What would stop me from having 200 of these and just releasing them en mass to destroy the TH. Don't get me wrong I like the idea but I don't think It would help the game out.

You don't gain a ton (typically less than 10) of trophies if you 1 star a base by taking out TH. Go ahead, release 200 of them with a few freeze spells and get a few trophies. The troop won't attack anything else after TH, which means if you do that, all you gain is 1 star, less than 10 trophies, and spent upwards of 200k elixer to make it happen.

The purpose would be more of an accessory troop to an attack. We have troops that target defense and resources, why not the TH? Maybe throw away the ability to jump walls and just let them break through like any other troop. The main idea is to have a troop that will target TH's. All too often, no matter how you strategize, sometimes troops just don't go for the TH even though they are right on top of it.