Originally Posted by
Humbob
At TH 7and a month or 2 ago in TH8 I ran purely giants/healers
say 16-18 giants and 2 healers (thats 108 spots) then 10 minions (because they can be soooo handy to clean up some resources at the end when all else fails but your giants cleared out a path of air defense/arch tower/etc) and about 15-20 goblins the rest archers. Barbarians I have no use for, they seem to be the worst troop in the game.
TH8 changed after I was at it for a while, and it became much harder to find good loot when raiding. So now I run more like 14 giants, one healer, 30-40 goblins, 10 minions and the rest archers. Think of it as a combination giant/healer and mine/well raid army. i'm semi-prepared for either a storage/whole base raid with giants/healers and semi-prepared for a mine/well raid. Take what I get, mamke the best of it, even though I leveled 50 walls to purple crystal in maybe MAYBE a few days a couple months ago and that kind of looting is simply not possible right now.
Other rules:
if I ever find a TH well outside the base I hit it, take the trophies and give the player a shield. Every single time. Drop an arch, if nothing pops up I decide
a) is there alot of look in wells/mines and if so I hit it
b) if there is not i drop the BK and take the bonus and the 1000/1000
More expensive armies... man, its tough to justify running hogs or balloonions or anything at TH8. This must be the black hole of farming.
