Rush to TH 7 in 3 weeks with no regret! Should I continue to TH 8?

I started playing coc about 3 weeks ago and have just reached TH 7. With the additional barrack and army camp, I am gaining very lucrative loot using just barbarians and archers. I spent $10 to get the 3^rd and 4^th builders early on and didn’t use gems on anything else. I also plan to spend the remaining 600 gems buying a barbarian king, once the dark elixir storage is done.

Here is my current army upgrade:
Archer level 3
Barbarian level 3
Giant level 3
Wall breaker level 2
Lightening spell level 2

However, my tower and wall levels are very low (I kind of give up on them). The main reasons being:
1. I only lose 200-300k each after being attacked. The amount stolen could be very easily replenished.
2. Defensive structures take time and resources, which I would rather spend on upgrading army.
3. I will be 3-starred anyway.

My plan forward is to rush to TH 8 and then TH 9 where I could have an archer queen. Meanwhile, I will keep raiding and upgrading my army. HOWEVER, all my clanmates said that this is a bad idea. In fact, they asked me not to rush to TH 6 or TH 7 when I was still in TH 5. But look at where I am now. I have 4 barracks and 4 army camps which allow very efficient raiding.

Could someone please convince me that further townhall-rushing is a bad idea? As mentioned above, I don't care about resources being stolen. The only concern I have is that I won’t be able to raid as efficiently with barb and archer at TH 8 or 9.

Thank you very much for reading!

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Originally Posted by sheeptag

I started playing coc about 3 weeks ago and have just reached TH 7. With the additional barrack and army camp, I am gaining very lucrative loot using just barbarians and archers. I spent $10 to get the 3^rd and 4^th builders early on and didn’t use gems on anything else. I also plan to spend the remaining 600 gems buying a barbarian king, once the dark elixir storage is done.

Here is my current army upgrade:
Archer level 3
Barbarian level 3
Giant level 3
Wall breaker level 2
Lightening spell level 2

However, my tower and wall levels are very low (I kind of give up on them). The main reasons being:
1. I only lose 200-300k each after being attacked. The amount stolen could be very easily replenished.
2. Defensive structures take time and resources, which I would rather spend on upgrading army.
3. I will be 3-starred anyway.

My plan forward is to rush to TH 8 and then TH 9 where I could have an archer queen. Meanwhile, I will keep raiding and upgrading my army. HOWEVER, all my clanmates said that this is a bad idea. In fact, they asked me not to rush to TH 6 or TH 7 when I was still in TH 5. But look at where I am now. I have 4 barracks and 4 army camps which allow very efficient raiding.

Could someone please convince me that further townhall-rushing is a bad idea? As mentioned above, I don't care about resources being stolen. The only concern I have is that I won’t be able to raid as efficiently with barb and archer at TH 8 or 9.

Thank you very much for reading!

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If you want but you will suffer super heavily. I'm going into th8. I have only 1 more upgrade to start to max out def for th 7 besides walls. I know i will be smashed easily by mid th8 or higher. You need to max out archers, barbs, wall breakers, Giants and wizards at least to have any chance in th8 along with at least 90% or better maxed def. Even then you will probly get smashed.

Rushing to th7 is fine, dont rush to th8 though

Rushing up to TH7 is good, you can recover and doesn't make too much of a difference but after TH8 if you don't max out, or at least max out most of your stuff, you would suffer. There is a huge jump in cumulative costs between TH1-6 to TH7-10.

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Originally Posted by Tydorstus

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If you want but you will suffer super heavily. I'm going into th8. I have only 1 more upgrade to start to max out def for th 7 besides walls. I know i will be smashed easily by mid th8 or higher. You need to max out archers, barbs, wall breakers, Giants and wizards at least to have any chance in th8 along with at least 90% or better maxed def. Even then you will probly get smashed.

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Thanks for the input. But if I just max out barb + arch + giant + WB, I will be able to farm when I reach TH 8 or 9?

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Originally Posted by sheeptag

I started playing coc about 3 weeks ago and have just reached TH 7. With the additional barrack and army camp, I am gaining very lucrative loot using just barbarians and archers. I spent $10 to get the 3^rd and 4^th builders early on and didn’t use gems on anything else. I also plan to spend the remaining 600 gems buying a barbarian king, once the dark elixir storage is done.

Here is my current army upgrade:
Archer level 3
Barbarian level 3
Giant level 3
Wall breaker level 2
Lightening spell level 2

However, my tower and wall levels are very low (I kind of give up on them). The main reasons being:
1. I only lose 200-300k each after being attacked. The amount stolen could be very easily replenished.
2. Defensive structures take time and resources, which I would rather spend on upgrading army.
3. I will be 3-starred anyway.

My plan forward is to rush to TH 8 and then TH 9 where I could have an archer queen. Meanwhile, I will keep raiding and upgrading my army. HOWEVER, all my clanmates said that this is a bad idea. In fact, they asked me not to rush to TH 6 or TH 7 when I was still in TH 5. But look at where I am now. I have 4 barracks and 4 army camps which allow very efficient raiding.

Could someone please convince me that further townhall-rushing is a bad idea? As mentioned above, I don't care about resources being stolen. The only concern I have is that I won’t be able to raid as efficiently with barb and archer at TH 8 or 9.

Thank you very much for reading!

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Have you ever heard of loot penalties?


Basically the higher you go the less loot you are able to get out of an attack, and its pretty heavy. If you attack 2 townhalls below you, you loose 50 % of the possible loot. More if you attack 3 townhalls below you. So your "strong army" isnt going to be mowing down the th5's and th6's anymore. Your going to have to fight it out with townhalls at your level.

So dont think the higher you climb the easier it is to loot, its not. Yes your attacking armies will be strong, but TH9 requires 7.5million to upgrade your archers . . . reality is going to hit you pretty damn hard soon.

But if that doesnt make you reconsider, i wish you best of luck. Oh and please please keep your builders working on your goldmines and elixer collectors if possible.

make sure you have BARCH army at lvl4 before going to TH8. And i would really love to raid you and steal 200k-300k that are meaningless to you. TH8 wont give me loot penalty..joke :)

While I'm not in the "MAX EVERYTHING AT TH7!" camp, I do believe you should spend some time at TH7 before you move to TH8.

Specifically:

Max your mortars to lvl 5
Max army camps to 200 space
Max Research on Archers/Barbs at least

I didn't go to TH8 maxed, but most of my defenses were 1-2 levels below max and I had all purple walls. My rule of thumb is when you get to the point where you can't spend your loot fast enough, it's time to upgrade your TH.

(in my case my walls were finished and I'd sit for days with full storages because my builders were tied up on multi-day projects)

I personally am a big fan of maxing or almost maxing bases... it seems as though you play a good and if you want the fun to keep coming for months to come you need to upgrade your base. While right now the upgrading is easy because upgrades are so cheap, eventually you will have to fight for every resource and 300k loot will no longer be "meaningless" because of loot penalty. If you want to continue upgrading town hall without maxing that's fine I would just encourage you to upgrade at least a good portion of your base before you move up to th8 and th9.

It all depends on how active you are. As long as your camps and farming army is fully upgraded then go for it. All you need is to be in the right trophy range. Th8: gold3-2, th9: gold2-3. This loot penalty is imaginary i think. I was a premie for th8 and 9 and I get massive loot all the time. 220k/220k avg per raid. Just go for collector raids with your barch army and you'll be fine