TH8 / Crystal: Moving Beyond BARCH--how??
Hello guys -- I am a TH8, lvl 60. I have barched my way up to Crystal II, where I am punching above my weight, but it seems like it's slim pickens from here unless I want to snipe. In short, it's not really much fun squeaking out 50 and 51% wins and clicking NEXT 50 times to find a suitable base. It seems like 95% of the bases would kick my butt at this level (2250 trophies).
So I want to move beyond BARCH, but here is the problem. Right now when I sign out I am attacked within 5 minutes. Seriously. Because there aren't many TH8's in Crystal II, I am the juicy easy target for all the TH9's and TH10's, so they attack me right away. Sometimes I have tons of loot, too.
Given that I am attacked right away, I don't know how I could practically do a longer-cooking army like GOWIPE or something else, because there's no way I could stay online to shield myself for an hour-plus while it is cooking. The reason I like BARCH is that I can do almost 4 attacks per hour and I don't need to log out because it's a quick army. If it's a slower army, I would attack and then be subject to BEING attacked almost immediately, thus wiping out all my gains (and then some).
I like being in Crystal but I can't see how anything but BARCH would work because I would get slaughtered right away after every non-barch attack. Any ideas? How does *being* attacked factor into your own army strategy???
