The Cogwheel - TH9 Anti Hog/Balloonian Farming Base

Hi All,

I'd figure after enough time using everyone's designs and bases, I'd take the time to design my own. I've had quite a bit of success protecting my loot using this design so I'd figure to share it.

Note this design is somewhat an all or nothing design as the core is quite small. My clannies and I have been testing this for the past 3 weeks between gold 2 and master 2 and although most are snipes, there have been enough "real" attacks to finally warrant posting this. Although with the new update, I may rethink the positions of the giant bombs to perhaps have just one area. A lot of the inspiration of the design comes from Peabak's Ringus design, VinnyXO's WDM, Orz v1 Shuriken, Superwolf's Prime, Junliang's Pokeball design as well as many others that I've had a chance to try.

I started out with a 3X3 core but felt like this split up the outer layer of defences too much allowing easier access to the core so I kept a 2X2. All of the junctions are T junctions rather than X junctions forcing the many more wall breakers to get into the core.

Note, the latest edit with all of the great feedback is found in this post:

http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/316261-The-Cogwheel-TH9-Anti-Hog-Balloonian-Farming-Base?p=2261853&viewfull=1#post2261853

Location of all buildings
http://i.imgur.com/YRZoMLyl.jpg

Walls and Traps
http://i.imgur.com/nC6BJCJl.jpg



Traps
Double bombs - The most common issue I had with double bombs was that hogs would destroy a defence and move onto the next one too quickly not allowing enough time to have both explode. The giant bombs are placed between a tesla/air defence forcing the hogs to spend more time there as they explode.

Spring Traps - All spring traps are placed between defences so they can't simply be triggered by just a single giant. Non-double bomb funnels have 2 each.

Seeking Air Mine - In gold leagues, I placed the seeking air mine between the archer tower and wizard tower aiming for the healer for giant/healer attacks. For Crystal 2 and up, I placed the seeking air mine on the other side of the archer tower requiring 3 balloons to get rid of it (rather than 2 that many send per archer tower).

Regular Air Mines - These have been placed closer to the core to target groups of minions . This does make the elixir storages a bit vulnerable to minions but if this is a concern, you can always move it to beside the elixir storage (beside the spring trap).

Defenses

CC - The CC is a bit lurable along the top, one of my clannies just closed out the top and bottom to aid in avoiding the easy lure.
http://i.imgur.com/IFuxQO5l.jpg

Archer Towers - These are positions basically on all 4 corners of the base with 2 as the second layer of defence in the funnels.

Cannons - placed and used more as a tank allowing attacks from wizard towers and mortars.

Mortars - With only 3, I placed them on the right side of the base as I tend to get more attacks from that side. They have an army camp protecting them as well as flanked on both sides by an archer tower and tesla which does not make it easy to take down.
http://i.imgur.com/EMZSfvRl.jpg

Wizard Towers - Each protects 2 storages as well as the funnel . With 2/3 defences in the immediate vicinity, barbarians and archers aren't much of a problem.
http://i.imgur.com/AxgEE74l.jpg

Xbows - set to air/ground. Since the core is small, I'm generally more worried about minions more than anything. They in addition cover all storages.
http://i.imgur.com/gnXwHLQl.jpg

Teslas- These are strategically placed for multiple reasons. The first is to keep hoggers from being able to "test" the area with just 2-3 hogs. I've had countless trials of hoggers just sending in 2-3 having them all die out. The tesla also throws up balloonian players as it changes the direction of the baloons if they are aiming for the archer tower from the side. Beyond that, the extra defense forces the hogs to target both defences allowing giant bombs and small bombs to explode while the hogs are there. In addition, the tesla covers the entire wall to help protect vs wall breakers and stray units
http://i.imgur.com/3zezDZ6l.jpg

Air Defences - These are placed to cover the core but also to act as a high HP defense. Since it is 2 spaces behind a wall, archers cannot target it directly over the wall.
http://i.imgur.com/CR3Cz6ql.jpg


Small Tidbits
Builder Huts - These are placed at the corner of each funnel just to absorb a few more archer shots to allow the defences to mow them down.

Collector/Mines - 3 placed around each archer tower as the highest HP allowing the archer tower to target those troops.

Spawn points - forced as far off while still being in range of defenses.




Defenses:
http://i.imgur.com/BbcBUpNl.jpg

Showing the benfits of the staggered wall junctions from this attack:
http://i.imgur.com/d7Wf3D5l.jpg

Hogged:
http://i.imgur.com/Zw80518l.jpg

Last few hogs smoked between giant bombs:
http://i.imgur.com/9MeZSN3l.jpg

Testing the giant bomb placement with a few hogs:
http://i.imgur.com/j54ph2bl.jpg

He gave up after 3 and send in all of the rest:
http://i.imgur.com/c6et9N8l.jpg

Baloonian (many upgrades going at once as well, minions got 2 corner elixir storages, air mine got ride of the rest:
http://i.imgur.com/aHo1900l.jpg

Defense Log:
http://i.imgur.com/Bc7P6xDl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ySxX4YHl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3Fs8Fy6l.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1oJPk0wl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rIExdmvl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dor4Imol.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xS0nRpOl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/t4etfAdl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9H1c9CZl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Dxjgkw5l.jpg

Key Defense logs from Clannies:
http://i.imgur.com/XTB7ej9l.jpg

This base looks excellent

I think I'm gonna give this a try

Willing to give this base a try. Dont like to mortar placement but whatever

Looks really nice! I might give it a try.

From all the people that post their base, this is the best I have seen in months. I mean ALL. True wall staggering is a lost art. I really don't understand why people do one wall staggers and are not embarrassed of posting it out. It's exactly the same thing as removing walls between and make it one compartment, one set of wbs will break it. The extra walls removed can be used in other places more effectively. Double wall staggering will make it tonnes harder to achieve a satisfying base, but you just have to keep trying until you can and not compromise midway. Kudos to the OP for the effort.

I'd give a 9.8/10 score for this base.
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Where 0.1 went.
I've re-created a portion of your base with some edits:

http://i.imgur.com/3M7t6tE.jpg

This does three things.
1) Turns the inverted T junction into a sideways T-junction. You know how to make double wall staggers so I believe you should also know the difference between inverted and sideways Ts.
2) Balance number of buildings in the three compartments. The original one 5,3,2. The new one in is pic is 4,3,3.
3) Tweaked position of tesla. This gives a chance to divert balloons away from your air defense. A looner will tend to deploy loons on this new spot because you have an archer tower on the other side and their regular instinct is to deploy as far from the archer tower as possible and still be aiming directly at the air defense, which is exactly where I'm putting the tesla now.
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Where'd the other 0.1 go.
Red air bombs needs to be out of range of your defense ring. It means, balloons will never trigger it even if they make a full lap around your base. Only this way, can the red air bomb blow up cleanup crew minions effectively.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by llindvior

From all the people that post their base, this is the best I have seen in months. I mean ALL. True wall staggering is a lost art. I really don't understand why people do one wall staggers and are not embarrassed of posting it out. It's exactly the same thing as removing walls between and make it one compartment, one set of wbs will break it. The extra walls removed can be used in other places more effectively. Double wall staggering will make it tonnes harder to achieve a satisfying base, but you just have to keep trying until you can and not compromise midway. Kudos to the OP for the effort.

I'd give a 9.8/10 score for this base.
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Where 0.1 went.
I've re-created a portion of your base with some edits:

http://i.imgur.com/3M7t6tE.jpg

This does three things.
1) Turns the inverted T junction into a sideways T-junction. You know how to make double wall staggers so I believe you should also know the difference between inverted and sideways Ts.
2) Balance number of buildings in the three compartments. The original one 5,3,2. The new one in is pic is 4,3,3.
3) Tweaked position of tesla. This gives a chance to divert balloons away from your air defense. A looner will tend to deploy loons on this new spot because you have an archer tower on the other side and their regular instinct is to deploy as far from the archer tower as possible and still be aiming directly at the air defense, which is exactly where I'm putting the tesla now.
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Where'd the other 0.1 go.
Red air bombs needs to be out of range of your defense ring. It means, balloons will never trigger it even if they make a full lap around your base. Only this way, can the red air bomb blow up cleanup crew minions effectively.

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Not trying to be negative, because I totally agree with this, but i would also take off .3 for the lurable cc.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by llindvior

From all the people that post their base, this is the best I have seen in months. I mean ALL. True wall staggering is a lost art. I really don't understand why people do one wall staggers and are not embarrassed of posting it out. It's exactly the same thing as removing walls between and make it one compartment, one set of wbs will break it. The extra walls removed can be used in other places more effectively. Double wall staggering will make it tonnes harder to achieve a satisfying base, but you just have to keep trying until you can and not compromise midway. Kudos to the OP for the effort.

I'd give a 9.8/10 score for this base.
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Where 0.1 went.
I've re-created a portion of your base with some edits:

http://i.imgur.com/3M7t6tE.jpg

This does three things.
1) Turns the inverted T junction into a sideways T-junction. You know how to make double wall staggers so I believe you should also know the difference between inverted and sideways Ts.
2) Balance number of buildings in the three compartments. The original one 5,3,2. The new one in is pic is 4,3,3.
3) Tweaked position of tesla. This gives a chance to divert balloons away from your air defense. A looner will tend to deploy loons on this new spot because you have an archer tower on the other side and their regular instinct is to deploy as far from the archer tower as possible and still be aiming directly at the air defense, which is exactly where I'm putting the tesla now.
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Where'd the other 0.1 go.
Red air bombs needs to be out of range of your defense ring. It means, balloons will never trigger it even if they make a full lap around your base. Only this way, can the red air bomb blow up cleanup crew minions effectively.

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full design picture with the changes?

So great. Just a very nice base

It seems good, but I don't think It will hold up at the range I'm at :)
Plus, your logs suck, not even worth posting town hall snipe logs... Come back with real ones.