With the new hero update it seemed like hogs were going to be the most useless troop in the game...again. But there still as op as they were before if you know how to use them correctly
While you can't lure heroes and cc troops and kill them in some dark corner near the forest, you can still kill them using my favorite strategy that i got from unity sharps th 9 farming guide.
I bring 3 healers 20 hogs 4 wizards 14 archers 13 barbs and 7 giants
1) first use 1 or 2 hogs to lure cc troops if you can't use barbarians then kill them with lightning spell or barbs and a wizard.
2) drop 4 giants and the rest of the barbs near the closest edge of the base were the heroes are defending then as soon as the heroes start attacking your giants and barbs drop your own heroes and 2 healer, you can use your archer queen's ability to take out heroes but not the barb king ability.
3) when your heroes are finished killing the defending ones and your king is low on health use his hero ability to heal so that the healers won't stay on him for too long, then send in two groups of hogs.
4) the first two healers should go follow one of the groups of hogs but for the second group of hogs drop the third healer and use the rest of the giants to distract defenses while hogs clean the base. you may have to use 1 or two heal spells if the healers wouldn't leave the barb king or seeking are mines or air defense manages to take out most of your healers.
5) once all defenses are gone use wizards and the rest of the archers 100% the base
Hope this helps people who are having trouble hogging
