Hogs are NOT dead.

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Originally Posted by kmb08753

And that is barely different from before the update.

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Apparently you don't know how heal spells work.

Dead vs TH9 / 10...

and dead for war with centralised cc and heroes...

Id like to see how they get on with Royals chasing them round the base and giant bombs doing more damage

I tried using them today, didn´t went as i thought, got sliced by barbarian king.

http://s4.postimg.org/njnv1rznx/rip_hogs.jpg

Thanks so much for this thread, kmb !

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Originally Posted by Franchise

Can you please post vids if possible? Thanks.

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Im sorry, I can't do vids. I'll try to take some before and after screenshots maybe.

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Originally Posted by kmb08753

And that is barely different from before the update.

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What? Before double giant bombs wouldn't kill hogs if you got the heal spell timed just right. Now with 1.5x the damage no matter what you do your hogs are toast.

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Originally Posted by kmb08753

I decided to give hogs a go this morning with my alt TH9 account, to see how the new heroes would affect my raids. I have had great results.

As expected, hogs out run heroes. In some cases, they even finished off the towers and turned on the heroes. I have had success on centered heroes and edge heroes. Two and three star wins on mostly other TH9s(one TH8 and one premmie TH10).

Edge heroes are a no brainer. Deploy on the other side, by the time the hogs get there, most of the towers are gone.

Centered heroes, what I have been doing:
Lure CC like normal. Deploy hogs on a side nearest to the TH, in groups of two or three, heal as needed. Before I would heal hogs near WT and when they are in center with Xbows. Now I just pay a bit more attention to what the heroes are doing. If they are attacking the hogs, I might drop a heal there also.
Hold onto your heroes and support a little longer. Once 60-70% of the towers are down, deploy on the now cleared side. Put down some support to clear a path, then heroes and the remaining support to go to center.
The BK tanks and crushes walls to core, AQ and wizzies follow, taking out the defending heroes, TH and grab loot.

Before you declare Hogs dead, maybe you should try it. Tactics will need a little adjustment, but Hog Riders are still a very viable troop.

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http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/...pse5426e65.jpg

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Im am a th9 two but i rushed my town hall so my hogs are only lvl 1 And i still want to try to hog peeps do thx for telling me though (I didnt rush my town hall hard i dont use gems and i have my xbows)

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Originally Posted by GodII

Apparently you don't know how heal spells work.

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I guess not, Ive only been using hogs for several many months now :P~

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Originally Posted by carlito

Dead vs TH9 / 10...

and dead for war with centralised cc and heroes...

Id like to see how they get on with Royals chasing them round the base and giant bombs doing more damage

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I'll give to the point that bombs will be a bigger counter now... but Heroes chasing... their radius isn't that big. With a heal, the hogs are quick enough to keep clearing towers. Not too different from taking fire from towers while they are working.

Most of these are against TH9s and I'm trying it on centered heroes for the most part, to see what happens.

Give it shot, it's not as bad as people are thinking. Sure, its not the easy wipe it used to be, but this is a strategy game...

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Originally Posted by kmb08753

And that is barely different from before the update.

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Actually it's a huge difference. Before the update hogs took a total damage of 450 from double giant bombs (lvl 3), they didn't die because they have 475 hp (lvl 5) and could be healed then by a healing spell. Now they take 675 damage. They are instant bacon and bacon cannot be healed.

It's over hoggers, you had a run.