The Stringray: A TH7 Farming Base with an unlurable CC and funneling

The Stingray

The Answer To All Your TH7 Farming Needs!

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After trying several TH7 base designs that weren't just quite up to my standards, I decided to make my own. After much trial and error and thorough testing, I proudly present to you the Stingray. I started with the clan castle. Being a member of the Reddit Clan System, I am never short of good troops and wanted to make sure I get the most I can out of them. The clan castle is one of the strongest defenses you have available at TH7. Next I moved onto splash damage. The mortars are placed in a triangle formation to optimize the amount of ground the cover. I have placed them close enough to cover each other, as well as the entire base. I also placed the wizard towers in a position where they cover all storages. I placed the point defenses, (cannons, archer towers) evenly spaced around the entire base for maximum coverage. Lastly I placed the air defenses, I chose to put them near the outside. Placing air defenses on the outside is usually discouraged, but I have had great success against giant/healer attacks and dragon attacks. Lastly, through trial and error and lots of testing, I created the funnels and found the optimal position for all of the traps. This base does very well against a wide variety of attacks. A log of defenses can be found here; http://imgur.com/a/LkmKc It holds up well, even in Crystal 3. A clan-mate is also using it in Gold 3 with stellar results.

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Features of the Stingray

Centralised Clan Castle
-Clan Castle is the most important defense structure at TH7
- Only pre-attack-lurable by defense targeting troops

Triangulated Splash Placement
- Provides maximum base coverage
- Wizard towers are offering maximum protection for storages
- Storages have lots of health and clump troops up for the wizard tower to kill.

Separated Storages to reduce losses
- By having separated storages, it reduces losses as attacker needs to decide where to attack from

DE Storage
-DE is a valuable resource to protect at TH7 as it is difficult to farm and you don't have a drill.

- Town Hall exposed to invite TH snipes for free shields to protect your resources.

Funneling & Tested Trap Placement
- Advanced funneling and tried and tested optimal trap placement.
- Giant bomb inside to roast some hogs that come too close!

Staggered Junctions
- No X Junctions means less compartments broken into when a wall is destroyed

Spread out Point Defense Coverage
- Having spread out point defenses allows for maximum coverage of the base

Both left and right side are symmetrical
- Great for people who are OCD
- Symmetry looks great

Picture Links

Walls Only:

http://i.imgur.com/zvf4wNX.png

Only Defenses:

http://i.imgur.com/8dh461I.png

Top Down Layout:

http://i.imgur.com/PmmbaKF.png

Clan Castle Range Demo:

http://i.imgur.com/YpMMtdW.png

Log of Defenses: http://imgur.com/a/LkmKc

Stingray Base Infographic: http://i.imgur.com/M9hiSZE.png

Defense Log

An imgur album of defenses that I will be continually add to.

http://imgur.com/a/LkmKc
Note how the core stays intact in almost all the attacks, with the gold storages untouched.

Special Thanks

Reddit Zulu

for being such an awesome group of people.

Ming-Mang

(Zulu Member) for using my base and supplying me with defense replays.

Zag-Geek

(Zulu Member) for coming up with the name, Stingray.

If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments I'm all ears!

this is a neat base.... I think I will give it a try and post my defense log for you. Except the BK. I dont have him yet.... will have to tweek it until he joins my family.

It's still lurable, but you'd have to use defense targeting troops instead of the ol' Barbarian

Wow, nice base mate

Just my opinion, try to change the following:
1. Remove the following 2x Cannon behind the Elixir Storage
2. Remove the BK
3. Remove all the Tesla
4. Remove the middle Giant Bomb

And the changes:
1. Put the BK above the CC
2. From the original place of BK, put the Cannon
3. From the original place of the 2 Cannon, put the Tesla
4. From the original place of the Giant Bomb, put the Cannon
5. Tweaks the walls and traps below

IMO, the BK should always be in the middle since the update
Just try to see the changes
And its all up to you

Nice base. Few things:

1) Exposed AD means its open for a easy 2 star attack from Giant Healer armies
2) Traps can be tested and can be prematurely used
3) Nice unlurable CC.
4) Semi-exposed top Mortar
5) East and west collectors being mismatched makes no difference as goblin swarms still take them out quickly and do not redirect them away from storages (though the wizard towers take care of them)
6) Your defense logs doesn't seem to show actual realistic attacks up at Crystal- I don't get attacked by archer rushes or BARCH in Crystal, but maybe that's me

Overall a decent base. Good job on it :)