TH8 to masters

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Originally Posted by Mochaboy

What he means is that you can barch all the way to masters by simply targeting bases that have more buildings outside than inside.

Here's a tip...

Train up 3 lightning bolts (minimum level 4). Go with 100 barbs, 100 archers, or 80 barbs, 120 archers...you'll get a feel for how many you need depending on your comfort level. Make sure you have a full cc and at least your barbarian king available.

Target support buildings, army camps, collectors, labs etc...and look for bases where these structures are on the outside well out of reach of the defending clan castle and heroes. For TH9 bases you need to destroy about 36 structures to get 50% (depends on how many builder huts they have), for th10 bases, you need to destroy about 40.

Keep the lightning bolts handy to do one of two things.

1) take out a mortar that's defending a lot of percentage points
2) use a single lightning bolt to take out either a barbarian, aq altar, or one of the builder huts tucked away inside. One bolt is enough to take out those buildings.
3) use your cc and / or your barb king as a last resort to get you to 50%.

A derivative of this strategy uses 3 or 4 hog riders late into the raid and specifically to tank splash defenses for archers.

Don't spam troops...deploy with a purpose because every troop will count. Of course always look for the snipe but never ever take on a base without a full army (a lot of people like to trap their bases for easy trophies, (4 level 8 teslas, = 400dps at an extremely high rate of fire).

I did my run to Masters as a town hall 8 but with hogs before the giant bomb buff. It was a little silly dumping 1k's worth of dark elixir troops to take down one damn building, but at the time, desperate times called for desperate measures.

At th9 - going to masters is a walk in the park...you can barch, balloon, hog, whatever you want, it's just a question of how much time you want to put it into.

Best of luck with your push.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXSyxYhwl-g

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great post

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Originally Posted by reuhka

I'm in a similar situation, going to start pushing in a week or two. What I plan to do is:

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I'll be very interested how you go. The further up I go the harder it is to find bases without infernos and max th10 defenses. I'm clearly out of my league up here. The loot was decent until about midway through crystal 2, now I live off the league bonus. Loot is available, but I can't get to it with my lowly lvl5 troops. I've passed on many full mines and collectors because I knew I couldn't get a star, a loss is too costly. I think a th8 in crystal 1 is an automatic attack, regardless of how your base looks.
I also wonder how gowipe works now that the heroes can't be lured. That sure put a stop to my hog attacks. Please post, would love to read how you do.

I've made it to 2548. Took a couple of 49% / 30 trophy losses that were very demoralizing. Hours undone because of one measily percent. TH8s and exposed THs have gone extinct since hitting 2500. Even TH9 are fairly rare, but there are a number of premie TH10s. But with the infernos, I keep skipping them unless they're really easy to attack. I think it'll be mass dragon from here on out. Hopefully I can get to masters tomorrow.

It does make me think about the wisdom of maxing stuff though. I've always been of the opinion to max everything before advancing, but here I am, a nearly maxed TH8 and on most premie TH10 I don't really have much of a chance unless I bring a 300k army. And they 3 star mine with lvl6 troops in about a minute flat.

And I did it! 2604 trophies!! Woohoo.
It really is quite a slog. I did the last hundred trophies with mass dragons. I was very glad I had full elixir storages. I found one TH snipe in the last hundred trophies only, and that is after spending about 800k gold searching. I did see a couple of TH8s though, which are a very good target for mass dragons. Been online for hours last night and this morning.

I'm far from an expert, but here are my tips:

-about 4mil elixir before you start. In the beginning it looks like you don't need it, but oh man you will

-become great friends with the next button

-kiss your social life goodbye for a few days. You have to stay online. But jewellery for your girlfriend to leave you in peace for a few days

-if you lose, don't attack while you're still mad. Several times I lost twice in a row because I was so mad at myself and wanted to make up the list trophies asap. Doesn't work that way, trust me

-don't give up

I'm going to try and stay up here for a bit to do the DE upgrades, but I'm going to take it a bit easier again. Lol

Watch out when sniping TH9's, I recently revenged a TH8 in C1 for 250k gold and 59 trophies....

Goes both ways though. My TH was outside the whole way up and I got two revenges for 31 and 42 trophies during my push and a number of smaller ones. Biggest revenge hit I took was 26. I was attacked within minutes of logging off, and more by snipes than revenges.

I take that back. I was just revenged for 34 trophies by a th10 who I 2 starred with mass dragon. Point is you're always a target for revenges, just gotta make sure you take advantage of your revenges too.

I am a fellow th8 going for masters almost maxed just need dark elixer barracks and walls then I'm done so I was wondering if I should barch 2300 which is what I see a lot ofthen buy 500 gems and boost mass drag?

Just popping in to wish you a big congrats on your achievement and perseverance. Well done.

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Originally Posted by SolarIce

Just popping in to wish you a big congrats on your achievement and perseverance. Well done.

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Thanks! I'm feeling rather pleased with myself. :)

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Originally Posted by SchoonMan

I am a fellow th8 going for masters almost maxed just need dark elixer barracks and walls then I'm done so I was wondering if I should barch 2300 which is what I see a lot ofthen buy 500 gems and boost mass drag?

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Yeah, thats almost what I did. Up to 2000 it was just whatever and then it was mostly barch to about 2300. After that id barch/snipe for a couple of hours and trained mass dragons whenever I logged off. And then at 2500 it was all dragon. And even that required a lot of nexting and often just a one star win. I did boost the spell factory and the BK a few times and then for the last hundred I boosted 2 barracks as well.