Archers overrated?

Upgrade them ASAP, they are a big help. I had a few archers and was at 49%. The loss was a -30. I dropped it on an army camp and won.

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Originally Posted by Ali7861

Upgrade them ASAP, they are a big help. I had a few archers and was at 49%. The loss was a -30. I dropped it on an army camp and won.

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Oh, and I havent even built a Spell factory. Again, just something else I dont use. :P

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Originally Posted by chuy409

Oh, and I havent even built a Spell factory. Again, just something else I dont use. :P

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Well you should get right on that.

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Originally Posted by chuy409

Oh, and I havent even built a Spell factory.

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Originally Posted by chuy409

they will ruin bases with some well placed heal spells

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The Great Irony.

Not sure if troll...


Archers=Win Archers=Life

Raiding collectors will only get you so far - a good barch/bam strategy gives you the ability to open up some walled areas and get to stores.

its pretty easy to work through most of th7 on collectors (or at least it used to be) - that changed at th8 though.

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Originally Posted by chuy409

I understand that shooting over walls and hitting air troops are big pluses. But I always carry a ton of wallbreakers (just to be safe/paranoia from my part) and they can always clear a path for my barbs, gobs or any troop. If there were no wallbreakers in the game, then yes, i would use archers 100% of my raids. I find the ability to shoot over walls like a small niche-nothing required imo. I rather carry tons of wallbreakers that would grantee my WHOLE army to advance rather than practically 2 troops. Oh man, and once the archers are ready to move forward, they all hit random walls. Just imagine, the troop with lowest dps hitting walls practically individually, its gonna take a while..... This still happens even after the recent update with my barbarians that i put relatively close and still go for different walls. Now i can imagine archers trying to push through a wall since the general consensus on how to use archers is to spread them apart. Eventually the archers need to move up deeper into the base.

is there anybody out there who is like me? That absolutely do not use archers whatsoever?

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What do you do if the base you're attacking has some balloons in the CC? From what I read you use melee ground troops only, those are screwed when air troops are defending

I'm just imagining him training a massive level 1 archer army, using them all on some random base, getting wrecked, and sincerely thinking that archers must be a bad troop because of this experience. At TH7 with level 1 archers... wouldn't you have enough time to upgrade all your troops evenly each town hall up to that point if you aren't rushing even if you don't really use them? I can't stand leaving my lab inactive :<

I can't think of any other cost and time effective troops that you can use if you are grind farming.

It's the only farming elixir troop that gives you range over walls, wizards are simply not time effective when it comes to farming.

I would like to know what army comp you use when farming that could do without archer. Only one i can think of is balloonion.

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Originally Posted by GoWiWi

The Great Irony.

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Never have I said that I used spells. If I did in one of my posts, then it was a mistake. All I was saying there that placing heal spells for goblins is extremely easy and effective.