Any advice for someone at TH8? Further base details inside.

So I've been on TH8 for quite a while now, as I'm trying to level my defenses so I don't get slaughtered like I did when I first hit TH8.

I recently got into gold II. And I am getting wrecked in battles.

My typical strategy involves 15 level 5 giants, 20 level 3 wizards, 5 level 3 wall breakers, and the rest as level 5 barbarians. I use one healing spell and two rage spells.

When I attack, I let a few barbs out to test the waters and pop any potential traps, and then I release everything. As soon as all the giants are out, I drop a rage spell, and then deploy the wizards and barbs behind, with a second rage spell and heal combo after the first ends, centered on the giants.

This used to work wonders, but now I'm lucky if I 1 star with this, and I rarely steal enough elixer to make up for the cost of the force. Can anyone give me some advice?

My base holds up well. I'm using this base design: http://i.imgur.com/BDdZmQv.jpg made by R3taliate. Thanks to them for that.

I have Level 5 Barbs, 4 Goblins, 3 wall breakers, 3 wizards, 1 dragons, 5 giants, 4 archers, 2 healers, and 1 PEKKAs. Lightning is level 3, Rage is 2, Heal is 2. I can field 200 soldiers.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

I'm a town hall 8 and indecisive weather or not to upgrade because I'm maxed except teslas and air defenses. Anyways, I'm in gold 1 and pretty easily stay in there. I've made it to crystal with just my farming army. I use 15 lvl 5 giants, 9 lvl 5 barbs to test the waters like you do, 60 lvl 5 archers (these are cheap and take the place of the wizards) 40 lvl 5 gobs and 8 lvl 5 wall breakers. I also take 1 lightning for cc and 2 heal spells to keep the giants alive or gobs/archers when they're deep inside the base. I usually always get 50% and I attack mostly abandoned bases. It's not difficult to find them near 1700-1900 trophies. And if you say you're getting destroyed change up your base, try to make it strong against specific types of attacks. Look at your replays and see what is hurting you most and think of a base that could be very effective against those kinds of attacks. Best of luck!

Your image shows that you are in crystal 3 and your defences looked maxed except for walls..... What exactly are you asking for?

If you want attack strategies, I would suggest upgrading your existing army setup; (wizards, wallbreakers and spells) and see if that helps. If it doesn't, I would suggest going for different strategies like:

• GoWiPe
• Hogs
• Dragons
• Loonions
• WiPe

If you aren't going for 3 stars all the time and you are just content consistently going for 1 star:

• Bam
• Barch

All of these strategies have relatively comprehensive guides in this forum.

I apologize, that picture is not of my base, it's the design I was using for my own. I have no idea how to take screenshots of my base, so I linked to that picture instead.

Your army composition can push pretty far into a base, maybe enough to get to the storages. However, using Barbs+Archers+Minions(Depending on if you are saving for DE) nets the most profit per hour. Besides collector raids, Barching can grab resources from the second layer of a base, maybe even the 3rd or 4th when coupled with a rage/heal spell.

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Originally Posted by Sytakan

So I've been on TH8 for quite a while now, as I'm trying to level my defenses so I don't get slaughtered like I did when I first hit TH8.

I recently got into gold II. And I am getting wrecked in battles.

My typical strategy involves 15 level 5 giants, 20 level 3 wizards, 5 level 3 wall breakers, and the rest as level 5 barbarians. I use one healing spell and two rage spells.

When I attack, I let a few barbs out to test the waters and pop any potential traps, and then I release everything. As soon as all the giants are out, I drop a rage spell, and then deploy the wizards and barbs behind, with a second rage spell and heal combo after the first ends, centered on the giants.

This used to work wonders, but now I'm lucky if I 1 star with this, and I rarely steal enough elixer to make up for the cost of the force. Can anyone give me some advice?

My base holds up well. I'm using this base design: http://i.imgur.com/BDdZmQv.jpg made by R3taliate. Thanks to them for that.

I have Level 5 Barbs, 4 Goblins, 3 wall breakers, 3 wizards, 1 dragons, 5 giants, 4 archers, 2 healers, and 1 PEKKAs. Lightning is level 3, Rage is 2, Heal is 2. I can field 200 soldiers.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

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A strong giant army needs a strong WBs too to easily bust high level walls , saving up spaces and more easily to push to core. Same does with wizards, I'ld replace all the wizzies with the archers, they're not worth it at level 3.

I think you should go back to a classic Barch army composition, drop down to Gold II and get up those troop levels.