X-Bow Ground or Air & Ground

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Originally Posted by NoReload

And when you put an Xbow to ground only you're downgrading it into a longe range cannon .

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A long range cannon that mows through Barbs and Archers with rapid fire :P

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Originally Posted by comfypanda

both do the same damage, ground has about 60% more range though.

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11 square range on g&a vs. 14 squares on g mode. How do you get about 60% range increase? With all the massdragons and balloonians around together with the minimal range difference makes this a no-brainer to me.

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Originally Posted by Glaciesvir

11 square range on g&a vs. 14 squares on g mode. How do you get about 60% range increase? With all the massdragons and balloonians around together with the minimal range difference makes this a no-brainer to me.

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a circle with radius 11 has 11²*pi as surface or 121*pi, a circle with radius with 14 has 14²*pi or 196*pi or 62% more surface area. So i think he meant that xbow on ground covers 60% more ground instead of having 60% more range.

Mine are always both up.

Logically, they should be up at th9 because of loonion. At th10 they should all be down because it's all go wiwi/wipe. Now I've seen galadon do dragoons, but I don't think they will be popular anytime soon.

For sure do both ground, works for me

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Originally Posted by Zarnikon

a circle with radius 11 has 11²*pi as surface or 121*pi, a circle with radius with 14 has 14²*pi or 196*pi or 62% more surface area. So i think he meant that xbow on ground covers 60% more ground instead of having 60% more range.

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I'm impressed, well done.

Personally I think many underrate the value of ground x bows out of loonion fear.

On one hand you have few air defences in comparison to ground defences at Th9/Th10
On the other hand there are only 4 air units in the entire game.
I would say just use them up in areas with poor air coverage and down in areas of low ground coverage.
So leave them down if you're placing near centre (Which should be most of the time).

level 1 xbows down only can stop tier one troops/ wall breakers. Id put them up because they do a whole lot of nothing when down if the oponent is using air troops, giants, golems or any meaty troop and has spells. if its up it can stop balloons and minions and ground troops as well. the smaller range is nothing because that range is when all the giants will have been killed by your other weapons and when your xbow will finally start being effective anyway. you dont need the xbow earlier in battle you need it later after the spells/giants/golems etc have been destroyed by most of your stuff.

I mean do you really want some dude to use giant healer combo on your ground xbows making your defenses look like super fail?

Use air and ground, if theres a small group of minions remaining that manage to get to your de storage untouched, thats where air bows come in handy :)