Depends on several factors.
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Brando
I'm about to build my first dark barracks and I'm particularly interested on hog riders. Are they any good and would they be more effective to send straight in with a group of raged giants or to use them to flank along side archers
Hi. Along time I've used and tested all troops including hogs, I'd answer to your main question saying it depends on if you know how to use them well and you pick the right bases. On low levels I found them useless, except for gaining experience on their use, "knowing the timing" and improving it. Only in lv5 I found them very useful, but notice, only if you use them against the "right base", which would be, that base when U see no spaces for double giant bombs between defenses, or that base that due to its defense placements, offers you a discrete good path for your hog riders. If you do use them, remember luring clan castle first, some CC troops can ruine your attack. Remember also carrying healing spells, and drop them when your hogs are holding vs the hardest or inmediately after a single giant bomb has killed them. Do not heal them after a double giant bomb: they are dead (you were supposed NOT to attack this base, if it had double giant bomb spaces that well placed). There was a time when hogs were unstoppable, then the damage on giant bombs raised and people noticed that if they place two of them between defenses it was enough to ruine such an attack. Hope it helps answering your question.
