I am TH8, my defenses are almost maxed out except AT, cannons and walls.
lvl 6 giants always attack me.
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I am TH8, my defenses are almost maxed out except AT, cannons and walls.
lvl 6 giants always attack me.
can you post a picture of your base?
Walls are all level 8?
this used to frustrate me as well. Go too low and th7 lightning your de, go too high and th9's raid you for it.
unfortunately all i ever figured out was max everything, and level 8 walls slow those level 6 giants (though wb's fix that). Put your de storage in the center of a well designed base and cross your fingers when you log off.
but to be honest i never had much luck. The level 6 troops and 220 space from a th9 always won. I ended up not worrying about de until i went th9. Then it was much easier to keep and make (level 6 drills are awesome).
(Don't worry, when you hit th9 the th7's still come lightning your de and there is not much you can do about it. Though you can have a hay day when a not so bright th8 tries)
Someone said it perfect...the TH7 and crappy TH8 lightning it and TH9 can make it anywhere easy with L6 giants. Best advice is to suck up the loss and raid in sessions to always make positive for the day.
Protecting you de at th 8 is pretty easy you just gotta stay online. Seriously its the only way really. Players who log in and do a raid will not gain much de once they have over 1000 avaible to raiders as it will keep attracting TH 9s.
Smashing maxed th8s as a th9 isn't hard really. So try yo do session play where you only break sheild when you can do 3-5 de raids before logging off that way you'll always he in profit even after you get hit on defenses. And obviously have th in corner of your base for fast shields. If your far along th8 you might consider going to th9 as its much faster to get and protect de.
use elixir storage as a bait
I simply wouldn't worry too much about protecting your DE as a TH8, since it is so easy for a TH9 to get it no matter how you design your base. The thing to keep in mind is that the DE you win/lose as TH8 is very inconsequential in the grand scheme of the game...
Once you get to TH9 with max troops, you can easily farm 20-30-50k DE in one single day!
So my advice is keep you CC in the middle of your base, with DE storage slightly offset, and just farm hard and don't worry about losing 1-2k here and there. In the long run, it won't matter.
Right now I'm farming the big 40k for level 10 barb king upgrade and I get raided 24/7. There is almost nothing you can do against townhall 9s as level 6 troops stomp townhall 8s. I revenge people with high dark elixir with lightning, then barch a bit of dark elixir. You can make up to 2k dark elixir this way. Also if someone snipes you DON'T break your shield unless you know what your doing, just wait it out for a while, collecting loot from drills, scouting out revenges, etc. Hope I helped. :)