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So I have been GoVaPe'ing to champs. Currently sitting at 3129 and hoping to net another 20 before I go back to bed.
So far I had just been attacking like every 3.5 hrs and leaving my Th exposed after 2900 trophies. Worked pretty well.
My last two defenses where -16 and -22 due to a GoWiWi and GoWiPe user finding an easy target (hit the Th and attack my base for the easy 50%)
So... was that bad luck or should I attempt to defend myself now?
GoWiWi is a strong strategy and the defences in CoC are far less powerful than the offensive troops, so I wouldn't worry about losing defences. If you're getting 3 starred by a weak attack strategy like Barch, then you've got a problem.
I recently completed my run and ran into a bracket where they stopped taking snipes and swung for the fences. As a midling th9 with no where near your level of defenses I really had no choice but to leave my th out. Once i broke 3200 snipes became much more frequent but that 3100 bracket was spotty for me.
These guys were throwing max gowiwi at me and no amount of clever base design or golem trapping could prevent those 3*s. about the only useful thing I can offer is that at that bracket I switched my double giant bombs configs and move my giant bombs around to counter wizard pathing. That alone prevented a few three stars but not consistently enough for it to matter except for personal satisfaction.
Here's my run in case you find anything useful...Looking forward to seeing your valkyrie attacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3z37ZN9us
You seem to be spot on, as I have nudged above 3200 (yeah!) and I am again getting snipes. They range between -1 and -11 but even -11 if it costs me nothing to defend against, is worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochaboy
TH out is always worth a shot, if your base can't win with TH in, and/or if you're trying to protect lots of loot. Champs isn't really any different - I even see a few powerful TH10's in champs with their TH out. Whether you get sniped, or smashed, really depends on luck and whether the attacker wants loot and/or cups, or to just use their AQ to get a free win and loot bonus. But if you're TH9, chances are always good that people will go for the 3 stars... that's pretty much what I do, unless they are especially loot poor, but even for no loot I'd personally be pretty happy to 3-star a TH9 in champs... (have only found a few in M1, so far).
For sure TH out. Id say most of my defenses from masters up have been snipes. M1 was snipe city and champ as well up till around 3450 or so which I started getting hit slight modem.
Still not bad it went from maybe 85% snipes to 60% or so. I couldnt defend anyways so its outside always. Anyways at 3500s now so we will see how it fares
I got -1 cup th snipes 9 out of 10 defenses.
Think about it, those champ league pushers have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO GAIN by going after you with full force: Their bases are most likely maxed, and three star yield the same amount of cups as one star.
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Originally Posted by Inquisitor
Depends I will often go for the attack for just an +2 extra if I've searched long enough. Think about it if heroes are boosted and I've searched for 30-40 min which happens semi often and get a snipe for +1 but would get +3 for the two star I'll usually go for it and kill my heroes instead of spell and comeback to full armies and healed heroes. So it's not a full attack but if I need a rage or so to get the 2 I will perhaps.
sometimes though were only getting a +1 offer so they literally get no cups for extra stars so than yeah the snipe is the full cups
TH out of course.
I'm working my way up to champs too right now, and with an exposed TH I have had many snipes against me feeding me easy shields at almost no cost. Perhaps I'm somewhat lucky but as of now I'm definitely agreeing that exposed TH is far better. My base so far is doing alright at preventing three stars, and I generally have a constant 3.5mil gold, 7 mil elix and (had) 110k DE in storages so I don't think loot is that much of a major factor.
Or maybe I am really just very lucky.
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