Less than 1 month in, 4 days away from TH8
So as the title reads my builder is 4 days away from finishing my town hall 8 upgrade. I have been playing for 3 1/2 weeks because my girlfriend's son kept asking her and I to play the game and join his clan. I must say I am pretty shocked I enjoy the game as much as i do (except for the loot for 2-3 days after the maintenance, ugh haha) Early on I bought the 4th builder and then a week later I bought the fifth haha, but no gems after that.
I read the forums and the debate on rushing town halls and all that jazz, so I decided my plan was to rush to town hall 7 and then start maxing out at every town hall. Well, it was late one night and I was going to save for a tesla tower and then call it a night, but then out of nowhere supercell gave me a 300k/300k raid. Soooo that put the thought in my head to push to the 2 mill or whatever the cost to upgrade to th8 was and then go to bed.
My goal is to have a well rounded th10 base in the long run.
So my strategy so far has been:
Upgrade only farming troops. I have BARCH level 4, I also have lightning spell 2, giants 3, goblins 2, and wiz 2
Since only using BARCH 99% of time I have one barracks that is upgrading to level 9, and the other 3 are level 5.
Max Army Camps
Barbarian King level 1 (that was a pain to get might I add)
I have a dark barracks though it is level 1 and I haven't made a single minion.
My defenses are bad but not terrible imo. I have all available buildings and one of the teslas is upgrading to level 2. mortars are level 3 and wiz towers level 2 cannons level 5 and archers level 4... ok my defense is terrible :)
BUT... I have fully maxed level 7 walls.
And so with all of this, am I right in thinking that I made the right move in going to town hall 8? It will be easier to upgrade my BK and though I have a lot of upgrades to do my farming army and walls are maxed and the upgrades that I have left to do are mostly defensive and limited by time and not so much by gold/elixir?
Thanks in advance