Bowser 7 - The Giant Killer - Ultimate Farm and Trophy Defense Layout for Town Hall 7

Using this base. Just got barched for 450k from the south by a TH7. Weak.

I swapped the position of the two northern mortars and the two northern storages. The top two mortars weren't able to reach the archers sniping away my southern storages. Perhaps this will be more effective.

Edit: Worth noting that I'm in silver 1.

Vault is very easy to clear from the south imo.

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Originally Posted by Puddelglumm

Vault is very easy to clear from the south imo.

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You can say that again. Dude easily claimed all my storages without even using wallbreakers or goblins. Pretty disappointing.

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Originally Posted by icey567

Did you, by chance, have any logs with this?

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Hi Icey, yes I do I will update the OP soon.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by sukhpal555

Hi, I'm in G1 and I was thinking of using this base.
do you think it will last in this league?

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Hey, as the poster below states, G1 is as far as I would go, Gold 3 and Silver 1 or more specifically 1200-1400 was my preferred trophy range with this base when I was a TH7 as you find an abundance of TH6s to loot from that range. Pushing higher increases the number of TH8s and the higher TH7s.

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Originally Posted by Wolfanini

Using this base. Just got barched for 450k from the south by a TH7. Weak.

I swapped the position of the two northern mortars and the two northern storages. The top two mortars weren't able to reach the archers sniping away my southern storages. Perhaps this will be more effective.

Edit: Worth noting that I'm in silver 1.

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Hey Wolfanini, sorry for your loss. Attacks from the South generally progress the best unfortunately. Swapping the mortars as you've suggested is great for protecting the vault and will provide excellent triangulation for your mortars - essentially 90% of your base will be covered by mortars. You can also try swapping your wizard towers with the internal archers. I'll try to put up a specific farming layout, and a specific trophy layout ASAP.

Out of Interest, what level are your defenses, including walls at? Also how far north did the attack progress? Did they get your TH? Importantly, what did you have in your CC?

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Originally Posted by BigC217

Hey Wolfanini, sorry for your loss. Attacks from the South generally progress the best unfortunately. Swapping the mortars as you've suggested is great for protecting the vault and will provide excellent triangulation for your mortars - essentially 90% of your base will be covered by mortars. You can also try swapping your wizard towers with the internal archers. I'll try to put up a specific farming layout, and a specific trophy layout ASAP.

Out of Interest, what level are your defenses, including walls at? Also how far north did the attack progress? Did they get your TH? Importantly, what did you have in your CC?

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I did move the WTs in to protect the storages as well. Haven't had a chance to see how that affects the layout just yet.

My defenses are 100% maxed for TH7. My walls admittedly could use some work, they're only level 6. And I misspoke, they didn't get 100% of my storages.

Here is a screenshot of total destruction.

http://imgur.com/FBW2bC8

And here is a screenshot of the adjustments I made.

http://imgur.com/ZsjDqLF

My town hall is on the outside.

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Originally Posted by Wolfanini

I did move the WTs in to protect the storages as well. Haven't had a chance to see how that affects the layout just yet.

My defenses are 100% maxed for TH7. My walls admittedly could use some work, they're only level 6. And I misspoke, they didn't get 100% of my storages.

Here is a screenshot of total destruction.

http://imgur.com/FBW2bC8

And here is a screenshot of the adjustments I made.

http://imgur.com/ZsjDqLF

My town hall is on the outside.

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Thanks heaps for sharing, will be really keen to hear your feedback on this adjustment. And will also be great to hear how you feel it performs against giants. Another useful setup for Barcher / Barcher Goblin raids is if you take the layout that you've shared and swap the wizard tower into the vault and swap the internal gold and elixir storage out, although this sounds counter-intuitive, the storages have remarkably high hitpoints and with wizard towers positioned behind them they are able to splash raiding troops alongside mortar. I hope one of these options resolves the issue for you as there is nothing more frustrating than losing large loot like that. Another option again, is to choose one loot over another to position as the lure, and keep the one you are trying to protect secure in the vault.

I always found the best cc troops for this base were level 5+ archer and wiz, although lv2+ dragon works ok as well due to the cc coverage. But if using a dragon in cc I would pull the builders hut in the top corner in so that there is nowhere easy to lure a dragon away from aerial coverage.

Hope that helps.

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Originally Posted by BigC217

Thanks TomBro3 for your question.

As mentioned in my OP Bowser has it's foundations in Mantis - as does your Lion design I note.
The main differences between Bowser and Mantis are:

1. This design provides additional space at the top of the base for increased building and trap placement - and importantly room for the Barbarian King to defend the TH from attacks from the North.
2. Improved southern defense with the addition of triple canon placement instead of the double wall layer bomb placement in Mantis. - Anyone with experience attacking a Mantis base is familiar with the weakness from southern attacks.
3. The size and shape of the vault is significantly different to Mantis and enable greater versatility for both amount of buildings and building types.

Not to take anything away from Mantis as it is one of the all time best base designs in my opinion. But for a TH7 with maxxed buildings it is simply not possible to put 51% of your base behind Mantis' walls. This is one of the main reasons I had to develop Bowser, in order for a base to be considered a trophy layout I believe at least 50% of it's buildings must be behind walls - which is guaranteed by Bowser.

I've included an image of Mantis and Bowser wall layouts below for you to make up your own mind how similar or different they are.

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Ah I see..its a nice base. I was just generally wondering not trying to sound rude. Good detailed post. I would try the base if I was still TH7

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Originally Posted by TomBro3

Ah I see..its a nice base. I was just generally wondering not trying to sound rude. Good detailed post. I would try the base if I was still TH7

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All good, it didn't seem rude, fair question actually. Yeah it's funny I was also thinking I wouldn't mind trying the lion as well - do you have a layout for it for TH 8 by any chance?

I've developed a TH8 version of Bowser as well, but I'll hold off sharing it until I have finished testing on the fourth mortar placement.