need help with cheap and reliable 2-star cw army for th8

Dragons+balloons or dragons+hogs.

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Originally Posted by pokemom24

currently i an using
16 giants
20 wizards
8 wallbreakers
3 barbs
and the rest archers
3 heal spells
lvl5 barb king
however, my giants seem to die to fast and spring traps kill alot of them.
how should i tweak my army composition?

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I won't go into whether you should aim for 2 stars in CW, but if you want a cheap and reliable CW army giant-wizard is what you are looking for exactly. Drop one heal for a rage and bring more wbs - the aim is to get just 2-3 wiz within range of the TH. If you can do that and have them under rage and heal, the 2-star is guaranteed.

My guess is you are having difficulty funneling wizards towards core. You need to clear the trash buildings outside first before deploying wiz. ie you need to deploy wiz/arch in two phases. First phase in a line to clear everything outside walls. Once this is done and giants are headed deeper into the base, you must release a concentrated pack of wiz (plus BK) at a place where the nearest building left is in an area which draws you towards TH. If you spam all your wiz at once they tend to circle the base.

If you are used to this, 2-star with giant wiz is 100% reliable if you can deal with cc as well. 3 star is very unlikely though - very similar to gowipe at higher levels.

I think you guys are missing the point. Cheap and reliable isn't drags/loons or hogs ♥♥♥♥.

He's looking for the lowest army cost to 2* bases. (Then again, I don't see how 16 giants and 20 wiz is all that cheap either).

And tbh, that's entirely dependent on the base. Certain bases you could probably get a 2 with barch alone and maybe a few giants wiz if you can reach the TH quickly.

Regardless, war is never really a profit...so I don't really get the reasoning trying to save loot in war anyway.

As a TH8 drags and hogs are your primary war troops, Gowipe to an extent but it's not really as effective as drags or hogs in most cases. Almost every base as a TH8 can be crushed by hogs if deployed correctly.

Go big or go home.

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Originally Posted by hbjlee

You can barch a TH 8 with heal spells and get two stars. Do your clan a favor and go for 3 with hogs or dragloons.

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Good luck getting 2-star with barch against a TH8 in clan war...
There is a guy in my clan who always use BAM for clan war, he is a TH9 and never got more than 1-star against TH8 so I kicked him out.