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So I just began my upgrade from th8 to th9 and wanted to run this idea by some people. I'm considering keeping only my current th8 defenses (except adding archer queen) and maxing them to th9 levels. I plan to save enough gold, elixir, and dark elixir to begin upgrades on archer queen, spell factory, and research lab immediately after th is finished upgrading. I never really make trophy push and consistently farm for resources. Anyway, your feedback is appreciated!
I just recently upgraded to th9. I built all the new building and got them to max th8 lvls. Then I started upgrading on th9 stuff. Get all the new toys and then upgrade. That's my opinion
Without the new toys you will get torn to shreds by fellow TH9s and now TH10s.
This would not be a permanent defensive strategy, just a way to gain an advantage during the upgrade processQuote:
Originally Posted by Kruzkal
Well without your 4th Wiz Tower or X-Bows you are gonna get Barched to death. I can 100% you with no spells all day long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sweets1992
Thanks for the advice. I'm starting to think its not worth it. It will be a good change to have new building to upgrade again anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kruzkal
At least build all of your new defenses before taking your other defenses to th9 levels, otherwise like the other guy said, you will get barched to death. The 4th wizard tower, extra archer, extra tesla, and extra AD really help even if they are low levels. If you hit th9 with full gold, including full collectors, you will have enough to immediately buy the new stuff plus both x- bows. After the xbows are complete, then worry about leveling up your new defenses to th8 max, THEN upgrading everything to th9 levels
The new stuffs are definitely needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sweets1992
Getting your first 2 xbows will be huge, you need them
Yes, level 1 xbows appear insignificant, but are your most important gold upgrade. Until you have them, you are marked as a noob th9, almost as bad as a th9 without a queen.
My recommendation (5 builders)
builder A: buy queen, start upgrade if possible.
builder B: start xbow
builder C: start xbow
builder D: start lab
builder E: get all the new stuff
Lab can wait a bit.
You our will want to get the new gold and exilir storages maxed ASAP. Too many people forget that, but having a fourth storage really protects your loot.
Also, getting camps upgraded really, really helps.
Good luck.
It will be too hard to protect your new storages
Yes, I have done this exactly things. I have two weeks on th 9 And now I can win defenses or at least not To lose all my resources against th 9 or 10 with max troops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Misthaufen
I Think this is the best choice
Thanks for the advice guys!!
Any suggestion for a good base to get me through the transition? A solid late th8 or even a beginner th9 base. Tempest has been great through most of th8, but is just not holding up with these full storages. I see it getting even worse once the upgrade is complete...
Do you have full skulls?
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Originally Posted by clebo13
Yes, my base is completed maxed except all the DE troops.
Just changed it from Tempest. I would still love any other base ideas!! The transition is nervewracking!! Lol
Here's a picture of my base currently:
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I wouldnt change your base too much at first, better to get new walls and defense leveled.
You seem fairly active, may want to consider upgrading offense first rather than defense. (gold into walls/cc) thats what I did. Will help with wars alot too. Keep 1 builder for walls/new buildings
Always get the new defences and upgrade them first because in the soonest time your defensive skills will be improve.
for example in TH9 you have a new wiz tower. upgrading the old wiz tower from lvl6 to lvl7 will take 7 days increase the DPS by 8. in That 7 days you can upgrade the new wiz tower to lvl4 and the increase DPS would be 20.
So Always upgrade the new defences to the same level as the old ones.
If you're in a war clan, your priorities might be different. I've just gone to TH9, and my first upgrades/purchases were:
1. Archer Queen (to level 2 in first 24 hours)
2. Army Camp
3. Army Camp
4. Laboratory
5. New walls to level 6
6. Cheap new defenses - Archer Tower, Wiz Tower, Air Defense, Tesla, Giant Bomb, Seeking Air Mines
7. Clan Castle
When my first two army camps finish, I'll do the second two army camps. When all that's done, I'll do my Spell Factory. THEN I'll work on getting my X-Bows.
My reasoning is that if I get the X-Bows right away, I'm substantially increasing my strength in the Clan War match-up calculation, but I don't have the offensive strength to back it up. And so far in the current Clan War, my first as a TH9, I've been 1-starred by a TH9 and 2-starred by a TH10, so I'm not feeling badly about my choice.
uhhh you want people to build defenses first so they don't get wrecked? max TH9s get wrecked all day anyways, attack is always more important than defense, with a good defense and no attack you can't accomplish anything, but a TH10 with lv1 defense and maxed attack can farm all his defenses up with maxed troops and push with maxed troops and war with maxed troops, you need attack in order to get defense, first upgrade is always lab and army camps, the clan castle upgrade at TH9 is more important than the useless lv1 xbows, 30 cc spaces will help A LOT more on attack and defense (you can request max golems or max lava hounds then) that spell factory is next, then the queen, now you should have 4 builders (at least) so 2 will be for lab and spell factory, the other 3 will be to build new defenses (besides xbows that can wait a little bit) then do your cc, once your new defenses are built and leveled a bit do the xbows and army camps, although I can tell you xbows don't really help until level 3, and even at level 3 they still don't really bother me, and I'm a town hall 8, for war also remember your attack isn't factored into matching, your defense is, if you build a strong defense early (like a noob, come at me bring the hate but it's true) you will be matched with a stronger opponent in war and then your neglected weaker attack will have to attack a stronger base, while if you get attack first you'll have stronger troops earlier and have weaker matches, tell me which helps the clan more? and obviously likely you'll get 3 starred in wars on defense either way because a new TH9 is really nothing hard to get 3 on, esp if you have a few TH10s in your wars (like in my clan almost always all the TH9s on both sides of war are 3 starred, even the maxed guys get wrecked hard) this game is run on attack, defense is just a boost, it won't carry you far
Unfortunately, this forum is filled with an endless stream of newbs. (no offense meant, its just there are certain things people should know, and this is not an attack on forum regulars/maxers..) There is no real way to educate them as the threads we make to do that quickly get buried. Building defenses seem to people to be the best way to play this game(not sure why), but telling them something that goes against what they think of as obvious, just doesn't work. Maybe someday people will understand what it means to play an offense driven game. We can all hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason5267
I wrote a guide about what to do when you first get TH9. You can read it here: http://clashfordummies.com/2014/09/02/getting-th9/
Sorry but OP please do not use this guide.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiefTyler