TH 8 Strategy Advice

I haven't been having a hard time farming but I want to explore more strategies or at least new approaches with what I have.

so far I just have lvl 4 Archers,barbs, wall breakers, and Giants. Currently my Lab is upgrading and I am thinking about upgrading them but a little worried about elixir prices and profit especially when I've noticed a dry spell in resources while I'm currently just in gold 3... For now anyways.

40 barbs
103 archers
9 giants
6 wall breakers
and my Barb king when he is available.


Anyways, my main strategy with the above composition is to use a few Giants per area to distract the defenses and then deploy barbs OR archers depending if the targets are within melee range or behind walls. I try to get rid of the splash damage first of possible. Once my giants get to the walls while my barbs are attacking the outside collectors or buildings I send in wall breakers near but also not so close to the Giants.
I also use one archer per outside building to make sure i can get the 50% so I don't always lose trophies.

sometimes I send in my Barb king at the end or in the beginning depending on how heavy badly I want the resources or
If I think my Giants need some back up.

its worked well for me but sometimes it doesn't always work.
Ive tried BAM quite a lot too but I've stopped so I don't use so much dark elixir. Because right now I'm prioritizing certain upgrades that don't invovle DE.

right now I don't have lvl 2 dark barracks and I was iffy on the use of hogs at my level. I heard hogs weren't all that helpful and I was thinking i should just upgrade my Dark Barracks when I can to get the later troops.

i have access to dragons while one barrack is being upgraded to 10 to get Pekkas.

i don't want to bring spells along too much and personally will only use them if I'm bored or in clan war.

any suggestions? Any tips or new strategies you could offer?

I am th 8 and can find 200k plus raids with afew searches.. Im at 1592 trophies. I can barb and arch easy, with barb k when around and sometimes using lightning to smash the odd mortar or whatever..

Just try barb and archer attacks.. Hit only loot thats in collectors.. Today i had a guy use 50 barbs, 15hogs, afew archers and like 10 goblins.. Mixed attacks like that are a waste.. His hogs died and he was left with nothing else since i have a south teaser base.. I literally give loot out in replace of my de storage not being hit! My th was outside and he hit it but got no loot and wasted 15 hogs on nothing.. I can get 3 stared but i never have much loot so they dont 3 star me..

If there is effort then why break into a base when you can hit collectors quicker and build another army just as fast..

if your having no luck, go up or down in trophies. Giants and wbs for me are a waste.. I only use wall breakers and giants and only wizards for a revenge attack or when going for dark E only.. Not for a general raid.

here is an overview

barb/archer ( good for collectors ) 1 star attacks! No cc-troops used and no spells!

20 giants/6 wbs and either rest archers or rest wizards and a heal spell or 2, good for DE attacks or breaking into base.

all dragon attacks and 3 lightning spells.. can get DE easy.. I'm not going into detail but hit 1 AD with lightning. Start on the side of 1 AD down ( ad closest to DE ) then hit DE! Your not trying to 3 star..

these are the attacks i use if i want something specific.. I can get de with barb/arch from collectors or abandoned bases.. Raided 2.1k from collectors/pumps recently.. In one attack!

hope this helps.


Don't do mixed attacks!! No hogs for raiding.. Dont waste de ! Attack smart and fast..