Temporary small troop boosts.

Okay, just going for it. I had a thought a while back about an armory, but when I checked rejected ideas, I saw equipment for troops on thee list. I felt that it applied to permanent upgrades, so if someone from SC could correct me if I'm wrong I'll bury this.

I was thinking that a building could be put up that upgraded at the same pace as the barracks, solely for the purpose of providing a spell-like troop enhancement for ONE battle. The idea is 1 new slot per 3 levels, capping at 4 for level 10. Ideas would be a shield providing 10 health for barbarians, longbows for +1 range for archers, big bags for goblins giving them 3x damage to resources, blast armor for giants protecting them from, say, 3 blasts from any bomb or mortars. You get the idea, but the gear doesn't upgrade, so lower level players out for revenge have a shot against that next th level up without it making as much of a difference for someone attacking down.

The equipment would need to be selected pre-battle, though if concidered, I would leave it to SC to decide if it needs to be used pre attack, in base, or during battle prep. It is concidered used up after selection and use, and must be re-stocked at the cost of gold. This will make it possible to expend something other than elixer to get decent troops, and maybe lend some variety to war attack choices.

I'm putting this out there for serious concideration, because it doesn't eliminate the need for upgrading troops, and spells have a small area of powerful effect. These are more torwards smaller, wider spread buffs. Please comment seriously.

Sorry, I know self bumping is looked down on, across the board. I just want to see at least one comment, or at least have this idea written off quick.

I've had time to think about this, a lot of people have been asking about dark spells. This may also be a good way to utilize the idea. A spell that speeds up ALL troops, or gives small regen to everything. Just churning the waters, but I'm willing to accomodate various forms of this idea.

I think it's a good idea, but you will have to take into consideration that the higher up town halls have worked hard to get where they are and they would not be happy with lower levels attacking them with iron giants or some sort of auto-rage balloons.
I feel that it would increase the training time of my troops by a lot, which is something that most people dislike :p
This would also be strictly limited to clan wars, because the only time attacking a higher level player would behoove you is when stars are of maximum priority. So if you limited these buffs to clan wars, then it would be a great idea. Plus, like you said, battle prep day is a good time to stock up on these buffs, as there is a whole day to prepare (much too long).
However, Supercell has ruled out the idea of gold for army attacking, as we can see when they changed spells to elixir instead of gold. Overall, cool idea ;);)

Best Regards,

Ian Yu - th9

But those abilities are too OP for the idea. The point is, for example, the shield only gives 10 health, no matter the level of the barbs. It also would stock concurrently with troop training, say, 1 hour to stock shields. The point is to give someone an edge to promote short term victory, but not make it possible to just walk all over everyone.

Additionally, the better equipment would have limitations. Blast armor just gets the giants closer while still looking pretty. Think ceramic plates, once broken, they do nothing. They also only help with his ability to take blast damage, so 20 giants don't take a ♥♥♥♥ ton of group damage from one bomb before taking out one rocket for the healer. Mortars can still break it in three shots.

Keep it up, I thrive on criticism, as long as you make a point.

uuhhhh... maybe but tht doubly enhances the battles potential if they brought both spells and this... whatever you called it, like what if you did hog but enhanced your hogs to be healed the while time? you would easily win