Things That Make A Difference V - Where the XBOW points!

First of all, this post IGNORES the recent Xbow glitch. SC has acknowledged the bug and said that it would be fixed in the coming update. (Ooh...I can see some people leaving the thread already :rolleyes: )
Also, the first four parts of this series may be found in the Related Threads at the bottom of this page!

The Xbow! Comparable to the modern day machine gun - quick, destructive and...can run out of ammo!
Most people prefer setting the xbow to point to the Air AND Ground, thus giving their defenses a slight Air Authority while sacrificing their Xbow's long range when it is at ground.
Other people alternate between their xbows, setting a few to air and one to ground or vice versa.

Grounded xbows are lethal against farming armies. Perhaps even worse than mortars while Air + Ground xbows pop balloons very quickly.

What do you set your Xbows to? During war? In your normal base?
WHERE do you keep your Xbows? Are they centralized or a bit off to the sides to deal with Wallbreakers?

Open up! :)

My Xbow is set to "will buy it when I reach TH9" mode. Not very effective :rolleyes:

I keep them up. My walls aren't swiss cheese and have an anti hog/giant design and so far ground troops and air have failed more they have succeeded.

being th10, usually hang between 2200-2600, keep my xbows more or less centralized, pointing up being sure to provide coverage to all storages on my farming layout.

for war, point up. always. centralized.

1 ground 1 air when farming. Depends on what I'm being raided with when pushing.

On my regular base it depends on what league im farming in. Which is usually Gold 1&2 so I set them to ground only. When I go into Crystal league I set them to ground & air because thats where I see a majority of air raids on my base at.
Far as war goes they are always set to ground & air. Air attacks in war is the norm & my base pretty much set up to not depend on em to much for a ground assault.

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Originally Posted by blackcaesar

On my regular base it depends on what league im farming in. Which is usually Gold 1&2 so I set them to ground only. When I go into Crystal league I set them to ground & air because thats where I see a majority of air raids on my base at. Far as war goes they are always set to ground & air. Air attacks in war is the norm & my base pretty much set up to not depend on em to much for a ground assault.

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Yep! Cannot afford to take any risks during war!!

Depends on league, layout and th.
Nowadays i keep 3 up as i have two ads down, before that i had 2 up and 1 down or vice versa depending on whatever other defences i had down. Currently in m3, where i suspect there may by a fair amount of looners and the odd hounder.

Before when i was having fun with the glitch i had alll down but made them look like up tp scare off air-raiders, but cant be bothered with that anymore.

In war, I scope out the top 10 defenders.

If they look like they use Dragons, I'll set to air. Hogs or GoWiWi, ground.

Regular base, I have them set to Air to prevent Loonioneers. That's really the only risk here in Crystal 2.

I use both on ground due to my optimal AD placement.