Balloon Strategy 101

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Originally Posted by LadyHawke1210

Thanks for the tips;)

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Whole day looting with that style as was busy and the net gain was: 2 mill gold, 150k elixir and 3k dlix. If you got time only every few hours, I think bloons are one of the best ways to get the loot home. Almost all rich bases have good ground defence but less than half a proper air defence. I know mine is lacking still :o

Edit: and course to end the day, a total fail on bluuning. O well :)

Well, our donation clan war is over... so, I'm raising my trophies slowly... and going air and ground back and forth a tad, until I'm back purple badge land again, where I'll go back to all air for fun...

I think the balloons users will generally agree that under 2k that these results are fairly common. Once over 2200 troph or so, the DE looted rises significantly... Below is my setup that I tend to use these days, enjoy, folks.

I haven't come across any pretty L8-L9 wall villages yet today, but I'll post particular pretty base wall designs I float over, muhahaha:

http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7db421f7.jpg


Illustris, Keeping the Promise for a Few Pics post-Clan War

Thanks for the guide - it matches my summertime play schedule.

Been using it quite effectively in the 1300-1500 trophy range for about a week now.

Yes, there are plenty of more efficient ways to get loot, but this is so simple and fun to watch that I don't mind the lack of efficiency. I also find it hard to be on a ton in the summertime so whenever I get a few minutes to raid I know the bloons will be waiting for me to unleash the atmospheric fury on someone's base!

I tend to use 40 lvl 5 archers and 32 lvl 4 bloons (working toward lvl 5 bloons soon).

:)nice........................

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Originally Posted by HiggsBossSon

I'm a TH7 and go after TH9s all the time. unless their ADs, teslas, and xbows are high lvl, it's pretty much a no-fail approach.

expensive? yup. long cook-time? yup. awesome? yup.

6 dragons (lvl 2), 16 balloons (lvl 4), 3 rage spells (lvl 4).

deploy 6 dragons first in an L pattern around a corner, so that your attacking from 2 adjacent sides. follow that with 16 balloons. lay down rage spells accordingly (start early) as all ur troops start to converge.

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I'm also at TH7, but find that if you've got excess elixir, all-dragons are more time efficient. 4 balloons take more time than 1 dragon for the same space in the camp. And since our balloons are only level 4, isn't it better to simply have 4 more dragons? I use 8 lvl 2 dragons, 20 lvl 2 minions, 3 lvl 4 lightning spells. The main reason I'm tempted to try your army is occasionally the dragons wander off in the wrong direction. Not a problem w/ bloons...

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Originally Posted by fatdome

I'm also at TH7, but find that if you've got excess elixir, all-dragons are more time efficient. 4 balloons take more time than 1 dragon for the same space in the camp. And since our balloons are only level 4, isn't it better to simply have 4 more dragons? I use 8 lvl 2 dragons, 20 lvl 2 minions, 3 lvl 4 lightning spells. The main reason I'm tempted to try your army is occasionally the dragons wander off in the wrong direction. Not a problem w/ bloons...

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yes that's exactly the reason. defense targeting.

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Originally Posted by fatdome

The main reason I'm tempted to try your army is occasionally the dragons wander off in the wrong direction. Not a problem w/ bloons...

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Originally Posted by Illustris

1. Balloons, similar to Giants, target Defenses first
This is an important starting point as to how to view balloons. Goblins target resources first. Giants target defenses first.

But, many beginner ball'rs assume that balloons target anything, as archers or barbarians do. If you deploy only balloons slowly as an example, there is a high chance that you will destroy every single defensive building and unit, and then only barely get to the resources.

See strategy implications below, but it is recommended to "pair" another troop with balloons to ensure loot raiding so as to avoid the dreaded timer failure (where you have destroyed all defenses and those majestic balloons are only just turning to the resource tanks).

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Exactly... Because dragons target anything, mixing balloons can be helpful. There's nothing more frustrating than watching a dragon burn a builder hut while being nailed by a max level AD...

As in WB AI, it's good to know the various AI preferences for balloons, dragons, etc...

Btw, I've tested it a few times, and I'm pretty sure the lightning spells still hurt your own balloons while attacking. I sometimes Thor defending archers, and next screenshot that shows balloons getting damaged clearly, I'll try to post here.

P.S. Back to 2050 and climbing lol, but I've yet to find a decent wall'd village raid pic to post here... so many gold/pink walls these days around 1800-2000 trophy for some reason (shrug, badge chasing???).


Illy

Good post. Thanks for the insight :)

Do you have any tips for balloon use at lower level TH? I'm TH5 right now, and I find it hard to use balloons because a) I can't make enough at my camp capacity, and b) I have no other air units to tank/bait/lure. At my level, almost all towns have air defenses nestled deep inside. Is there a particular strategy against AD that has 1-2 layers of defense in front of it?

Would also like to hear more strategies of Balloons mixed with other classes.

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Originally Posted by Nichigo

Good post. Thanks for the insight :)

Do you have any tips for balloon use at lower level TH? I'm TH5 right now, and I find it hard to use balloons because a) I can't make enough at my camp capacity, and b) I have no other air units to tank/bait/lure. At my level, almost all towns have air defenses nestled deep inside. Is there a particular strategy against AD that has 1-2 layers of defense in front of it?

Would also like to hear more strategies of Balloons mixed with other classes.

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I was TH5 a few months ago and all the air defences were outside until 1400+ trophy TH7 came along. What I suggest is not doing this strategy until TH7 at least (don't rush your TH, loot penalties will ruin you) but what I did at TH5 was just add a few Balloons to my army to destroy all defences after air defence on the outside is gone. At TH7 if theres a single air defence deep inside the base I just use my lightning spells on it because using a giant healer combo is quite annoying if you can't use your healer much.

I'm still seeing alot of Air Defense inside :\

my trophy count is a little high for TH5 though...like almost 1000 so that might hav esomething to do with it