TH8 Warbase - Suggestions and Examples Appreciated

My clan is doing 15v15 wars with most of the people in our clan TH8 and some TH7s. Every clan recently has been attacking us with dragons. We have still been winning, but I keep getting killed by all dragon attacks. What is the best strategy for defense vs dragons?

I am a low/mid TH8, but it seems no matter how much more I upgrade my defenses, a skilled dragon attacker will still 3-star me. I try to use original designs, but does anyone have suggestions for my base or pictures of their own warbases to help?

I am experimenting with 2 Bases:
Base 1
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Base 2
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PS - Be nice =p

Start with maxing air defense will help you the most. Next I would move storages closer to your air defense so the drags get held up there. Then place air bombs near the air defenses. I also keep the skellies set to air and keep them back near the air defense as a distraction too.

Jarsh is right, air defenses should be maxed for TH8, as skilled dragon users can easily three star your base no matter what.

But skellies won't really matter, air or land, because the dragons kill them instantly. I would also place air mines and bombs in strategic locations; such places near air defenses, town hall, or places where people usually attack.

Up your ADs. While it won't help against drags, move some ATs into the core so that you can defend better against hogs and GoWiPe.

Mostly all th8 players use dragons.. Like me.. So i would probably hit you because of your low leveled air defenses.. Pretty good base design and unique

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Originally Posted by TheForgottenOne

Jarsh is right, air defenses should be maxed for TH8, as skilled dragon users can easily three star your base no matter what.

But skellies won't really matter, air or land, because the dragons kill them instantly. I would also place air mines and bombs in strategic locations; such places near air defenses, town hall, or places where people usually attack.

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To each his own on skellies, but I can say I have seen them help my base hold to only a 1 star on more than one occasion by redirecting the dragons from targeting an air defense, while the Air bombs, Tesla and AD finish them off.

Thanks for the advice guys - I'm working on currently upgrading ADs, and I'll see about moving the storages closer to ADs too. But all of the ideas are worth trying and tweaking. It sucks that dragons can be so overpowering, but I'll do my best to make it difficult

The second base is best imo, as there are limited defences on the outside ring so hard to gowipe and AD are very far from edge of base so hard to get to. As others have said upgrade the AD to LVL 6 and that should help. Also try to max teslas ASAP, a level 6 tesla will suprise the attackers and destroy troops.

they are both pretty easily hog-able. TH8's should have a double giant bomb location (and another location that LOOKS like it would be one).