Stupid troops!

Can't upload pic from idevice so this is pointless!! Why are troops so stupid? Or are you yet again purposely screwing us over? Ground troops going after AD instead of towers on either side that are pummeling them or attacking lab while cannon beside it kills them in 1 shot? Archers shooting hole in wall instead of using opening 3 blocks away?? Come on supercell,smarten up here. Make the game fair and troops not so useless. And why in one raid do my troops die in one shot but next take 5? Same lvl defence so lose the handicap too. No more unfair gameplay!!

Please, stop complaining and learn how to actually use them before posting. Yes it can be annoying but c'mon you can't blame SC for all your problems....

Maybe you should learn how troops move and what their favorite targets are before complaining. If you deploy barbarians, they will attack the closest building, which accounts for their "stupidity". It's all part of the gameplay.

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Originally Posted by Frayed

Can't upload pic from idevice so this is pointless!! Why are troops so stupid? Or are you yet again purposely screwing us over? Ground troops going after AD instead of towers on either side that are pummeling them or attacking lab while cannon beside it kills them in 1 shot? Archers shooting hole in wall instead of using opening 3 blocks away?? Come on supercell,smarten up here. Make the game fair and troops not so useless. And why in one raid do my troops die in one shot but next take 5? Same lvl defence so lose the handicap too. No more unfair gameplay!!

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I know of no actual bugs in the troop AIs - annoyances, or them not behaving as you would like perhaps, so I'm moving this to the strategy section so others can help with your questions.

Also, here is a good guide to uploading pics from idevice:
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...pload+pictures

i honestly love how calm and orderly the supervising staff is for the forums it always puts a smile on my face:D

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Originally Posted by Frayed

Can't upload pic from idevice so this is pointless!! Why are troops so stupid? Or are you yet again purposely screwing us over? Ground troops going after AD instead of towers on either side that are pummeling them or attacking lab while cannon beside it kills them in 1 shot? Archers shooting hole in wall instead of using opening 3 blocks away?? Come on supercell,smarten up here. Make the game fair and troops not so useless. And why in one raid do my troops die in one shot but next take 5? Same lvl defence so lose the handicap too. No more unfair gameplay!!

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Dont count on supercell to fix anything, with any form of criticism they reply with "You don't know how to play" or " It is not the place to relief your frustrations". I think you brought up valid points. But supercell wont fix it because attacking, in their opinion, would become too easy. The game is rigged against attackers, so that gemming 6 year olds can feel good about their bases. Explain to me how one can spend $250 a week to muster most powerful army in the game, only to find out all they can do is one star equal level opponent. At no th level in the game you can three star a base with maxed out defenses and decent base layout for that th level, no matter what tactics you use. Supercell thinks preying on weaker is fair and they call it farming.

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Originally Posted by PBialecki

Dont count on supercell to fix anything, with any form of criticism they reply with "You don't know how to play" or " It is not the place to relief your frustrations". I think you brought up valid points. But supercell wont fix it because attacking, in their opinion, would become too easy. The game is rigged against attackers, so that gemming 6 year olds can feel good about their bases. Explain to me how one can spend $250 a week to muster most powerful army in the game, only to find out all they can do is one star equal level opponent. At no th level in the game you can three star a base with maxed out defenses and decent base layout for that th level, no matter what tactics you use. Supercell thinks preying on weaker is fair and they call it farming.

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What are you talking about? Any town hall 5 and below base can be three starred with an equal level army easily, because they just don't have enough defenses. At my level, town hall 8, I have taken down nearly maxed bases with an overnight army on several occasions, and have done the same on highly upgraded town hall nines as well. This game is not rigged against attackers, it is very biased towards them actually. Any base can be taken down by the right army and spell composition. Frankly, if everyone had to attack very difficult bases to get loot on every raid, the game wouldn't be fun because it would be nigh impossible to get enough resources for the expensive upgrades. If you feel that the game is unfair, please leave your collectors and storages in the corner of your base when you quit.

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At no th level in the game you can three star a base with maxed out defenses and decent base layout for that th level, no matter what tactics you use.

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In my experience this is not true at maxed TH6 (attack wise) I was regularly able to defeat maxed (defence wise) TH6 bases. I believe the same will be true for TH 7 once I have all units upgraded and finally get to 200 + CC army population. At least at these lower town hall levels I feel there are a number of strategies to get three star on TH 7 maxed or near maxed bases.

In regards to the original poster. Most of what you described are deliberate game design mechanics, the advantage of barbs for example is they are cheap, quick to train and have relatively high DPS/Hit points per population. One of their dynamics is also that they attack any type of building based on whatever is closer. This means they do not target defensive buildings like giants of balloons.

I would like to say that archers do sometimes have a few issues in regard to walls. They will destroy a wall piece rather than walking 5 steps to run around. Or destroy a wall piece while taking fire from the last archer tower which would be in range if the archer moved about 2 squares west etc. However it is no real problem and has to be accounted for in your deployment strategy.

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Originally Posted by MoHandles

What are you talking about? Any town hall 5 and below base can be three starred with an equal level army easily, because they just don't have enough defenses. At my level, town hall 8, I have taken down nearly maxed bases with an overnight army on several occasions, and have done the same on highly upgraded town hall nines as well. This game is not rigged against attackers, it is very biased towards them actually. Any base can be taken down by the right army and spell composition. Frankly, if everyone had to attack very difficult bases to get loot on every raid, the game wouldn't be fun because it would be nigh impossible to get enough resources for the expensive upgrades. If you feel that the game is unfair, please leave your collectors and storages in the corner of your base when you quit.

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Ok you taken down bases with nearly maxed defenses, how bout trying to take down fully maxed base. Im talking maxed walls, maxed mortars maxed everything. Im talking bases with decent layouts. And I would like to see a vid because talk is cheap.

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Originally Posted by MoHandles

Maybe you should learn how troops move and what their favorite targets are before complaining. If you deploy barbarians, they will attack the closest building, which accounts for their "stupidity". It's all part of the gameplay.

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Don't you think for example archers should go after what's hitting them instead of things that don't like air defence or lab?

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Originally Posted by Frayed

Don't you think for example archers should go after what's hitting them instead of things that don't like air defence or lab?

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No. That's not how this works.

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Originally Posted by PBialecki

Ok you taken down bases with nearly maxed defenses, how bout trying to take down fully maxed base. Im talking maxed walls, maxed mortars maxed everything. Im talking bases with decent layouts. And I would like to see a vid because talk is cheap.

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What a coincidence.

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...%2C+three-star