The Air Sweeper- Issues

is your strategy all dragons by any chance?

Air sweeper is ok update, I lavaloonian and i find ways round it, stop crying cos the game is now balanced again. you can still three star a th7 you just need to get better at the game

TH7 are still managing it, due to the village perimeter usually not being too big, but TH8 are suffering largely from this air sweeper new defense indeed. It has nerfed the troops too much, so the other way around gotta happen and fast. It's the second nerfed that they suffered this year alone, the first being the sped up archer towers - which can easily ruin a dragon-based strategy at the very end and prevent a 100% attack - and now this.

SC got to either nerf both defenses or buff the troops movement and attack speed, at least a little.

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Originally Posted by Tiranonium

TH7 are still managing it, due to the village perimeter usually not being too big, but TH8 are suffering largely from this air sweeper new defense indeed. It has nerfed the troops too much, so the other way around gotta happen and fast. It's the second nerfed that they suffered this year alone, the first being the sped up archer towers - which can easily ruin a dragon-based strategy at the very end and prevent a 100% attack - and now this.

SC got to either nerf both defenses or buff the troops movement and attack speed, at least a little.

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it's not a nerf it's a balance, the game was overpowered, that strategy required no thought so they added something to throw a spanner in the works. now people are saying its too hard, thats because you were playing with a stacked deck before, and when you lost that you were forced to play a fair game and that caused you greif cos it was not as easy.

same thing happened to hogs a while back, they were overpowered, they were then balanced, people moaned but soon as they got used to it nobody cared.

I don't have problems with it

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Originally Posted by Ectar

it's not a nerf it's a balance, the game was overpowered, that strategy required no thought so they added something to throw a spanner in the works. now people are saying its too hard, thats because you were playing with a stacked deck before, and when you lost that you were forced to play a fair game and that caused you greif cos it was not as easy.

same thing happened to hogs a while back, they were overpowered, they were then balanced, people moaned but soon as they got used to it nobody cared.

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It's not exactly that way. Maybe for TH7, which it didn't change anything, but TH8 very hardly got a easy 100% attack by a dragon-only strategy. Taking baloons or hog riders in the cc was the most common, but it was not a guaranteed 100%, but actually, pretty far from it. Also, hogs are indeed pretty weak lately. I don't know how strong they used to be, but unless you have a level 5 hog, they can die pretty easily indeed. Not that I mind though.

Anyway, have a good day

The air sweeper is fine but I think it means that your army or your strategy has problems. Try adding more dragons or incorporate other troops in your army like balloons, minions, giants or hogs.

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Originally Posted by Tiranonium

TH7 are still managing it, due to the village perimeter usually not being too big, but TH8 are suffering largely from this air sweeper new defense indeed. It has nerfed the troops too much, so the other way around gotta happen and fast. It's the second nerfed that they suffered this year alone, the first being the sped up archer towers - which can easily ruin a dragon-based strategy at the very end and prevent a 100% attack - and now this.

SC got to either nerf both defenses or buff the troops movement and attack speed, at least a little.

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Sped up arch tows? DUDE.... They attack 2x faster but deals the same dmg per second.

mass drags took no skill. now it does

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Originally Posted by Donkeyteeth

Hello, I am a decently well off town hall 9 with a second account that just upgraded from being a maxed out town hall 7 to a town hall 8. I have been playing Clash for over 2 years now and so I like to think I am a very experienced player. I would like to state that I believe the Air Sweeper was an awful update. Especially for my lower level account, because a dragon raid is my main attack strategy. Anyways, there was nothing easy about an air raid pre-sweeper. The Air Sweeper quite literally renders my Dragons useless; they are unable to go anywhere! The strategy I use is amazing and is almost a guaranteed 3- star against another town hall 7 and guaranteed 2 star against town hall 8's. If anyone is interested in hearing my "money strategy" just ask in a comment below! Back to my point, These raids do so well not because air attacks are easy but because I have worked for a very long time to perfect it and I have become excellent at attacking in this manner. Yet, ever since the Air Sweeper came along I have struggled very much to do anywhere close to as well on attacking. Dragons DO NOT move fast enough to destroy anything when they are constantly being pushed back 2-3 tiles every 3 seconds! It is unfair, there is no ground attack that can 3 star a town hall 7! (at least as far i have discovered).

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Do you even have an Air Sweeper in your base? If you do, then you shouldn't probably be complaining about these things.

Seriously though, the total range for an Air Sweeper is 1-15 tiles. 1-15 tiles? What do you mean?! I meant about 1-15 tiles is the defense's range. There's a really tiny blind spot (the spot is around 0 to 0.9 tiles) which means Balloons on top of it cannot be blown back. Out of all the defenses, this defense has the farthest range (that would be 15 tiles from the building/center).

SC added the Air Sweeper because Air Raids were nearly unbalanced. And to make the new defense LESS OP, they made it point at only one direction. Here's the solution to your problem:

• Since the Air Sweeper can only point to the direction the Chief wants, you can deploy your Air Troops in the opposite direction the Air Sweeper is facing.
• If you don't get what I said above, if the defense is pointing to the north, deploy them to the south and vice versa. If the defense is pointing to the east, deploy them to the west and vice versa.

Got it?

• Yes, I understand. Good.
• Yes, I do but <insert excuse here>! :facepalm: Read the post again.
• No, I don't. <insert excuse here>. :rolleyes: Can you understand English? If you do, then you should be able to understand this!!
• Whatever you say, the Air Sweeper is still a problem! ...or... <insert a different excuse here>. Fine, ignore everybody else! :facepalm: