TH8 Gowiva w/ back end Hogs or Gowipe

Looking at trying out another gowiva attack with the attached base. Black is golem (lvl 2), orange valks (lvl 1), blue wiz (lvl 5) and brown hogs (lvl 4). Send in the golems and then WB. Clear out the middle with wiz and then send in the valks. I will have max valks in the CC. Rage & Heal in the center and once there, send in 6 hogs on the back end. With only 6 hogs I'm hoping I can take out the two corner defenses and then hope for the middle ones. Just not sure if the wiz can clear out that much trash but I would think once the CC is triggered, the valks will head in. Or would a GOWIPE be better?

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Well, for me I always prefer gowiva over gowipe, but that also depends a bit on the players skills. Someone who is already well-trained with gowipe perhaps struggles with gowiva, so how I struggle sometimes with gowipe because I´m well trained with Gowiva?!

Important for Valks-placement is, that your wizards clear enough outside buildings before you deploy the valks to get sure they run into the village.

Big advantage with gowiva, luring cc is not absolutely neccesary, because the Valks can handle it(except Air Troops of course, but for that you would have the Wizards!)

Be careful with your hogs a bit, don´t deploy them too early, if they are the first who lure the CC, they get killed too early from the troops.

I also use Rage&Heal for Gowiva, thats fine!

PS: It´s easier to 3 star with Gowiva than with Gowipe imo...

I'm not real great with either but I'm at the point where I'm learning new attacks. I've practiced a bit in multiplayer but it is obviously a little different vs. war. My only real concern with this approach was the cluster of buildings at the 7 oclock position. I can clear out most everything else on that side but by the time the valks need to go in, those buildings in the corner will still be standing. I figure that the CC troops will be on their way by then so that should draw the valks in. That is the other reason I favored the GOWIVA vs. Gowipe. Once they are in the core taking care of business and drawing fire, I'll send in the hogs. They may not get very far but I believe they should be able to get at least two structures down each which is that much less fire for everyone else.

Surgical hogs might be an option as well since a lot of point defenses are on the outside. WT in the core probably means the second heal there and so I should have healed up valks and maybe a few hogs to finish off the base.

I would GoWiVa with a few back-end hogs. Bring 2 golems, 6 hogs, 10 wizards, 7 valks, and 2 barbs, and rest wall-breakers.. Place golems between 3-6, wizards behind. Open a funnel by dropping WBs two at a time, send valks in once a funnel is made. Rage valks on the two cannons, heal/rage in core. Send 3 hogs each on the two exposed ATs.

Good luck!

Well someone took it before I could go for it (our clan is a little disorganized at times) so I found another fairly open base about 4 spots higher. Same approach but swapped out the hogs for loons on the back end. Valks took a bit of a detour but they filed back in and I managed the 3 star. Valks still didn't last as long as I would have hoped but I had to drop a spell a little off the core to make sure they stayed alive on their little side trip.

Nice.

Can you upload it? Would love to see it

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Originally Posted by Lunaticfringe

Nice.

Can you upload it? Would love to see it

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Sure. Had to figure out how to do the recording thing. Didn't get the audio but the idea is there. If I had to do it again, I think I would be a little more patient for the CC to empty out b/c the valks went right for it once they came out. By sending them in early, the first few followed the golem off to the side. Then I hit the panic button a bit and dropped that last heal badly to keep them in the battle. Had I just waited one or two more seconds, I would have seen them head back to the core and I could have healed them through the king attack maybe. Glad I got the 3 star here b/c my fist surgical hog attack was a disaster and we are going down to the wire in this one. Welcome any feedback as I really like this attack and might upgrade the valks to 2 before the pekkas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW18...Nw&index=1