Defensive barb king attacks dragons

I'd like to formally request for SuperCell to allow for defensive barb kings to attack dragons. The reason can be that the spread from dragon's breath requires them to get within range of the giant barb king's arm/sword to damage him.

As we all know, dragons are completely overpowered at TH7 and still mostly overpowered at TH8, and irrelevant in 3 star strategies past TH8, so we really just need to look at how this affects balancing at TH7 and TH8. At TH7, your typical three lightning 10 dragons 4 death loons yields an attack that has 8+ dragons surviving the attack even on a maxed TH7, which is completely obscene. Allowing the Barb king to attack dragons might make it slightly harder for TH7s to three star other TH7s, which would be a very welcome change.

At TH8, with the sweeper update, obviously its harder to three star, but level 3 dragons are still way too strong for an attack that relies on one type of troop and minimal skill. I don't see much of a downside to making mass dragons harder at TH8.

The reason the BK can't hit loons, minions, and hounds is because they drop projectiles which do not spread out and thus can attack the king from a safe distance.

If someone else has a better idea to help better balance mass dragon attacks, I'm all ears, but this slight tweak has essentially no downside.. Although I feel people will oppose it for no reason other than they hate change and want to pretend that TH7s aren't totally defenseless against competent dragon attacks.

I think there should be a mass dragon counter, but I just don't think this would be logical. It's a flying troop and THATS one of its perks

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Originally Posted by thebuch4

I'd like to formally request for SuperCell to allow for defensive barb kings to attack dragons. The reason can be that the spread from dragon's breath requires them to get within range of the giant barb king's arm/sword to damage him.

As we all know, dragons are completely overpowered at TH7 and still mostly overpowered at TH8, and irrelevant in 3 star strategies past TH8, so we really just need to look at how this affects balancing at TH7 and TH8. At TH7, your typical three lightning 10 dragons 4 death loons yields an attack that has 8+ dragons surviving the attack even on a maxed TH7, which is completely obscene. Allowing the Barb king to attack dragons might make it slightly harder for TH7s to three star other TH7s, which would be a very welcome change.

At TH8, with the sweeper update, obviously its harder to three star, but level 3 dragons are still way too strong for an attack that relies on one type of troop and minimal skill. I don't see much of a downside to making mass dragons harder at TH8.

The reason the BK can't hit loons, minions, and hounds is because they drop projectiles which do not spread out and thus can attack the king from a safe distance.

If someone else has a better idea to help better balance mass dragon attacks, I'm all ears, but this slight tweak has essentially no downside.. Although I feel people will oppose it for no reason other than they hate change and want to pretend that TH7s aren't totally defenseless against competent dragon attacks.

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I agree that the mass dragons are almost unbeatable for TH7's though wise people generally only use them on people with tonnes of resources as dragon's cost a hell lot of Elixer! Quite annoying during wars where it gives guaranteed 3 stars, however, buffing up the heroes makes it much much harder for people who want to hit the base much later on in the game. It is better to introduce a new anti-dragon air defense structure to counter the beasts where you can only have one per base and it has not much range compared to the air defense structure.This can give a better chance against mass dragon attacks.

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Originally Posted by Saad5234

I agree that the mass dragons are almost unbeatable for TH7's though wise people generally only use them on people with tonnes of resources as dragon's cost a hell lot of Elixer! Quite annoying during wars where it gives guaranteed 3 stars, however, buffing up the heroes makes it much much harder for people who want to hit the base much later on in the game. It is better to introduce a new anti-dragon air defense structure to counter the beasts where you can only have one per base and it has not much range compared to the air defense structure.This can give a better chance against mass dragon attacks.

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20 second reload time, only 3 squares of range, instakill on the highest hp troop in its range. Air only. Nerfs dragons, hounds and bloons mostly. +1 square of range per upgrade. Only one per base. Unlocked at TH 7. One new lvl unlocked per TH lvl.

That's th best I could come up with. Maybe I should make a thread on this?:smirk:

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Originally Posted by soccercrazy1

20 second reload time, only 3 squares of range, instakill on the highest hp troop in its range. Air only. Nerfs dragons, hounds and bloons mostly. +1 square of range per upgrade. Only one per base. Unlocked at TH 7. One new lvl unlocked per TH lvl.

That's th best I could come up with. Maybe I should make a thread on this?:smirk:

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I'd do anything to swap this with the hair dryer!!!

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Originally Posted by DanazX

I'd do anything to swap this with the hair dryer!!!

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I don't get it:confused:

Instead, I'd prefer to see troops with no air attack capability run away from air troops each time they get hit. The chaotic possibilities are enormous.

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Originally Posted by soccercrazy1

I don't get it:confused:

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Hair dryer = Air Sweeper. :-)

I'm not sure if using BK is a good idea, but dragons at war should probably be nerfed. :-)

P.S. Just for the sake of craziness: lvl7 walls should be reshaped as water containing walls, so structures under dragons fire get some limited amount of water to put off the fire, increasing their effective hp. :-)

I agree with the harpoon tower idea.