New Dark Spell: Confuse Spell or Convert Spell

This confuse spell can be dropped on the defending/enemy clan castle troops and the spell would confuse the troops to turn against their own base!

- What makes this unit/spell unique compared to the other units/spells in the game

This spell can change the game and strategies used in great way. It affects the enemy troops and doesn't kill them but turns them to help you.

- What kind of strategies this new unit would enable (concrete examples are best)

This spell would turn then enemy troops against their own base, but look out! It's only for a limited time until they turn back against you. This spell would be short at first level and gradually increase its spell length the further you upgrade it. This would affect where all players choose to place their Clan Castle. Most players put their clan castle right next to their town hall. This spell could change that because those troops in the clan castle could destroy your town hall for an easy star or distract defenses so your attacking army can move in easier on the town hall. This spell would greatly challenge players to strategize the best troops to put in their clan castle.

- What kind of army composition includes this unit or, how it could combine with other units for more advanced strategies

Any army composition could use this spell. It would purely help in raids or war attacks by affecting only clan castle troops as the Poison Spell does. But instead of killing them, turns them against their own base. This spell could be combined with the poison spell so after you Confuse the troops and that runs out you could Poison them.

- How someone could redo their base to protect against attacks from this unit

You could move your clan castle further away from your town hall to keep your clan castle troops from getting confused and attacking it. You could surround your clan castle with more defenses in case they get confused then your defenses would kill them quicker. It would in most cases be better to put a hound or golem in your clan castle to keep your own base from getting destroyed and the unit could still be there after the spell runs out and do a tanking job again.

This exciting new spell would add great fun to the game and had lots of new strategizing concepts for new players and even expert players to come up with.

Seems too OP, given the fact that any longer than a few seconds is more than enough time for wizards, pekka, etc. to do substantial damage to your opponent. Also, I imagine defenses wouldn't target these troops, since then it would just essentially become an extremely OP posion spell (it kills the units eventually, but allows for them to do damage first). So, essentially, you have several troops that are unaffected by defenses, destroying your base from the inside out for a certain period of time. I could bring four of these spells along, and allow for a few wizards to annihilate the base for a substantial period of time. If you make it any longer than five seconds, too much damage will be done, but any shorter and it's hardly worth bringing. If you make the troops vulnerable to defenses, it becomes an OP poison spell, but if you don't, it allows them to wreck for a given period of time. Perhaps producing some stats, and ideas that don't make it so black and white would help. For example, the spell, much like the poison spell, causes a speed decrease or a damage decrease. Try to lessen its power.

Good thoughts, thanks for the help...I'll do some more thinking on this and try to come up with something less OP and not so black and white.