Double Damage on Golems

Another point (as if it were needed), is that the tesla/pekka relationship as well as the hog/giant bomb are both against hidden defenses. If canons were the bane of golems all of sudden you'd see massive base redesigns with people pulling cannons from the edge back into the core or second layer, and then what do you put on the outer layer? You'd also change the order in which people choose to upgrade defenses with a priority on cannons all of a sudden. This would make bases tougher against the gowipe but more vulnerable to other attacks potentially, and specifically air attacks which are presently defended predominantly from the core.

Wars are tough enough. As a TH10, during a war I mainly attack other TH10s about 90% of the time. The top 4 bases in any clan are hard enough to even one star, and now all of the TH9's want to nerf Golems. Please. It's bad enough we have to worry about max Infernos set on single with max xbows, mortars, archer towers & wizard towers, now they want max level cannons to do double damage to Golems. Sorry, but there is no way I think this should be done. If lower level people don't like occasionally getting 3 starred by TH10s with Golems, and I admit that I am sometimes guilty of this when the loot just can't be ignored, they should work harder to get up to TH10. Then they will know the absolute folly of this idea.

So you are comparing:

Giant bombs v hogs (4 for TH9, 5 for TH10) (which by the way is only useful in pairs or next to wizard towers and can be negated by surgical deployment)
Teslas v Pekka (4 of possibly the shortest ranged defences in the game)

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The second most common defence (5 for TH9) - (6 for TH10) in the game.

And your entire reasoning is because your TH9 base can't prevent a TH10 from GoWiXx your base for 3 stars? Sounds more like a base design problem.

Please when you say nearly maxed TH9 except walls and wizard towers, please don't say your walls are a mixture of level 7 and 8 and your heroes are in their early teens, because if it is, it deserves to get rolled by a maxed attack otherwise there would be no incentive for upgrading troops.

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Originally Posted by shzlym

The attacks are usually over with one golem still intact, simply delivering 6300 damage points will take 2 lvl 3 x bows doing a total of 150 DPS (assuming within range of both) will take 42 seconds assuming they remain un-destroyed add to that maybe 150 more DPS for 10 seconds (as I'm assuming that's the time it would take to take down 1st tier tower and cannon that are in range, i think i'm being generous here) that would make the total time required to take down ONE golem at 32 seconds and 64 seconds assuming both x bows are still intact which is highly unlikely.

Tho for the sake of the argument if my defenses take about one minute to take down 2 golems (not accounting for the smaller 4 golems) during that minute how much DPS can 15 wizards and 2 pekkas unleash? knowing that all the aggro is absorbed by the golems.

Attacks are usually 3 starred by 2 minutes.

In all cases here's are the last 2 layouts I've used. The one of the left is the most recent

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Don't use that base on the left, it is begging to be 3 starred. Keep your defences in compartments and not outside
The base on the right has one weakness, the circle pocket around the TH. One jump and the Golems are in, they will go around the circle tanking all the def while wiz/queen clean up behind the golems

Try multi pocketed bases with good funnelling. Try and make it hard for the guy to jump into your core

Golems are meant to be a tanky kind of troop, like the giant, and nearly the same attack power and health as 6 of them. If cannons did double damage to them, they wouldn't be as useful as they are now, because all 6 cannons shooting at them at once would pretty much take it down in a matter of 15 seconds. Not to mention they cost about 450 dark elixir each, pretty much draining your dark elixir for wars, or other attacks. To simplify it, if cannons dealt double damage to Golems, not only would it drain your dark elixir, it would make Golems weaker and not as many people would use it's strategy as they do now.