Outside TH and Tesla Trap

If you have loot..i will take it

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Originally Posted by FisherPrice

What's not to get?

While your full army is cooking you hit next a few times (kind of a lot of TH snipes are available it seems) and pick off a TH that nets you thousands of gold and even more thousands of elixir. The alternative (just speaking within the game) is to do nothing and get nothing while sit and twiddle your thumbs waiting on your army.

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That is my point, the loot bonus is so bad below crystal that it's not worth the nexting gold to find a snipe for a puny payout. I drew the line at crystal and you can argue that I drew it there but the point remains.

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Originally Posted by Azrial

That is my point, the loot bonus is so bad below crystal that it's not worth the nexting gold to find a snipe for a puny payout. I drew the line at crystal and you can argue that I drew it there but the point remains.

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The point remains, you can easily make a profit sniping even below crystal. Lots of TH snipes available, probably because a lot of people skip them. I skip snipes if I have a full army because I want my next army to be cooking the entire time I'm out, and I suspect a lot of people do the same. But if you have a handful of barch or a hero, especially the AQ, it's not hard to find an obviously untrapped TH quickly enough that you don't lose gold. And of course if you only use your AQ for the snipe the elixir is 100% profit. Even if you use a few barch it's still definitely profitable.

Not only that, there are often bases that also have a collector or three where you can drop an archer on it and pick up some more resources while you are at it. Sometimesi use the AQ like that...lots of "free" pumps for the AQ's 5 tile range + her cloak ability and spawned archers...sometimes you can get 3-4 pumps for free with her in addition to the TH snipe with either BK or like 4 archers

I have trapped my town hall numerous times... it worked quite well when I pushed to Champions. It got me through Crystal and Masters in just a matter of days... It really stops working when you get to Masters 1.

I am currently in Crystal 1 with my Th outside and untrapped (decorations and white flag around it). I notice that if my gold ever gets above 5 million, people ignore the TH and go for loot anyway... (I am a fairly new th 10 with Max th 9 defenses and all lego walls if you want some perspective).

Most of the time now I just do it for the replays...

I have just been amazed at how people hesitate to throw their entire army at the getting the TH. What typically happens is they drop a troop, teslas pop up kill the troop. Long pause, then they drop troops in small clusters and get fried continually. If you have lost to a trapped base on your climb to Champions... you know how frustrating it is and that it works.
I trapped my TH, watched the replays and learned to DUMP GiBarch troops quickly to get the win. Usually the trapped th takes to many of my troops to really get your loot, but I try it anyway. I always laugh when people threaten to "steamroll" bases that have trapped their th. As a previous poster mentioned... they were going to do that anyway if your loot was good.

TL/DR; trap/don't trap... people will still attack your th, and people will still attack for loot.

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Originally Posted by FisherPrice

The point remains, you can easily make a profit sniping even below crystal. Lots of TH snipes available, probably because a lot of people skip them.

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Well we basically agree, you just drew the line to a lower league but the point remains that the decision to trap is affected by the league you're in (per my original reply to this post). I personally don't snipe when my standing is below crystal III. I'd rather set the game down and give my eyes a rest than click next to find a 10k/10k snipe.

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Originally Posted by Dresden

There are perfectly legitimate reasons to trap your townhall, ESPECIALLY in Masters League, that have way more to do with "HURR DURR DO EET FURR DURR LULZ!" Hardly anyone up here who traps their TH is doing it because they think it's going to prevent players from taking out their TH. People do it for two reasons.

The first and foremost: Farming bases have the EXACT OPPOSITE effect than they do at lower leagues. You give someone the free win, and they'll go for the extra star and loot 99% of the time. You'd seriously have to be a naive buffoon to think otherwise. People up here are as greedy as it gets, there's no honor amongst Masters and up. So, you trap your TH, and if you're smart, you trap it heavily.

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Absolute and utter rubbish.

I have been farming as a TH9 in Masters 2/3 with my TH out and untrapped for several weeks now.

Even with over 2K DE, and over 200K of the others available, 95% of attacks on me are just snipes - usually for less than 5 trophies.

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No one expects their trapped TH to hold up here. I expect that if you put a troop down, you're going to get a star, that's all there is to it. So what I'm going to do is cause you to invest far more troops into getting just the 1 star so you don't have a chance to get any loot or an extra star. I want you to come in, take my TH, and leave, and the only way to guarantee that is by trapping the TH.

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There is NO way to guarantee it.

Trapping the TH makes it much less likely, I believe.

I'm not one of the gung ho types who claims to always put i a full attack if it is trapped, but I will certainly always have a look at it, and will attack if it is feasible to get decent loot.

Whereas if the TH is out and not trapped, I don't really even look at the rest of the base, I just take the snipe and move on.

As do most people, it seems, based on what I experience.