New dark troop: Mind flayer

If anybody here has every played Dungeons & Dragons, you'd be familiar with the terrifying mind flayers. These creatures, who could have different names in CoC, look like humanoids with octopi heads and are famous for controlling the minds of their enemies.

In CoC, I envision these units to be able to deal zero damage to buildings but turn enemies around - i.e. the enemy troop will suddenly fight for you - for a limited time.

It would be a unique addition to have this unit on the battlefield, as it would add a novel element of surprise and tactical consideration. In clan wars, for example, defenders would need to vary, as having dragons in every castle would be too predictable with the looming threat of having this dragon turned on your own base).

Proposal:

Unlocks at Town Hall 7 (this would be great to combat the superiority of dragons at this level)
Training cost: expensive (similar to valkyries)
Unit size: small (same as barbarians, wizards, archers, etc)
Housing space: large (an army of these would be useless, but you'd try preventing auto-inclusion in every clan castle.
Thematically, no other troops like to be close to the mind flayers, hence the large housing space)
Hit points: low (fragile as witches and wizards)

Upgrade advantages:
* increase of distance the ability can be used at
* increase of duration of mind control
* increase of damage the controlled unit deals
* increase of hit points

I'd love to see a CoC-typical cute version of these fellows.

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Do you have any specific numbers in mind for your statistics?

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Originally Posted by Radiating

Do you have any specific numbers in mind for your statistics?

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No. I purposefully wrote unquantified stats. If the concept was of interest to the developers, they'd have to work out the details and unit balance through testing.

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Originally Posted by Archwizard

No. I purposefully wrote unquantified stats. If the concept was of interest to the developers, they'd have to work out the details and unit balance through testing.

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I would prefer you give quantitfiable stats as we can get a better sense of how much power it exactly has.

I think the only thing this could possibly be used for is in wars, but I still wouldn't use it, it would be like the new healer that no one uses, face it, almost no one uses healers, but this would be used even less, first off, if the enemy cc has wizards, then they are controlled, when they turn back to the enemy's side, then you troops are fried bacon, and if the enemy doesn't have cc, then it would be probably one of the most pointless troops on the battlefield. Keep up the ideas though, pretty creative if you ask me.


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