General speaking... just saying that u don't need the specific base for surgical hogs, u need the specific base that u can't hog tbh
It doesn't matter if u are th8 or th9 the concept is similar, u can be much more creative as th9.
No, that really isn't accurate. I would accept it as an axiom that more hogs is less risk than fewer hogs at th8.
Granted, I'm not going to argue 37 hogs, as my typical army is 38, but I generally don't use my poison spell. If I did, I'd drop some wiz/barb/archer and go to like 40 hogs.
Further, as stated previously, you stated that your clan is a, "pro clan." What does that mean?