Bullying TH8s as a TH9

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Originally Posted by Lunaticfringe

Are you referring to farming or war?

I'd never farm with hounds, nor would I ever waste the DE in war either (if attacking a th8, of course).

Mass loons work fine, but I'd just mass dragloon a th8 if it were war. EQ light as a th9 just isn't fair and has little risk for a miss and you barely even need to plan often as well, assuming, of course, you are fairly decent at drag attacks from earlier experience.

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I don't think you understand how much more OP death loons are than level 3 dragons (if a 9 prioritizes level 4 dragons they're doing it wrong). Plus, the dragons are a far more expensive army, all for something that will get stuck on high hp storages while loons will just roll over them and kill them. As long as you heal the wizard towers/air bombs, 8s can't touch you.

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Originally Posted by andyman268

Thanks very much guys :)

Was referring to war. Knew that loons were the way to go but had no idea of the army comp I should be using.

Just did my attack:
- 29x lv6 loons (3 for cc lure)
- 2x lv1 hounds
- 7x lv4 minions
- 15x lv6 cc minions.
- 4x rage

Lured cc to corner and killed with AQ.

Wow! I've never seen a base go down so quick. Had over 20 loons, 8 pups and all my minions alive at the end. The second hound was lucky to pop to be honest... Wouldn't take more than 2 of them otherwise I think I would risk them not popping.

As for CC: I wouldn't take a lv3 lava hound. I also would not like loons as they will be in one group and i think it's better to spread them. So I actually think the max minions is a great idea. I used my 7 minions to spread out on corner defenses, and the max minions moved in a big group for quick clean up.

Appreciate the feedback and this will now be my go to attack for TH8s (I'm an 8.5 so it happens a lot).

Cheers:thumbsup:

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Minions are definitely the most useful troops to spread out.. a level 3 hound would be far more useful. But still, just heal loons and TH8s can't touch it for an equally OP and far less expensive attack.

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Originally Posted by tyler4

Minions are definitely the most useful troops to spread out.. a level 3 hound would be far more useful. But still, just heal loons and TH8s can't touch it for an equally OP and far less expensive attack.

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I'd just be concerned that the hound might not pop? I had 2x lv1 hounds and the second one almost didn't pop.

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Originally Posted by andyman268

I'd just be concerned that the hound might not pop? I had 2x lv1 hounds and the second one almost didn't pop.

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So the moral of the story is don't use any hounds. But loons are more useful grouped up than minions. They're powerful grouped up because when you heal them, the only defense registering any damage is the air defenses and the air bombs/wizard towers are beyond useless. I generally release them all on a line then they group into 2-3 groups.. so dropping 6 in the cc behind is fine.