Troll Bases the future way to exploit the shield system?

Say, have a bunch of trash buildings in front of TH, with the tesla trap around the TH and maybe some other point defenses and clan castle and traps would be the new way of getting a cheap shield? Obviously people would still go for TH to gain cups, but seeing 30% gets you a shield, this base style may get the noobs to try for the TH while your storages are well protected with a decent base design. In fact, this may lure people to only go for TH, and not your storages. I know TH is now considered a "storage unit" but considering how much you could instead lose, this could be the way to go for a cheap shield nowadays. Any thoughts? Not as experienced in farming/pushing, as I'm more of a war guy, but thought of this as a way to exploit the system.

I'll certainly try troll bases and if they work I'll keep using them.

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Originally Posted by saca312

Say, have a bunch of trash buildings in front of TH, with the tesla trap around the TH and maybe some other point defenses and clan castle and traps would be the new way of getting a cheap shield? Obviously people would still go for TH to gain cups, but seeing 30% gets you a shield, this base style may get the noobs to try for the TH while your storages are well protected with a decent base design. In fact, this may lure people to only go for TH, and not your storages. I know TH is now considered a "storage unit" but considering how much you could instead lose, this could be the way to go for a cheap shield nowadays. Any thoughts? Not as experienced in farming/pushing, as I'm more of a war guy, but thought of this as a way to exploit the system.

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I did this in the last few days when pushing to champs. Mine was obvious and I don't consider it a troll base. It works now, but will not give you 30% without exposing another portion of your base, presumably where the rest of the stores are situated and may take less than 40% of the attacking army.

From my logs, 3 x barracks, 3 x builders huts, th and 4 x tesla account for about 13-15% on my th9. Most attackers could overcome it with about 25 - 40% of their army and it's enough to stymie the full on attack (and that was my goal) but hoping they will commit enough troops to earn a shield is dubious.

There will be some interesting bases around post update and I'm sure this will be used in many defense designs. I am placing mine just inside my base, protected but tempting.