Th10 farming with loonion.

Now that barch is more or less ineffective, Ive started to use a 24 loon 60 minion army in efforts to get 2+ storages and the th on full loot 10s. It seems to be an effective strategy, the only downside being the training time at around 45 min. The cost at 100k pink isn't all too bad if you take into account the loot bonus and you just have to get around 50k pink to break even or make small elixir gains. So, while this seems to have a lot of potential success, I do have one question. Should I take out some minions and use a hound to give a little protection? It takes away from the minions who actually get the loot but enables the army to go deeper into the base. Thoughts? (De cost is no problem to me).