ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇsᴛ sᴛʀᴀᴛᴇɢʏ ғᴏʀ ᴀɴ ᴛʜ8 ᴀɴᴛɪ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ

[tyler4]

Basically a TH8 anti 3 star base. They are out there. They have multiple double gb locations and often all their spring traps are set up very well in between defenses on the outer perimeter area. Even a center tesla farm. Not saying you cant get around these with hogs, but once they start making their base this way it opens them up for other attack styles

And I agree with the other part of your post - people need to do their own thing. I emphasize this to my clanmates. If they have an idea they can run it by me beforehand, but often I will let them try what they want and then give them guidance afterwards. Free will and stuff. I like to think i have a very good eye for if something will work out of not, but I love being shown otherwise by my clanmates

That's a spread base, not an anti three star base. A base that spread out given th8s offense to defense ratio will just get shredded by noobs spamming gowipes and mass dragons every war.

[tyler4]

Not arguing with you dude, the difference between 43 and 45 hogs is nil. Realistically, anything over 35 is overkill, it's just personal flavor after that.

The difference in hog strength is near nil, but there's a HUGE difference in recoverabilitybetween mine and yours. Yours can get beaten with outside giant bombs, or if you spread your two poisons on the dragons just too much trying to get an exposed skeleton trap and barely miss killing the dragon when he gets back in.. I can't think of any cases where I'd want the extra two hogs but I can think of lots of ways a smart player can salvage a raid with the extra ten spaces I mentioned. Forcing the hog split on clean up is huge.

[Kaizer27]

Like Jake from Onehive said every th 8 base can be Goho.

[Yolksters17]

Like Jake from Onehive said every th 8 base can be Goho.

Exactly why TH8's with max defenses should be doing everything they can to defend the hog attack while still remaining strong against air - tesla farms, double gb locations, centered clan castle, well placed spring traps INSIDE the base, airdefenses in a triangle within range of one another preferrably (defending air while maintaining a good anti hog base is going to be the hardest part)

[TehOcelot]

The difference in hog strength is near nil, but there's a HUGE difference in recoverabilitybetween mine and yours. Yours can get beaten with outside giant bombs, or if you spread your two poisons on the dragons just too much trying to get an exposed skeleton trap and barely miss killing the dragon when he gets back in.. I can't think of any cases where I'd want the extra two hogs but I can think of lots of ways a smart player can salvage a raid with the extra ten spaces I mentioned. Forcing the hog split on clean up is huge.

As you like dude. Like I said, not arguing.

[Lunaticfringe]

Basically a TH8 anti 3 star base. They are out there. They have multiple double gb locations and often all their spring traps are set up very well in between defenses on the outer perimeter area. Even a center tesla farm. Not saying you cant get around these with hogs, but once they start making their base this way it opens them up for other attack styles

In my mind, the hardest part about an anti 3* TH8 war base is just pulling the CC. Once you get by that, the rest of the base is often fairly easy, as point DPS is often very low (the base is so spread out) and surgical often works around DGB anyways. Further, if you are stuck on 1 or 2 finger drop, it's often easy to pop DGBs one at a time as well...

What can I say? I'm a hog guy all the way at TH8... :eek:

That's a spread base, not an anti three star base. A base that spread out given th8s offense to defense ratio will just get shredded by noobs spamming gowipes and mass dragons every war.

Funny you say this..that's EXACTLY how I feel about many "anti 3*" bases.

Per further thought, I'm not even sure I can appropriately define what an anti TH8 3* war base is in the first place...

[Yolksters17]

In my mind, the hardest part about an anti 3* TH8 war base is just pulling the CC. Once you get by that, the rest of the base is often fairly easy, as point DPS is often very low (the base is so spread out) and surgical often works around DGB anyways. Further, if you are stuck on 1 or 2 finger drop, it's often easy to pop DGBs one at a time as well...

What can I say? I'm a hog guy all the way at TH8... :eek:

I didnt even upgrade my drags until I was max TH9. I hogged through TH7/8/and 9. I'm still using them in successful 3 star raids at TH10 too.

If a TH8 attacker is that skilled with hogs, good for them, they deserve the 3 stars. That wasn't the point I was trying to make. A hugeee majority of TH8 attackers are spammers/noobs. If we're talking about hardcore warring TH8's, I don't know what kind of base you expect to defend?? I will see if I can share one of our clans anti 3 th8 bases with you guys. You're right about the cc pull, it is the difference maker most of the time.

And obviously the term 'anti 3' is different between TH8 and 9... the offensive gap between the two th levels is astronomical...

[tyler4]

And obviously the term 'anti 3' is different between TH8 and 9... the offensive gap between the two th levels is astronomical...

Anti 3 doesn't fit at th8 at all. It refers to a type of th9 base that defends against the leading th9 three star strategies, but this day with the balance changes they're spread enough to be vulnerable to conventional two star attacks with backend troops. At th8,that means the base is falling to the two most common th8 attacks so anti 3 th8 makes no sense. What you mean to say is anti hog.