Thought I'd put my base out there for people to look at, before I change it around more... Some basic info before you get too carried away:
- I'm currently at Crystal III, aiming to push to Cystal II - reason being simply that my troop upgrades will take longer than all my remaining base upgrades, so I want to have some fun improving my raiding skills (endless farming has always bored me, especially against weak bases, and I can find loot aplenty in Crystal).
- I play twice a day - generally one or more raids in the morning, then a solid block in the evening. Typically, my first raid will be a set of heavies (e.g. something from pekka2, dragon2, golem1, wiz5, with support), then after that I switch to faster brewing armies (e.g. giant5, wb5, minion3, archer5).
- My clan castle is generally full or archers around level 5, sometimes wizards 4-5, the occasional witch2 or dragon2-4.
- My King is not in the picture, maybe because it was an air attack, or I left him asleep so I could be sure of raiding straight away later that day... anyway, he's level 9.
- The intention of my design is not to win cups on defense, but to get 1-starred, twice a day, on average. So I don't want raids that hit me for < 40%, and hopefully very few hit me for 100% (except the odd crazy who doesn't mind using an army that costs three times what they can get out of my base - can't do much about that!) I can easily gain trophies through raiding (e.g. yesterday I went from 1870, to 2001, making back all the losses from farming the day before as well as my first 3-star loss).
- The air def that's getting upgraded, would normally be on the inside ring, swapped with the cannon.
I do not skimp on traps - I keep my spring traps refreshed, I do have three large bombs (placed way out to catch witches, mainly), I have air balloon and de balloons mostly central, and my tessla are in pretty obvious places (well, I think so).
So far, I think my design has held up well... While I've tinkered with it over the last two weeks, and had different pieces upgrading, roughly speaking it's been attacked about 20 times as follows:
- a single 3-star loss (as shown in the picture below - 10 dragons, 4 rage spells haha)
- two wins where I got no sheild and they stole some resource
- six wins where I did get a shield (some of these attacks included lots of heavy hitters like wizards, dragons etc - funny for me)
- the rest are a mix of 1 and 2-star losses (some of these attacks included heavy hitters like wizards, dragons, witches, but many were simple tier-1 troops that got around 60%)
Going forward, I intend to slowly max out my defenses (no more than 3 at a time), get my barracks up a little more (to make building bigger armies a little faster), max out my collectors, build a 3rd gold store, and max out my king and troops (except dark troops - will definitely keep doing minions, golem last if possible to get that much de). I do skull walls when I'm fosusing on collecting elixer and/or de, so I'm not hoarding too much of all 3 resources which makes everyone attack me on sight.
As an interesting side-note, every attack on me has come from a TH9 or TH10, with level 6 archers, barbs, etc.; almost always usually their king and queen come and join the party. No TH8 has tried to get me yet.
Questions, comments, suggestions etc most welcome. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by vinnyXo
