A Great Way to Defend Against Hogs?

[zachUVA]

You can lure any CC with a couple of hogs so at that point as long as it can't be lightning'd what does it matter? You could have moldy potatoes in there.

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense at all.

[BonbeeTyrael]

You have a greater chance using 25 barbs or archers, with a single balloon. Barbs would be better as they walk slower, so the attacker would need to waste more time to lure them out. The single balloon would be there for the minuscule chance the two do meet and the balloon has enough time to throw a bomb. 4 balloons and 5 minions would be lured out too easily, once everything is out of your castle, your chances of winning drop. Most wins are because the attacker lures outs 20+ troops thinking that that is all of them, they drop hogs and the final few come out and keep attacking the hogs.

You don't want Barbs or Archers though. Any decent attacker would carry a lightning.

[BonbeeTyrael]

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense at all.

I'll try to rephrase that...Any CC can be lured. All you can do is make it as hard as possible. Once the cc is lured it's just a matter of how long it takes to remove all the CC troops and Heroes from the equation. Any decent attacker would lure and dispatch a CC full or wizard, balloons, a dragon, or anything. Meaning that if the attacker is smart enough to lure balloons, he's gonna lure and kill anything you have in there. Hence you could have potatoes in there.

[Benny101]

I'll try to rephrase that...Any CC can be lured. All you can do is make it as hard as possible. Once the cc is lured it's just a matter of how long it takes to remove all the CC troops and Heroes from the equation. Any decent attacker would lure and dispatch a CC full or wizard, balloons, a dragon, or anything. Meaning that if the attacker is smart enough to lure balloons, he's gonna lure and kill anything you have in there. Hence you could have potatoes in there.

Are you saying you can kill potatoes? I will never eat one again. The horror of knowing I have cooked so many alive...

[BonbeeTyrael]

Are you saying you can kill potatoes? I will never eat one again. The horror of knowing I have cooked so many alive...

I have yet to see little brown spuds rolling out of the thousands of clan castles I have lured....but you never know...

[facescraper]

Balloons are too slow though to keep up with them...

[BonbeeTyrael]

Balloons are too slow though to keep up with them...

Already been addressed like 30 times since noone reads anyways.

What you need to have is a design that funnels them to one spot near the center that balloons can reach to get one hit off.

The splash damage from one balloon can kill 30 hogs in one hit if you can funnel them properly.

[mavios]

Balloons are too slow though to keep up with them...

Hogs take time to kill defenses and balloons can catchup with them there. I had a defense won by this tactic two days ago. Also a clan mate had the same. In his hogs were more spread and balloon managed to kill them

A video of my defense

[BonbeeTyrael]

Hogs take time to kill defenses and balloons can catchup with them there. I had a defense won by this tactic two days ago. Also a clan mate had the same. In his hogs were more spread and balloon managed to kill them

Will share a video of my defense soon

One of my dozens of "non-public" designs can actually hold 40 hogs in a small enough area for long enough should the balloons not be lured and killed(cc in this design is difficult to lure but can be done with a few hogs or giants).

I'll share the design after work. I'll be back in a few hours.

I just ask that you all keep an open mind to trying to find a way to make 2 balloons supplementing the clan castle work at dispatching many hogs at once via more splash damage per hit than hogs have health.

[facescraper]

Interesting. The downfall to having the balloons in the CC is they're pretty useless on any other kind of attack though.