[Project] Let’s build a trap base

[rhymquimghyf]

Several questions:


Will an army of Gobs or Barbs coming from the top walk into the "funnel" to break open the wall?

Test it. Archers will step on the outermost bomb (tested), not sure what barbarians would do.

[966souchou]

Made a new one. Can you analyze it, then try it out after you're done with the other one?



Made it completely asymmetrical. Decorations will be placed randomly to enhance "noobie" look.

Noobie look:
- BK placed at opening to be "guardian", slightly childish
- random walls
- asymmetrical, messy design
- randomly placed decorations
- one-cell design
- splash towers and AD is not triangulated


Features:
- 6-spring trap-walkway between two defenses
- semi-clustered G. Bombs
- NE sieve separates Barb/Gobs and Giants
-resource ring with Wiz tower in center
-elix storage placed right by mortars

Filled collectors might be better to attract people even more to NE. Tesla positioning will also need to be tweaked a little. Probably won't do super-well, but I'd like to see.

[Inquisitor]

Alright this is my much beloved base - funneling style. It work extremely well against giants/hogs and hordes of goblins:

4 dragons and 60 minions will get most of your stuffs, attacking from the top.

[hastur]

Made a new one. Can you analyze it, then try it out after you're done with the other one?
Probably won't do super-well, but I'd like to see.

Have a think about someone attacking using any kind of air-based troop(s)... ouch!

[966souchou]

How about this one?

[rhymquimghyf]

Made a new one. Can you analyze it, then try it out after you're done with the other one?



Made it completely asymmetrical. Decorations will be placed randomly to enhance "noobie" look.

Noobie look:
- BK placed at opening to be "guardian", slightly childish
- random walls
- asymmetrical, messy design
- randomly placed decorations
- one-cell design
- splash towers and AD is not triangulated


Features:
- 6-spring trap-walkway between two defenses
- semi-clustered G. Bombs
- NE sieve separates Barb/Gobs and Giants
-resource ring with Wiz tower in center
-elix storage placed right by mortars

Filled collectors might be better to attract people even more to NE. Tesla positioning will also need to be tweaked a little. Probably won't do super-well, but I'd like to see.

You got the "messy" thing right, no doubts. It attracts weak opponents, good for the cups balance.

Other than that, I don't see it winning against lvl6 farming army.

I don't think that spring trap route will work, Giants don't like to turn if there are other routes available, and there is a nice short go around route on top.

Zigzag routes were never tested live, I was just playing around with different layouts in composer.
I don't see the benefits. I think single strip with grouping on both sides is pretty much guaranteed way to make 16-18 giants airborne. Also, takes less space.
Its more or less confirmed, I just haven't got attacked with enough Giants yet. The most I got was 12 raged giants, spring traps got them all.

Yes, strip is very obvious if done in the straight-forward manner.
But it can be placed between two compartments, or without walls in the center.

[rhymquimghyf]

Just an example


This is proven to work for giants coming from the bottom or the top, maybe we can use even less wall for shielding

This should work too



But complexity raises exponentially, if we want to use same traps for giants and hogs, and save some gold, using giant bombs only if we absolutely have to (after all spring traps were activated).

I think we should build something simple and rock-solid for the start, and build more complex designs on top of it after tests will be done. It's almost impossible to build something advanced with so little experience collected.

I'll try make my own design later today.

[Tobiathron]

Excellent thread, will have a good look at my own base design! It's dull in comparison!

[rhymquimghyf]

Updated the first post with the pic of the actual base that I used to test different bits and gather information that preceded the creation of this thread.

I wanted a base that yells "3-STAR ME", and succeeded, the attacks were almost instant.
Too bad the baiting thing didn't worked at all.

Have a good laugh

[966souchou]

Something like this?


Got rid of the zigzag strip, and protected random buildings.