Ancient barracks could feature some form of troops from the ancient days of Earth, such as a Gladiator which would be like a barbarian but if attacked by defensive structures they would turn to attack that. Thief or rogue would go for loots like the goblin, but have the ability to need to be closer to some defensive buildings in order to be attacked and maybe be able to diffuse/disable bombs. Perhaps a mummy or Walking Corpse that would target defenses with its high amount of health but its greed would allow it to do double damage to resource buildings. Emperor or Pharaoh which would have a high amount of training costs and housing space but grants the ability to allow a fixed amount of troops to target a specific building (I am aware that that may or may not be ruled out but I think if the ability was given by a high cost troop it would be unique and interesting!), but alone have pretty high damage but not very much health, so like a witch/wizard combo but with authority (lol) but can use either ranged or melee, but ranged would have a limited amount of ammo per say until melee was a must, (ammo is a maybe as that could be hard to code into the game). Finally the slave, as crude as it sounds you must remember it's based upon ancient times with morality of such nature was viewed upon as accepted or normal, but the slave would be like a shield that could possibly take a hit or two from a defensive building in place of a more powerful or more vulnerable troop. Or instead of the slave and instead of the Emperor/Pharaoh having ranged, just make a spear throwing class, I cannot remember what they were called back then, perhaps a tribesman or Ancient Archer could work.
This was literally just an idea made up this in hopes to bring in a whole new stage of the game. Though I think you would have to level up your Town hall to level 11 which would unlock all three of required buildings: Ancient Elixir Storage, Ancient Elixir drill, and Ancient Barracks. Or town hall level 12 for the drill as was down similar with the dark elixir. Then I thought, why not make Ancient Heroes? Such as Hercules, Pericles, Batman (just kidding ), The Scorpion King or such a reference for laughs but actually be useful, and others. One thing in general I think the game could use is a boost in material which would be a laugh or smile to your face by reference but actually be a part of the game; such things could be event/real life time based heroes such as cupid, Santa, The Grinch, Death or the Headless Horseman. I dunno perhaps just spice the game up a bit, so when you log on and instead of frowning at the remaining upgrade times you got, you maybe laugh or smile at your villagers being dorks or your Headless Horseman hero tossing his head around with the villagers or just juggling it with other pumpkins?
Sorry I kinda went on a rant there so I stopped, not sure if any of my rant is ruled out, sorry if it is I'm still very new to the forums and LOVE the game thus far and am merely trying to perhaps up ratings and maybe profits of the company. I know that people don't mind spending money on things they enjoy, and if you guys could make it that much more enjoyable I bet more people would start playing, pick back up playing, or easily continue playing this awesome game that I would love to see hit #1 spot in top free games in the Google-play store.
All positive feedback is appreciated and thanked! Let's help CoC by SuperCell rocket sky high through the charts!!!!!