Minions or Archers - Which one is better? (part deux with video)

[RuthlessBarbarian]

Yes! I just created new thread to an existing... thus part deux.

Original discussion - http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ons-or-Archers

I was convinced that archers are better due to cost, production time and general abuse of the most popular troop. However, after discussing with my friends and taking into consideration all pro et contra like dark elixir availability, second DE barrack, air vs ground offence etc, I've decided to just do a "dummy" test battle or two, to see how these two are stacking against each other.

Again, this is just a simple and non scientific approach - full camps, same battle map and the same attack strategy. As simple as that! The reason these two are compared is because Archers are the most popular and Minions are the most accessible DE troops. Therefore I am comparing level 5 archers to level 4 Minions.

This test turned into something bigger than a two raid comparison, but I am glad I did it and now am convinced that Minions are in fact better than Archers. I am also convinced that air attacks are at this point better than ground, so in a way this isn't just about Archers vs. Minions but overall air vs ground troops. Do I need to mention Teslas vs Pekka's and dragons now having splash damage?

Anyway, check out video below and share your opinion.



WARNING: Farmers may suffer medical condition after watching a complete waste of so much DE.

[Butterflying]

Minions may be better, but like you said the DE cost is fairly high for one raid and one air bomb can ♥♥♥♥ a few bunched minions. Personally I only use 2 minions every raid and I use 50 archers, this may be because my archers are lvl 5 and minions are 1

[Daddy]

Hey Alex - awesome to see you doing great vids, keep it up mate, liked and subscribed!

[Ltnixon]

This was entertaining for me, Nice job, Mate!

[Junliang]

The issue with minion is...



Credits to Hannibal for video.

[Ltnixon]

Did that Air Bomb just take out a line of minions that stretched out of it's "range"?!

[Junliang]

Did that Air Bomb just take out a line of minions that stretched out of it's "range"?!

Air bomb has a range of 5 tiles.
There was 2 air bombs.

[motionsickness]

The issue with minion is...



Credits to Hannibal for video.

...and only costs you 4k a pop as oppose to the giant bomb which basically does the same thing yet sets you back 50k. Been trying to point this out in my previous thread. http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ant-Bombs-Cost

[Junliang]

...and only costs you 4k a pop as oppose to the giant bomb which basically does the same thing yet sets you back 50k. Been trying to point this out in my previous thread. http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ant-Bombs-Cost

If you look at it in this manner, air bombs are only useful against minions, and are useless against healers and dragons.
However, giant bomb is useful against barb, arch, gobs, wiz, wall breaker, mr t.

[Daddy]

surely it would be better to simply deploy a couple minneons to trigger the air bomb and then in with the swarm?