The Cogwheel - TH9 Anti Hog/Balloonian Farming Base

[ItsToka]

Hey bud! I was just playing around with the design most of yesterday so I'm not 100% sure when you saw it

Ignore the position of my small bombs though as I didn't get a chance to move them yet from a prior iteration:



I'm unsure if I wanted to keep the spring traps at the funnels or in the corners. Watching some of the prior videos, I keep seeing most entering from the corners and "avoiding" the funnels as the entry point. With 8 points to cover though, I just picked the corners/funnels I see most of the attacks coming from. It's all theory at the moment, no replays other than snipes to share.

Which way do you see most attacks coming from in the Golds? Through the funnels or trying to WB the closed corner sections? If you see a lot of Barch or BAM attacks through the funnels would it be a good idea to swap Gold and Elixir positions to put the Gold further out of reach? Or do you like keeping the gold within reach of 2 ADs to dissuade flying poachers?

[moonsabre]

Which way do you see most attacks coming from in the Golds? Through the funnels or trying to WB the closed corner sections? If you see a lot of Barch or BAM attacks through the funnels would it be a good idea to swap Gold and Elixir positions to put the Gold further out of reach? Or do you like keeping the gold within reach of 2 ADs to dissuade flying poachers?

I've been seeing a lot more attacks from the bottom right side or directly from the town hall into the corner. It's a great catch to bring up the swapping of the elixir and gold storages. I had switched the funnels around without considering the individual storage locations, really nice thinking there, I would definitely make that change. Thanks for the feedback!

[Fanganatar]

Hey moon! I really like this base setup, your first one worked well for me! however, your most recent one the attacker started from top right, where I didnt have any giant bombs, and managed to take all 4 storages and de 391k gold and elixar plus 2k de *sigh* well i did have 2 mortars upgrading, and he used giants w/ barbs and archers and wizzies and heros went to work once they went in (im in crystal 3) I'm thinking closed funneling might be better, so I'm going to try that ~ what clan are you in too!! I want to check on your base! (lol i stalk your base )

[moonsabre]

Hey moon! I really like this base setup, your first one worked well for me! however, your most recent one the attacker started from top right, where I didnt have any giant bombs, and managed to take all 4 storages and de 391k gold and elixar plus 2k de *sigh* well i did have 2 mortars upgrading, and he used giants w/ barbs and archers and wizzies and heros went to work once they went in (im in crystal 3) I'm thinking closed funneling might be better, so I'm going to try that ~ what clan are you in too!! I want to check on your base! (lol i stalk your base )

Hey Fang! Sorry to hear of the loss, it's one of those all or nothing type of situations, sorry to see this time it was an "all", I definitely find that this base has some issues with giant/wiz, something that worked very well for me to deal with that was to take out the "middle" building in the storages, move it up one and put a giant bomb between the storages.

You'll normally lose that storage but the giants won't trigger it as they'll go down the defensive line. The only downside is that it does weaken your base to hogs.

One thing I do find is that a larger core with the storages spread out can help as well.

I have all my walls done to level 10 so switching out to a trophy version, I've had one attack already and I do think that closed funneling can be a bit better if you have stronger walls. I think it helps dissuade attackers and slows down those barch attackers a bit.

I'm currently in the clan nFamous if you want to stalk my base , no real upgrades, just will keep tweaking or changing the base at the moment until I find something a configuration that I like.

[bog3nator]

hey moon, after last attack i switched to the version with no funnels. i had someone clear out one compartment then drop a aq and walked right in and took more storages.

more walls = more shooting them for that aq who loves them

[HTK22]

hey moon, i checked out your base in nfamous and i love to give that a try, is it possible for u to post it up with tesla and traps placement? thx=)

[mmmk604]

Hey Moon,

I'm considering trying out your base. I've been using the Ringus since the beginning of TH9.
How would you compare your base to it?

Any comments are appreciated.

[moonsabre]

hey moon, after last attack i switched to the version with no funnels. i had someone clear out one compartment then drop a aq and walked right in and took more storages.

more walls = more shooting them for that aq who loves them

I agree! It definitely helps tremendously to have that extra layer of walls. That extra layer of walls in M3 saved a 50% and a few storages from an AQ as well in a recent attack.

hey moon, i checked out your base in nfamous and i love to give that a try, is it possible for u to post it up with tesla and traps placement? thx=)

I originally had the town hall and teslas swapped but followed suit of phamily shuck's vid and choice between TH and DE on opposite ends.

Last 3 defences since the change to a trophy base:



Note for the last one, I had no CC troops (not like it would matter too much). Barch could easily get the 50%. The second one, I had CC troops and the player took out traps. The last player that got the 45% had less traps to deal with, 4 bombs in the storage layer took out wizards.

[HTK22]

thx for the reply moon=). will try out your trophy base for war and place th outside for my farming base..hehe

[moonsabre]

thx for the reply moon=). will try out your trophy base for war and place th outside for my farming base..hehe

Hmm for war, I probably would change quite a few things and not have things like the DE storage in the core with BK and change around the storages too. I have no idea though as I haven't done a war yet It is a base that will get stomped by gowipe/gowiwi without more alterations to have bombs in the trash layer or storage layers. I may even move an AD or two into the core. I dunno, just thinking out loud for someone that has not done a war yet.