The Cogwheel - TH9 Anti Hog/Balloonian Farming Base

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Dragon DEf ?

[ItsToka]

Dragon DEf ?

I have a video of one earlier in this thread.

[Boogie7910]

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.

Why are your heroes next to the th?

[moonsabre]

I think the version I use is probably the best suited version from Gold 2 to Crystal 3 maybe higher, I'm still working on creeping up in cups. Since maxing defenses people have just hit a brick wall with it.

Then of course sometimes the brick wall hits you back 5 minutes later when you go offline

Very nice results! I'm glad your modifications on the base worked out really nicely there!

froze my xbows. this was not stopping his outcome. got 1 gold storage and 2 elixir...

Great results, that freeze has been my trickiest issue to deal with. I tried out a 3x3 core but it made rushing the base much easier.

Dragon DEf ?

Check out a few pages ago for some discussion about it.

Why are your heroes next to the th?

Two reasons. They are upgrading, I prefer to have gold mines in their place as a higher HP building that can't be lightninged for additional percentage. I also prefer to farm with them rather than killed on defence so they are asleep if they are not upgrading unless I'm logging out for 3+ hours. Otherwise, I would just switch it with the gold mines.

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I've moved up to TH10 due to no longer having any other gold upgrades and taking a bit of a break from the game so sadly won't be able to test any other iterations of the base, thanks to all of the feedback, suggestions, tips, videos, etc. It's truly appreciated! I think I ran through at least a few dozen alterations to the base. The only suggestion I have is to tweak, alter, test, test some more, etc. Good luck, have fun and happy farming!

[InspiredSkye]

Moon, sorry to go off the subject but, how long did it take to you to get all those level 10 walls? I've almost finished my legos and I would love to get lavas, I just don't know if I still have the strength to do that. I should farm more than my actual amount of gold grab :S Did you also spend some money to get them of just farmed them?

[moonsabre]

Moon, sorry to go off the subject but, how long did it take to you to get all those level 10 walls? I've almost finished my legos and I would love to get lavas, I just don't know if I still have the strength to do that. I should farm more than my actual amount of gold grab :S Did you also spend some money to get them of just farmed them?

I've been TH9 since this January and just left a builder open for walls or always made sure there was 12 hours before the next builder was done. Everything is fully farmed (almost at 1.6 billion gg) although I would buy a $5 pack every 2 months or so to boost a barrack with loons if I had a shorter amount of time to play and/or I needed the last 20-30K of DE for a hero upgrade. After a hero upgrade, I would spend DE quite a bit on my armies for raiding efficiency though.

I lived in G2 G1 for gold farming using BAM for a long time. It's basically the only thing I use down there unless I have no need for DE and want to focus more on storages, then I switch out minions for hogs instead. Even though they have been nerfed a lot, 14 hogs (how many are queue with barch) helps clear out pretty much half the base for TH9 to get storages.

I really love champ farming but it requires way too much boosting of spell factory and one barrack for me to make it worthwhile with loons. I also could not sustain the trophies without my heroes. M2 farming with loons is quite nice as well. I guess it just depends on how much time you have to raid and if you have to save up gold or not. Personally, my armies are:

• G1/G2 (preferred ranged) - 2 barracks barb, 2 barracks arch, 1 barrack minions (just watch the number of them not to get too high as I don't use them in all raids)
• G1-C2 - storage raids, 2 barracks barb, 2 barracks arch, 10 minions, 2 barracks hogs (don't use in all raids, I let them queue to the max of 24 for deeper storage raids)
• C2 - M3 - loon farming, 16 loons, rest minions or 20 loons, 50 minions.
• M3-champ - 20-24 loons (more loons if heroes are asleep/upgrading), rest minions.

[InspiredSkye]

Thanks for all the tips, mate. I've been farming in Crystal2 in the last month using BARCH army with few wallbreakers, 2 healing and 2 rage spells (which of course I rarely use). Is the loot in Gold2 that good? I farmed there when I was TH8, I have no idea how could it be for a TH9. Besides, I think I'll stay TH9 a bit more just to upgrade my heroes which are quite low at the moment (both level 10) and I'll take advantage of this trying to make some lava blocks, probably just the core. I always went easy with the game, never been in a hurry to rush my town hall, always upgraded it without a single upgrade left, but now... now I really fell the need to get those infernos. Furthermore, legos completely dained my strength, I started making from 8 to 12 blocks a day, but now it starts to be hard even making half of them. I guess I really need some relax.

[ItsToka]

I've moved up to TH10 due to no longer having any other gold upgrades and taking a bit of a break from the game so sadly won't be able to test any other iterations of the base, thanks to all of the feedback, suggestions, tips, videos, etc. It's truly appreciated! I think I ran through at least a few dozen alterations to the base. The only suggestion I have is to tweak, alter, test, test some more, etc. Good luck, have fun and happy farming!

Congrats on the upgrade, we'll keep the original base intent alive!

[moonsabre]

Thanks for all the tips, mate. I've been farming in Crystal2 in the last month using BARCH army with few wallbreakers, 2 healing and 2 rage spells (which of course I rarely use). Is the loot in Gold2 that good? I farmed there when I was TH8, I have no idea how could it be for a TH9. Besides, I think I'll stay TH9 a bit more just to upgrade my heroes which are quite low at the moment (both level 10) and I'll take advantage of this trying to make some lava blocks, probably just the core. I always went easy with the game, never been in a hurry to rush my town hall, always upgraded it without a single upgrade left, but now... now I really fell the need to get those infernos. Furthermore, legos completely dained my strength, I started making from 8 to 12 blocks a day, but now it starts to be hard even making half of them. I guess I really need some relax.

I completely know what you mean, when I was done all of my def upgrades, what I ended up doing was just keeping about 20 lego walls while working on my lavas. This way, if the loot was bad in the range I was in for the day, I wouldn't stress about having 2.x million gold in the storages and could just upgrade a lego rather than a lava. Having below that 1.6m gold in the storages made them look visually empty and made me feel comfortable to log off than any amount above it. Any amount above 1.6, I would try to keep raiding to get to 3.5m (500K just for nexting just in case). I had planned to upgrade to TH10 and planned 2.5 lavas a day in M3. Dropping to G2 again in the last few days prior to the TH10 upgrade netted a lot more lavas a day just in part due to easier bases and not requiring boosting.

I would just mostly farm/push up 2 days before a hero upgrade and then bam/barch all the way back down to quickly get the DE I need for the hero upgrade and let the walls come as they may. It's just a bit boring farming in gold leagues (at least for me) although much more profitable in terms of time. I think if you're already farming in C2, it's not a bad thing to move up once you get the core done. I know most of my raids up higher are Th9/TH10 anyways so it wouldn't really hurt me much if I had moved up earlier. I lost a lot of builder time finishing up the walls.

Congrats on the upgrade, we'll keep the original base intent alive!

Thanks! I leave it all in all of your hands! Good luck!

[epicardial]

My war base, inspired by the Cog design:http://imgur.com/YHMPFdz

for or some reason hogs cant seem to beat it yet and i shut down back to back drag attacks as stated earlier. I opened up the middle layer to allow giants and Golems to go in a full circle unless wb get through of course which hasn't happened yet. It drives heroes crazy because they NEVER seem to go to the core, always distracted. Kinda like mine when i attack

Gentlemen,

I love this base. I have been using it for quite sometime including the war base.

We ended our last war last night, and I got wrecked 100% with 47 hogs (th 10)
They attacked me once. It was enough It was not pretty.
While I expected more of a GoWiWi or GoWiPe type of attacks, this clan we faced was 99% hoggers. Who knew

I took one for the team we won the war nonetheless.

Anyway, keep working on it --- great things going here --- appreciate all the hard work that goes into making this base.

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