Do you think air troops will ever be useful again?

[ryskew]

Instead of adding another air defence, I'm sure supercell could have tweaked the dragons damage and hit points. Because of those, we now have practically no use for balloons and even the last stand attack or whatever it is called is pretty much useless. I'd love air troops to have some sort of superiority in battle but they just don't. There's no point in using them.

The only hope I can think of fixing it is to lower the health of dragons slightly and air defences by a large, but still, that wouldn't seem to work too well. I think air troops are unbalanced to the point where the game would be better off if all troops were ground troops.

If you do still use balloons since the recent added air defence, can you tell me your strategy?

[Swetelizzie]

I have a lot of fun when I wake up in the morning with 39 lvl 5 balloons and 5 goblins. I used to drop in groups as close to air defense as possible. Air bombs and air mines were devastating. So now I deploy in curtains or waves. Drop the goblins and hamburger king behind them to clean up the resources.... Only fail was when I didn't see an Archer queen... Archers in the castle die from splash damage or the king...

[ryskew]

I have a lot of fun when I wake up in the morning with 39 lvl 5 balloons and 5 goblins. I used to drop in groups as close to air defense as possible. Air bombs and air mines were devastating. So now I deploy in curtains or waves. Drop the goblins and hamburger king behind them to clean up the resources.... Only fail was when I didn't see an Archer queen... Archers in the castle die from splash damage or the king...

Balloons in general just don't seem to good to me. I've been attacked by over 30 before with two air defences down and they didn't make a scratch on my village. Just a shame to see people wasting so much elixir.

[Swetelizzie]

I have oodles of elixir and nothing to spend it on except having fun.... I never aim for a base with air defense that is not easily reachable. And I aim for bases with high gold... sometimes all pekka, sometimes all wizards, sometimes few giants and all healers.... Build it during sleep or work.

[dahimi]

Instead of adding another air defence, I'm sure supercell could have tweaked the dragons damage and hit points. Because of those, we now have practically no use for balloons and even the last stand attack or whatever it is called is pretty much useless. I'd love air troops to have some sort of superiority in battle but they just don't. There's no point in using them.

The only hope I can think of fixing it is to lower the health of dragons slightly and air defences by a large, but still, that wouldn't seem to work too well. I think air troops are unbalanced to the point where the game would be better off if all troops were ground troops.

If you do still use balloons since the recent added air defence, can you tell me your strategy?

Yes. This game goes through cycles. They buff defense then they buff offense. We are now in a "defense" cycle. My guess is, though, that they will release a powerful DE based flying troop.

[ryskew]

I have oodles of elixir and nothing to spend it on except having fun.... I never aim for a base with air defense that is not easily reachable. And I aim for bases with high gold... sometimes all pekka, sometimes all wizards, sometimes few giants and all healers.... Build it during sleep or work.

Yeah I've done the same with pekka and wizards, but I must admit balloons wouldn't be my choice of unit for messing about with.

[Sandalhat]

I still train mass dragon army when my elixir storages are full.

And you won't believe how often i manage to find great loot with lousy AD.

[silentwill]

I'm training mass dragons now. Yep there still are a lot of bases with low level AD's on the side or even outside the walls.