Also note that the OP mentioned something about how minions add "multiple dimensions" (or something to that effect) to your raid. His example -- which I can verify is absolutely true -- is when you have a WT shooting at archers or barbs on the ground, it cannot hit any minions attacking from the sky. So when you've got a WT that needs to be cleared really quickly, you do this "multi dimension" attack with both ground & air troops.
And the more you farm DE, the more you'll realize that minions can sometimes save what would otherwise be a totally failed attack. The mortars might've crushed all your barch already and there are still walls standing in your way, but even a couple minions will sometimes fly right over all that and drop those weird little black turds on the DE store!






