Town Hall 10 opinions only - Skeleton traps, most OP thing defense in the game?

[Benson822175]

"Please, my Wizards double clutch their fireball more than Derrick Rose. "
Personally, the skeletons dont bother me much (6-12) but partially it is because I use air raids. However, when I do use ground attacks, they do not appear to be as disruptive as many on the forum claim

[Gama321]

everyone was complaining that offense was op, so they gave a mortar and a really good trap to help balance it

[TheConfuzed1]

No... Defense needed a buff. They hardly get in my way, but they have tripped me up a couple times, and that is needed.

[Naz]

i agree, but SC has made it extremely one dimensional, GOWIPE or go home.

I guess you could balloonian, but lets be real here, you need level 40 Heroes.

Inb4, "but i got to champs without 40 heroes."

Great, i don't care. You spent obsessive amounts of time on COC or got very lucky.

I get loonion'd as much as i get gowiwipe'd...i even get barch'd....i barched to champ and still do with the occasional gowiwipe (if i can afford it with this bad loot lol)
My heroes were lvl 15 when i got champ...now 25... If you cant 1 star any base at your lvl you need to join a high lvl clan (which i did for a few weeks) and learn some new/different things. It helped me a great deal.
I dont have max golem or pekka (both4)but there still isn't many bases i cant at least 1 star.

[Naz]

everyone was complaining that offense was op, so they gave a mortar and a really good trap to help balance it

Dont ever think the mortar was for that reason...it was solely to stop ppl barching at lower leagues....making ppl think about stopping with barch and getting in to new troop combos hoping they may gem a little instead of farm 24/7 lol

[daz258]

everyone was complaining that offense was op, so they gave a mortar and a really good trap to help balance it

Such a naive reply.

If you read more carefully, the complaint is with poor AI.

A weak little skeleton should not warrant troops over 5 tiles a way trying to hunt them down. They have zero impact on the troops 5 tiles away; so why are these troops getting pulled into the range of more defenses to kill it?

Extra mortar is a direct response to lv 7 barbs and archers. It has next to no impact on combinations like GoWiPe, Mass Dragon, Mass Hogs or Loonion.

[Shay]

I think skeletons were added to try and convince people to do more air raids, ala Lava Hounds. Ground combat became difficult enough when heroes were no longer able to be used and now the 4th mortar.

Now, it seems as if (someone said this earlier) SC (i'm really starting to hate them) is trying force people into GOWIPE type or air raids. Either way I only log in to collect pumps...and now that video game consoles have more games available, I see myself doing away with COC all together.

They don't really change the outcome ie win/lose...but drawing all troops attention is stupid...but what did we expect...it's Supercell.

[daz258]

I think skeletons were added to try and convince people to do more air raids, ala Lava Hounds. Ground combat became difficult enough when heroes were no longer able to be used and now the 4th mortar.

Now, it seems as if (someone said this earlier) SC (i'm really starting to hate them) is trying force people into GOWIPE type or air raids. Either way I only log in to collect pumps...and now that video game consoles have more games available, I see myself doing away with COC all together.

Personally I don't think there is a shortage of air raids, A LOT of clashers use the balloon / minion tactic to get 1 star wins [with the occasional 2 depending on hall placement] in Masters / Champion leagues.

[kittehhoard]

Look. They are actually VERY useful on offense! Since most are put in the core of the base, they can drag your troops right to the center and defile the base from the center. I do it all the time!

[IamNSC]

Look. They are actually VERY useful on offense! Since most are put in the core of the base, they can drag your troops right to the center and defile the base from the center. I do it all the time!

I think the problem is when you have your AQ going for the 2 star and 12 skeletons come rushing at your AQ. Thats not very good.

For me i'm okay with them on ground attacks, but on air attacks, if your minions cannot catch up with your balloons, usually the skeletons will end your raid early. Not a problem if you're warring for 2 stars or one star then using hero to snipe, but more of a problem for 3 stars.