More offense, less defense. Please!

[mudman76]

I have been playing for over a year now, level 96 so I think I have some experience to comment on the state of the game.

I am getting more and more frustrated with the fact that nearly every "enhancement" made to this game is about increasing defense and making it harder and harder to attack and win. As an example, a small addition like the skeleton traps completely changed the dynamics of attacking, especially in war and have now rendered some of the very few attack strategies that could get you 3 stars completely useless. Adding another mortar is another example.

- A level 5 hog attack on a level 8 town hall used to be a sure fire 3 star but now sometimes you won't even get 1.
- Why when you drop 5 PEKKAS do they end up all wandering around hitting the same stupid building? Can this not be tweaked so they aren't so bloody stupid?

Ask anyone alive who enjoys playing games ... what's more fun... offense or defense? A: OFFENSE!

Would be nice to see some improvements to the current set of troops before coming up with another awful idea like the lava hound.

[Spurs978]

Lava hound was a great addition to the game and offense is already more powerful than defense

[rwelshjr]

I think they were trying to make 3 star wins harder to obtain as a war enhancement.

If 3 stars is not hard so that anyone trying gets one then who wins a war is going to be based pretty much on which clan has more people show up. But if it is really hard to get 3 so that the result is a mix of 2 and 3 star attacks that is more competitive.

I hear you that the dynamic is changed. I did like getting 3 stars all the time, usually with troops left over. I still get them a lot but many are barely there. It has required an adjustment on my part. Actually I think my skills have improved a little because my margin for error was no longer there that I could afford any mistakes.

I also think we are all going to struggle with our current thinking (or at least I did with mine) that anything short of a 3 star is a fail. Although of course we still try for them I think we will have to learn to make more judgment calls on the results of first attacks and our strategies with the second attacks.

I will hold off on saying whether this is better or worse and only say it is different.

[Dread]

Lava hound was a great addition to the game and offense is already more powerful than defense

For a 1 starr of course, but when it comes to getting 3 stars, it's almost impossible

[sylveonzmushi]

Lava hound was a great addition to the game and offense is already more powerful than defense

^Your right.

Lava hound is a good offensive troop by soaking up damage while the balloons wreck the others. He is not useless. He is basically the air golem.