Air Bombs in War

[PrinceBlank]

I just wanted to briefly go over air bombs. I see a lot of people spread these out... one on each side of the base, etc. This is not as effective as grouping them together. If you are being attacked with Loonion or Lavaloonion, the balloons will take out the air bombs before they touch the minions anyway. Also, for town hall 8s being attacked by dragons, its more important to lower the DPS of the dragon attack ASAP. Therefore, slightly injuring 4 different dragons is less effective than severely injuring 1 dragon.

However, if you group these air bombs all into one spot, they can effectively take out a large chunk of balloons.

One example of an effective way to use this to your advantage in a scenario like so: You have a cannon at the edge of your base followed by an air defense on the second layer. An attacker assumes they can send in loons to bounce from the cannon and then take out the air d and effectively eliminate one air d so that they can deploy their dragons. After they deploy there balloons all 4 air bombs hit them all at once. Because of this, there strategy is ruined.

Just wanted to share this idea because I see a lot of people who don't really think about it. What are your thoughts?


Edit: This strategy is not suggesting you put them on the outskirts of the base. Its suggesting you put them a little deeper where balloons will group. i.e. Not one minion or 1 balloon could be sent in to deploy them all.

[somethingtofill]

If you put them all in one spot it works only when the air units actually goes over that spot.

[Yoyobuae]

May work great on the first attack on your base, but then any following attacks will know where most/all of the air bombs are (assuming war attacks).

[Johno]

May work great on the first attack on your base, but then any following attacks will know where most/all of the air bombs are (assuming war attacks).

Exactly this, 1 Balloon or 1 Minion or a Drag = bye bye air bombs

[ReeceJ94]

agree with johno, 1 minion and boom all air traps wasted. what i do with mine is put them in the 4 corners of my centered dark storage. that way they all work together as you suggest but one troop wont trigger them all. the amount of times people think they have my dark with minions then they get wiped from the map cracks me up everytime 😂.

[PrinceBlank]

Exactly this, 1 Balloon or 1 Minion or a Drag = bye bye air bombs

That assumes you are incapable of placing them intelligently. I'm not saying you group them up at the very edge of the base. I'm saying you group them in the second level area where balloons will group.

[PrinceBlank]

agree with johno, 1 minion and boom all air traps wasted. what i do with mine is put them in the 4 corners of my centered dark storage. that way they all work together as you suggest but one troop wont trigger them all. the amount of times people think they have my dark with minions then they get wiped from the map cracks me up everytime 😂.

Yeah definitely a great idea for a farming base. I was mainly talking about war.

[chrispeterson]

that's why you have air mines...you have four at town hall 9 and if you actually upgraded them drags really don't do anything to you...or balloons

[PrinceBlank]

that's why you have air mines...you have four at town hall 9 and if you actually upgraded them drags really don't do anything to you...or balloons

I think you're missing the point of this thread. Dragons aren't a threat at th9 but balloons still are. Air bombs grouped together are actually more of a threat than seeking air mines because they damage every single balloon in the bunch not just one.

[chrispeterson]

I think you're missing the point of this thread. Dragons aren't a threat at th9 but balloons still are. Air bombs grouped together are actually more of a threat than seeking air mines because they damage every single balloon in the bunch not just one.

or they'll just hit a hound and you'll be out of air bombs. I personally wouldn't do this because of all the times I've seen it fail