Still farming hard on this base. Maxed th9 according to what this guide had me build. BK 16 and AQ 17. Full legos still put me right at the bottom of the th9's but above th8's so I decided to upgrade to full lavas. After that, I still placed in wars as bottom th9. With full lavas I'm usually the last base attacked (guess they are pretty intimidating) and it is rare to be 3*'d....usually just 2*'d. All troops maxed for th9 EXCEPT giants are L5, goblins are L3, healer is L2, dragon is L2 and valk is L2.
2 days ago I started my journey to th10.
All our th8's are now th9's and to keep our th10/th11 match-ups in check I started a defenseless account (yea, I know it's pointless cuz the whole 30% troop deployment for shield and what not). We do 10 man wars and I have 3 accts in every war. Th8.5 (max th8 that went to th9 upgraded offense, 4 AD all max for th9 and 4 tesla all max for th9) and th7.5 (max th7 that went to th8 upgraded offense, 3 AD all max for th8 and 3 tesla all max for th8). I will swap out the th7.5 for the defenseless acct when we get back to doing wars here shortly.
Latest update gonna kill me now cuz I used to plop down xbows for my th8.5 and my extreme hybrid on prep day and cancel on war day.
I wouldn't stress the 30% troops too much, I have a th10 defenseless and only about 1/5 of attacks use few enough troops that I don't get a shield, defenseless with walls. 90% of the time that I don't get shielded the attacker uses 1 under the limit, I think those are the folks that despise defenseless and want to hurt their progression if they can.
I agree on the defenseless unless heros are both down.
As far as how this guide goes i have a th10. Lego walls only 225 enough for a th8 and maxed traps. Its a high th8/low th9. I did only upgrade defenses to what took a day to upgrade. Ie lvl2 air defenses and such. In war a get mostly 1/2 star attempts from th8 and lower. Not planning on upping any more defenses just maxing offense. I really like this strategy for th10.
Hey Todd (and all),
I have an alt account that is currently TH6 defenseless, but I'm thinking of transitioning to this hybrid. If you had to start today (May 2016), would you change anything about this build?
Thanks!
Reid
Co-Leader, Patriots #QPJRRY8R
As a th10 ive not really changed much. I kep all the defenses lower ie lvl2 ads. Still stops the 1st few attacks. Ive also been experimenting with a minimax th3 and liking that better. It's only a th8 right now. The defenses are 1 archer tower, cannon, mortor, and air defense.
if i could do it over again id also consider walls only to lvl7. It takes 2 wall breakers at that level. It was a fun journey for me so enjoy.
I would omit splash buildings (mortars and wiz towers), and later on xbows, infernos and eagle, but keep and max the other buildings. When completely maxed that should produce a war weight in the mid 60s.
There is debate about how much mortars and wiz towers add to war weight, but against the most powerful war attacks they are not super effective. Their biggest value is against loons at TH9+, and protecting loot in multiplayer.
I am doing this on an account that I intend to someday max, but via a different route. I'm doing the above until TH11, then adding eagle and seeing what the result is before deciding how quickly to add the other defenses.
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Holy ♥♥♥♥ that was a long feed!
Well, after reading that for 5 minutes, the concept seems like it could work, but the only downside is that not many people have the time to start a new account for this to actually work.