DE troops are to weak!

[Hamius]

Why do people think that hog riders are so bad? I haven't had much experience with them but they seem good with the main ability to jump over walls and do decent damage. If people can clarify why they are bad it would be helpful.

[BunnyBasher]

Why do people think that hog riders are so bad? I haven't had much experience with them but they seem good with the main ability to jump over walls and do decent damage. If people can clarify why they are bad it would be helpful.

Their not 'bad' their just not really effective in most situations. Reasons being they get splashed up by Wizard Towers/Mortars, They die to point defences easily, they take up 6 army camp spots, They cost 30 DE each and they are not good with most ground troops because the ground troops need to have a hole in the wall to advance which means you need to bring Wallbreakers anyways.

[Superhal]

I would replace archers with minions any day:

1. Allows use of 5th and 6th barracks, speeding up build time.
2. Has the flying mod, which is huge.
3. Incredibly fast.
4. Relatively strong attack, even at level 1.
5. relatively short build time.
6. Relatively cheap.

[Dubai]

Minions are pretty amazing as long as they do not have air bombs. Even level 1 minions can be really useful!

Give me
a break all attack by de failed to me and all,attack with normal,barbs and archs win lol

[theQUILL]

Minions can be very useful for farming, you can make 100k gold off 12-20 minions, if you get a nice base to raid and have patience.

[Tigerlw]

Minions are pretty amazing as long as they do not have air bombs. Even level 1 minions can be really useful!

I use minions with dragons and some archers so that the minions won't be destroyed by a wizard tower.

[Jacobj77]

Minions are pretty okay. Hog riders need a definite hit point and attack boost,not a lot though. And Valkyries have too much hoising space.

[cfcrimal]

^ You cant really grasp the full potential of a troop if you leave them at level 1. Your reasoning is ABSOLUTELY invalid. Level 5 Archers can survive a lot more things than a level 1 could... and this should apply to any troop, whether elixir or dark elixir ones. Also the number of times you use the troops matter too.

You can't just judge a troops potential based on a single failed raid. Your deployment could have been off, the defending base could have been really tough to crack, the troop levels could have been crappy and many other factors. Using Level 1 Minions once and failing with it is not conclusive enough to say it's downright horrible.

When i got my minions and i used them they sucked then after a while i thought i will baloonion and they r amazing

[GoWiWi]

When i got my minions and i used them they sucked then after a while i thought i will baloonion and they r amazing

Was is so necessary to bump this thread. Half the things here are outdated info but nostalgia

[Kirrily]

SC nerfed the hogs...before they were really good