How much do you spend on an army now?

[n2ocharged]

What does it cost you to build your army?

I did the number crunching and for a decent army to raid It costs me 163,600 elixir and roughly 450 Dark Elixir. This isn't for a full blown WAR army, this is for a generic raid army consisting of...

15 Giants (meat shields)
13 Barbs (Smaller meat shields)
100 Archers
8 Wizards
2 Healing spells
4 earthquake spells

For me to break even on elixir, I have to find a base that has 163k elixir which means for forward progression I need to find a base with at least 200k elixir and get ALL of it... Averaging my last 10 attacks, I have been able to get 68544 elixir from each (some more, some less obviously)

I'm wondering how SC can POSSIBLY say it is going to be better for the "casual" player and there will be more loot...

Well, here is the proof, loot is no better than before...

I remember when I was a TH7 I used to think "Man, I have to get at least 60k elixir to break even", but now I need more and earn less...

So here are a couple of things... 1) I'm not going for maxxed TH9s because the troops I use don't stand up to the defense. 2) I look for dead bases (pretty scarce now) 3) I look for something I have a chance to 3 star for the loot bonus with higher level collectors but after 40 - 50 or even 100 searches, I'm down on gold and decide to cut my losses and try to make SOME of it back.

[maxrider]

150-250k elixir

farming elixir is like walking 10 steps forward (loot gain), then moving 8 steps backward (cook new army).

x 10

in inverted

[LordRaez]

TH8 Maxed (but for walls and 1 level on Minions)

28 Arch, 8 WBs, 18 Giants, 9 Wiz and 6 Hogs. 3 Heals and 1 poison.

Total cost:
170,400 elixer
458 Dark.

I'm in Crystal 1. Since it's not a given that I will always get the elixer or gold I'm after (my king is maxed at 10 so I'm not focused on dark) I always try and make sure the base I'm attacking is A) Th8 like me and B) has at least that much for me to take. That way if I get under that amount from my raid I can possibly break even with the league bonus.


There is a lot of nexting going on trying to find those specific things.

[Gorto]

I run 8 Giant 95 arch 65 Barb think it is about 45k

I get 100k - 300k loot per attack. With maybe 200-600 DE.

[Warmaster]

See my other thread... About 272k elixer and 3500 dark

[Polaris]

101k on one account and 95,200 on the other same as always. Difference between the two is one has level 7 barbs the other barbs level 6.

[Newbee]

I'm using the same army as I was before update Maybe that's why you don't see me complain anywhere

It's almost 200k Lix with 500 De! Takes almost 1 hour to train.

[GeneralMayhem]

104k army cost. Spell cost between 57k and 107k it varies between raids don't always need 4. Raiding in master 1 or 2 with 120k bonus. Even if I only get 50% that offsets my army cost. All I need to worry about is offsetting elixer cost. Obviously for higher elixer raids I'll use more spells. I was using the exact same configuration before the update and it is still just as effective. It also gives me the versatility to raid storages or collectors. Most people think that cheap configurations are the key to efficiency. A well rounded and versatile army is another kind of efficiency which works for casual and semi casual players alike.

[Aphrodi]

Barch and like 8 lvl6 minions sprinkled in. No spells that's around oh damnit you calculate

[Galakor]

22K elixer. (220 gobs), plus a jump spell if needed. So 22-42K elixer.

TH9 in 1000-1300 range, raiding when I feel like it