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[Road Warriors]

So, a question for the experienced TH8s here who routinely go all dragons.

I have never attacked an opponent with lvl 6 AD. If you take out one with lightning, can lvl 3 dragons be reasonably expected to take out the other level 6 ADs and three- star the base, given decent pathing?

What do you do in that situation? As an alternative, I could try hogs, but I don't have a lot of experience with them. Sometimes get three-stars, but sometimes zero with them. I am researching up my Pekka and Golem, but that won't help me today. No experience with Gowipe yet either.

What do you think is my best strategy? Give dragons a shot or something else?

3 zaps and a heal should work. Maybe get a lava hound in the cc to absorb one of the two remaining ad

I don't think you can do either of those at TH8. 25 max space in CC, 3 spells.

Dragons are hit & miss against late TH8 targets. If they have all AD deep in the core, its not likely that you 3*.

If I find a base with 2 of the AD closer to the outer ring ( or if I can clear a layer of buildings before coming into AD range ), I will take my chances on that. Generally will take 5 skulls in the CC. Overload dragons in line with one AD ( something like a 6/4 split ), drop CC skulls inline with the other, once the AD engages the dragons.

Not a guarantee, but generally I've had decent luck with this approach with Dragons onTH8

 

[EYLive]

How are my fellow new th9s earning resources?

There's lots of elixir based upgrades, and I need to get away from my costly balloonion army. Are you guys batching? If so, in what trophy range? I'm still rolling with lvl5 troops.

 

[VA703]

How are my fellow new th9s earning resources?

There's lots of elixir based upgrades, and I need to get away from my costly balloonion army. Are you guys batching? If so, in what trophy range? I'm still rolling with lvl5 troops.

ive been around the 1200-1400 range my entire stay at th9 doing barch collector raids. first few weeks were tough with all the elixir drains and wars

 

[SkyRattlers]

So, a question for the experienced TH8s here who routinely go all dragons.

I have never attacked an opponent with lvl 6 AD. If you take out one with lightning, can lvl 3 dragons be reasonably expected to take out the other level 6 ADs and three- star the base, given decent pathing?

What do you do in that situation? As an alternative, I could try hogs, but I don't have a lot of experience with them. Sometimes get three-stars, but sometimes zero with them. I am researching up my Pekka and Golem, but that won't help me today. No experience with Gowipe yet either.

What do you think is my best strategy? Give dragons a shot or something else?

Reasonably expected? No.

When all three AA are lvl 6 you need to take your time and study the base.

Choose carefully which of the AAs you zap.

Search for where you think teslas might be.

Figure out which of the remaining AAs will be more easily reached by your cc skulls.

Do not consider taking an 11th dragon in your cc.

Use a couple of early dragons to shave the edges and create a better path for the other 8.

Be flexible with the use of your BK. Sometime he useful to shave edge buildings early, sometimes better kept for cleanup when time is running low.

I would say I have about a 80% success rate with 3 starring lvl 6 AA TH8s. But I spend a lot of time planning and try not to just drop the dragons and pray.

 

[GregR]

Just curious - why even use pekkas in gowipe? wouldn't golems and wizards provide sufficient hp and damage?

Pekka are the combo high health / high damage part of the equation. Once you see all of your wizards get hit by a single mortar ball, or 3 of them fly to a spring trap, etc. etc. I think it becomes clear why they are needed. I think a GoWi by itself would be too fragile to get the 2* even though on paper the DPS would be higher.

Dangit if wandering Pekka aren't the most frustrating thing in the world though!

Agree golem-wiz needs something else to help it out. L2 witches work in place of pekka as well if used in enough numbers that you have skeletons being made constantly to replace losses. I'm rolling with something like 3 golem, 6 wb, 15 wiz, 7 witch for war right now.

 

[GregR]

How are my fellow new th9s earning resources?

There's lots of elixir based upgrades, and I need to get away from my costly balloonion army. Are you guys batching? If so, in what trophy range? I'm still rolling with lvl5 troops.

ive been around the 1200-1400 range my entire stay at th9 doing barch collector raids. first few weeks were tough with all the elixir drains and wars

I started in the 1400-1500 range, I found getting above 1400 got away from 90% of the DE lightning thieves. Though I went more giant/barch with a few wiz. As I got further into TH9 I added more wiz and giants and climbed up to 1600-1800.

 

[Instinctive]

How are my fellow new th9s earning resources?

There's lots of elixir based upgrades, and I need to get away from my costly balloonion army. Are you guys batching? If so, in what trophy range? I'm still rolling with lvl5 troops.

ive been around the 1200-1400 range my entire stay at th9 doing barch collector raids. first few weeks were tough with all the elixir drains and wars

If I end up above 1350 I get smashed by a TH9 or 10. 1200-1350 is solid barching, but more next-ing than I am used to.

 

[MrVegas21]

My AQ is in the shop so someone can take my +10 (17) this war and I will just cleanup where needed after the first round of attacks.

I am to the point where I just plan on upgrading my heroes and walls for a bit before upgrading to TH10. Now that we war constantly, how should I approach upgrading the heroes? Should I duck out for awhile and focus on the heroes or just play cleanup. I like the war loot but don't want to be a liability any more than I already am.

Jason

 

[culdeus]

My AQ is in the shop so someone can take my +10 (17) this war and I will just cleanup where needed after the first round of attacks.

I am to the point where I just plan on upgrading my heroes and walls for a bit before upgrading to TH10. Now that we war constantly, how should I approach upgrading the heroes? Should I duck out for awhile and focus on the heroes or just play cleanup. I like the war loot but don't want to be a liability any more than I already am.

Jason

I'll be just alternating them. Post LV15 they sit out 7 days at a time. My plan is to alternate each hero +5 at a time. Heroes for what they are are better on defense for CW than offense where we are imo. (This might be somewhat controversial, however)

You can certainly get a 2 star loonian without one hero and if it means I have to dip lower to cleanup a high TH8 or something every once and awhile so be it. Long term it will be worth it. Goal is 20/20.

 

[GregR]

I kicked David from Boog, think he was one of a couple randoms let in. If he is one of us let us know and have him rejoin.

Speaking of which, be sure to use the password... I posted not to let people in if they didn't use it and we weren't sure if they are one of us.

Also, took away Wildcat's elder status, think he was the one who let them in based on posting at that time.

 

[AcerFC]

My AQ is in the shop so someone can take my +10 (17) this war and I will just cleanup where needed after the first round of attacks.

I am to the point where I just plan on upgrading my heroes and walls for a bit before upgrading to TH10. Now that we war constantly, how should I approach upgrading the heroes? Should I duck out for awhile and focus on the heroes or just play cleanup. I like the war loot but don't want to be a liability any more than I already am.

Jason

ill try your 17. Just let me know if you change your mind

 

[freeannyong]

Any thoughts on 20? Not sure if loonian would get two. Was thinking of trying gowiwipe

 

[MrVegas21]

My AQ is in the shop so someone can take my +10 (17) this war and I will just cleanup where needed after the first round of attacks.

I am to the point where I just plan on upgrading my heroes and walls for a bit before upgrading to TH10. Now that we war constantly, how should I approach upgrading the heroes? Should I duck out for awhile and focus on the heroes or just play cleanup. I like the war loot but don't want to be a liability any more than I already am.

Jason

ill try your 17.Just let me know if you change your mind

All yours Acer, good luck.

 

[AcerFC]

My AQ is in the shop so someone can take my +10 (17) this war and I will just cleanup where needed after the first round of attacks.

I am to the point where I just plan on upgrading my heroes and walls for a bit before upgrading to TH10. Now that we war constantly, how should I approach upgrading the heroes? Should I duck out for awhile and focus on the heroes or just play cleanup. I like the war loot but don't want to be a liability any more than I already am.

Jason

ill try your 17.Just let me know if you change your mind

All yours Acer, good luck.

Ill try to do you justice

 

[culdeus]

check in on chat, there have been some late changes made. keeping it on the d/l until we get locked in .

 

[Clayton Gray]

How are my fellow new th9s earning resources?

There's lots of elixir based upgrades, and I need to get away from my costly balloonion army. Are you guys batching? If so, in what trophy range? I'm still rolling with lvl5 troops.

I wanted to see if I could barch my way to Masters - just for the achievement bonus of 1000 gems. I got stuck in Crystal 2 as it's pretty easy to run out of troops at 48%. I decided to stick around in Crystal 2 because of the 50k/50k/200 win bonuses and get my archer queen to Level 5. With her, I should be able to more easily avoid getting no stars.

I say that to point out that the Crystal 2 - or even Crystal 3's 35k/35k/100 - makes it a pretty juicy place to farm. The best is finding an exposed town hall in Crystal 2 and getting 100k in total resources. Of course, you'll need to be able to string together a good number of attack before logging off since there are some heavy hitters up there who will level you if you aren't online.

 

[igbomb]

Need FBG1 war results since 10/21. Last two we have are:

fbgs 110 - Esenler 114 (10/19/2014)

fbgs 125 - Arabs 111 (10/21/2014)

117 - PH Lords 113 10/25

104 - Donate& Farm!! 90 1/28

102 - Fc Stinger 120 10/30

96 - 12th Man 83 11/1

105 - United Crew 96 11/4

111 - ARAWANA 87 11/6

109 - Asian 56 11/8

 

[PatsWillWin]

How are my fellow new th9s earning resources?

There's lots of elixir based upgrades, and I need to get away from my costly balloonion army. Are you guys batching? If so, in what trophy range? I'm still rolling with lvl5 troops.

ive been around the 1200-1400 range my entire stay at th9 doing barch collector raids. first few weeks were tough with all the elixir drains and wars

I also hang around 1200-400. I pack about 12-14 giants, 10-12 WB's, the rest Barch/Gob. If I find a place with full collectors, I use the barch/gob and leave the expensive stuff alone. If I find a target with enough resources spending a 80-100k elixir army (i.e. 200+ elixir and/or DE), I let loose the hounds.

I'm usually not looking for gold, it just piles up as a byproduct.

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

Anyone ever try a def pekka? Seems like it could be pretty disruptive and they can't attack with tesla, its big weakness.

 

[EYLive]

How are my fellow new th9s earning resources?

There's lots of elixir based upgrades, and I need to get away from my costly balloonion army. Are you guys batching? If so, in what trophy range? I'm still rolling with lvl5 troops.

ive been around the 1200-1400 range my entire stay at th9 doing barch collector raids. first few weeks were tough with all the elixir drains and wars

I also hang around 1200-400. I pack about 12-14 giants, 10-12 WB's, the rest Barch/Gob. If I find a place with full collectors, I use the barch/gob and leave the expensive stuff alone. If I find a target with enough resources spending a 80-100k elixir army (i.e. 200+ elixir and/or DE), I let loose the hounds.

I'm usually not looking for gold, it just piles up as a byproduct.

I'm not finding any good bases in that range. Mostly TH7s and poor TH8s. Nobody seems to have any uncollected resources.

 

[EYLive]

Anyone ever try a def pekka? Seems like it could be pretty disruptive and they can't attack with tesla, its big weakness.

It's other weakness is it's slow movement and attack.

 

[culdeus]

Masters is more fun than I thought. Only need to raid about 4 times a day to net 10k DE a day. I'm generating DE at about a rate of 120,000 a week on 4-5 raids a day. I get nearly no elixer and gold to speak of doing this, however. I need wars just to buy spells to compete at this level as most raids take all 4.

If it keeps up like this I should be finishing 1 hero upgrade every 5 days. And this is without really having to grind. I probably just let my lab go idle for awhile, or do stuff like valks or something. I have zero interest in grinding elixer right now. It's hard enough on shuke.

 

[culdeus]

Special assignments for 1st and 2nd

SkyRattlers - 2 and then 7 with a goal of a luckbox 2 with 1 being ok.

Moredoor - ZOMG HI TO MOREDOR - 5 and then cleanup late

VA - 6 [SIZE=14.6666669845581px] and then cleanup late in war [/SIZE]

Jason - 7 and then chill a bit

Me - 8 and then chill

AIDEN - 9 and then 10 both for 2 each

Gary - hoping we can use gary for late cleanups

RON - 11 and 12

SML - 13 and 14

Waacky - 15 and 17

tam 16 and stand by for 2 or 7 to add one or two or other high cleanup

CJ - 18 and 19

Skinny - 20 and 21

Busted - 22 and 23

MYK - 24 and clean from 18-23 for 2 where possible

Acer all the way to 50 - +10 then if your +20 has hanging stars take those right away when you can build for it, no waiting no dicking around get them.

There will not be any potting this war. Serious biz all the way.

 

[AcerFC]

Why would you post that 30 minutes after the war starts

 

[PatsWillWin]

HARD DELETE

 

[PatsWillWin]

I really need to learn how to have a chance at a 3rd GoWiPe star. Everytime I attack, it's a sure-fire 2 start, but I don't really get anywhere close to 3.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

What's the protocol for donating troops? Okay to ask for them all the time? Does anyone want my ####ty level 2 troops when they are asking for 'anything'?

 

[Instinctive]

What's the protocol for donating troops? Okay to ask for them all the time? Does anyone want my ####ty level 2 troops when they are asking for 'anything'?

I don't mind level 2 archers for raiding, but don't ever donate those for a war in fbgs: The Big Leagues.

Main protocol is to read requests and don't give people stuff they don't ask for. I request constantly, and fill archers with whatever is on the screen whenever I log on or off or make a request of my own.

 

[thecatch]

What's the protocol for donating troops? Okay to ask for them all the time? Does anyone want my ####ty level 2 troops when they are asking for 'anything'?

Yes and yes. People don't care how much you ask as long as you are making a good faith effort at pitching in. If someone only wants troops of a certain level they'll specify it in the request.

 

[culdeus]

Why would you post that 30 minutes after the war starts

I didnt. If you followed chat you could see where it was buried previously. I didnt want them going xbows up on us in high th10 when we are skull addicted.

And why did you attack 17 btw?

 

[Arizona Ron]

Special assignments for 1st and 2nd

RON - 11 and 12

2 stars on both, I couldn't cook anything to three star either so I went with the old faithful two star.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Okay. Thought giving people level 2 archers would be wasting their slots.

 

[GregR]

With the level difference definitely do request a lot and use them in raids. A level 6 giant is better than 3 level 1 giants, so can definitely be a big boost for you.

 

[AcerFC]

My AQ is in the shop so someone can take my +10 (17) this war and I will just cleanup where needed after the first round of attacks.

I am to the point where I just plan on upgrading my heroes and walls for a bit before upgrading to TH10. Now that we war constantly, how should I approach upgrading the heroes? Should I duck out for awhile and focus on the heroes or just play cleanup. I like the war loot but don't want to be a liability any more than I already am.

Jason

ill try your 17.Just let me know if you change your mind

All yours Acer, good luck.

Ill try to do you justice

 

[AcerFC]

The fact that I struck out is irrelevant. I dont go back and read through the backchat other than to donate.

If you wanted to switch it, should have sent another clan message imo

I watched 800 videos on holowiwi and not one went the way my awful attack went. That is what you get for trying something different.

 

[PatsWillWin]

I went off-plan and picked up two stars on #17. I figured I could save us a top 5 attack (waaackyone had him oirginally).

You are avenged, Acer.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Does the cost of builders huts go up after you buy the 1st extra?

 

[Road Warriors]

Does the cost of builders huts go up after you buy the 1st extra?

Yes. 3rd is 500, 4th is 1000, 5th is 2000

 

[culdeus]

3 wars and zero attacks on my new war base and they send a weak ### gowipe and get 2 on it. ####.

I think I'm just going to swap my trophy base in and move some crap around.

 

[culdeus]

Battle plan

We have 27 strong attacks and they have 27 bases where we have stars to get us to 121.

If your name is not skyrattlers and your base color is yellow:

• Build up all drags
• 3 rage spells
• CC Skulls
• Make sure you rage in the skulls and rage the th, pray
• Do not wait, no holding bases no calling bases, no pots this time. Attack the lowest open star. Do it now.
• 3 zap is not gonna work on these. Rage. Rage Rage.

Base targets by name

AIDEN - 9 for 2

Sml - 13 for 2

Gary - 25 and 28 for 3 each. Please god show up

Waacky - 20 for 2+ OR 4 or 5 for 1. Your call. Make it soon.

VA - 21 and 22 for 2+

Jason - Backup on VA and WAACKY failure and also 23 for 2+

Moredor - Backup or 26 for 2+

Me - If Gary doesn't show I'll hit 25/28 for 2+ but damn we need 3 there.

Skinny 30

busted 31

acer 32

Anyone else not listed you are on late game cleanup duty or else take out any base 32-50 for 3 stars right away. We also may need to take a few shots at 7 and 8 for 2 stars so stand by for that as well.

 

[VA703]

yessum massa

 

[culdeus]

If your name is not on the above list and you know you'll be online in the last hour or so please +1 this post. We'll guide you in from there.

I just looked at their math. It's absolutely not good. I don't think they have a solution to get to 125.

 

[Cyclones]

So I already have skulls and minions built.

Should I hold off for right now?

 

[culdeus]

So I already have skulls and minions built.

Should I hold off for right now?

Your jrk right? No, you are the glue that holds this together you are gonna get 2 on 7 or 8 and with style points. Let MD guide you in.

If I had to call it I'd say take 7 from 8 oclock spread the loons out wide send a hound in, drop 2 rages, drop minions wide then drop 2 more rages, then heroes on the th corner.

 

[Jayrod]

Don't eff this up, boys. Its winnable.

 

[SoCalBroncoFan]

Don't worry, I am here. I don't check in a lot, but I do check in for every war.

 

[culdeus]

Don't worry, I am here. I don't check in a lot, but I do check in for every war.

You clear on what's needed? Those 6 open stars are absolutely key. No pressure.

 

[culdeus]

With gary attacking 2x we now have 4 high TH9 backups. I'm feeling cocky. This could be fun.

 

[Brony]

I'll build up some rage. Never used it before, so I think it's a paltry Level 2 or 3.

 

[Gamma1210]

I'm swamped at work until 4est at least. Drags are built. Will start brewing rage.