9.5 is the process from going from "new TH9" to "everything but new defenses"

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so if you build like 1 new lvl 1 archer tower you are no longer "9.5" what puts it over the edge.

The whole point of 9.5 is to improve your offense to th10 level while keeping your war weight as close to th9 level as possible

One new archer tower isn't gonna break that so you can still be 9.5 with that


I up to about a 9.9 now and then I have a second one that has max drag/rage/lightning for th8 so can take out almost all th8s (2lightning/1 cc eq, 1 rage, 10 drags, 5 cc loons) but only has 1 cannon, 2 hidden teslas and traps so has a war weight less than th5 (war weight of 16,000; last war the opp th5s had war weight 18,000 and 19,000 with typical defenses)

I was online this time as the witch event was ending and I can confirm it jumps back to the regular price immediately after the timer ends, no need to reload the game or download an update. I was somewhat concerned about the timer not being exact or some kind of delay you'd need to wait through before deleting troops but there were no issues. Watched the timer count down to under 1 min, queued up 40 witches (empty army camps) for 1400 DE, when the timer reached zero the event disappeared off the page and the witches were showing a cost of 350 again, deleted all 40 for 14,000 DE, 12.6k profit.

logged on to say I got that free de again. Thanks!

That's fair about the hogs, though any hog attack needs a kill squad and distracting wiz/AQ is quite important. It will absolutely go for the kill squad vs most hog lineups, since the hogs come in after the kill squad.

I'm a max defense TH9, so no TH9 valk attacks can really 3-star my anti 3 star base, and in my clan I'm about in the middle of the lineup, so if a TH10 has to 3 star me that's a victory (and I can never be left non 3 starred or we're a clear lock for a war win).

As far as air, why is it worse against defending air attacks? It soaks up fire from things like dragons and allows them to be hit for longer by your defensive fire. If people can pull in your base, it's easy to make the mistake of taking too long to clear the LH before starting the primary attack.

If you're getting attacked by Lavaloon as a TH9, you're toast anyways, that's the most OP TH9 attack right now, so I wouldn't bother even considering Lavaloon when building a CC for TH9.

All in all I do prefer the BD + Valkx2 CC myself, but I'm happy to see a LH or Golem or Dragon in my CC too.

Hounds don't attack air troops. It won't even come out of the clan castle.

So if heroes (or other ground) don't pull the LH, it'll just sit? That makes sense. Guess it's bad at TH10+ then. I have seen LHs just destroy air attacks at TH10 and Th11 before, but a hero must've pulled it.

Does this strategy take into account the inefficiency of sitting with max gold and free builders at times when only upgrading offense?

There's plenty of times when you have 1-2 heroes upgrading, no DE, no purple (troops upgrading) and max gold with free builders for days and no easy way to get enough purple/DE in a short span.

Doing all offense until maxed then beginning defense would likely increase your lifespan at TH9 by 25-33%.

I've always prioritized offense, but in those "clog" moments like in the example above, I'll absolutely upgrade defense.

Yeah, and if I know a TH9 has one I'll strongly consider a straight lavaloon, no kill squad (raged pups will kill the Queen fast) and hold my heroes back for cleanup

Pretty sure lava used to attack air, they must have changed it at some point.

For my th8 that only has 1 cannon and a few traps, I recently started spending the gold on walls; just having walls means raiders spend enough troops where I get a shield; before I wouldn't get a shield and would get raided over and over again

Walls don't increase war weight too much so are a good place to dump gold

Really diverse and exciting game at the moment. Here's my current strategies on my 3 accounts:

th11: loonion,pentaloon,kill squad loon
th10: queen walk loon,pentaloon, loonion
th9: loonion,pentaloon

Loons now seem more like Hogs but with less health and more damage. You've got a path set up that you want them to take and as long as you get your execution down, the base doesn't stand too much of a chance.

You don't find pentaloon too heavy on the LH for TH9? I've been using 3x L2 LH + a max LH in the CC and that's been plenty, can't imagine adding a 5th.

Loonion looks interesting, gotta upgrade my minions to try that.

I just got lh on my th9 so they aren't upgraded, but I usually don't finish with more than 1 lh up. I don't think I could clear a lot of bases with only 3 lh.

Loonion you can still do decently well farming with low level minions since the loons clear so much of the base anyways.

What do you use the extra space for? If it's ground troops to kill the Queen/cc + an AD or two that's a good comp but the point of penta is to go all air. It can be preferable if the clan castle is filled with troops that can't hurt air or are easily poisoned.

If you're saying you use 3+1 hounds + 26 balloons that seems inefficient. I haven't tried it but a pair of balloons can 1-shot any TH9 defense besides xbows, so that's how you want to deploy and think about pathing them. I can't imagine there are 13 good spots to drop loon pairs around a base. There usually aren't even 10 but you can use some as backup or cleanup.

For war, 3 + 1 hounds, 22 loons, then either minions or baby dragon to help cleanup or some ground to help kill AQ and/or AD and/or sweeper. Depends on the base.

For farm I just add some archers to help clear ground early on/corners/cheap filler.

I CC a poison for war and often add a 2nd poison to go with a bunch of haste and some rage. (2 rage, 4 haste, 1 poison is often my spell build in a war). Two well placed poisons can usually primarily kill a dragon, and that's the hardest CC to really go up against (stuff like minions, wiz, archers are more easily poisoned).

This makes sense to me, when I had L1 I would fail too many farms with 3x LH. I didn't war with lavaloon then (I ran gohowiz pretty effectively until L2 LH). I should've added a 4th L1 LH back then, even a 5th I could see working for tougher bases where I can't ground kill AD and/or AQ.

When you get L2 LH for TH9 let me know if you still feel 5 LHs is better than 4. I'll experiment with 5 vs some tougher bases and see if I improve (well designed max TH9s I don't always 100% with lavaloon, execution needs to be near perfect with my lineup).

That might be good. The penta comp was developed before they turned up the attack speed on balloons. Generally you'd want to bring the number of AD's you're leaving standing + 1, so if you're going all air it would be 5. It might be ideal to bring less now.

This is a pretty good lavaloon video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjcdq2u57I

The last attack (mixed attack) is really well executed with the bowlers.

Crow's base is still good.



Balloons are also good.

Can someone invite me to the 2p2 clan? Name is "Eastern Motors"

Hi mate, find us and put 2p2 in the request.

Looking for solid war players atm . Clan has gone a bit stale

I got attacked by this guy and thought something seemed a little off about his army.



Someone needs to tell him...