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I'm usually not a fan of zapping AD's. They actually serve value in most lavaloon attacks because they act as magnets for your tanks. The ideal base for lavalooning doesn't involve a lot of exposed AD's because once they're down it's very hard to predict where your lavas will go, and even more difficult to ensure they stay in front of your balloons to do their jobs. The ideal base has the AD's exposed enough where you can reach them as the 2nd or 3rd target for a particular pair of loons, but spread out enough so that every air-targeting defense has an AD in range. This second characteristic makes it really easy to ensure that your lavas position themselves in ideal locations to tank. AD's should only be zapped if they're going to be particularly difficult to reach with balloons and there aren't many air-targeting defenses nearby that need to be tanked.

Interesting point

FWIW I 99%ed a base this war because I took down the ADs too quickly.

That' the first I have heard of it...that someone would prefer more AD.

If there are fewer ADs, use 1 or even 2 less hound.

What army comps and leagues are ppl using to farm at TH10? Just solved TH9 farming then upgraded TH. lol me

Barch, gem heroes back immediately

Oops, forgot to answer

Masters, 20 giants, 10 wb, 60 archer, rest barb

2 freeze, 1 jump, 2 rage

I use 24 giants, 24 wiz, 8 wb, 8 arch
1 freeze, 1 jump, 1 rage, 2 heal

Why heals? Aren't you worried about infernos?

Giant bombs mainly.

(and when the inferno is frozen, I use the heal)

Gotcha, that makes sense.

It's not a preference for less AD's. There will be however many there are. If you had a theoretical base with no AD's, that would be an easier clear than if it had all 4, but you wouldn't use hounds in your army comp.

Similarly, if you find a base with all of the AD's on the outside edges, that's not always good for a lavaloon strategy. You'll get the AD's down quickly, and maybe you can save a hound or two, but now your remaining hound(s) will stick with a pack of loons, and you'll have a bunch of teslas/AT's/WT's/XB's in the middle of the base that will wreck a lot of loons before they lock on to a hound.

So the placement of AD's can add value to the use of a hound. Not to the point where I'd prefer more AD's, but enough to recognize that the placement within a base can help you decide whether to use a hound vs some other strategy.

I feel like you're just reiterating what I said.

5 of my 6 accounts have lvl 5 warden and I basically raid just the same way as prior to the update.

Barch/heroes/5 rage and next a bunch. All of my accounts except main have just lvl 5 barch.

Hard to imagine ever using all 5 rage, versatility less desirable over quickness of being able to fire again?

Rage is just what I default.

It's better than jump and freeze, unless your goal is to trophy push with full army.

Better than lightning, ldo.

Better than heal because trouble spots are often with wiz tower, mortars, or things that will simply crush barch for heal to be effective. I do keep a heal sometime to help with healing queen.

Are you guys emptying the clip on spells every attack? Or it just depends?

I'm mostly barching or all goblins, sometimes gibarch. I try to stick to one spell or less per attack. Of course if a base is showing like 700k/700k/3k or something crazy I'm using everything I have.

Where's the King Niche thread you speak of?

Now I have gone to emptying the clip and going with damn near war armies.

I have finally found a place where casual playing is +EV.. masters league. Enough loaded bases and high enough reward to do a huge attack every 3~4 hours

Ditto.

screw barching and playing the game for 20 minutes per hour.

Quit pretending you guys have something better to do.

I chronicled some strip club stories this weekend while in Miami while in the uber back home lol

They're all in bbv, car crash gets me back in action bumped yesterday

We need more stories like that in chat lol

or you playing clash while binking a tourney for $50k or whatever it was. think that was you?

Very likely I'll have to 3 star this, is there any way? I have level 2 lava hounds now which should help. The guy's base is pretty cleverly set up so it's hard for me to get to the AQ so I'm tempted to just pentaloon over Golaloon.

Man this game sucks ever since the loot dried up.