Defending your loot



Hey, you’re a farmer now, so you need to start thinking like a farmer. Farmers don’t care about losing trophies overnight, we care about losing loot overnight.



Defense is just like attacking in that you want to do everything you can to improve your odds of “NOT” being attacked. The best way to not be attacked is to have a shield on and the fastest way to get a shield is to put your TH on the outside.



Similar to attacking, there’s a right way and a wrong way to put your TH outside your base. If you put your TH right up next to your base, then you are minimizing the number of people who are going to hit your TH. If you have 10 TH7’s trying to get to crystal next by your base and a TH10 then shows up to rock your world, you have failed. However, if you put your TH way outside your base so it’s unprotected in the corner and even go so far as to put decorations around it to let the low level guy know that he has zero risk by taking your TH, then you have increased your odds of getting sniped as high as you possibly can.



This doesn’t mean you’ll never get attacked, but it does mean that you have the greatest chance of getting a shield as quickly as possible.





A couple weeks ago I had my entire defense log filled with TH snipes. Not asingle person tried attacking me and I was sitting on capped gold/elixir/DE almost the entire time. I’d guess that half to 2/3 of the attacks were by lvl 3 or 4 archers or very low level queens from TH7/8 folks pushing trophies.





Here's a replay one of my clan mates shared a few weeks back. It's one of those we like to chuckle about where the guy tried grabbing the TH and didn't succeed. You can tell this attacker just gave up on the TH and tried to grab some mines to salvage what he could. It"seems" like he made a point to NOT give the defender a shield.





So,the defender shared this as a successful defense, but I personally view it as a defensive failure. What if a TH10 rolled in 15 minutes later and 3 starred him?







What to expect



Obviously there’s going to be a learning curve, so don’t expect to be cranking 4m gold per hour the first time you try this, but I will tell you it’s absolutely doable on some nights and others, it's not.



As aTH9, I would average anywhere from 3M gold per hour to 4.5M gold per hour(boosted) fairly consistently. As a TH10 it’s lower, but still pretty good. I managed to pull close to 4M (boosted) per hour two nights last week, but I’d say I’m generally in the 3M-3.5M gph range on most nights as a TH10.



There are certainly days when loot is just horrible and you might have a tough time making 2M (boosted) gold per hour, but there are also those early Saturday mornings where every other base you hit is 400k collector raids and you’re getting over 6M gold per hour.



The important thing to remember is to maximize your efficiency in getting the highest gph possible with the current loot being offered. Don't get too wrapped up in always hitting X amount of gold per hour, because it's just not practical.





Raiding Example



As much as I’d love to just post a bunch of cherry picked 400k+ raid videos to make you all think I farm 6M gold per hour non-stop I thought it will be much more helpful and productive to simply show you 30 minutes of me raiding. I kicked off my boost and recorded the first 30 minutes of my session last night. You can see exactly what kind of bases I’m seeing as a TH10, which ones I skip and which ones I attack. No editing or cherry picking whatsoever.



One thing of note, you’ll see that I was seeing quite a few TH8 bases early on, so I immediately identified that my trophy range was too low for this raiding session and started to adjust upwards. This resulted in me sniping a few more TH’s than I normally would and hitting several bases with under 200k gold prior to the 2 minute window I mentioned above to get my trophies up a little higher.









Even with a couple bad attacks and hitting several lower loot bases I started with 1.758M Gold and 33 minutes later had 3.285M gold. So, all nexting, win bonuses,etc. added in I netted 1.527M Gold in just over 30 minutes. So, now you can point to this video when people say it’s impossible to farm gold at TH10.





What if I don't want to Boost?

There is absolutely nothing you need to do differently without boosting. I do the same strategy throughout the day without boosting and only boost when I know I've got a couple hours straight I can play. The only real adjustment I make when not boosting is I tend to search a little bit longer at times and I also try to hit every open TH I can for quick win bonuses. The extra trophies give me more flexibility to snipe collector mines and surrender without having to worry about my trophy count.

What is the minimum TH/troop level for this strategy?

With the simplicity and build speed of the army, this same philosophy really works all the way from TH1 through TH10. Obviously you can't use the minions until TH7, and even then DE is so sparse in good farming ranges that they're not too viable.

Without question, the higher level your troops the better you will do, but overall it's still the most efficient way I've found to farm no matter what your troop levels.

If you're a premie TH10; First off, I apologize for taking all your loot. Second, you will still need to farm in the same range as an updated TH10, but this strategy will still work well. You may have to focus on collector bases more and won't have the option to go deep on storage raids, but you can still have a fair amount of success. The important thing is to focus on your money maker upgrades first over defenses.

I have a second account that's TH7 (Barefury, same clan) that I farmed "non boosted" with BARCH primarily from TH1 to where he is now.

He has lvl 4 barb/arch and does very well in the Gold III range right now. I will farm that account maybe two days a week for a couple hours here and there non boosted and fill his storages up in no time.

