Builder Base Attacking Strategies Part 2

When you have a layout that is not great for Giants to attack because the Crusher and the Double Cannon will wreck them, you can choose to use all Archers. You need to make the best out of your attack and some layouts will give you <30% when attacking with Giants & Archers.

When using this, you also need to check some things. All Archers is working and will give you 1-Star most of the time when you do mind some things.

The biggest threat to them is:

• Long Range Archer Towers
• Mines
• Compact layout

Before using all Archers, you will need to check out if it’s possible to get half of the buildings with it – to get this, you will need to make sure that you can snipe at least 4 buildings that are outside the range of any defenses!

Also check if there are corner buildings, more and more people do that and it’s nice to get one building for 1 Archer that can join your attack later.

If you see a layout like that, you don’t want to attack it with all Archers, because you will lose many of them already by sniping outside buildings.

When deploying your Archers, you need to be very careful with them. If there’s one outside building that’s not covered by a defense, only send 1 Archer in there.

Also, send it from a little distance to make sure the Archer keeps the maximum range! Sometimes the AI is a little weird and lets them walk into the ranges.

If there are two building on the outside that are safe to snipe, only use 1 Archer as well. This will save your troops and you have plenty of time for your attack – be patient!

Ranges of Sneaky Archers

Your Sneaky Archers have a range of 3.5 tiles, but this is always calculated from the central tile of their target. Let me show you this with this example here:

As you can see, The Archers are walking until they are 2.5 tiles away from the Army Camps. This is their maximum range here and they will not shoot at it when they are standing further away, they would walk closer.

When sniping outside structures and you want your Archer to be safe, you will need to know this to see if it’s safe or not for them.

It needs a little practice to get used to the ranges, but you can use these rules here:

• 7 Tiles range of Double Cannon, Hidden Tesla & Archer Tower (Fast Attack): Needs 2 tiles between defense & target
• 9 Tiles range of Cannon: needs 4 tiles between
• 11 Tiles range of Archer Tower (Long Range): needs 6 tiles in between

This makes it hard to get a lot of percentage without investing several Archers, but that’s not a problem. When you get to the point when you don’t have any buildings on the outside left you can simply snipe you will need to start using more than 1 Archer to get them, depending on the building and the defense.

Now I will tell you how many Archers you will need to do that

The Archer’s ability will keep them save for the first seconds, so you should deploy multiple Archers ALWAYS at the same time to get the MAXIMUM damage done!

I simplified some math here, but you can expect that an Archer can take 2-3 shots and is hidden for 4-5 seconds. Here’s how many Archers you will need when they are in range of either an Archer Tower or a Cannon:

• 2 Archers: Army Camp, Elixir Collector, Gold Mine, Gem Mine, Builder Barrack
• 3 Archers: Gold Storage, Elixir Storage
• 4 Archers: Star Laboratory, Clock Tower

Again, these numbers are only working when ONE defense has your target building in range! If there is more, you need to DOUBLE the amount of Archers you need!

During attacking you will need to do it step-by-step! Don’t do a Chinese Wall deployment and watch it happen. Deploy your Archers carefully for every building after each other – otherwise you will just waste them and won’t get your 50% needed!

Builder Base Attacking – Baby Dragons & Beta Minions (Alternative 2; Builder Hall 3 only!)

If you see a layout that will be hard to come by with Giants/Archers or all Archers, you will need a new plan. Here’s a layout that is really bad to attack with Giants (the Crusher and the Double Cannon are impossible to be taken down) and the layout is extremely compact so sniping will also end up bad.

Luckily, the air defense is pretty weak and located on one side. So you can go in with Baby Dragons and Minions!

Now you can move in with 4 Baby Dragons in front from the side where no air defense is and then place your Minions behind them.

The Baby Dragons will stand up long enough for the Minions to deal enough damage to get you the 1-Star attack and also sometimes the Builder Hall for the 2-Star victory.

Conclusion

As you can see, you shouldn’t move in with one single attacking strategy, you need to adapt to the base layout. Every layout has weak spots you can use.

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