
There are many combinations of clan castle troops, but try to have at least 13 total troops. I recommend using some archers to make the lure last longer and wizards to do massive damage to packs of hogs. Include troops in your CC that will be tougher to pull and kill and will destroy hogs if not killed properly. This will require your attacker to use hogs or balloons to lure your CC and make it harder fully lure. Ideally, the entire lure circle should be contained within your walls. Make sure your CC is as centralized as possible.

Take these steps to protect against hogs: The biggest threats to a hog raid are an incomplete CC kill, giant bombs, and spring traps. Level 4 hogs (and even level 3 to some extent) will steamroll TH8 defenses. The best way to protect against hog raids is having a difficult to lure and kill CC and smart trap placements. Now that you have built a base that is strong against dragons, you want to take steps to protect against the other threats at TH8: hogs and GoWiPe. Place your black air bombs in your core to kill dragons that make it near the TH. WTs can destroy packs of balloons coming in for a snipe, especially if those balloons also get hit by a red bomb. Think about what AD you would try to snipe with loons and load up bombs there. Protect your most vulnerable ADs (where loons could easily path to them) with red air bombs.Either way, like archer towers, you want your teslas protected deeper inside your base. Instead, I tried to space them out and have one near each AD to help kill drags approaching it. Due to the way my base design worked and me wanting to have 4 possible double giant bomb spots (anti-hog), mine are not. Some people like to put teslas in the core.Protect your archer towers behind other defenses instead of cannons and mortars. Against dragons, cannons and mortars are useless. This means all 5 of them can target anything getting near the core. 4 of mine are in the second ring of defenses and the 5th is in my core. This will stall dragons so the air defense hits them longer. Protect air defense with two storages in front of but also within range of each.That way dragons can never be funneled to more than one at a time. Mine are just spaced out just far enough that they don’t overlap each other and in a triangle pattern for maximum coverage.

With that being said, here are the design considerations I follow to make a base strong against dragons: I believe it is better to build a solid, straightforward base instead a gimmicky base. A good attacker can exploit these kinds of bases by creating a proper funnel and getting a load of dragons and balloons into the core under rage. In my personal opinion, these are only effective at making bad attackers worse. Many people design moat style bases like the Tootsie Roll and others that funnel dragons around the outside. Because of this, most design choices should be made to thwart these attacks.

At TH8, dragon attacks are by far the most I have seen against me.
Clash of clans th8 base upgrade#
Now that I am about to upgrade to TH9, I wanted to share everything I learned about designing a TH8 base to best defend in war. Clash of Clans TH8 War Base Design Guide by jimbo831
