2015 TH 9 Upgrade Priority: When and What to Upgrade First

This article will talk about the newest Town Hall 9 upgrade priority. It includes both farming base and trophy base, so the priorities will be different.

When to upgrade to Town Hall 9:
Farming Base:
When all your Walls in TH 8 have maxed out you can upgrade to TH 9. Because when you upgraded to TH 9, you can unlock Archer Queen, who is far more effective in protecting resources than Barb King.
Trophy Base:
When all your buildings in TH 8 are maxed out. All troops in the game will be unlocked in TH 9 except the Freeze Spell.That means you can play a lot more troops combo than in TH 8 .
Note: If you aren’t patient enough, try to max the following troops first before you upgrade to TH 9:
– King (you’are gonna need all your dark elixir to upgrade the Queen in TH 9)
– Balloon
– Giant
– Hog Rider
What to upgrade first when you reach TH 9?
Overall upgrade priority for both TH 9 Farming and Trophy base:
These buildings are necessary whether you want to grab resources or climb trophies. Mark them atop your upgrading list.
– Queen (most players would have stored enough dark elixir to unlock the Queen before they upgrade to
TH9, and that’s effective )
– Spell Factory
(Spell upgrade: level 6 Healing Spell
Dark Spell upgrades: level 3 Poison Spell, level 3 Earthquake Spell
Dark Spell unlocked: Hase Spell )
– Lab
(Once you upgrade to level 7 lab, you can upgrade basically every type of troops and unlock a few:
Elixir troops upgrades: level 6 Barbarian, level 6 Archer, level 6 Giant, level 6 Balloon, level 4 Healer,level 4 Dragon
Dark Elixir troops upgrades: level 5Minion, level 5 Hog Rider, level 3/4 Valkyrie, level 3/4 Golem
Dark Elixir troops unlocked: Witch, Lava Hound )
– Army Camp
(When all 4 camps are upgraded to level 7, you’d have 220 troops)
Farming base upgrade priority:
Defensive Bulding
-X Bows (unlocked in Town Hall 9, it’s a brand new defensive structure that shoots rapidly, and has the
longest range of damage, a strong addition to your defense )
– Wizard Tower
– Hidden Telsa
(the above two are great in defending resources)
– Mortar
-Air Defenses
– Cannon
– Traps
Troops and Spell upgrade priority:
-Giant
– Barbarian and Archer
– Spell
– the rest
Trophy base upgrade priority：
Defensive Bulding
– Clan Castle
– Air Defenses
– Giant Bombs (good for dealing with Hog Riders)
– X Bows
– Wizard Tower
– Hidden Telsa
– Mortar
– Cannon
– other Traps
Note:
-increasing your cc size enables you to fight like a TH 9 instead of TH 8, so if you are looking to 3 star other TH9, upgrade CC first;
– level 5 Mortar,which maxed out in TH 8, can mow down level 6 Archers in one hit, so you don’t need to rush to level 6 Mortar if you are a trophy base. Because level 7 Archers, which require TH 10, are far beyond your level and wouldn’t attack you in most cases.)
Troops and Spell upgrade priority:
-Giant
-Balloon
-Hog Rider
-Spell
-Barbarian and Archer
-the rest
Note: level 6 Giants improve amazingly.
Note 2: When upgrading “the rest”, arrange order depending on your favorite attack strategy.

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Town Hall 8 All Resource Protecting Farming Base with 4 Mortars and Air Sweeper 2015

At high level Town Hall the most important resource is Dark Elixir and there are tons of base design guide
on the intenet about how to protect the precious Dark Elixir. But at early and mid level Town Hall 8, many
players still need Gold and Elixir to upgrade Walls, Barracks, Spell Factory and other basic structures. So
today i'm gonna introduce the newest Town Hall 8 farming base that not only protects the Dark Elixir but also Gold and Elixr.

If you've maxed out all neccesary buildings and even the Dark Elixir isn't the primary protection subject,
you may want to check out some very effective Town Hall 8 War Base that guard your village against
Dragons and Hog Riders.

If you are at Town Hall 8 and find all 3 resources equally important, this one is for you!



Here is it. We'll take closer look at it and analyze why defenses are where they are.

The Core of Town Hall 8 Farming Base:

- Centralized Clan Castle: your enemy would have a hard time trying to drag out your CC troops

- Barbarian King: he would always be around his alter, that would gurantee the safety of Dark Elixir too. 


The second layer of Town Hall 8 Farming Base:



- triangulated Air Defenses, Wizard Towers
- Squared Mortars
- Air Sweeper cover Dark Elixir Storage, 2 ADs, and the Barb King
- 3 Gold Storages and 3 Elixir Storages are within range of Wizard Towers. Senior players would know that
Wizard Towers are great at protecting resources.


The final Layer of Town Hall 8 Farming Base

- Point damage defenses(Archer Towers, Cannons) guard the base from 5 directions
- Traps and Hidden Teslas filling the gaps inside Walls


Outside buildings:

- As most bases, Barracks, Army Camps, Lab, Spell Factory etc surrounding the Walls to take the first wave
of damage and allowing Mortars to deal damage at invading troops.


Many Town Hall 8 farming bases have similar design idea so this one is actually quite typical. But what I like it most is that this layout takes care of all Storages and all defenses are reasonably placed to fully defend the village in all possible directions. And that's easier said than done. 
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2015 Top 4 Town Hall 8 War Base Anti Dragon and Hog Design

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At Clash of Clans Town Hall level 8 you would face constant raids from Town Hall 9 and even
Town Hall10 players. It's a stage where you don't have enough defensive power to protect your
resources especially your trophies. So a good war base is very important to at least keep you
from losing too many stars. 

This post will introduce some of the best TH 8 war base design I've seen in 2015. 


Before we go to war bases that defend against attacks, it's important to know what is actually attacking you
at Town Hall 8.

In general, your Town Hall 8 war base need to fulfill these purposes:

    1. Have funneling setup with Spring Traps to guard against Giants;

    2. Double Giant Bombs to take care of Hog Rider rush;

    3. Well protected and positioned Air Defenses to intimidate mass Dragon attack

Now Dragons are expensive units and usually attackers using mass Dragon raid only aim at big cash or
absolute 3 stars. So if you're attacked by mass Dragon army, you are doomed to lose. What you CAN do is
to guard against low level Dragons and unsophisticated players.


Here I present 4 Town Hall 8 war base with strong defenses.

Town Hall 8 war base Anti Hog Rider layout:



- Attackers using Hog Rider raid would need maxed Hog Riders and also high level Healing Spell to take
out this base.

- Note where double Giant Bombs are possibly placed.

- Skeleton traps will be triggered early in the attack and will deal quite some damage at Hog Riders. 


Town Hall 8 war base Strong Funneling layout:



- this design would works great against Giants as one Spring Trap can bounce away 3 Giants in seconds.


Town Hall 8 war base with strong Anti Hog and Air capabilities:



- centralized Air Defenses makes it difficult for attackers to get 3 stars with mass Dragons raid.
- the Giant Bombs packs make it good against Hog Riders.


Town Hall 8 war base Anti Dragon layout:



- Air Sweeper facing all 3 Air Defenses. That makes Balloons difficult to take out ADs.

- Air Defenses are seperated in different cells yet all near the core, providing strong protection for the
Town Hall and Clan Castle.



Hope you find these Town Hall 8 war base design applicable to your own use.

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