Bradders’ guide to Town Hall 10 base building
Introduction to Th10 Base Building Guide – by Coach bradders
The purpose of this guide is to aid upcoming base builders in the building of anti-3 Th10 bases. The guides set out in this Th10 Base Building Guide, are just that, guides. In short, they are not “must do’s”. Every th10 builder should also have his or her own creative freedom, it should shine through in your builds. However there are some mandatory base building and trap placements, which this th10 guide covers.
Throughout this base building guide for th10, I cover the mandatory placements, optional placements as well as the creative freedom required. I also give a brief description of how I go about my builds.
Moreover, this base building guide is written for Players that have all of the defensive buildings in place at th10. This base building guide also is for creating builds with the intention of defending th10 versus th10 attempts. Above all, if you get beaten by a player with a warden, do not feel disappointed in yourself or your build. In fact, after reading this, you will be better armed to go and create those unbreakable bases.
Overview
Current meta requires you to build a compact base that has lots of defences targeting incoming troops at once. This way you’ll eat up incoming attacks and then leave attackers wondering… Where did my troops go?
The base should make lalo pathing as well as ground troop pathing difficult. It should also not give up the triple to dragons with easily snipe-able air defences. Single target infernos will halt dragon attacks, by the way.
Mandatory
If you haven’t already guessed it, there are thus things that are absolutely compulsory in every build that you do. They are the basics and so in this section a lot of the material is lifted from various th9 guides. Post update the biggest change to th10 meta follows th9 meta. So do not have a defenceless core, because hogs are back in business, in a big way!
Traps
Traps are unknown on the fresh hit and as a result makes them important!!!! Often in elite competitions the first hit is a fresh 10v10 or 11v10, especially if the th9s haven’t cleared well enough to scout. So the attacker is already making guesses as to where your traps are. With this n mind, do not help him or her out by making it obvious!
Spring Traps
As also explained in various th9 guides, spring traps should be placed within the 1 tile spacing between defensive buildings. There’s no other way to say this, so here’s a picture:
The 2 crosses will work against troop movements, but only in one direction and nobody liked One Direction.
Skeleton Traps
Above all, place them away from your queen.
Small Bombs
Individual small bombs should be placed 1 tile away from the wall purposely to thwart the wall breaker. In the latest update small bombs were buffed to take out the same level wall breaker as the bomb itself. The 2 tile distance means that the bomb is triggered and explodes before the kamikaze nutcase wall breakers do, job successful. Small bombs right up against the wall do not explode quick enough to stop the wall breaker blowing a hole in that beautiful wall line. Also remember that wall breakers run between buildings and not through them!
Two tiles away from the wall will also kill raged wall breakers:
Giant Bombs
Doubling up giant bombs used to be the thing to do but the meta has changed. These want to be well spread out, this way hog attackers can’t then use only 1 heal spell to deal with multiple giant bombs. Spread out giant bombs also mean that an incoming kill squad is more likely to get caught by at least 1 giant bomb (if you’re smart about it you can guarantee this). Some of my bases are designed to defend the dip and have 4 out of 5 giant bombs outside the exterior of the walls.
Air bombs
Never place these next to air defences. Their purpose is to take out loons not hounds. So just don’t do it.
Seeking Air Mines
Place these near air defences, they’re supposed to take out hounds and not loons. So go ahead, do it. If you can place these outside of the wall layer it also helps to prevent queen walks but don’t go mad with it as interior SAM’s break drags, it’s a trade off.
Defences and Heroes
Next, the buildings that the fresh hitter can see.
Clan Castle
The clan castle shouldn’t be lurable, make the attacker spend at least 15 troop space if they want to lure the clan castle troops, don’t just give them away.
Cannons
Place these amongst your air defences so that you get good ground cover to go with your air cover.
Archer Towers
Place these amongst your Wizard Towers so that you maintain good point defence air cover along with your wizardry splash damaging defences. Remember you also need air targeting splash covering the entire base.
Wizard Towers
DO NOT place these so that air defences are within their range, a wizard tower targeting a hound is bad news.
Bomb Towers
Do not place these toward the exterior of a base… If a queen can snipe this building from outside the base then you can guarantee that the attacker is looking at an easy way to trigger this bomb consequence free.
What is more, they protect the queen from a raged skelly spell kill. The queen targets the hound and the bomb towers protect the queen while she reks.
Mortars
Literally the most useless defence in war play, as something had to be. So use these to make funneling awkward.
Hidden teslas
I’ve included these here though I suppose they could have been a trap. They’re important, especially for that fresh hit. Use them to make funneling or pathing awkward. Also remember, troll teslas work.
X-bows
Generally there’s a bit of a mix when it comes to xbows, the only mandatory thing is that you don’t rek yourself by having them walkable by a queen.
Air Defences
As a group, the mandatory thing to do with Air Defences is not to allow all four of them to be walked or sniped. If you do this you will consequently open yourself up to a drag hit of some variation.
Air Sweepers
These must not be placed so that they push healers out of the base… All that does is make the queen walk last longer, unless you can place in such a way the it means the queen is under too much dps while the healers are being pushed away.
Inferno Towers
The mandatory thing to do with Inferno Towers is do have them set to multi-target.
If your infernos are on multi, then do not let them get sniped by a queen walk. So make a queen charging multi inferno difficult.
Barbarian King
Excellent defender against hogs, so don’t allow the attacker to swap him for their king in an easy funnel situation.
Archer Queen
She’s an absolute beast, for this reason you should protect her. This is mandatory. Not optional. Do not expose her. Do not give her away cheaply.
Trash
Although I’m not covering every single trash building, there is important things to note when placing them. It is important to not have high hit point trash buildings that can be used as anchor points for kill squads. Another mandatory point is to not place trash buildings so that bowler bounces can be achieved on defensive buildings.
What to keep in mind when placing trash buildings
That means place your trash at least 3 tiles away from the nearest defensive building. But only if it has higher hit points than that defensive building! I realise this cannot always be achieved for trash within the interior but it is a must for the exterior. That means 2 tiles from the wall usually. 2 tiles! Incidentally, in this way you can also hide tesla locations. OR directly next to the wall in order to make the funnel difficult, but never 1 tile away at th10. This is useless. You can also double up the trash layer in areas you want to stop the funnel happening. Thus, make sure the inner trash cannot be dropped with a bowler bounce from the outer trash building
Trash means the town hall too
The Town Hall is also a 4×4 tile space gold storage. Don’t put it in the core. Thus the Town Hall is TRASH! The town hall should also make a triangle shape with your inferno towers. Generally having a straight or near straight line go through your TH and 2 infernos, opens you up to KS type hits. These include mass pekka and frozen witch.
Summary
This th10 base building guide also covers mandatory features that I am assuming you have some knowledge of first.
Optional
This is where some of that creative freedom starts to creep in and where the fun finally begins…
Traps
However, this is where the real thought comes in. Anybody can throw defences together, but if you step back and think about the opponent’s likely attack style and execution, you can break the attack.
Skeleton traps
As a matter of fact, place these within range of splash damage, because miners’ AI will target skellies over any other structure. So Miners will literally stand there swinging a spade at skeletons, while the Inferno of your choice melts them. Wizard towers also like to wreck Miners while they swing at the skeletons.
Spring Traps
Ok, so these bad boys are the best way to thwart hogs. If I’m a hog attacker what are my key objectives before I send in the hogs? The obvious ones do indeed not matter now (queen, cc, an inferno etc.). Wizard Towers! Hogs are OP, but are weak to wizard towers. So if I can, I will try to pick up wizard towers with my kill squad or queen walk. So, it is obvious that what I’m saying, spring traps aren’t necessarily best placed at the feat of wizard towers. This is because skilled hog attackers will try to avoid as many wiz towers as possible.
Now there are obviously exceptions. But it’s a lot easier to smash your hogs through 4 air defences, than through wiz towers… Do you see where I’m going yet? Not only should you place them at feet of air defences, but aslo between 2 buildings. Preferably also away from your queen. Hog hitters have to grab your queen before they send hogs in. So don’t put springs in the path of the ks or qc.
Small Bombs
There actually isn’t many options with these. They either go in a combo to defend witches (explained in th9 guides) or they go 1 tile away from the wall where you expect wall breakers to attempt to break.
Giant Bombs
Covered in mandatory section as well as th9 guides. I like to have at least 3 outside the base usually. No doubles though. Spread these out so a heal spell cannot cover multiple bombs (including your bomb towers).
Air bombs
These work well next to or near your wizard towers as well as next to or near inferno towers. Don’t stack them though. And again, this is where you need to look at your base design so far. Think about where the loons will be bunched up, because that’s where you need these.
Seeking Air Mines
These however, are almost the exact opposite of air bombs. You want them in the paths of hounds and or healers on queen walks as well as incoming blimp/ss. So, have a look at your base, where would you send your hounds in? If you can also place these in the path of queen walks that actually works as a buy one get one free.
Defences and heroes
Next, the buildings that the fresh hitter can see.
Cannons
Usually these are all inside the exterior wall layer, they offer very good ground point defence, they can end a queen walk prematurely or at least force spell use. Cannons are actually a very underrated defence. They don’t provide air cover so let’s have a think about what these need coupling with… Air Defences!
Archer Towers
Of the 7 that you have, at least 6 of these are usually placed away from air defences as they are another form of point air defence. They’re a very versatile and are usually accompanied by wizard towers, but again keep in mind that you want all of the base protected by air splash to combat bats.
Wizard Towers
These can all be placed reasonably close together but not so close together that one heal covers them all as a loon or hog attacker will get incredible value, and again remember they need to protect the whole base from bats, only Wiz towers and Inferno towers on multi can do this. So, place these away from your air defences and also place them in the paths where loons and hogs are likely to bunch up.
Bomb Towers
So we’ve discovered these should be fairly centrally placed, at least out of reach of a queen walk but where? The easy answer is, these should be placed in such a way that they protect the queen from a skeleton spell kill while she stands shooting at a hound. Bomb Towers don’t target air troops so they are great for wasting those skellies (This is why wizard towers aren’t as prepared for the same job).
Mortars
Still useless at defending, but they can be used cleverly to cause hogs and loons to leave the interior of the base causing valuable time to be lost.
Hidden teslas
Say no to tesla farms (unless they affect funneling/pathing), say yes to placing these 2 tiles away from a mortar as explained in depth in the th9 guides. Do include the small bomb and giant bomb combo of course! It is also a good idea to use these to again force loons or hogs to leave the interior of the base and waste time hunting a single tesla placed outside the base.
X-bows
These can be placed centrally or slightly less centrally, don’t allow them to be queen walked though. Generally speaking it’s also bad form to have 2 in the same compartment; hence that’s an advertisement for buy one get one free. There are exceptions to this of course.
Air Defences
Make awkward lalo pathing for air defences. If you make a square out of your air defences, be prepared to watch the house of cards fall as a result. However having all 4 in a slight curve or line on one side of the base or diagonally through the base means hounds have nowhere to go when the air defences are dealt with causing loons to bunch and die. Having air defences reasonably close also means that the incoming hounds are targeted by more than one air defence, they go double time on that poor houndy. Making a “rocket shape from air defences also works quite well”.
Air Sweepers
I always have these pointing away from each other. I have one covering the queen from an incoming blimp and one facing opposite to stop incoming queen charges and stone slammers.
Inferno Towers
Inferno Towers are also a thought provoking structure but are often placed quite early in the build so maybe less so than sweepers.
Infernos want to be placed so that a jump does not connect the two compartments that withhold them, unless, they are on adjacent sides of the base. Having infernos on adjacent sides of the base will help with defending miner attacks, because it makes pathing more awkward and thus unpredictable.
Protect your infernos and they’ll protect you. Don’t allow them to be bowler skipped on from any direction if possible, inferno islands aren’t mandatory anymore but these have high hp and are worth holding onto as they can often be the difference between 99 and triple.
Inferno Islands are also in again, use them, make pathing awkward and remember to cover the whole base with air targeting splash.
Barbarian King
Can be used to protect your queen, but can also be away from your queen in the likely path of hogs. You’ll be bored of reading this soon, but do think about your design. Place your king where he will be needed, either protecting your queen or smashing hogs, both work.
Archer Queen
It’s a safe bet to place your queen centrally and it quite often works well. Protect her and she can end any style of attack that the attacker has in his locker.
Trash
You should always consider hit points of trash and place accordingly as outlined in the mandatory section. You can use high hit point trash to protect your infernos, this is a common thing to see in new meta base designs at town hall 10 but do remember the 3 tile rule between infernos and other structures, this isn’t mandatory either.
Summary
There are still a lot of things that are your choice, the main one being the actual shape and design of the base… You just have to encompass everything you’ve read up to this point.
Creative Freedom
It’s your base, however, your design, your baby. Use what you know to create an awesome base. If you follow this th10 base building guide, you’ll have created a new meta format base (July 2019), which may be able to withhold multiple times. Even in the highest level of competition.
Clan Castle troops
Central CC
If you think your base is weak to miners only, you may consider having a golem in your CC, this is the quickest way to see off miners but it does little else against other attack styles.
Generally centralised cc’s have lalo in them to slow down heavy kill-squads while the queen hits the hound instead of defences.
If the kill squad is coming through the queen before cc then I would opt for a damage cc variation. Otherwise central CC’s want a hound/loon combo (ONLY).
Offset CC
Offset cc’s may include 3 valks and a baby dragon in order to wreck a queen walk if that’s what you think is the likely attack on your base.
If you think you’re going to get 11v10 dipped, using 2 witches and a babyd is a great way to slow down the edrag-clone attacks we see so often.
Lurable CC
You’re an idiot, why did I bother writing this (could become a thing at some point soon- bradders 2017) – this never became a thing – bradders 2019.
My Builds
As explained in other guides as well as this th10 base building guide. You have to find your thing. It will come to you.
When starting a build I usually get the idea for a feature in the build, one that I may have seen work well somewhere else like a dead zone that troops avoided costing time or something similar to this. I will then create the desired feature and fit the current meta base around that feature. I cannot say much more than that without physically showing you a build… and well they’re for me and mine so won’t be displayed here.
I finish off by getting it critiqued by at least 3 of my most trusted builders (in clan) and then get it friendly challenged by players with talent and by multiple attacks starting with the ones it looks weak to.
Live Build
I built the base below in 2017 and if you follow it through to the end I explain how it can be easily adapted to work in July 2019.
Here I will show a build from start to finish, the way I do it. Obviously I’m not going to give away my best work but this section should give you a good starting point of the steps I follow when building a base.
The Idea
Ok so I’ve gone fairly basic with this, my idea for this build was that we’ve all seen the basic 9×9 grid bases at th9, well can we make one work at th10, let’s find out…
(looking back at this in 2019 I would try to make 6 oclock harder to funnel now, expecting the town hall would have been placed at 9 o’clock.)
Conclusion
A lot of this may seem very vague but it isn’t intended to be, I’d like it to be seen as inspiration for those undefeatable bases that end up being called “that wanky internet base” when the meta changes again next year.
Catch my live build streams on https://twitch.tv/ogbradders for more tips and tricks.
There’s no way I’ve managed to cover everything here so when the questions start rolling in I will update this th10 base building guide accordingly.
Version: 4.0
Last Updated: 28/06/2019 (That’s right I’m in the UK)
Thanks for reading this th10 base building guide, I hope it helps!
This th10 base building guide was written by Coach Bradders.
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