DESCRIPTION

The Builder Base Mine is similar to the Home Base Bomb with on major exception, they can be set to either air or ground. The Mine does area damage but light damage. They are perfect for a couple of different roles on your builder base although wiping out hordes of ground troops will not really be one of them. They are hidden from the attacker and due to their 1 tile size they can easily hide just about anywhere on your base

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STRENGTH

Mines are ignored by most players. Most group them close together and hope the take out 2-3 Sneaky Archers or Raged Barbarians but they can have a much bigger impact o your overall ability to defend if you take a little extra time and effort and place them in the right spot for the right types of attacks, mainly air raids. Yes air raids, and not from the Baby Dragons (they won't hardly scratch them) but from one of the elite troops in the Builder Base the Night Witch. The Night Witch generate endless flocks of Bats that can easily over run your base but with a little help from the Mine, set on air you can really hurt their chances of a big raid. They key will be to to get the attacker to attack your base from the direction YOU want them to and for you to set up your defenses and traps for that exact attack. What do I mean? Why mention this on the Mine Page? Both good questions right>? This is why we mention this on the Mine page.. To use your entire defensive arsenal you have to keep everything im mind right from the start. ( BTW, If you are BH2 you won't have to worry about Night Witches attacking you so in your case watch where attacker like to attack you from and scatter the Mines out in that area. You will star off by using the Mines on ground until the Beta Minions start attacking you then switch to air to help with them) For the rest of us we need to use every tool possible to stop some of the elite attacks. Ever wonder why someone would set up their base down in 1 corner? They do this because they know the Night Witches need time to build up their Bats and they give them 3 corners to start from... intentionally. Attackers will start off in the furthest corner from the base, drop the N Witches and watch them mass produce a huge swarm of Bats. As they get to the outer walls the Bats will quickly over run the defenses so we will need to place 3-4 Mines set to air on the outer walls NOT backed up into the corner. Just 3-4 Mines set to air will wipe out the initial swarm of Bats and reduce their chance to 3 star by 25-30%. Place the last couple of Mines over any ground based defense somewhere in the back side of the base just in case the Night Witches do manage to take out most of the base..Often is comes down to 10-12 Bats that clean house on the last 6-7 ground defenses ad trash buildings, the Night Witches are gone the Hero is gone and if you have a couple of Mines set up in the back side of your base those last 10-12 Bats will be gone too... lot of work for a Mine!

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WEAKNESS

Mines do little damage so that is their weakness. Try to offset their weakness by targeting the weaker troops like Beta Minions and Bats. If you feel as if setting the Mine to air is a waste and insist on setting them to ground, keep the Mine away from your defenses. Boxer Giants are defense only troops and if the attacker is using the Boxer Giant you want to try to avoid allowing them to trigger the Mines.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Mines like the Home Village Bomb can be completely disregarded and just put any where on your base and have very little impact on any attack on your base or you can take some time and think long and hard about how you are going to use these seemingly small tools as an asset for you. Personally I think about every building on my base. I consider their hit points and their DPS (if they are a defense) I consider how attackers will try to overcome the pitfalls I have on my base. I want to outsmart the attacker every chance I get. The Mine is as important to me as a Cannon or Archer Tower. Dueto the fact that I have made their placement as high of a priority as any other defense most of you would be amazed at how many attacks on my base have been hindered by something so small as a Mine.