EZE TIP- Base designing starts to become very challenging in TH7. Dark Elixer and the troops that go with it are now attacking your base as well as lower level TH8s in the multi player arena. What does this mean? Barb King and Dragons and Loons oh my! Yes TH7 is where the Dragon attacks become the go-to attack of most every TH7 player. As they advance the DragaLoon attack will replace the Dragon attack, meanwhile players like the challenge and high risk for HUGE rewards of the Loonian attack.. so now we star to build our villages and war bases with the focus on the air attacks. This is where most players will learn the defensive value of their Storages and begin building their bases with equation storage=shield.

       There was a time when it was almost impossible to defend against the air attacks in TH7 BUT SuperCell heard the cries of a million TH7 players and wisely added a 3rd Air Defense to the TH7 upgrade. This helped a lot but the introduction to the Dark Spells (and the ability to receive them) still gave the advantage to the attacker, especially because there are so many TH8s either maintaining a low trophy count in multi player mode or simply attacking down a Town Hall level in war. So... the defender needs to keep one more VERY important factor in mind in the base building stages of the game, troop PATHING. Yes that's not even a real word but it is in the Clash World! Learn how troops path through your base and design pitfalls and traps by placing certain buildings closer together, and others further apart. Simple right? Just remember that if any structure is touching another structure to the left and it is 2 tiles away from the structure on the right then the attacking troops will simply attack the closest structure (the one on the left in this example) as soon as the 1st one is destroyed.. right?  Haha, not exactly but close. We continue this in the Best Base TH8 page.