Talk:Troop Strategy Guides/@comment-25146903-20140706214902/@comment-26542174-20150702131551

You need to practice using the troops. All the troops have different abilities, so you can't just throw them in the field of battle and hope for the best. Giants are highly effective in the early stages for war up til TH7. After this point, they are effective for looting and acting as a decoy or human shield to free up other troops. As for dragons: a) you may need to level them up; b) even with level 1 dragons, it's relatively easy to 3 star another TH7, so again, you need to learn how to deploy them. Are you dropping the dragons all in one spot? Are you spreading them out in a line? Or are you properly funneling the dragons into the center of the base??? Above all else, it really sounds like you rushed your TH and you haven't kept up with your troops if you're having such drastic failure issues. If you're a TH7 with lvl 2-3 Archers and Giants, then it's obvious you are going to fail, and you will fail miserably every single time.