Bomb

Nothing says 'STAY OUT' quite like a good old-fashioned hidden bomb.


 * Summary
 * Traps are relatively inexpensive structures (although the Giant Bomb costs 12,500 gold) that remain hidden until they are activated by an attacking troop moving into their trigger radius.
 * Once activated, traps must be re-armed in order to be a part of the next defensive Layout.
 * Although traps can greatly improve the effectiveness of a village's defense if properly placed. If for example your village successfully repels an attack while you are sleeping, but several of your traps are triggered, any subsequent attacks will not have to deal with those traps until you re-arm them.
 * Although commonly thought of as a trap, the Hidden Tesla is not listed here as it actually a hidden Defensive Building and does not need to be re-armed for re-use.
 * Even though traps are classified as "Defensive Buildings", they are not buildings and do not need to be triggered/destroyed for your enemy to reach 100% destruction (nor do they count toward it).
 * Explodes when an enemy comes into proximity. It works well near outside of village so larger areas of Troops are weakened before breaking through.
 * Does splash damage.
 * By itself, a single Bomb will not do a great deal of damage to even the weakest of Troops (although every bit helps). However, several Bombs in a cluster can significantly damage or even destroy an entire group of Archers or Goblins, for instance.
 * The bomb takes a little time before it can explode.


 * Defensive Strategy
 * One defensive strategy commonly used for the placement of bombs is to place them around the outside of the base to prevent the large numbers and groupings of tier 1 troops in particular but also a giant.
 * Alternatively people decide to create little sections on the outside of their base which contain a defense and are open for a giant to walk in as a trap for them. People like to wipe out a Giant by placing a Spring Trap at the entry to these outer spaces.


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