gernash - Do you belong to a clan? If so, with your clan name, I could find your clan and then you if you want! Glad to hear you waited it out, it really is worth it.
And I bet it does Piss them off! :-D
Wired Fuzzy

gernash - Thanks for the thumbs up on that. :-D
The "bat" base thing made me laugh. I actually tried to design a working one of those for Halloween, and it's nearly impossible. I did come up with one that sorta kinda looked like a bat with both wings all the way down, and the gap between them a funnel. The best I could say for it is that it didn't completely suck, but it wasn't good enough to keep either. Weirdest base I ever saw was one that spelled out "GO AWAY" with the walls at the top of the village. Man, you just gotta attack that kind of stuff, it's almost compulsory.
Glad to hear you're at TH8, and you're smart to wait till your stuff is ready for the new layout. It's really hard to convince some people about the whole patience thing with upgrading. Looking forward to following your progress, and thanks for the continued support!
Wired Fuzzy

simon_simpa - Good to hear from you again! Glad to hear you are still using my bases. I wish I had time to put up a TH8 CW base, I just looked through the ones with high listings, and was somewhat disappointed myself. Out of all the ones I looked at for TH8, the one that looked most like something I would do was this one:
HDV8 GDC by Pascalik ( plan/685026 )
I have never tried the plan myself, but the design looks solid to me, and I think it should do well against the most different kinds of attacks. Some plans are better suited to certain types of attacks than others, but if you don't know what you are going to get hit with, I think this type of design is the best overall.
Hopefully I'll be able to do a CW base one of these days, but in the meantime, if you try this one and like it, please let me know. ( And let Pascalik know as well of course.)
Good Luck! Wired Fuzzy

gernash - Thank You for those great words of support, I really appreciate it! Glad to know you have been successful with my plans. I appreciate your saying you liked the description, even though it is in horrible need of rewriting. I get more complaints than compliments on the length, so I am especially glad to hear it helped you out. Hopefully someday I'll be able to lay it out in a more readable format. Feel free to check in with your progress, I love hearing from people, and don't hesitate to comment if you have any questions, or suggestions for me. Thanks again for your great support, and I look forward to hearing from you again.
Wired Fuzzy

Grafo Libre - Hi! Actually, I was the first one to rate and comment on your base almost a month ago! I see you have made some good modifications since I last saw it, so I raised your rating from 4 to 5 stars, (I actually read your comment and raised your rating several days ago, but I have been unable to leave a comment on this plan page for some days due to a server problem, which we finally got sorted out).
Yes, I know my description sucks. I have been adding to my descriptions as time goes on since I started, and they all need to be rewritten. I probably won't shorten them much, as many people are glad to get all the info, but I do need to lay it out better so you can find what you are looking for. Now all I need is enough time to do them... and that's not looking good any time soon unfortunately! :-P
P.S. I actually think your outer Storages are less protected than mine are, and your center ones are more bunched up than mine.
3 Stars for my base... really? Wow. I thought I was hard to please!
Thanks for commenting and rating though, and Clash On!
Wired Fuzzy

Peacemaker_70 - uhh, OK. I guess it's because so many people have used it with so much success, that they give it high ratings, and recommend it to others. I just checked out your three plans, and you shouldn't have any similar occurrences along those lines. I didn't comment on, or rate them... seemed liked the nicest thing I could do. Good luck mate.
Wired Fuzzy

Fariko FlyGuy - Hey man, glad to hear that! Thanks for taking the time to tell me, I just love hearing that stuff. :-) Thanks!
Wired Fuzzy

DG the boss - Great question! The reason is mass Archer attacks. They have gotten really popular, and Archers have a three and a half square range, (all directions including diagonal). If you toggle on the range on the plan, you'll see that you pretty much can't set an Archer down anywhere that it can reach a building, and still not be under fire from your defenses. If I move any (but one) of the buildings out any farther, they can be sniped by Archers without the Archers getting hit until the building goes down, and the Archers come closer. Actually, the top barracks on the left could go out one click, and/or two clicks up, but it didn't seem to me like it gained much advantage, and if it's against the wall, it at least has to go down before a Wallbreaker can be used there. Hope that explained my thinking, and thanks again for taking the time to comment!
Wired Fuzzy

Optimator - Cool man! Looking forward to hearing how it goes, especially during this 1 gem boost period, as everyone is getting hammered for resources right now. If it's going to hold up now, it'll hold up anytime. Thanks for checking in!
Wired Fuzzy

Matty p - That might actually work, give it a shot let me know how it goes.
Wired Fuzzy

Matty p - Sorry to hear it didn't go as well as expected, but you are right, the rules are somewhat different in Clan War bases. For Clan Wars we are going to need to even out the AD's so it's covered from all angles, since, like you pointed out, there are no incentives in a CW to lure people to a certain area except the actual defenses themselves. You can actually use one AD as bait, and make sure you have lots of potential Tesla spots for them to worry about everywhere else there is an AD, but if you do you'll have to concentrate your Air Bombs around that "Bait" AD, so it's not defenseless when it goes down. I'm sure we can come up with some mods that work if we put our heads together. Is the base essentially still the same as my plan shows, or if not, do you have a copy of what you have already done I could look at? I wish I had time to just sit down and lay out a new one, but I am swamped at the moment. Maybe we can co-author a CW base out of this, if you have the time. Let me know what you think.
Wired Fuzzy

dgreenstein - I haven't heard from you for a while, thanks for checking in! I would leave out that builder in the top right corner, as that will cause very little change in an attack, it's only there to add a bit of space when the attackers are spawning. You might try stacking up some decorations there if you have any, or at least don't remove any obstacles that happen to grow there. We all now you can set down troops on those things, but most people still don't, weird, but true. Hope that helps, and looking forward to hearing from you again.
Wired Fuzzy

arnixon - Thanks for taking the time to check in, and I am glad you're still with us! Hope it works well for you, and please stay in touch and let us know how you're doing. I am glad you enjoyed the theory part, my descriptions are all in serious need of rewriting, so I am glad you managed to get through them OK. thanks again for all of your support.
Wired Fuzzy

My sincere apologies to everyone who has left me comments over the last few days. I have had some very painful medical complications, and I have been too out of it to even check my game accounts, or these plan pages. I should be having longer periods of lucidity soon now, and over the next few days I promise I WILL respond to EVERY comment, it just might take me a while. :'(
I really appreciate everyone's understanding and support, and please continue to leave me comments, I will get caught up as quickly as my mental faculties allow!
Thanks again, you guys have all been great!
Wired Fuzzy

Matty p - You are right about my description, it is awful. I have added to it a little bit at a time since I started the series, and it needs to be re-written to be shorter and clearer. It's on my list of stuff I gotta do soon! Thank you so much for the kind words, and checking in with facts and numbers like that, I really appreciate it! Please let us know if you find trap placements that result in better defenses overall, (better more times than it's not), so I can see if we should all be trying your idea. I hope you have good luck in the Clan War, you should keep in mind that you can swap those high hit point Storages out to the outside, or at least the outer ring, to slow down non-defense targeting troops before they get into the interior. Since you don't lose resources anyway, they make terrific shields.
By the way, you were right about people not being able to figure the base out quickly, that and tricking them into attacking from that right side where most of the firepower is aimed, is why it works so well.
Thank you very much for taking the time to comment, and your support, and I look forward to hearing from you again.
Wired Fuzzy

EVERYONE - Sorry I have been out of commission for a few days, but I have the new updates figured in, and we're ready to go again! As always please let me know of any problems, suggestions, etc., and many thanks to everyone for all your support!
Wired Fuzzy

agency6 - Thanks man, good to hear from you! I appreciate the support and kind words. I am a ways away from a TH9 yet, but I'll announce it when I have one ready.
Thanks again for taking the time to comment, and Clash On!
Wired Fuzzy

Dreaming Atlas - You are very welcome, you did a great job. Good luck man!

cSoeldnertruppC - Thank You for catching that! I totally spaced using the thumbnail after I added the new mortar.
I appreciate your taking the time to let me know.
Wired Fuzzy

Kaneaster - That would make a lot of sense. Your instinct on how to correct that problem was right on the money though! I really appreciate the loyalty, I will try and squeeze in a Clan War base as soon as I have some time. I think I can base it off of the Pure Defense base like I did with my latest series, and that saves me quite a bit time. Mostly trying to rearrange the buildings to take advantage of their varying hit points and where each one would be best served. The defenses themselves will probably only shift around a little to accommodate the building changes. Thanks again for all your support, you've been GREAT!
Wired Fuzzy

Kaneaster - OK, thanks for the update. I think that your mod would probably not work as well in a Defense base, but it's good information for me when I'm trying to put together a CW base. In Clan Wars attackers aren't interested in your resources, in fact those buildings have such high hit points they are low priority unless they're in the way. In a regular attack, I can pretty much depend on attackers looking for resources, and approaching the base with that in mind. In Clan Wars though, the objective is solely to destroy the base, so attacks are planned differently. In a regular attack, most people using Hogs are trying to take out that AD, and go from there to the Storages, so the Giant Bombs work well where I show them. In a CW though, where they have a chance to study your base first, and plan ahead, I can see where they would come at it completely differently. I am a bit surprised they didn't still try and take out that AD, but that's also good for me to know. Personally, if I was attacking this in a Clan War, I would come at it from the top left/left side, so I appreciate the input, as I didn't anticipate an attack with Hogs from where they are coming in for you.
Again, thanks for the info and continued support, I really appreciate it!
Clash On! Wired Fuzzy

EVERYONE - I wanted to let you know that I have gone live with the first base in my new "F.C. Defense Base" series. This base actually consists of 2 plans. They are:

"TH8 F.C. [D] Defense Base by Wired Fuzzy"
And...

TH8 F.C. [F] Defense Base by Wired Fuzzy

F.C. stands for "Farm Convertible"
**THIS IS BOTH A FARMING BASE AND A DEFENSE BASE IN ONE**
It is reconfigurable from a Farming Base to a Defense Base, and the switch between the two configurations requires only 11 steps, and about a minute to complete. The purpose of this series of Convertible bases is to have a base that can be a serious Defense base when you are holding or building a trophy count, yet still become a great base for farming and guarding resources with very little effort.

This base is presented on two different plan pages. There is a separate page for each of the two layouts, in order to make it easier to switch back and forth visually, instead of just a text description of the changes and differences between the two. The one with the [D] in the title is the Defense Configuration, and the one with the [F] in the title is the Farming Configuration.

Please check them out, leave me a comment, and give me a great rating on them! :-D
I hope everyone enjoys trying them out as much as I enjoyed designing them.
Wired Fuzzy

Kaneaster - I hadn't run into a Hog attack from that direction before, but a Giant Bomb is a perfect answer. If you move a Gold Mine out, be sure and slide something over, like moving the Elixir Storage to the left one click, so the space is only two squares wide, or someone can spawn troops there. The Wizard Tower should be able to finish off what's left of any that get hit when the Giant Bomb goes off. Thanks for the input, keep up the good work! I am curious as to which Giant Bomb you moved, just so I know what area was left without it, for future reference.
Thanks again for the support!
Wired Fuzzy

Ohshapitznathan - "SubClub" is a great name! I appreciate the invite. I am a LOUSY clan member though, so I am sticking with my own Clan, which is just myself and any family members who don't mind the fact that I can't be depended on to make a Clan War, or that my trophy level sometimes falls like a rock when one of my experiments on a base design fails miserably.
I appreciate support a lot though, that's what keeps me going.
Thanks again man.
Wired Fuzzy

Kaneaster - Thanks man. I hate begging for ratings, but we are having a problem with someone going through and one star rating all the top designers bases. Admin is working on a cure, but in the meantime, our only defense is to ask folks to give us ratings. So thanks again!
Wired Fuzzy

Kaneaster - No sweat on the double post, it happens to me too, you just can't believe it hasn't gone through yet. Since I'm a moderator, I just deleted it! :-D
I am truly humbled by your praise... aww, who am I kidding, I did a happy dance when I read that! I Thank You so much for those kind words of praise, they made my day, maybe even my week!
Unfortunately, I am not even close to TH9. I am constantly mucking about with my bases, looking for new improvements, and that costs me a lot of resources some times. Also, I don't raid with this base, as it is the original plan concept base, and I want to show what it can do, and if you could set your traps to auto reset for you, you could gain trophies with it, quite literally on auto-pilot. So that means I don't build up resources as quickly as if I Farmed. Therefore my upgrade process on this particular base is excruciatingly slow.
Again, I am thrilled to hear how much you like my bases, (you DID 5 star them right?)
:-D and I appreciate your taking the time to show you're support!
Wired Fuzzy

Ohshapitznathan - Hey man, thanks, I already found your attack, and responded on your TH7 base plan. I am equally impressed with your TH7 Clan Wars base. I am giving your attack some serious thought. I'm gonna be looking at possible cures. (Not gonna move my AD "Bait", but I might figure out something.) Thanks for the great compliment and what I'm sure was a good rating, judging by your comments. THANKS!
Wired Fuzzy

overlord_dan - Cool, I have an idea coagulating then. I just took on some extra responsibilities here, but give me a few days, and I think I have something that may work out well. Unless it doesn't of course, but you know how that goes. ;)
Seriously though, I already have a plan about 90% ready, I just have to study it a bit more, and make sure I haven't overlooked anything too stupid before I finalize it.
Stay tuned for the next installment, same Bat time, same Bat channel!

overlord_dan - GREAT to hear from you! I have actually been playing around with that. I have already scrapped two so far that I started from scratch, as they sucked the big one. I keep coming back to something that really isn't much different than my Pure Defense base, other than the TH being outside the walls, and another Storage having better protection. That made me think about possibly a "TH8 F.C. Pure defense Base by Wired Fuzzy", with the F.C. standing for Farm Convertible. I think I could tweak it so that the TH and a Storage, and maybe a few other items could be easily swapped out to turn what is a solid defense base into a working farming base. Not really a Hybrid, as the focus is still on defense, but one could easily convert it to a farming layout for those times that you need it.
As I see it, the basics of a good Defense layout, and a good Farming layout aren't that different, other than the TH positioning, and as much improved Storage protection as you can get with the space gained by moving the TH outside. I already do my best to protect the Storages, so it's not a big stretch to me.
Please think about it, and let me know if you think I am on the right track, idea wise. My experience with Defending is probably 100 times my experience with Farming, as I found I didn't really care for farming, and the time it required, although I can't argue with the logic of doing it, it only makes sense if you're not trying to prove a plan, like I am with the Pure Defense base.
I look forward to hearing from you on this idea,( and anyone else who might have an input as well ).
Thanks again man, glad to see you're still here!
Wired Fuzzy

Jason1076 - Thanks for the great info! I am actually surprised it held up that well, that's is really great news, it means that if I Do create a CW base, I don't have to start from scratch, I can start by tweaking what I have!
I agree with you on the Skeletons... set to ground seems to get the best results for me too, although they are kind of amusing to watch as Air defense in the replays, I don't know why, just looks funny to me.
Thank You so much for recommending my plans to your Dad, I will be curious to hear how that went. Also, it's so cool your Dad plays the game. I have a Son and Grandson who play, although I think my Grandson is getting bored. Ironically, I can't get my own family members to try my plans... I think they refuse to be out done by me, and would rather find their own way, than admit mine is better, ( ahhhh family, gotta love em ). :-)
Thank you again for staying in touch with your always intelligent and pertinent comments, you ROCK!
Wired Fuzzy

raider17 - HELLO, it's good to hear from you again! I especially like the numbers in the comments... puts it in perspective. I really appreciate the support you've shown, and the continued comments... keep em coming!
Thanks again for using my plan, and please stay in touch. Your support and comments are all the thanks I need.
Wired Fuzzy

J-my - I feel stupid, but I don't know what you mean by "you need a tl;dr for this or an outline".
The Giant Bomb outside of the walls goes against my grain as well, as I hate spending that money to blow up a lone barbarian or something. HOWEVER... that particular Giant Bomb has taken out literally a hundred Hog Riders by now, between this base, and my TH7 base, which has identical placement in that respect. I am not completely sure why, but out of all the Hog Rider attacks I have ever had, there have only been 2 or 3 that didn't originate directly in front of that Giant Bomb. Between that bomb, the little ones, and the defenses, less than a half dozen Hog Riders NEVER get over the walls, and up to a dozen can be taken out before they get more than the AD ( which is really used as bait in this plan ), as the other Giant Bomb gets the second wave enough that a few shots from any defense kills them. So, again, I am playing the odds, and I will take the expense of a few flops, for the killer defense against the Hogs.
Not fond of the Wizard and Mortar being together myself, but all my attempts to shuffle them around made things worse, so that's where they ended up. A lot of my placements come from watching my replays to the point of insanity, but it pays off... over the long haul. It's that odds thing again, if I get better results more often a certain way, then so be it, even if it doesn't look quite right. That's what comes about when you actually USE the bases you design over a period of time. Sometimes your best guess as to how it SHOULD work, just doesn't pan out, and something that looks "wrong" actually works.
Thanks again for trying my base, and especially for taking the time to make great comments. If I can be of any help, please feel free to ask.
Wired Fuzzy

Jason1076 - Thank You so much for your own comments, as well as the help with others. I really appreciate that, and encourage y'all to comment to each other here if you think you can be of help to someone. ( It feels good to have someone defend the plan for me too, I won't lie. ) :)
Can't wait to hear how the war went for you, I have had NO input from that end of things at all so far.
As for setting the skeleton Trap(s) to air.. heck yeah, try it! They are still so new, that I am still figuring out where and how they work best myself, so any input would be great.
Again, Much Thanks for the support, and I look forward to hearing from you again.
Wired Fuzzy

Preeway - Hi, and thanks for your comments! Your trophy count is indeed in the correct ranges for this base. Actually, if you are getting attacked by higher level TH's, (and you really SHOULD be at this point), a 50/50 win/loss ratio IS a SURE THING! The higher TH level attackers gain LESS trophies from winning against you, and you gain MORE trophies from defeating them, which will ALWAYS result in a net gain in trophies. It's just a matter of playing the mathematical odds to your favor.
Now, having said that, you should be doing better than 50/50. I would expect more of a 70/30 or even, at worst, a 60/40 win/loss ratio from your level of upgrades in my experience. this is on an average over weeks though. I have had a spell of a half dozen losses in a row before, and while I was beating myself up about how to stop that, I got a string of about 8 or 9 wins, one right after the other over the next couple of days. So, it's the long term plan that we are sticking to... temporary ups and downs don't mean much over the long haul.
As for the DE Storage, it's covered by 3 Mortars, 2 Wizard towers, 2 Teslas, and 2 AD's. In addition, it is behind 3 walls from every direction, and that is as good as it gets in just about any plan you'll find for a TH8 base. In order to protect it more, I would have to use up more walls from somewhere else, which would mean putting three or more buildings currently inside the base, outside the base in order to free up enough walls to do anything with. The problem with that, is that if you have too many buildings outside the base, anyone with a spare 100 or so Archers can 1 star you by getting 50% of your buildings without ever breaking a wall. That's not good!
Unfortunately, I think what you are experiencing is what I call TH8 DE shock syndrome. When you first get to TH8 from TH7, you start getting hit by EVERYONE above you as soon as you have ANY DE to steal... NOBODY who is a TH9 or higher passes that opportunity, and even the TH8's can be greedy enough to try for it. Once you reach TH9 in particular, DE is EVERYTHING to you. They would attack a bear in a cardboard box, if it meant a few more precious drops of that stuff, as they need it for almost everything they have. Until you get higher up, hanging on to your DE is gonna be a real challenge, no matter what. I still maintain that this base will do as good of a job of that as any you can find. You just can't keep someone who is enough levels above you from stomping you if they wanted it bad enough. Think of it as you coming across a TH6 with completely full Gold Storages... you WILL have that Gold! The only difference is that you can find lots of Gold around on all lower level bases, but they NEED that DE so bad you can't even imagine it yet, and it's hard to find, and virtually doesn't exist below TH8.
I hope I have explained my thinking clearly enough, if not, please try me again, and I'll try and do better!
Thanks again for taking the time to comment, and trying my base. Clash On!
Wired Fuzzy