Trap or bait? 

In my opinion players have confused traps as onslaught monsters. I consider the latter as bait and call it fishing. Usually, it's a pride thing. Whichever account type you're asking about has several different opinions on it for sure. 

Take the advice you want, research and test yourself too... Be original and many will fall into your trap.

my god, you ask us to write a book...

there is plenty of type of trap...

you can trap tile, don't need a lot of troop for it, a little more that the max capacity of your march... you yield tile around you with a few troop and wait until a tile hitter appear... allow him to hit you a few time on tile then it will become confident that you are stupid... then send your strong max march on a tile... most of the time, he will hit and fail... never start direct with the big march on tile because ennemy can spy on it without you knowing it...

you can be a "flying" trap... unshield and hit everywhere, teleport regulary so ennemy is no able to make a onslaught... you will be like a annoying fly and soon one single city will try to hit you... be sure to have plenty of troop for reach a good saturation level... be sure that you are good with spy too because you don't want the ennemy to know what are your stat and amount of troop... it help to fake your statistic too... at a early stage, train a few million t1 and ask a friend to hit you when your hero/shaman is out of town during a lust of power event by example... he will make point and kill all your t1... then, for the next few days, ask him to hit you plenty of time...now, train your real army... some t1 as meat and plenty of high level... now, you stat show that you have loose plenty of battle, that you have loose plenty of troop... it will make the ennemy who check your stat that you are weak... if your trap work good, the new meat t1 will die but your high lvl will give your victory... stat about dead troop will increase but you loose only t1 and he will loose more high level

a other type of trap involve multiple player... you can be the goat who attrack the ennemy... your need to be able to organize massive onslaught... have some rss and few troop in your town for lure the ennemy... drop shield, start a onslaught against a small dead city with the max delay... other player can begin send strong troop for the onslaugh... when trap is ready, you will become a attractive target because spy will only see your few troop and the rss, they will not see the troop send by other for the onslaught... but when ennemy will attack you, these troop will participate in the defense of your city and lead to victory

and there is plenty of other way for make trap using deception...

this is the end of the intro on trapping... before making a few thousand post for reply on your topic, look at :

old tutorial but the basic remain true http://www.vikingswarofclansdata.com/guides/trap-account-part-1-buildings/

https://plarium.com/forum/en/vikings-war-of-clans/game-tutorials/103722_proguide---trap-account/

https://plarium.com/forum/en/vikings-war-of-clans/game-tutorials/103085_trappers-gonna-trap/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4OU_S7ReD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXui8qBJ78

I would like to add this link here tho title is bit astray from topic but if you read the defensive onslaught you will get some insight on traps.

https://plarium.com/forum/en/vikings-war-of-clans/general-questions/101780_onslaught-types-and-does-donts-of-it/

Thank you for your help.

I read all of you infos, thank for that. 

So before i start testing, what is the min. amount of troops, i should have?

I have 600 mio influence in knowledge(only knowledge mention in your links) and my clan is fighting agains 1- 5 Billion Influence Player. 

in total my Troops have 

436% Troop Offence

809% Troop Defensive

638% Troop Life

when they are the defender. is this enough to start?

Thanks you again for your help.

Modrit

modritbank said:

So before i start testing, what is the min. amount of troops, i should have?

The minimum is as much as you can...

You need a lot of T1 who will be the one who die and high tier troop who will give you the victory... i am specialist archer and i have 10 mil t1 , 2 mil t2/t3/t4 , and a few mil t5/t6

have stronghold archer armor too and archer shamman with archer gear

it is ok for a 1 vs 1 but it is barely enough in case of onslaught... have loose almost all my t1,t2,t3, and t4 in the onslaught below

 is this enough to start?

everything is enough for start but remember that there is always somebody better that you... be prepare to loose some defense battle and rebuild your army...

Hey,

thank you for your help. I had a lot of fun the last weeks.

But now i have more questions, maybe you can help me again.

Do you have more than one Infirmary ? Or you just build new units?

And when, how many Barraks do you have? I have 4 now and have enough space in there to you the 15h Booster to train T1 Units.

Thinking of building more, so i can use the 24h Booster too. So it becomes easier to build millions of t1 units.

What is you Citylayout?

Secound, what do you research? Do you research things in the Hero or Shaman Knowledge tree? 

At the moment i have research the military tree till 10/15 Troop **** during defense.  The Stuff in the invader tree (till lvl25 Orakel).

Tier I - V Troop i have ( T1,T2 15/15), (T3 10/15), (T4,T5 7/15). For Scouts i have all till Phantoms.

What are my next Steps in Knowledge?

Thanks Modrit