Barbarian
The Barbarians
- Description
- The Barbarian is the first army troop that you get given in the game. When attacking, they will target the closest enemy building. If they are attacked by enemy troops, they will then attack them instead. When on the attack, spread your barbarians out to avoid them all being wiped out by the splash damage of mortars, and due to their low cost and ease of training sending a large group to one target can quickly destroy it for a low price.
- Offensive Tips
- The Barbarians are useful to distract defenses in groups and powerful when swarming in huge numbers.
- Archers and Giants are commonly used to support Barbarians.
- Barbarians are weak when breaking through walls and a group will tend to target multiple walls so it is advisable to use Wall Breakers or high damage troops such as P.E.K.K.As to break through.
- Players sometimes spread Barbarians to avoid them all being picked off in one group by a Mortar or a Wizard Tower as these Defensive Buildings deal splash damage.
- Large masses are very effective as they will quickly destroy anything in their path.
- The Barbarian has no preferred target when attacking; he will simply attack the closest building to him.
- They are good to take out lone buildings, e.g. builders huts placed far away to prevent full destruction.
- If a Mortar is exposed and otherwise undefended, a single Barbarian can easily destroy it as Mortars cannot target troops which are close to them.
- Barbarians can act as a "poor man's" distracting troop in a similar fashion to Giants; while they have far less health individually, a group of five Barbarians (the same housing requirement as one Giant) has approximately 75% of the health as a similar-level Giant while doing nearly 4 times the damage (and costing approximately 20-25% of the elixir to train). Note that this strategy is far less effective if splash damage defenses are in the area, as they will damage all Barbarians at once and destroy them relatively quickly.
- Defensive Tips
- The Barbarians are an excellent choice for Clan Castle troops as they have relatively high health and damage for single housing space troops. They are capable of soaking up a significant amount of damage, delaying attackers and allowing your fixed defenses take care of the rest.
- Upgrade Differences
- When reaching level 3 the Barbarian gains a leather headband and a larger sword.
- The level 5 the Barbarian receives a Viking helmet and bronze broadsword.
- At level 6 Barbarian wields a dark iron broadsword and sports a mighty horned helmet, complete with facemask. All accoutrements (kilt, belt, wristbands and sandals) turn a darker shade of brown as well. He also wields his sword with one hand when stationary.