# TH8 Valkyrie Smash: Ground army

> Two Golems in front, thirteen Valkyries behind, straight through the middle.

Source: https://clanwarden.com/armies/th8/valkyrie-smash  
Town Hall 8 · Ground · Three stars TH9 and TH8.

Valkyries unlock at TH8 and they are the only troop at this level that clears a whole compartment at once. Behind two Golems soaking single target defences they walk a wide line through the core and take the storages, the Town Hall and the defences around them together. It asks for less timing than Hogs and less funnelling than Dragons, which makes it the ground army worth learning first, and it keeps working at TH9 because a TH9 core is still mostly single target.

## Army composition

**Troops**: 2x Golem, 13x Valkyrie, 4x Wizard, 5x Wall Breaker, 5x Minion

**Spells**: 2x Rage, 1x Healing, 1x Poison

### Clan Castle

- Troops: 3x Valkyrie
- Spells: 1x Poison

### Heroes

- **Barbarian King**: equipment Barbarian Puppet + Earthquake Boots
- **Archer Queen**: equipment Archer Puppet + Invisibility Vial

### Copy this army

Opens straight in the game: https://link.clashofclans.com/en?action=CopyArmy&army=h0e0_8-1e2_3i3x12d1x9u2x13-13x12-4x6-5x4-5x10s2x2-1x1-1x9

## How to attack with it

1. Pick the shortest line from an edge to the Town Hall, and open the first compartment on it with the Wall Breakers.
2. Send both Golems through that gap so the Mortars and Wizard Towers commit to them.
3. Drop all thirteen Valkyries behind the Golems in one group, then the Wizards behind the Valkyries.
4. Rage the Valkyries as they enter the second compartment, and Heal them if a Mortar is landing on the group rather than on the Golems.
5. Send the heroes in on the same line once the core is open, and clear the outside with the Minions while the timer runs.

## What beats it

A base with the Town Hall in a far corner and the storages spread wide. Valkyries have no answer to distance, and the attack times out at sixty percent while they walk. Take the Dragons into a base built that way.

## Other TH8 armies

- https://clanwarden.com/armies/th8/mass-dragons.md: Ten Dragons, three Rages, and the reason TH8 war weekends are decided in the air.
- https://clanwarden.com/armies/th8/mass-hogs.md: Thirty Hog Riders that jump every wall in the base and three Heals to keep them alive.

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