Sneak Peek #3 – Builder Hall 8! March 2018 Update Ticker

 Sneak Peek #3 – Builder Hall 8! March 2018 Update Ticker

The announcement of Builder Hall 8 shouldn’t be a surprise, on one hand it was already confirmed in the Reddit AMA two weeks ago plus BH8 was over the net since the release of Builder Hall in May 2017 as it was already in the game files.

Along with the new Builder Hall, there’s also a new defense and a new troop available:

• Mega Tesla
• Super PEKKA

Here are more details about Builder Hall 8:

Resource Buildings:
+1 Elixir Pump
+1 Gold Mine

Defensive Buildings:
+1 Double Cannon
+1 Army Camp
+1 Hidden Tesla
+1 Cannon
+1 Firecrackers
+1 MEGA TESLA (NEW)

Traps:
+2 Spring Traps
+1 Push Trap
+1 Giant Bomb

Troops:
+2 Additional levels for all troops (up to level 16)
Access to…SUPER P.E.K.K.A. (NEW)

Battle Machine:
+5 additional levels

Builder Base Balance Changes:
Builder Base Versus Battle rewards now increase up until 5000 trophies
Sneaky Archer: Level 12 Cloak ability duration is reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
Drop Ship: HP has been increased by 10% across all levels.


Additional Home Village Content:
You can now upgrade a single Mortar in your Home Village to a Multi-mortar defensive building, starting at TH10.

Mega Tesla

Let’s start with the Mega Tesla, a new defensive building for your Builder Base. So what sets the Mega Tesla apart from its not-so-Mega cousins? Take a look!

Build Time: 24hrs
Range: 7 tiles
Targets: Ground and Air
Favorite Target: Any
Damage Type: Chain Lightning

So what is Chain Lightning? The Mega Tesla’s damage will hit the first target up to 7 tiles away, and then will arc to the next closest target up to 3 tiles away and deal damage to it as well. Shocking!

They share the damage it deals per level in the full patch notes on release day!

Super P.E.K.K.A.

She’s big, bad, beautiful, and goes BOOM! The new Super P.E.K.K.A. troop differs from her Home Village counterpart in one distinct way. So let’s take a look at her base level stats when you unlock Builder Base 8.

Units per Army Camp: 1
Spring Weight: 25
Movement Speed: 16
Favorite Target: Any
Damage Type: Single Target
Special Ability: Overcharge

When the Super P.E.K.K.A. receives fatal damage, she does one final explosive attack called “Overcharge”. At level 1, her Overcharge deals 400 damage. And her Overcharge ability gets stronger as her level increases. That’s a lot of boom.

This is going to get interesting how the meta at BH8 will develop around this – the Super PEKKA will be an exloding tank but the Mega Tesla can take her down very fast. Hard to tell if this will force, along with the Giant Cannon, attackers to adapt to more mass troop attacking strategies as the Mega Tesla will also hit multiple targets with the chain lightning.

Also it seems like Supercell has some more info for us, I’m still hoping for the War Tools Darian mentioned in the AMA on Reddit but said that he isn’t sure if they make it into the game for the March Update.

What do you think?