Tips to Create a Successful Clan

Tips to Create a Successful Clan

Tips & Tricks

Hey Clashers, I'm sure we've seen the Quantum's Web, King's Rock, Mega Empire and all the other famous clans that are the top of the pack. And I'm sure we have all aspired to join them at some point or other. We, probably, all created a clan at one point, gave it an awesome, a killer description, before abandoning it for lack of members. I'm here to inform you that, that is no longer needed! I am here to tell you, or at least lead (get the pun) you in the right direction for creating a long-lasting, successful clan.

First of all, why do you want to start the clan? Are you in it for satisfying feeling that you get for "ruling" other people? If so, STOP NOW. Don't waste your gold. This is one of the biggest failures I see when I look through the Global Chat. So many people want to people to join a clan that the creator has no interest in leading, and they're doing it for the little fame that get in making the clan. 

If you're interested in creating a successful clan read on, and have every intention of being a mature leader, then please, continue. 

Things you Should NOT Do

1. Under no circumstances should you over free elder or co-leader for you clan to someone you just recruited. You don't want a clan full of power-hungry, unloyal people. 
2. Don't get too frustrated by people leaving and joining your clan. Relax, take a step back and then continue to recruit. If someone leaves, that's fine. Don't give up.
3. Do not patronize people. They're just people that you don't know, and have no effect on you whatsoever in life.
4. Finally, don't spam on Global to get people to join your clan. As a leader, you want to show that you're strong, mature, and a good leader. By spamming you show that you are just a needy five year old who demands attention. 

Things you SHOULD Do

1. Have some requirements for your clan and follow them. If you want people who are level 60+ then recruit people who are level 60 are higher. 
2. Recruit members slowly. While I'm sure we're all eager for war, don't rush right into it without a plan. An organized leader is a successful leader. Plus, there are consequences for everything. Someone might leave during the middle of the war.
3. Be active in the chat. I've seen clans who had a near perfect war record (winning wars) but they never communicated amongst themselves on the in-game chat. Get to know one another, build trust. Ask about their hobbies, where they live, their favorite color, their favorite game (excluding Clash of Clans) Anything you want as long as it remains within the boundaries of the Privacy Agreement. 
4. Be helpful and supportive. Never rage at someone in the game. This will make the other player angry and upset as well and it may affect other clan-mates and them people may leave your clan. 
5. Stand strong about your rules, but be gentle when punishing. Make sure to be an enjoyable person to be around and fun. 
6. Be a just leader. If you have an idea but other people in your clan may not share it, ask them their opinions on the matter. If they suggest something else that others agree with more than yours, then switch to their ideas. Consult your clan before making a decision. Do not try to be a dictator or rule with an iron fist. 
7. Finally, it is advised to have some sort of alternative mean of communication. This alternate method of communication can be used to get to know your clan outside of Clash of Clans, as well as coordinate attacks and plans for wars and other clan business. Kik is a recommended app as it is free and no personal information is given. 

The following are guidelines to keep in mind when creating a clan, not leading one like the earlier text mentioned. 

To begin with, chose a unique name. If you search the name "fire" in the search clans function you will find over a hundred clans with the name "fire". While you can change the description of your clan and the banner, you cannot change the name of the clan. Make sure you chose something you're happy with before buying it. 

Another thing to keep in mind is to chose a shield that suits your clan, make sure it also look professional. While you can go back and change this, it is best to do it now rather than have to worry about it later. SuperCell has given you a plethora of choices, feel free to take your time when picking one. 

Once you decide on a clan, make sure to pick a flag that stands out a bit. You can change the banner at any time, but it's easier to chose it now and pick one you'll stick with, then change it every 15 minutes (exaggeration.)

The Clash of Clans Official SuperCell Forums

Just simple things like choosing a good name or an awesome flag can differentiate your clan from being successful and being unsuccessful. And just for making it this far in the guide, I'll show you one of the best places to hang out in the game, is the forums. I'll be making a detailed post about this later, so stay tuned for that!









I think this about concludes the post. Stay tuned in for more amazing base designs, helpful attack strategies, successful clan tips, random information about Clash of Clans.

Clash of Clans Tips and Strategy Defense #2

Clash of Clans Tips and Strategy Defense #2

Clash of Clans Clash of Clans Attack Clash of Clans Defense Clash of Clans Strategy Clash of Clans Tips

Welcome to Chapter 2. I sure was hoping to get this out a lot sooner than 3 weeks after Chapter 1, but stuff came up (mid terms) and I had some trouble with some tricky stuff (turret range details).

This chapter is much longer and much more detail oriented than the previous chapter. Where as I was trying to make Chapter 1: Base Defense, The Basics accessible to anyone, this chapter gets into the nitty gritty details which is probably more useful only at the higher levels of both gameplay and dedication. As such, it truly is a Wall Of Text™. I did still leave out some details that I thought were getting too specific, so if you want to know why I recommend something feel free to ask in the comments, PM me on reddit, or ask in clan chat in game of the clan I recently set up with the last patch. Now, without further ado, Chapter 2: Advanced base Defense!

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Chapter 1: Base Defense, The Basics

Chapter 2: Advanced Base Defense
2.1 Are you a tempting target?
2.1.1 Large amounts of Loot!
2.1.2 Having easily accessible loot
2.2 Having a Good Base
2.2.1 The Standard Base
2.2.2 The Pocketed Base
2.2.3 The Large Pocketed Base
2.2.4 The Bulkhead Base
2.2.5 The Split Base
2.3 Funneling for Victory
2.4 Upgrading multiple defenses at the same time
2.5 Having a glaring flaw in your base
2.6 Buildings outside walls are too spread out
2.7 Turret Range Considerations: What can your towers defend?
2.8 Spawn Forcing
2.8.1 Trick Spawns
2.8.2 Why use trick spawns?
2.9 Messing with Wall Breakers
2.9.1 Decoy Walls
2.9.2 Outer walls with Buttresses
2.9.3 Using extra walls for Buffering
2.10 Upgrading walls
2.10.1 Oh, and DO NOT upgrade your walls in a polka dot manner.
2.11 Placing Traps
2.12 Clan Castle Placement
2.13 Tips and Tricks for Base Defense 

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2.1 Are you a tempting target?The best way to not get attacked is to not make it worth your attacker’s time. There are several things that an attacker will likely attack to get, or not attack due to the presence of.

2.1.1 Large amounts of Loot!Loot is the #1 reason people will attack at low levels. If you don’t have much to steal, you’re safe! Spend as much as you can on walls prior to starting any upgrade. Spend on removing natural decorations when the builder is available. If you don’t have a worker available, start a research project in the Laboratory (elixir) or buy decorations (gold and elixir). 
Note that gold not collected (in Gold Mine or Elixir Collector) can be stolen. 

Other ways to spend resources - Queuing units (even when your army camps are full), building spells, starting research, buying defenses (bombs/spring traps), buying decorations (flowers and flags, they will prevent enemy spawning on top of them).

2.1.2 Having easily accessible lootAccessible loot comes in two types - accessible mines/collectors and accessible storage. Both are bad. Make sure your storage is either empty or in the middle of your base. Make sure your mines/collectors are next to your walls (and therefore next to your defenses). Uncollected resources are easier to steal then collected ones - the buildings are more spread out and the buildings have lower HP.

You should also intermix your elixir collections and mines as well as your elixir storage and gold storage. If an opponent really wants your gold, and all of your mines are together in a nice line, it is much more tempting of a target as not as much needs to be invested to steal the single resource they are seeking. 

Similarly, make sure your two gold storage are not next to one another. 

2.2 Having a Good BaseSee Chapter 1 for details (Common issues: not protecting your defenses, mortar and air defense placement, everything-inside-walls issue, spread out defenses). Also having defenses that are significantly below the ‘normal’ upgraded amount for your trophy count/level. Here are a few more common bases and what I think of each.

2.2.1 The Standard BaseThe standard base follows all of the rules laid out in Chapter 1 - Defenses and storage inside of the walls, army camps, barracks, mines, extractors, etc etc etc outside of the walls. There is a single wall dividing your precious base from the hordes of horrors outside. Now What? How can you improve your base? Well this standard base is weak to giants as once they breach your wall, they can attack all of your defenses without delay. It is also weak to mass goblin attacks for the same reason - Once inside they can often outrun splash damage and steal all of your goodies, possibly leaving you with a victory, but with many less resources to spend.

2.2.2 The Pocketed BaseThis base has the town hall in the center, and every defense around it is surrounded by its’ own 4x4 wall. They are good against giants as the walls slow them down, while keeping the defenses are close together. They are best attacked with giants and archer support.

2.2.3 The Large Pocketed BaseThis base is a variant on the pocketed base, where each pocket has 2-3 structures in each pocket. It is more efficient in terms of wall usage than the pocketed base, allowing for more buildings to be placed within the walls. People who love symmetry in their bases will like the 3 pocket base, as it creates a nice spiral with no wasted space or walls. The differences between this as the Pocketed base are minimal. This base type is more common than the Pocked Base at lower levels due to lack of walls.

2.2.4 The Bulkhead BaseA Bulkhead Base follows the rules laid down in chapter 1 about kicking unneeded buildings outside of the walls, then uses extra walls to segment defenses into different sections allowing for greater protection in case one section is breached (especially by giants). Bulkheads are used in large boats to prevent the entire boat from sinking in case of a leak below the waterline - The flooded sections are closed off via built in bulkheads, containing the flooding to only the affected sections. In the same way, bases use this strategy to contain (or slow) the flood of enemy troops to the breached bulkhead - Where as a single wall a breach would mean your clan is headed to destruction.

2.2.5 The Split BaseA somewhat common (but poor) base defense strategy is grouping your defenses into two groups, with critical non-defensive buildings between them (Town Hall, Resource Storage). This defensive strategy seems to not violate the rules I’ve put down in Chapter 1, but it actually violates the rule of keeping your defenses too spread out. Your defenses should be able to cover each other, ideally as much as possible - keeping them in two groups should be avoided. A split base defense is very vulnerable to giant attacks as they can clean up half of the defenses without taking fire from the other half. Split bases also mean that if either side is wiped out, your critical buildings in the center are very vulnerable to a few arche

Welcome to Chapter 2. I sure was hoping to get this out a lot sooner than 3 weeks after Chapter 1, but stuff came up (mid terms) and I had some trouble with some tricky stuff (turret range details).
This chapter is much longer and much more detail oriented than the previous chapter. Where as I was trying to make Chapter 1: Base Defense, The Basics accessible to anyone, this chapter gets into the nitty gritty details which is probably more useful only at the higher levels of both gameplay and dedication. As such, it truly is a Wall Of Text™. I did still leave out some details that I thought were getting too specific, so if you want to know why I recommend something feel free to ask in the comments, PM me on reddit, or ask in clan chat in game of the clan I recently set up with the last patch. Now, without further ado, Chapter 2: Advanced base Defense! 

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Chapter 1: Base Defense, The Basics

Chapter 2: Advanced Base Defense
2.1 Are you a tempting target?
2.1.1 Large amounts of Loot!
2.1.2 Having easily accessible loot
2.2 Having a Good Base
2.2.1 The Standard Base
2.2.2 The Pocketed Base
2.2.3 The Large Pocketed Base
2.2.4 The Bulkhead Base
2.2.5 The Split Base
2.3 Funneling for Victory
2.4 Upgrading multiple defenses at the same time
2.5 Having a glaring flaw in your base
2.6 Buildings outside walls are too spread out
2.7 Turret Range Considerations: What can your towers defend?
2.8 Spawn Forcing
2.8.1 Trick Spawns
2.8.2 Why use trick spawns?
2.9 Messing with Wall Breakers
2.9.1 Decoy Walls
2.9.2 Outer walls with Buttresses
2.9.3 Using extra walls for Buffering
2.10 Upgrading walls
2.10.1 Oh, and DO NOT upgrade your walls in a polka dot manner.
2.11 Placing Traps
2.12 Clan Castle Placement
2.13 Tips and Tricks for Base Defense

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2.1 Are you a tempting target?The best way to not get attacked is to not make it worth your attacker’s time. There are several things that an attacker will likely attack to get, or not attack due to the presence of.

2.1.1 Large amounts of Loot!Loot is the #1 reason people will attack at low levels. If you don’t have much to steal, you’re safe! Spend as much as you can on walls prior to starting any upgrade. Spend on removing natural decorations when the builder is available. If you don’t have a worker available, start a research project in the Laboratory (elixir) or buy decorations (gold and elixir). Note that gold not collected (in Gold Mine or Elixir Collector) can be stolen. Other ways to spend resources - Queuing units (even when your army camps are full), building spells, starting research, buying defenses (bombs/spring traps), buying decorations (flowers and flags, they will prevent enemy spawning on top of them).

2.1.2 Having easily accessible lootAccessible loot comes in two types - accessible mines/collectors and accessible storage. Both are bad. Make sure your storage is either empty or in the middle of your base. Make sure your mines/collectors are next to your walls (and therefore next to your defenses). Uncollected resources are easier to steal then collected ones - the buildings are more spread out and the buildings have lower HP.

You should also intermix your elixir collections and mines as well as your elixir storage and gold storage. If an opponent really wants your gold, and all of your mines are together in a nice line, it is much more tempting of a target as not as much needs to be invested to steal the single resource they are seeking. Similarly, make sure your two gold storage are not next to one another. 

2.2 Having a Good BaseSee Chapter 1 for details (Common issues: not protecting your defenses, mortar and air defense placement, everything-inside-walls issue, spread out defenses). Also having defenses that are significantly below the ‘normal’ upgraded amount for your trophy count/level. Here are a few more common bases and what I think of each.

2.2.1 The Standard BaseThe standard base follows all of the rules laid out in Chapter 1 - Defenses and storage inside of the walls, army camps, barracks, mines, extractors, etc etc etc outside of the walls. There is a single wall dividing your precious base from the hordes of horrors outside. Now What? How can you improve your base? Well this standard base is weak to giants as once they breach your wall, they can attack all of your defenses without delay. It is also weak to mass goblin attacks for the same reason - Once inside they can often outrun splash damage and steal all of your goodies, possibly leaving you with a victory, but with many less resources to spend.

2.2.2 The Pocketed BaseThis base has the town hall in the center, and every defense around it is surrounded by its’ own 4x4 wall. They are good against giants as the walls slow them down, while keeping the defenses are close together. They are best attacked with giants and archer support.

2.2.3 The Large Pocketed BaseThis base is a variant on the pocketed base, where each pocket has 2-3 structures in each pocket. It is more efficient in terms of wall usage than the pocketed base, allowing for more buildings to be placed within the walls. People who love symmetry in their bases will like the 3 pocket base, as it creates a nice spiral with no wasted space or walls. The differences between this as the Pocketed base are minimal. This base type is more common than the Pocked Base at lower levels due to lack of walls.

2.2.4 The Bulkhead BaseA Bulkhead Base follows the rules laid down in chapter 1 about kicking unneeded buildings outside of the walls, then uses extra walls to segment defenses into different sections allowing for greater protection in case one section is breached (especially by giants). Bulkheads are used in large boats to prevent the entire boat from sinking in case of a leak below the waterline - The flooded sections are closed off via built in bulkheads, containing the flooding to only the affected sections. In the same way, bases use this strategy to contain (or slow) the flood of enemy troops to the breached bulkhead - Where as a single wall a breach would mean your clan is headed to destruction.

2.2.5 The Split BaseA somewhat common (but poor) base defense strategy is grouping your defenses into two groups, with critical non-defensive buildings between them (Town Hall, Resource Storage). This defensive strategy seems to not violate the rules I’ve put down in Chapter 1, but it actually violates the rule of keeping your defenses too spread out. Your defenses should be able to cover each other, ideally as much as possible - keeping them in two groups should be avoided. A split base defense is very vulnerable to giant attacks as they can clean up half of the defenses without taking fire from the other half. Split bases also mean that if either side is wiped out, your critical buildings in the center are very vulnerable to a few archers attacking from that side, effectively meaning your base is half as weak as otherwise.

2.3 Funneling for Victory
Funneling is critical to getting the best results out of your splash damage dealing turrets. It basically means using buildings (mostly walls) to make your enemy go where you want it to go, and then die as you want it to die.
This is how my current base funnels enemies.

Proper funneling turns this into this. 

Do I need to say more? Funneling is also critical to proper trap usage. See section 2.11 below. 

2.4 Upgrading multiple defenses at the same timeYour defenses don’t attack if they’re in the middle of being upgraded when you’re attacked! Try not to be upgrading 40% of your defenses at the same time. This is doubly true for splash damage buildings (mortar, wizard tower) and air defense.

2.5 Having a glaring flaw in your base
Such as a spawn point where you moved a turret out of but didn’t put anything back. Or not having an air defense turret. Or putting your air defense turret outside of your walls. 

2.6 Buildings outside walls are too spread out
At higher levels, more players start caring about trophies. If an attacker sees your base is easy to 1-star (kill 50% of the buildings) without having to place too many troops they will see you as a good target. Keep your buildings close to your walls (and defenses) to prevent this, if you care about maintaining your trophy count.

2.7 Turret Range Considerations: What can your towers defend?
One of the goals of placing less valuable buildings outside of your walls is to slow down your attackers once they are within range of your defenses. NOT to make them spawn farther back - This is of secondary priority. This section covers what that range actually means. Range in this game is also sorta screwed up - Sometimes a turret will decide it can attack a unit standing in a given square, but on another base (with identical unit and turret placement) it won’t attack. This ambiguity is why it has taken me about 2 weeks longer to post Chapter 2 than I was hoping. I still haven’t figured out why it does this.
What can and can’t be attacked without taking return fire is summarized in these pics. 

Cannon - Range 9Archer Tower - Range 10
Archer - Range 4 

2.8 Spawn Forcing
Spawn forcing refers to forcing your opponent to spawn further away from your important buildings, or your base in general. The objective is to attempt to persuade your opponent to attack from a different side of your base and to delay their reaction time (placing reinforcements). You can create this gap outside of your base by arranging your exterior buildings, placing extra walls, placing decorations and utilizing natural decorations. It is not recommended to use buildings to force your opponent to spawn further away, as buildings are more useful to delay your opponent once they are in range of your turrets. However, if you spread out your walls in singles (optimal distribution to create a large no-spawn-zone) wall breakers will almost never attack them. Spawn forcing allows your defenses to kill many wall breakers before they get to your walls if they are unsupported. For other wall breaker defense tips, see decoy walls below. If allowed to spawn directly next to your wall, wall breakers are able to detonate before turrets can strike, even if the wall breaker would normally be one hit by the turret. 

2.8.1 Trick Spawns
Trick spawns are ‘mistakes’ in a spawn forcing situation. Usually a single hole, they are closer to the center of your base the rest of the spawn force allows. However they are intentional and you should make sure you have turrets (especially mortars) barely within range of the spawn square in question.

2.8.2 Why use trick spawns?
Spawn tricks are fun (I’ve had an opponent put down 31 archers in a trick spawn just to have them all die to a single mortar hit - they didn’t opt to continue attacking). Normally they don’t matter but occasionally they help. If created without care, they can allow your opponent an advantage (such as if they can deploy wall breakers). It is inadvisable to rely on traps to defend a trick spawn - if you get attacked twice in a row they won’t be there the second time, plus a smart attacker will place a single unit in the square in question to test for traps.

2.9 Messing with Wall Breakers
Wall breakers are often used in conjunction with giants to get them through the outer walls faster. Here are a few tips to mess with the Wall Breaker AI.

2.9.1 Decoy Walls
Decoy walls are segments of walls of at least 8 that wall breakers will target if they are closer than your real walls. They can also be used to funnel archers and barbarians into taking lots of splash damage from mortars and wizards. Segments of 7 or less don’t seem to work most of the time (seems to be partially based on spawn proximity). If you do further testing and discover any additional details, please report back (for science).

2.9.2 Outer walls with Buttresses
When used in game they look like this. The wall breaker will attack the buttress rather than the walls. Giants will ignore them and proceed straight to the inner walls. Only once the nearby buttress is destroyed will the Wall Breaker target the main wall. This works especially well with spawn forcing, as the farther away the wall breakers spawns the more likely they will target several buttresses, rather than several targeting one buttress and then the surviving ones re-targeting onto the main wall. They can also be combined with Decoy Walls - See pictures of my base in the funneling section for how I use them in such a situation.

If you're curious about the name, buttresses are these things on churches. They support the walls from outside of the church. 

2.9.3 Using extra walls for Buffering

Visual of buffering
If you have extra walls you can also use them to protect your defenses from archers. They simple prevent archers from getting close enough to fire, however they do cut down on the number of buildings outside the wall your turret can protect so I generally only recommend this for situations where you 1) DON'T want archers attacking form 2) have walls to spare 3) don't have buildings which can defend your turret instead. This situation can be considered the advanced method of 'Defending your Defenses' (from Chapter 1) but is generally not viable to lower level players due to the number of walls necessary. 

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rs attacking from that side, effectively meaning your base is half as weak as otherwise.

2.3 Funneling for Victory
Funneling is critical to getting the best results out of your splash damage dealing turrets. It basically means using buildings (mostly walls) to make your enemy go where you want it to go, and then die as you want it to die. 

This is how my current base funnels enemies.
Proper funneling turns this into this. 

Do I need to say more? Funneling is also critical to proper trap usage. See section 2.11 below. 

2.4 Upgrading multiple defenses at the same timeYour defenses don’t attack if they’re in the middle of being upgraded when you’re attacked! Try not to be upgrading 40% of your defenses at the same time. This is doubly true for splash damage buildings (mortar, wizard tower) and air defense.

2.5 Having a glaring flaw in your base
Such as a spawn point where you moved a turret out of but didn’t put anything back. Or not having an air defense turret. Or putting your air defense turret outside of your walls. 

2.6 Buildings outside walls are too spread out
At higher levels, more players start caring about trophies. If an attacker sees your base is easy to 1-star (kill 50% of the buildings) without having to place too many troops they will see you as a good target. Keep your buildings close to your walls (and defenses) to prevent this, if you care about maintaining your trophy count.

2.7 Turret Range Considerations: What can your towers defend?
One of the goals of placing less valuable buildings outside of your walls is to slow down your attackers once they are within range of your defenses. NOT to make them spawn farther back - This is of secondary priority. This section covers what that range actually means. Range in this game is also sorta screwed up - Sometimes a turret will decide it can attack a unit standing in a given square, but on another base (with identical unit and turret placement) it won’t attack. This ambiguity is why it has taken me about 2 weeks longer to post Chapter 2 than I was hoping. I still haven’t figured out why it does this.
What can and can’t be attacked without taking return fire is summarized in these pics. 

Cannon - Range 9Archer Tower - Range 10
Archer - Range 4 

2.8 Spawn Forcing
Spawn forcing refers to forcing your opponent to spawn further away from your important buildings, or your base in general. The objective is to attempt to persuade your opponent to attack from a different side of your base and to delay their reaction time (placing reinforcements). You can create this gap outside of your base by arranging your exterior buildings, placing extra walls, placing decorations and utilizing natural decorations. It is not recommended to use buildings to force your opponent to spawn further away, as buildings are more useful to delay your opponent once they are in range of your turrets. However, if you spread out your walls in singles (optimal distribution to create a large no-spawn-zone) wall breakers will almost never attack them. Spawn forcing allows your defenses to kill many wall breakers before they get to your walls if they are unsupported. For other wall breaker defense tips, see decoy walls below. If allowed to spawn directly next to your wall, wall breakers are able to detonate before turrets can strike, even if the wall breaker would normally be one hit by the turret. 

2.8.1 Trick Spawns
Trick spawns are ‘mistakes’ in a spawn forcing situation. Usually a single hole, they are closer to the center of your base the rest of the spawn force allows. However they are intentional and you should make sure you have turrets (especially mortars) barely within range of the spawn square in question.

2.8.2 Why use trick spawns?
Spawn tricks are fun (I’ve had an opponent put down 31 archers in a trick spawn just to have them all die to a single mortar hit - they didn’t opt to continue attacking). Normally they don’t matter but occasionally they help. If created without care, they can allow your opponent an advantage (such as if they can deploy wall breakers). It is inadvisable to rely on traps to defend a trick spawn - if you get attacked twice in a row they won’t be there the second time, plus a smart attacker will place a single unit in the square in question to test for traps.

2.9 Messing with Wall Breakers
Wall breakers are often used in conjunction with giants to get them through the outer walls faster. Here are a few tips to mess with the Wall Breaker AI.

2.9.1 Decoy Walls
Decoy walls are segments of walls of at least 8 that wall breakers will target if they are closer than your real walls. They can also be used to funnel archers and barbarians into taking lots of splash damage from mortars and wizards. Segments of 7 or less don’t seem to work most of the time (seems to be partially based on spawn proximity). If you do further testing and discover any additional details, please report back (for science).

2.9.2 Outer walls with Buttresses
When used in game they look like this. The wall breaker will attack the buttress rather than the walls. Giants will ignore them and proceed straight to the inner walls. Only once the nearby buttress is destroyed will the Wall Breaker target the main wall. This works especially well with spawn forcing, as the farther away the wall breakers spawns the more likely they will target several buttresses, rather than several targeting one buttress and then the surviving ones re-targeting onto the main wall. They can also be combined with Decoy Walls - See pictures of my base in the funneling section for how I use them in such a situation.

If you're curious about the name, buttresses are these things on churches. They support the walls from outside of the church. 

2.9.3 Using extra walls for BufferingVisual of buffering
If you have extra walls you can also use them to protect your defenses from archers. They simple prevent archers from getting close enough to fire, however they do cut down on the number of buildings outside the wall your turret can protect so I generally only recommend this for situations where you 1) DON'T want archers attacking form 2) have walls to spare 3) don't have buildings which can defend your turret instead. This situation can be considered the advanced method of 'Defending your Defenses' (from Chapter 1) but is generally not viable to lower level players due to the number of walls necessary.

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Clash of Clans Tips and Strategy Defense #1

Clash of Clans Tips and Strategy Defense #1

Clash of Clans Clash of Clans Attack Clash of Clans Defense Clash of Clans Strategy Clash of Clans Tips

Welcome to my Clash of Clans Strategy Guide. If you're just interested in the good stuff, skip down to below. Still with me? Good stuff. I'm starting this guide so I don't need to keep writing out the same suggestions for people when they want their bases reviewed. I'll still give specific details, but now I'll be able to link them to one place. Eventually this guide will probably be on the Reddit Wiki system, once it is released. Please do not post this guide without permission (just PM me and ask) and without crediting me. 

I'll try to keep updating this guide, and I'll try to keep it not so wordy, and have images, especially in the beginner chapters. Please excuse my [lack of] MSPaint skills. If you have advice, images, comments, suggestions of your own, please feel free to comment and I'll incorporate them.

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Chapter 1 Sections:
1.1 Defend your Defenses
1.1.1 Oh God! Enemies Can Spawn There Too?!
1.1.2 Holes in bases are bad, mmk?
1.2 Overlapping Defenses
1.3 Splash Damage: It's your friend!
1.3.1: Where should I place my Mortar?
1.3.2: Where should I place my Air Defense?
1.4 Don't try to stuff everything inside your walls
1.4.1 What should I keep outside my walls?

Chapter 2: Advanced Base Defense

1.1: How to Defend your Defenses
Walls are good. But walls are not the only part in a super awesome base. The #1 mistake I see new players (or not so new players) doing is placing their defenses so they can be targeted by archers spawning outside of the walls. Don't make this mistake.

The difference between 'Decent' and 'Great' has to do with the way units decide which building to attack next. It it too complicated to get into here (this 'basics' section) but I think I'll cover it later in more detail.

The buildings protecting your defenses do matter - Mines/collectors will have more HP than Barracks/Builder's Huts.

1.1.1: Oh God! Enemies Can Spawn There Too?!Not good! Unless it's your enemy! from wadely
Yes, enemies can spawn around the ring of your base. No, you can't build there to stop them. 

1.1.2: Holes in bases are bad, mmk?
When you move any building or wall (but not decorations, it shows you white lines one space larger in every direction than that building. This is showing you where enemies can spawn. Make sure you don't have any holes in your base to let them spawn inside your walls. That would be bad. I will write about how to leave intentional spawn spots in your base later, in the advanced base defense chapter. 

1.2: Overlapping Defenses
Not Good.

Another common mistake is placing all of your defenses widely spread apart to cover as many buildings as possible. Dies very easily to several giants. Or to groups of infantry, especially archers. Or to balloons. Which I guess it means it just dies to everything. This often goes along with 'Trying to stuff everything inside your walls' covered later. 

1.3: Splash Damage: It's your friend!
Mortars (and later wizard towers) are your first and last line of defense against mass infantry attacks. A mortar's damage is only limited by how many troops your enemy puts down and how well you funnel them into where you want them. A fully upgraded mortar (level 6, total cost 3,752,000 gold) will do 45 damage in one shot to the unit it targets. In the same amount of time (5 seconds) an archer tower (level 1, total cost 1,000 gold) will do 55 damage to the unit it is targeting. What does this mean? It means you need to make sure your splash damage defenses are hitting enemies in groups and are protected. How do you get them to hit enemies in groups? Put then in the middle of your base - As soon as the enemy destroy a wall and funnel through it, they will be nice and bunched up for the mortars. 

1.3.1: Where should I place my Mortar?
Somewhere very protected. Probably in the middle if your base, ideally with it's own wall around it. 

1.3.2: Where should I place my Air Defense?
In the middle of your base. Mass are attacks are rare (due to time to build), but not unheard of. A single, upgraded anti air turret is a wonderful deterrent, but it should be placed in the middle of your base. More specifically, it should be placed such that, if a mass balloon attack comes, It won't be the first, second, or third defense they kill.

1.4: Don't try to stuff everything inside your walls
Not Good.

As a counter point to 1.2: Overlapping Defenses, don't try to enclose everything within your walls. First off you will often break 1.2: Overlapping Defenses and 1.1: Defend your Defenses by trying to cover everything, but secondly it is just a waste of walls. Double thick walls are better than a massive single thick wall. 

1.4.1: What should I keep outside my walls?
Absolutely keep your builder huts, Laboratory, Barracks, and Spell Factory outside your walls. None of these matter if they get destroyed - no progress or resources are lost.

Next I would keep out Army camps, and Gold Mines and Elixir Collectors. Each of these has a consequence if they get attacked: Mines/Collectors get resources stolen (but only uncollected resources), and if an army camp dies all troops stationed in it die. Some people really like keeping Mines/Collectors inside - It depends on how often you play. If you do keep a few inside, make sure they are your highest level ones.

What does that leave? Town Hall, Defenses, Elixir Storage, Gold Storage. All of these should be inside your walls and as protected as possible. If you are at a stage in the game where you don't care about trophies, you can also kick your town hall outside the walls. You will be easy to defeat, but if you're only trying to protect your resources then the town hall takes up a lot of space. 

Clash of Clans October 2014 Update 22/10/2014

Clash of Clans October 2014 Update 22/10/2014

Clash of Clans Update October 2014 Update

Since the Halloween is comming soon and Clash of Clans has anonceed a new update with a lot of new things and features. A new game loading background, Skeleton Trap, improved Clan Setting and Search, improved Player Profile, 1 gem boost for Spell Factory, increased loot bonus in Clan Wars & Leagues and much more.

New Trap : The Skeleton Trap!

• This trap is similiar to Clan Castle defence troops, because when attackers get in it's range a small group Skeletons get out and fight them.

• The Skeleton Trap can be set to attack either ground or air troops.

• Skeleton Traps become available at Town Hall 8 and can be upgraded to deloy more Skeltons at once.

Limited special treats during Halloween Weekend!

• You can boost you Spell Factory for 1-gem!
• Obstacles will be filled with Halloween Headstones and will give you special elixir bonus when you remove them.

Clan search and profile improvments!

• Specify your Clan's war frequency and locatio in the Clan profile
• Every Clan has a own unique #hashtag and can be found easier by it.
• Search Clans by war frequency, location, member count and clan points.

Higher loot bonus for Clan Wars and Leagues.

• Now you get higher loot bonus for Clan Wars and Leagues.

Boost improvments.

• Boost all buildings which are the same type with one button.
• During maintenance breaks Barracks, Spell Factory and Hero which are being boosted will be paused untill the break finishes and then countinue.
• Reduced boost for Gold Mine and Elixir Pumps.

Other features and improvments.

• A new Mortar is available to buy at Town Hall 8
• Player profile now shows all troops and their levels of the player.
• Army Camp troops are now visible to visitors when the tap info screen.
• Removing time for obstacles is now lower.
• More space for loot bonus on all Clan Castle levels.

This it right now, please leave a comment below if you want to ask anything and stay tuned beacause soon i will release full update list and features along with images.

How to make 6 million in 2 hours guide

How to make 6 million in 2 hours guide

Attacking Guides Guides Tips & Tricks

Hey again, sorry that i didn't write or post anything for a while, i've been busy with school, exams and personal life. Back on topic today i'm going to show you how to fill your storage's full with gold and elixir in just 2 hours. The troops we are going to use in this strategy are Barbarians and Archers, this is simple barching for loot with some tips and tricks.

1. Make sure your Army Camps are always full with troops.

If you want to gather great amounts of gold and elixir you must make sure that you won't waste time for waiting troops to get trained and meanwhile you can get raided. Before going to raid make sure to fill you Barracks with 100 Barbarians and 100 Archers. If you want you can even boost 2 or 4 Barracks, by boosting them you will get troops 4 times faster so your Army Camps will be fill always.

2. Find the best time for raiding.

If you play Clash of Clans for atleast 2 or 3 month you might have noticed that in certain times of the day/night you find more bases with collectors and mines fill to the top. So make sure you know when is the perfect time for you to attack. Personolly i live in GMT +1 Time Zone and the best time for me is between 22:00 and 2:00 after midnight, this is the time when i find bases with +200k loot in few next clicks

3. Aim for elixir collectors and gold mines.

On thing is important, always aim for collectors and mines becuase from them you can steal atleast 60% of the loot and they are more easier to reach. In the image above you can see 3 gold mines filled 25%, 50% and 90%, you can steal up to 80,000 from a single collector/mine. Just place a line of barbarians and behind them a line of archers and you will get the loot in no time.

Here are some screenshots when i boosted my barracks few days ago, i was able to find every 5 minutes a base with up to 200k gold and 200k elixir.

As you can see i used only Barbarians and Archers, sometimes the King too. But the key point is always find the perfect time to start raiding, time when you will have at least 2 hours without anyone bothering or interrupting you. You can see from this last base that his collectors/mines are fill and storage's are empty, the whole loot is in the mines and collectors. Hope you liked this post, leave a comment if you need help or tip. Visit us for more post and guides.

New Update - Clash of Clans Leagues 17/4/13 (3.124)

New Update - Clash of Clans Leagues 17/4/13 (3.124)

There is a new update, I haven't played this one yet (I really haven't had much time to play lately) but I have been reading through the release notes and it looks good, Im going to see what leagues is al about after this.
Introducing Leagues: compete in your own division!

✔ Joining a League is easy: just own 400 trophies or more!

✔ Get a Loot Bonus out of every victory just from being in a League!

✔ Loot Bonus increases the higher you climb in the Leagues



New unit, defenses and building upgrades

✔ Rock Hard: summon a mighty Golem with Dark Elixir. A glutton for punishment, the Golem won't stop even if you ♥♥♥♥ it in half!

✔ Upgrade the Dark Barracks to level 4 to unlock the Golem

✔ Bolster your defenses with an additional Wizard Tower and a Seeking Air Mine at Town Hall level 9

✔ Level 5 Clan Castle and level 7 Hidden Tesla upgrade now available, also at Town Hall level 9!



Clan improvements

✔ Clan Leader is now able to send messages directly to Clan Members' inboxes

✔ Chat message formatting overhauled

✔ Clan tournament length increased to two weeks, reward doubled

✔ Troop donation statistics now reset every other week

✔ Clan troop donation information is now visible to all players, not just Clan members



Usability improvements

✔ If Clan Castle has space for more troops, "Request" message displayed on top of it

✔ Added option for rotating a Wall section

✔ Added confirmation dialog when speeding up unit and spell upgrades

✔ Attack notification improved for players playing with multiple devices



Balance tweaks

✔ The percentage of loot that can be stolen from Gold Storage and Elixir Storage was decreased to make it easier for newer players to save up resources. The maximum possible amount of loot remains the same.

✔ Upgrade times for Hog Rider, Minion, and Valkyrie decreased

✔ Air Bomb explosion radius decreased

✔ Level 5 Minion hitpoints decreased

✔ Hidden Tesla trigger radius increased

✔ Gold Mine, Elixir Pump and Dark Barracks upgrade times reduced

✔ Spells are now much faster to create

✔ Balloons explode and deal additional damage when destroyed

✔ Wall Breaker behavior improved

✔ Mortar and Wizard Tower don't restart their attack cycle if their would-be target is destroyed, instead they switch targets

✔ Clan Castle troops deploy faster to the battlefield

✔ When your village is under attack from flying units only, your melee troops will stay inside the Clan Castle

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Im going to play through the update this weekend and get back up to date with the game as I had time off, also I noticed people selling hero's and accounts on ebay!? more on that soon.

Archer Tower shoots x2 faster Christmas 2014 Update

Archer Tower shoots x2 faster Christmas 2014 Update

Christmas Update Clash of Clans Update December 2014 Updates

Next Sneak Peak released by SuperCell after the two previous one Christmas Update 2014 Sneak Peak 1 and Sneak Peak 2 Gold Mine and Elixir Collectors level 12 is really exciting, they made Archer Tower shoot twice faster as the regular speed but half a damage per shoot, so if the Damage per Second is 52 then in one second it will shoot two arrows but with damage 26 for one. 

Archer Tower shooting 2 arrow in 1 second

Will this affect the game ?

After this news release a lot of people started to wonder if this will make Archer Towers like X-bows or will make them more powerful. The answer is no in Archer Towers from level 1 to at least 9 and yes in Archer Towers from level 10 to 13. Easiest way to explain this is to use Archers as example.

Will not affect the game in Town Hall from level 8 and below because :

In low-mid level Archer Towers like 1 to 9 this makes no difference because if a level 5 Archer has 40 hit points than it will take two "one second" shoots to take her down.

Will affect the game in Town Hall from level 9 and above because :

But in higher level Archer Tower like 10 to 13 when a level 5 Archer has 40 hit points and a level 12 Archer Tower has 86 damage per second then two "one second" shoots will take down 2 Archers level 5 .

Below you have video from Clash of Clans Attack who explains Archer Tower improvements in a more detailed guides with some footage and examples. Visit us again for more news about Christmas 2014 Update. Enjoy