Clash of Clans Guide

First, to win you want your Bombs triggered often, and as early in the attack as possible. This means mostly Bombs in the second layer of defence (cus Bombs MUST be between defence buildings and also double as wallbreaker defence). If they in the middle you've probably lost the defence by the time they get used.

Second, Bombs are critical hog defence, which means they always go between defence buildings. Spring Traps get placed between def buildings one between each cus one will spring three hogs but two together wont do 6 hogs - so better to place one each between two defence buildings. Also big Bombs are great between defence and next to wiz towers. Big Bomb hurts a bunch and with no heal the wiz tower splash damage might even kill a full hog bunch.

Third, Bombs need to be deployed with dual purpose. Put them against Walls as well as between defence so that they double as wallbreaker defence. For small Bombs if maxed use two together - a pair of small Bombs does enough damage to kill max wallbreakers.

Next is air Bombs - black air Bombs hit a single target so they are best deployed on the perimiter (so they kill attack early before the attack does too much damage) in the weakest air defence part of your base.

Finally the all important red air Bombs - they do splash damage and 2-3 together can kill a Balloon bunch... So i use em to protect my townhall or my infernos - 2-3 together to kill a bunch - ballons often bunched by the time they get to middle.

Finally, if u can manage it big Bombs are also great witch and Wizard defence so if you can place next to a Wizard Tower in the middle of a big pocket u can often kill a bunch of Wizards or witches.


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My best tricks to farm 1 million gold per hour is to use the BAM strategy, one of the best gold farming strategies. BAM consists of Barbarians, Archers and Minions, and is pretty easy to master with the right tricks. (Note: BAM usually makes 1 million+ gold in an hour)

How do I train my BAM:
2 Barracks train Barbarians
2 Barracks train Archers
Dark Barracks train Minions

There are many spell compositions that can be used, but my preference is to have 2 Rage and 1 Healing. Of Course, the spells are optional, but it may help in the battle.

Types of bases you want to find:
1) Bases with at least 1k per troop used (e.g. if you have 10 Barbarians used, the goal is to get 10k gold)
2) Bases with lots of loot in the mines and pumps
3) Try looking for bases with exposed Wizard Towers
4) Try looking for bases with a lot of loot in the mines and pumps.
5) Also, bases where the heroes are inactive

How do you use BAM correctly:
1) Draw circles around the base with Barbarians first (to distract) and do the same with Archers.
2) Look for a good spot (according to the number of Wizard Towers and Air Defenses) to spam your Minions, and send it in. If you have spells, use your Rage Spell when your Minions get to the heart of the storages.(To ensure that you get a lot of resources)

Another method is Junliang's 40/60/40/8/10 combo, but it makes half the production of BAM, if you are running low on Dark Elixir, or saving up for an upgrade or a buy, try this strategy.

It consists of:
40 Barbarians
60 Archers
40 Goblins
8 Giants
10 Wall Breakers
(Note, you can substitute 4 Barbarians for a Wizard to take care of Clan Castle)

Type of bases you want to find:
1) Bases with at least 225k gold.
2) Bases with exposed Clan Castle

Spell Combos:
I would prefer 2 Lightning and 1 Rage (You can use lightning to destroy a Mortar or another splash tower)

Steps for this strategy:
1) Drop a barb/Archer/Goblin to look for Clan Castle troops, and lure the BK. If there is Clan Castle, use your Barbarians and Archers or your Wizard to destroy both.
2) Use a Giant or 2 to distract, and send in Wall Breakers right after distraction (Note: Do not drop your Wall Breakers when a Mortar shell is incoming, or your Wall Breakers will be smashed.)
3) Start dropping your barbs/Archers/Goblins, but in a small group (e.g. 5) each time, to reduce splash damage of Mortar or Wizard Towers.
4) Use your Rage Spell as your troops reach the heart of the opponent's storages.
5) Once the storages has been destroyed, you can wait for your troops to get you a star of two, or you can surrender. Here is a video of the attack strategy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Q-IhtMMFc

Supero:cool:

When I raid I see many "rushed" players. This means that they upgraded their Town Hall too fast and did not upgrade any, or very little, of the buildings that they have. I'm creating this guide to hopefully help players not do this. This guide will give you an idea as to what to upgrade when you're a new Town Hall.
First of all, if you're going to be a serious "Clasher", you're going to have to buy $50 of gems or the "Box of Gems" which will give you 6,500 gems. Buy the 3rd, 4th, and 5th builders with these gems (3,500 gems in total). Don't spend the extra 3,000 gems you will have on upgrading buildings, save them for finishing the Town Hall upgrade. Well let us get into the actual topic of this guide.
The number 1 priority when your Town Hall finishes upgrading, is to build every-single building you possibly can, Walls included also. This will make it easier to make your base, since you have all buildings you can, seeing what building you need to protect, and what can be outside the Walls. Also before the buildings you previously had, upgrade the buildings you just built to the previous Town Hall level's max level! This will help greatly.
Gold Priorities
#1:Splash Damage buildings always first! Mortars, and Wizard Towers are the two Splash Damage Buildings. Mortars should be the first building to be upgraded to a higher level. They will do the most damage if they are centralized. Get them to the Max level you can at your Town Hall level. Wizard Towers are second to be upgraded. They will do mass damage to Goblins, Archers, Barbarians and Giants! Put the Wizard Tower next to you Gold and Elixir Storages. This will greatly help save your resources.
#2: Clan Castle. The Clan Castle is very important offensively and defensively. It can let you have up to 30 more troops to raid with, or defend your base. Yes, it is expensive and a decently long upgrade, but trust me, it is extremely helpful and important.
#3: Single Target defenses. Cannons, Archer Towers, Hidden Teslas. I know that X-Bows, and Inferno Towers are also single target buildings, but I do not know much about these buildings and you can only get them at Town Hall 9 and 10. Air Defense are also Single Target buildings, but I will talk about them in a different area. Cannons should be the first Single Target building to be upgraded for 3 reasons. #1 they do decent damage. #2 They are one of the shortest buildings to upgrades in the game. #3 They are one of the cheapest buildings to upgrade in the game also. Archers are second for 2 reasons. #1 Although they do a good amount of damage, they take a long time to upgrade. #2 They are expensive to upgrade! Hidden Teslas are the last to upgrade to for 3 BIG reasons. #1 Just to build them they are 1,000,000 Gold and take 2 days to finish. #2 They are very expensive. #3 They take extremely long!
#4: Air Defense. Air Defense don't really become important until you're Town Hall 6-10 since the lower level players won't want to wait 8 minutes to train one Balloon, or many of them for just one raid. The Air Defense cost quite a bit, they double their cost every upgrade (270k Gold, 540K Gold 1,080,000 Gold, etc.). They also take a long time, making them not a huge priority at first.
#5: Elixir Storages and Gold Mines. Pretty self-explanatory.
Elixir Priorities
#1: Laboratory. This should be the first upgrade because higher level Laboratory= Higher level troops= More Loot from raids= better base.
#2: Barracks and Army Camps: Barracks would be the first upgrade in my opinion because, it unlocks better troops, and you can train more troops. Army Camps would be second because it is expensive and can take a long time to upgrade, but it does allow you to hold more troops, making it better for you in raids. Dark Elixir Barracks will be last due to the difficulty to get Dark Elixir to train the troops. It is also very expensive to upgrade, and takes a very long time to upgrade.
#3: Spell Factory. Spell Factories are very helpful in raids, since it allows you train Spells, Which can change the raid dramatically. It can be expensive and a long upgrade, thus not making it the #1 priority.
#4: Gold Storages, Gold Mines and Dark Elixir Drills. Pretty self-explanatory.
Dark Elixir Priorities
First I just want to say, I do not know a TON about Dark Elixir things.
#1 Heroes: Build them! They help a ton on offense. They also make people waste time when raiding your base because they will want to lure them to the edge of the base so they don't get in the way in the middle of the raid.
#2 Troop Upgrades: Whenever you have the Dark Elixir upgrade them.
I hope this guide has been helpful. I am sorry I do not know much about Dark Elixir Things. CLASH ON!!

Welcome to this strategy guide. I will cover ranges and how to farm resources from the mines and pumps.

If you are looking to farm mines/pumps or farm with exposed storage, I would recommend trying this strategy above 600 trophies. And get this straight - Raiding is Farming. If your goal to raid is to get resources, it is also considered as farming. The Ideal Strategy to raid is to use as little troops as possible to obtain as much resource.

Good tips to find bases with lots in mines/pumps:
Look at the league, if there is no league symbol about 2 - 3 days after the league reset, it is most probably the village owner has not logged in a while. Also, look at the storages, if it looks empty (one coin in the Gold Storage, and little elixir in the Elixir Storage) it probably means that the loot is in the mines and pumps. Also, if the base's resources are in even numbers (e.g. 50 000, 75 000, 200 000), it also means that all the loot is in the mines and pumps.

Army Compositions:
Now it is time for the army combos, there are many bad army compositions and good ones. My favourite army combo:
1 Barrack train Goblins
1 Barrack train Barbarians
1 Barrack train Archers
1 Barrack train 50% Barbarians 50% Archers

Another of my favourite mine and pump combos is

Space: 200
48 Goblins
30 Barbarians
59 Archers
9 Wall Breakers
9 Giants

Bad Army Combos:
90% Goblins
10% Wall Breakers



Supero:cool:

Welcome to my strategy guide. Here are some tips to make bases with fewer flaws.

The Number #1 Reason People will attack you is because:
You have lots of loot available! You do not want those Goblins to steal any drop of gold or elixir. So, if you have a free builder, spend as much Gold as you can on Walls, or spend your Elixir by starting a research project. (Good strategies, but if you are saving up your resources for something, try and protect the certain resource you use for your next upgrade). And yes, do not make your loot easily accessible, so people will steal the loot easily.

Walls:
If you upgrade your Walls, it will look more intimidating to attack you, and yeah, DO NOT upgrade your Walls in a Polka Dot manner, as Wall Breakers splash allows it to destroy 3 Walls in the same column at once. Also, try not to have double Walls, as Wall Breakers destroys both layers at one shot.

Trap Placement:
A good idea is to place traps at a place, where troops will most likely walk into. This is considered as funneling, which is crucial for victory. A good idea is to put a Spring Trap if you do not have enough Walls. Spring Traps can defeat troops to 15 capacity, so a good idea is to put a Spring Trap in the middle of 2 resource buildings and 2 defense buildings, this is also called Mazing. If you maze, it allows the enemy troops to walk in and jump out of your base into the water. Dont place your traps in an entrance gap in your Walls. Even worse is an entrance hall - It is blindly obvious thing to do and a single Goblin running down your entrance hall will trigger every Bomb and Spring Trap and escape unharmed. Then you've just spent several thousand gold for no real reward.

Clan Castle Placement:
Clan Castle reinforcement troops will be deployed once the enemy enters the Clan Castles range. The troops will then jump and fly out over the Walls to attack the enemy. The Clan Castle troops will target whoever activated them first, even if other units are closer on their way after their target. This section is rather long as many people don't use the Clan Castle properly. Beware though, Clan Castle can be killed by your own traps, so place them wisely so your Clan Castle will not step on the Spring Trap. A good trick is to centralize your Clan Castle, so the troops will not be lured out easily and defeated with Lightning Spells. If your Clan Castle troops is Archers, put them in the centre surrounded by as many layers of defense and Walls, the Archers will then hide behind a layer of wall, destroying your opponent's troops.

Other tips and tricks:
Place turrets under construction in places that Giants might notice them and get distracted attacking (Like just outside your Walls in range of your active defenses).
Goblins can trigger Bombs and Spring Traps and escape unharmed, because of their speed. (I know it's annoying right?)
Be sure to request troops and keep your Clan Castle full, the troops will be deployed in case of an attack. It allows the enemy raider to waste troops to defeat the Clan Castle.



Supero:cool:

The most difficult decisions you are going to make in Clash of Clans is when to upgrade your Town Hall. I can't tell you the perfect time, because there is none! It is completely opinionated but in this article i will hopefully give you a better idea of when you should upgrade your Town Hall.

Here's a list of defenses and what i believe they should be upgraded to:

Cannons and Archer Towers- These should be maxed out even if they cost 3 million (Cannon level 11 or Archer Tower level 10) because they are the main single target defenses. These sorts of defenses are very helpful because they destroy Giants very quickly.

Mortars and Wizard Towers- These should be maxed out as well. These defenses can dominate minor troops, especially Mortars. And given time they will destroy a pack of Giants. Mortars and Wizard Towers are relatively cheap for the impact they can have on a defense.

Air Defenses- These are important but they don't need to be maxed. 1 or 2 levels below max upgrade is still ok. This is because they aren't as vital as other defenses but they also take really long. It once took my brother 4 times to upgrade his Air Defense because he kept cancelling it for more important upgrades (barb king to level 5).At level 7 Town Hall it is fine to have level 4 Air Defenses, don't stress over max upgrading everything.

Hidden Teslas- These are another single target defense and their ability to appear out of nowhere is so useful, but yet again 1 or 2 levels below is respectable. The cost is hard and time again is an issue. If your teslas are having an effect on most battles like mine, upgrade them. Otherwise you don't have to bother.

Walls- These are very important! They repel the enemy. But they cost bucket loads! Unless you're a hardcore player i think that 1 level below is acceptable. 200k for level 7 Walls or even 500k for level 8 Walls is hugely expensive! I personally believe that your Walls should be 2 levels above the Wall Breaker level that attack you. This way the 1 Wall Breaker can't destroy the wall by itself, they need more Wall Breakers or Giants.

But just because you've maxed out your defenses doesn't mean you should be upgrading your Town Hall! You need to be able to attack as well. Troops in the lab should be maxed, Clan Castle should be maxed and Army Camps should be maxed because these improve your attacking potential.

Some things that don't need to be maxed though are spells in the lab, Barracks and collectors and mines. These should all be high level but it is not crucial that they need to be upgraded. These sorts of things are perfect to be upgrading whilst your Town Hall upgrades because they are cheap (remember you need lots of money for when your Town Hall finishes upgrading for new defenses etc. Wizard Tower, Xbow, Inferno Tower). These upgrades also take quite a short time.

Also remember when you upgrade your Town Hall you will get new defenses and even possibly an extra Army Camp, barrack, storages etc. 'Is it worth upgrading your Town Hall for new items against a bigger loot penalty?' is the sort of question you should be asking yourself. Will your village advance? You should base your answers to these questions on how your village defends and how you attack.

All in all, If you think you are good enough to upgrade your Town Hall based on this article, you definitely should. It's your Clash, your decision, just enjoy the game!

In general, the bases you raid should have around 100k Gold and Elixir and require around 30 Goblins and 30 Archers. Your Barracks should be constantly pumping out Troops, two Barracks for Goblins and two for Archers. To improve the amount of Troops being produced at a time, you may want to also have Minions training at the same time if you can afford it.

When you are looking at resources available in a village, keep in mind how much your attacking army costs. Two good figures to keep in mind are the total cost of your whole army, and 1/3 of that number. This can be particularly helpful when farming for elixir, so you dont make negative progress from a botched assault. There is a pretty good calculator for pricing out different army scenarios here. In particular, be very careful about use of spells when farming for gold. The loots need to be pretty phat for spells to be worth it.

Since Im sure you are following our advice and overtraining, its a great idea to keep in mind how many troops youll return to. If you are in an active raiding session and you are leaving your village without full camps, you can count on troops training that full time. That could mean ~5 seconds looking for a target + 30 seconds planning out your attack + 3 minutes beating on your unsuspecting victim. Your mileage will vary depending on various factors, so I consider 3 minutes of troop training to be a good typical value. So for example if youve got four Barracks, that means you can spend 28 Archers on a raid and return to your village full and ready to raid again immediately. I look at these troops as disposable farmers for quick smash and grabs on exposed resource collectors.

Seeing an enemy base with a large cache of resources can present a psychological challenge during the tense 30 seconds you have to decide about whether to attack. When farming for higher level upgrades, it helps to focus on one of the three resource types as a goal and make that your singular focus for several reasons:

One good raid of any resource is unlikely to buy you anything but Walls
Your builders get tied up in long build times, and you may not be able to spend more than one resource
Having a little of every resource makes you a target for all other farmers, not just those seeking one resource
Spending too many troops on a resource you cant use may cost you the chance to harvest goal resources on your next attack

For all these reasons it pays to be single-minded and pass on villages that dont have much of your goal resource, even though it hurts a little.
The difference of a few hundred trophies can have various impacts on your farming effectiveness. For example: Certain resources are much more prevalent in certain ranges The difficult of defenses in opponents villages tend to vary by trophy range Once your farming session is over and your village exposed, the goals of other attackers will vary based on trophy range

Once you find a range that seems to be working for you stay there. Since you may lose trophies frequently when focusing on resources, be sure to mix in the occasional raid for trophies to keep you in the range. It is easier to do a little bit at a time, then all at once when you realize you are hundreds of trophies away from where you want to be.

In many ways Clash of Clans farming raids are like a poker hand played against another player. Neither of you know exactly what the other is packing when the raid starts, money is on the line, and there is an element of chance even when one side starts with the advantage. As time passes during the encounter, what once seemed an easy mark might become a bigger challenge then you expected. In these cases, a good farmer knows when to hold em (with spells or larger or more expensive troop deployments) and when to fold em (minimize losses and move on to the next raid).

Archer Towers are great for picking off single troops from long distances. Therefore their strength is usually on the outer rims of your base defending the furtherest structures from single target snipers.

Archer Towers level up relatively cheaply but due to being limited to a single target, they aren't the most effective against heavy troop battles.

Intimidation is a big factor in keeping your base safe and Archer Tower lvl 11 is certainly intimidating. Spending the 5 million gold to construct it may make your base safer due to the intimidating visual alone.

Lvl	HP	Build Cost	Build Time	TH Level
1	250	25,000	30 Minutes	3
2	270	50,000	5 Hours	4
3	280	90,000	12 Hours	5
4	290	270,000	1 Days	6
5	310	500,000	2 Days	7
6	330	1,000,000	4 Days	8
7	350	2,500,000	5 Days	9
8	350	4,000,000	6 Days	10
Totals		8,435,000	18 days, 17 hrs, 30 min

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