All Clash Of Clans Guide. Part1

Army

I use this army. I have 185 spaces in my camp.If you have more spaces in the camp i would get giants or archers.This army does cost a bit much.
1 Dragon level 1-2
2 Healers level 2
12 giants (if you got more spaces in camp maybe get goblins because your farming unless you want giants) Giants 4-5
7 wall-breakers Level 5
25 archers Level4-5
Rest goblins Level 4
CC troops:Try and get archers or about 5 minions to destroy the barb king.Minions any level but if have archers try and get level 4.
I use 1 lightning spell to take out any enemy clan castle troops when they are together.Level 4 lightning spell
I use 1 healing to heal my giants when they have low health. I have level 4 healing spell
I use 1 rage spell to make my giants powerful if there's something hard to do like destroy a level 9 wall without wall breakers.





Peace Out!,Supero :cool:

Things not to do

1: RUSHING Town Hall
This is extremely common. Have you ever seen a level 8 Town Hall player with level 4 Walls? Players rush their Town Hall because they want to unlock more buildings, or they want to progress faster in the game.

These are the downsides of rushing your Town Hall:

-Match Cost
Every time you upgrade your Town Hall, your Match Cost increases. The Match Cost is the cost of pressing the 'Next' button when finding a base to raid in Multiplayer. Imagine that you rushed your Town Hall to level 10. Each time you press that 'Next' button, you lose 1k Gold. If you press it 100 times, you would lose 100k Gold! That would not be a problem for high level players, but for a rusher, it is extremely costly.

-Loot Multiplier
The higher your Town Hall level is, the lesser loot you get from bases that have a lower Town Hall level than yours. This problem is carried forward to the next step.

-Competition
As you cannot get good loot from the lower leveled Town Hall bases, you have to get the loot from higher leveled bases, meaning that you have to increase your trophies. But then again, these high leveled players can demolish your rushed base and you have no way to get back at them because your troops are too low leveled to hardly destroy anything! This makes looting tougher.

What to actually do:
Max out at least
-Your Mortars, Wizard Towers, Archer Towers and Cannons.
-Walls, Air Defenses and Hidden Teslas can be 1-2 levels away from the max upgrade.

before upgrading your Town Hall.

#2: PROTECTING Town Hall WHEN FARMING
Some would place Bombs and Hidden Teslas near their Town Hall, and even wall it up, even though they are farming have their Town Hall outside. The point of placing your Town Hall outside is to obtain a shield when it is destroyed, so you should always make it easy for your enemies to attack it. You can have your Town Hall in range of defenses, so long as the defenses are placed there for mainly other purposes. If necessary, place your Town Hall at an undefended corner.

#3: NEGLECTING Air Defenses
Air Defense may not be a problem until Town Hall level 6. Air Defenses are able to target:
-Balloons
-Healers
-Dragons
-Minions
Air Defenses deal a lot of damage, that even a level 1 can deal 90 damage per second!

The problem is, some people do not understand how important it is to have an Air Defense, and once they build it, they put it outside and never upgrade it again.
If Air Defenses are not well protected an centralized, attack strategies such as Giant Healer, Mass Balloon and any strategy with Dragons in it will decimate your village. So always have your Air Defense well centralized and upgraded.


Have a great day! :D




When designing a base

Everyone wants a functional base that keeps people away from your loot, but you also want your base to look cool, original, and creative, in most cases. Often times, especially for lower level players, designing an effective and aesthetically appealing base is difficult. Being that I am slightly OCD with symmetry and what I call "rotational symmetry", I can usually generate an original, and working base. Here's how:

First off, rule a few designs out

-Square (Makes it easy to attack from any side)
-Egg (Defenses vulnerable, and hog/air raids are devastating)
-Everything inside one HUGE box (Giants and Golems will demolish)
-Not using your Walls (Pretty self-explanatory.)
-Putting all your Walls around your Town Hall (Also self-explanatory)

These listed above may seem stupid or made up, but I have raided and even defended with some of these designs, and it did not work out well.

Now, lower level players (4-6) first. At these foundations points of your clashing experience, there are not a lot of things that you need to protect. But a big box is not the answer. I'm going to name the Big 3 Defenses. Mortar, Wizard Tower, and Air Defense. Unless you are upgrading them, keep them inside Walls. They are crucial against all types of raids, especially in the higher leagues, where air raids are more common. Obviously, you need to protect your storages, and your Town Hall. I recommend that you centralize the Mortar(s), since your base is small enough, they can cover everything. Place your Wizard Tower(s) near your gold and elixir, also as central as possible. Put your Air Defense close to the storages, and also have it near some Archer Towers for additional air support. Cannons are the last defense, and you should make room for them if possible. Your Clan Castle doesn't need to be centralized, as most lower level players don't farm, and your reinforcements will probably come out no matter where you place your castle. And do your best to squeeze the Town Hall in somewhere. I suggest building around the Mortar, with different objects grouped in 2's or 3's. Have the Town Hall in one of these segments. If I had a picture I would show you. >.
So, a quick recap!

-Big 3 behind Walls
-Mortar(s) centralized
-Wizard Tower(s) near loot
-Air Defense near Wizard Towers
-Put Archer Towers near Air Defense for additional air support
-Cannons inside if possible.
-Town Hall based around Mortar

Middle Town Halls: (7-8)

Being that I have the most experience with these two Town Halls, this article will be very detailed. At this point you have lots of Walls, lots of defenses, and more things to protect. The new big thing is Dark Elixir, and it's going to become very precious to you very quickly. So, I'm going to split this into 2 sections: Farming and Pushing.

Farming: First off. If you are hunting dark elixir, put that in the center immediately. Now, I'm going to teach you rotational symmetry. What I mean by that is, if you took your base and spun it 90, 180, or 270 degrees, it would look almost if not completely identical. Picture it like a 3 bladed fan. It spins, and every 90 degree turn, it looks exactly the same. So, you have your dark elixir in the middle. Start adding rows of 3 items. (i.e: Wizard Tower, Elixir Storage, Mortar) If desired, you can place a 2x2 object above the 3rd object in your row. So, for you math whizzes, the dark Elixir Storage with Walls is a 5x5. Line up a 3x3 object so that if you were to surround it with Walls, the Walls would fall into order with the Walls surrounding the D.E storage. Place 2 more 3x3 items next to it, and on the top/bottom corner of the third 3x3, add a 2x2. Rereading this, I know it's very confusing. I promise I'll make a layout to demonstrate this. It's really very simple, but not easy to describe. So, repeat this 3 more times, filling in the slots with various important items. Obviously, you can't fill the 2x2 spaces with just teslas, you will need to use some Giant Bombs.

So, after doing this, you can begin to add on whatever else is left. You should have a reasonable amount of Walls left, so try to get all of your defenses in. But remember, rotational symmetry still applies to the outer layer of your base. So, whatever you do to one part, you must do to 3 other identical points. For example, you place, say, a Cannon, an Archer Tower, and your Barbarian King. Obviously, you only have one Barbarian King, so you can't put him in four places. But get creative! When you recreate the same position, replace it with your Clan Castle, a mine, a drill, or something like that.

The finished product should look like a multi-bladed fan. If it doesn't the first time, then imagine that you rotated your base 90 degrees. Where would this Archer Tower be? Where would "x" be? Where would "y" be? This should help you recreate your base.

Another part of being in these middle Town Halls is that you have 2 or 3 of your big defenses. Therefore, you have to keep them in a triangular formation at all times in order to cover as much ground as possible. It's doable with rotational symmetry, you just need to know when and where to place it. You can use the range circles for reference.

A little tip to fancy up your base, consider removing certain Walls on the outer layer of your set up. Replace them with Spring Traps or a couple Giant Bombs. The openings attract Giants, and the Spring Traps are devastating to them. This isn't necessary, but it is a helpful addition.

A quick recap!

-Dark Elixir in center (Unless not hunting for it)
-Rotational symmetry around central object
-Repetition of outer layers
-Triangular formation for Big 3 defenses

Pushing:

Very similar to farming, except that your Town Hall will replace your dark elixir. This doesn't remove the rotational symmetry option at all. In my opinion, it's actually easier. So, if you read the farming section above, basically repeat the instructions. Consider bringing your King and Clan Castle closer to the center, because the higher up you go, more and more players will try to lure them out and eliminate them. Also, Giant Bomb placement becomes more of an issue, as you will begin to experience the wrath of hog raids. But a good base can hold off even a max hog raid, as mine did during my clan's last push. Since Giant Bombs can take away at least half of a hogs health, place them where they might run. Since they can jump over Walls, the Spring Traps in the opening will not be nearly as effective. Once you have experience with the troop, you can begin to guess where they will go. Place traps and Bombs all over these areas, and they will keep out the currently unparalleled strategy. Also, make sure that you have your single target defenses upgraded. And as always, triangle formation!

A quick recap!
-Rotational Symmetry around Town Hall
-Bring King and Castle closer to center
-Place traps where hogs go
-Upgraded single target defenses
-Triangle Formation

Thank you for reading this guide. I'm sorry that I don't have any details on Town Halls 9 and 10. I'm currently Town Hall 8, so I don't have any experience building bases for these Town Halls.

PLEASE NOTE: This is by no means the only way to make an effective base. There are a multitude of ways, in fact, and this guide only reviews one of them. In fact, the only real reason for explaining this one strategy, is because I know and understand it well, and it has served me well in both farming and pushing.

Supero:cool:

Guide on clan castle troops

Guide on
Reinforcement Clan Castle Troops
(Defense)

Every base has its own weakness. It may be Giants, or Archers, it could be anything depending on your base design. Watch some defense replays to find out what it is. Once you find out what is its weakness, you could ask for the correct type of Reinforcement troops to help patch up these downsides.

#1. CENTRALIZED Clan Castle
This is the most important step of Clan Castle Defense. To place your Clan Castle in the center of the base makes it difficult for your opponents to lure out your Reinforcement troops easily.

Usually, when the opponent is unable to lure out your Reinforcement troops, he would just start with his usual battle strategy, hoping that the troops in your Clan Castle would not affect his troops badly. When his troops starts breaking through the base and getting in range of the Clan Castle, and when the Reinforcement troops come out and start attacking his troops such as Giants (who does not care about Reinforcement troops until all defenses are destroyed), and before he could do anything to stop this (especially when he wants to drop a Lightning Spell, but it can be hard to aim his Lightning Spell on Reinforcement troops that are moving), most of his troops are already gone, and he can disappointingly surrender.

#2. TROOP ANALYSIS
To choose what troops to ask from clanmates?

Note: Dark Troops are actually their own tier, they do not actually belong to any of the three tiers, it's just that I like to put them with the other tiers according to small, medium, big.

Tier One: Takes up only one or two Clan Castle space, and are powerful as a group. Tier One troops have low health and attack points than other Tiers, and are very vulnerable against Lightning Spells.

-Barbarians (Tier One)
Advantage: They can be quite a tank as they have the highest health of the Tier 1 troops. They could distract the opponents troops for a few seconds to allow the other defense buildings to land a few shots.
Disadvantage: They can be quite slow to charge at the opponents troops and are easily targeted by opponents troops as it is unable to defend behind Walls. Therefore it should be used with a mixture of other Reinforcement troops as it can act as a distraction.

-Archers (Tier One, most requested of the tier)
Advantage: They are troops with ranged attack, which allows them to shoot behind Walls, making them well protected. They are fast to charge at the opponents troops.
Disadvantage: They have the lowest health and attack points. Due to their ability to hide behind Walls, they lure troops who target anything to attack the Walls instead of the buildings in the open just to attack the Archers, and when the wall is destroyed, the opponent has successfully broke open the middle of the base, and can do an all-attack in the middle of your base, taking out the most important buildings.

-Goblin (Tier One, least requested of the tier)
Advantage: They are the fastest of the tier. They can charge into the battle quickly.
Disadvantage: Same as Barbarians, except that they are fast moving. They also have low hit-points in comparison with Barbarians.

-Minions (Dark Troops, Tier One)
Advantage: They can fly, making Barbarians unable to attack them. They have the highest damage of the tier. They work just like Archers, except that they don't hide behind Walls.
Disadvantage: Unlike the rest of the Tier One troops, they take up 2 Clan Castle spaces per Minion, while the others take up only 1.

Tier Two: Tier Two troops are more strategic-based, as they all have different uses, and not many similarities.

-Wall Breakers (Tier Two, least requested of the tier)
Advantage: Um... splash damage?
Disadvantage: Its quite obvious, they will die upon 1 attack, and the attack is weak. Why am I even explaining this?

-Giants (Tier Two)
Advantage: They are great for tanking, as they have a rather high amount hit-points in comparison to the amount of Clan Castle space they take up. Pretty much like Barbarians, except that they are more effective. They are quite lightning resistant, it takes at least 2 Lightning Spells to eliminate them.
Disadvantage: They are slow in charging to battle. They have low attack points.

-Balloons (Tier Two)
Advantage: They have a significant amount of health and damage.
Disadvantage: They are very slow in charging to battle, and sometimes before they could even drop a Bomb on the opponent's troops, Archers would have probably taken them out.

-Wizards (Tier Two, most requested of the tier)
Advantage: Wizards deal a lot of damage, and their attacks do splash, meaning that their electricity can damage multiple troops at once in a small area. They are great in taking out all types of troops.
Disadvantage: When Wizards attack a group of Tier One troops, they do not target the entire group, they target 1 of the group of troops. Unfortunately, defense buildings around will most possibly also target that one similar troop and one shot it before letting the Wizard shoot, as the Wizard is not fast enough. The Wizard targets another, the defense buildings will eliminate that one, never giving the Wizard a chance to throw its splash damage electricity. Just something to take note of, Wizards are still awesome.

-Hog Riders (Dark Troops, Tier Two)
Advantage: Hog Riders are just like Giants, except that they exchanged some of their health for damage. They are also quite fast to charge at the opponent's troops.
Disadvantage: About the same as Barbarians, except that they are fast and it's still okay to have just Hog Riders in your Clan Castle.

-Valkyries (Dark Troops, Tier Two)
Advantage: Some may say that Valkyries are complete uselessness, I say that there are the combination of Giants, Hog Riders and Wizards. They actually have the highest statistics of all of the Tier Two troops, and they have splash damage, which is great. They can also charge into battle fast.
Disadvantage: Same as Barbarians, except that they are fast. Valkyries also take up 8 Clan Castle space, more than most of the other Tier Two troops.

-Witches (Dark Troops, Tier Two, could also be Tier Three)
Advantage: They are like Wizards, their attacks do splash damage. They also keep summon skeletons around them until the maximum number of skeletons still alive have been reached. The skeletons help to shield the witches, making it difficult for the opponent to eliminate the witches unless he uses a Lightning Spell.
Disadvantage: Witches have low health and damage, not a big deal because the skeletons can protect her. They are also slow, not a big deal again as the skeletons are as fast as Archers. The big deal would be that 1 witch take up 12 space, which is the most of all the Tier Two troops.

Tier Three: Tier Three troops are the beasts of all the tiers. They have extremely high statistics (except for Healers), and are rather lightning resistant (although the PEKKA is made out of metal).

-Healer (Tier Three, least requested of the tier)
Advantage: Heals other Reinforcement troops or buildings. It can fly and is unable to be targeted by ground troops.
Disadvantage: 'If you are considering using a Healer in your Clan Castle for defensive purposes, it is strongly discouraged to do so. While Healers can and do heal buildings, in practice the amount the Healer can restore is far less than the buildings are taking, even from just a few troops. Archers or other offensive troops are much better in this situation, as Healers really don't end up affecting anything given the time it takes to heal and the fact that their large housing requirement (14) take up most or all of the available Clan Castle space.' said Clash of Clans Wiki.

-Dragons (Tier Three, most requested of the tier)
Advantage: They have high health and damage, and are unable to be targeted by ground troops due to their ability to fly. They also deal splash damage. Dragons are great in taking out a group of Giants.
Disadvantage: The same as Wizards.

-P.E.K.K.A (Tier Three)
Advantage: They have the highest damage of all troops (except for heroes) in the current version of the game and have a significant amount of health. Having a P.E.K.K.A in your Clan Castle is like having another defending Barbarian King.
Disadvantage: P.E.K.K.As are slow and have to run around the base by themselves just to protect the base, unlike a horde of Archers or Minions who can travel as a group. This disadvantage can only be countered by having a fully upgraded Clan Castle, with 5 more space to put in more other troops.

-Golem (Dark Troops, Tier Three)
Advantage: Golems have the highest health of all the troops (including heroes) and are able to tank a lot of damage, distracting the opponent's troops, and the other defense buildings can land many shots on the opponent's troops. Upon death, Golems deal damage to opponents troops in the surrounding area, acting like a Giant Bomb, then splitting into two Golemites to tank more damage.
Disadvantage: Same as P.E.K.K.As, except that Golems will fill up a fully upgraded Clan Castle, making it unable to place in more troops.

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What to look for when rading a base

Spotting abandoned villages is actually one of the most important Clash of Clans strategies for farming. Some hints are fairly obvious, but others are much more subtle. I will tell you some of the secerts I use to take out the "inactive" users.




- Tombstones: These show you that someone else has already drilled this base, they are a good sign that traps have been sprung too. Some chiefs leave them around as a trick, but I dont run into that too much.


- League Badge: Anyone who has at least on win in the current 2 week league will have League Badge. You can tell when a new League starts, because your own League Badge will turn blank with a dotted line. Past a few days into a league, if you encounter clashers without a league badge, it means they arent attacking (and winning). Thats a pretty good sign they arent active.


- Sleeping builders: Clash of Clans is all about upgrades, painfully slow upgrades. Given that this is a central aspect of the game, it is unusual to find an active player who has no builders busy at any given time. Look for the zzz above the Builders Huts. If all of them are sleeping, chances are that chief has been gone a long time.


- The Gold Mine Gold Bin: I found out about this one recently, and it really makes a big difference. If you look carefully at the Gold Mine graphic, you will see a tiny bin just to the right of where the mine cart comes up. This bin actually indicates how much gold is in the Gold Mine, similar to the visual fullness indicator on the storages. Higher level Gold Mines take a long time to fill up (by level 8 it takes more than a day). Consequently, if you see full or mostly full gold bins it means the village is likely abandoned.

So its abandoned, so what? Abandoned villages are typically much easier to harvest for resources. The value you see in the upper left for stealable resources is likely mostly or totally in the collectors, which are usually much easier to get at. Spend troops efficiently, and enjoy the easy farming.

Thanks for reading!

The best way to farm at any town hall

In this guide, I will be telling you one of the most effective ways to farm at pretty much any Townhall level. I started using this at Townhall 6 and I am still using it now at Townhall 8

1. Firstly, the army composition that you want to use:

With an army space of 220 (I will tell you what you can do later if you have less than 220 spaces):

x40 Barbarians
x64 Archers
x60 Goblins
x8 Giants
x8 Wallbreakers

If you have less that 220 spaces for your army, just decrease the amount of Barbarians and, if need be, lose some Goblins. As you can see this is a fairly simple composition but, when used in the right way, can be extremely effective. In terms of the levels of the troops, I would say you want them at the max level for your current Townhall - level 4 at Townhall 7, level 5 at Townhall 8, level 6 at Townhall 9 etc. The cost of this army composition varies from 52,640 Elixir at Townhall 7 to 79,200 Elixir at Townhall 9, with all maxed troops for that specific Towhall. This may seem expensive to some, but you will be able to get so much more back from raiding with this army. Spells are up to you really, but I like to use 2 lighting, 1 healing and 1 rage.

2. What you want to do right before attacking:

This is a quick tip which helps to cut the time for the troops to train next time you raid. Once the army is cooked up and your Army Camps are full, input 1 Giant, 5 Goblins, 5 Barbarians and 5 Archers into each of your Barracks. As your raiding, these troops will begin to refill your Army Camps before you've even come back from the raid, which in the long run saves a lot of time. What this means is that you want to use at least 4 Giants, 20 Goblins, 20 Barbarians and 20 Archers in each raid in order to keep the right balance of troops. Keep that in mind.

3. Finally, how to use this composition when raiding.

This point is pretty obvious but the first thing to look for when searching is whether the base has a good amount of loot. In other words, does it pay off my army and gives me a good profit? If you find a base and the answer is yes, attack it. Bases are often one of two types.

The first type are ones where all the loot is in the Gold Mine and Elixir Collectors. It will be pretty obvious to you whether this is case; just look at them and see if they're filled at all. If this is the case, what you want to do is firstly, draw out the Clan Castle and Heroes (ALWAYS DO THIS). This is where your Barbarians come into play. Activate the CC and Heroes, place an Archer on a building out of reach of defences and draw the CC and Heroes to that Archer. Then use your Barbarians and a few Archers to take care of them. Then drop Archers on the rest of the buildings that are out of reach. Now, drop 1 Giant in the middle of every 3 mines or collectors in order to distract the defences and sprinkle Goblins behind the Giant to take out the mines and collectors and get that money! If the mines and collectors are behind Walls, just do exactly the same thing, but drop as many wallbreakers that you need straight after you drop the Giant. Don't forget to use your Archers as back up and to help you get to 50% or take out the townhall if it's exposed.

The other type of bases are the ones where the loot is in the storages inside the Walls. This is much trickier than the first method but it can still be done 9 times out of 10. First you want to do the same as the first method and draw out the Heroes and CC troops to an undefended building and take them out with Barbarians and Archers. You then want to see which side of the base is closest to the storages. Then, drop any remaining barbs to take out all of the non-defensive buildings. If you have no barbs left, use Archers but use them sparingly. After this, drop all 8 of your Giants to act as tanks. Drop your Wall Breakers in pairs behind the Giants and try and get the Giants as far in to the base as possible. If you see your Giants are dying quickly, drop a Healing Spell spell to get their health back up. The most important thing here is that you make a path to the storages, because this where you drop a good amount of Archers to help out with your Giants and finally spam your Goblins in groups of about 10/15. If you haven't managed to make a clear path to the storages, drop a Rage Spell to beef up your Goblins so they can break through any Walls defending the storages. I like to drop my Heroes if the base is especially hard as they have a lot of health and can also deal a high amount of damage. After this, leave your troops to it as there is always the change of getting a 3-star. And that's it!

Thank you very much for reading my guide, I realise it is quite long! If you choose to try this out, I hope that is works as well for you as it has for me.

Supero:cool:

Advanced bomb 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.


Supero:cool:

Bam stragtegy farming

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:

What buildings to upgrade when new town hall

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!!

farming Mines/pumps. level 5 town hall or higher

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



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Advanced base defence

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.



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Time to upgrade th or not

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!

How to farm effectively

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).

Mortar run

The Mortar is arguably the best defensive structure in the game. It's one of only two true splash damage defensive structures in the game and it's often the most crucial to protect. Intimidating and well placed Mortars have been known to keep attackers at bay.

Since the Mortar deals splash damage, it should be one of your earliest leveled structures. This structure will generally be the most effective deterent to lost resources so always put your gold into it before leveling other structures. Since defending from farmers usually consists of warding off large numbers of troops, Mortars quickly become invaluable.

Mortar placement is crucial. You want your mortars to be able to defend both the "core" area of your base as well as the outer walls. As mentioned before, well placed Mortars can keep enemies at bay (it's certainly kept me at bay) so make sure that they are one of your most fortified structures in your base (certainly the most fortified defensive structure).

Have you ever jumped from one league to the next and found that your strategy in silver just doesn't pan out in gold? If so, you are not alone!

It is important to realize that when you make the jump from one league to the next your competition gets tougher and stronger. Most likely you are at the bottom of the new league in trophies, and you are likely the lowest in defense. This makes your base vulnerable to attacks and pillage!

How can you insulate yourself from devastating trophy losses? Here are a few strategies that I picked up along the way:

1. Upgrade everything to the max before upgrading your TH.

WHY: This will ensure that your defenses are maxed out, and most importantly that your Walls are maxed out. It can be tempting to upgrade your TH from 6 to 7 to gain access to Dragons, but why do that at the sacrifice of so many calculated battles and trophies?

2. Take the time to farm.

WHY: You will need resources on your journey to the next level! If you find yourself creeping up on the next level and you know your defenses and troops are not ready, change your strategy to farming and build base strength!

3. Lean on your clan.

WHY: You will need to lean on your clan members to donate strong defensive troops to pump up your defensive effort. Nothing hurts more than going to bed without a shield and waking up to trophy losses. If you commit to a strong clan, and they accept you, their high level troops can be a game changer!

4. Pick your spots to attack.

WHY: Because revenge can hurt, badly. If you jump leagues and you did so by preying on farming bases, be prepared for revenge strikes. A base that is farming is not a base that wont bite back, and if you jumped leagues then your weaker base is ripe for a quick strike!

5. Accept Free Shields.

WHY: If you are on the fence of staying in your new league and do not want to fall out let those free shields from being attack run their course. The longer you can stay protected the easier it will be to avoid devastating losses until your defenses are built to fight back!

I hope this helps and happy trophy climbing!

ALWAYS USE YOUR BUILDERS
Builders are what your clash grow, what makes you beat the competition, what makes you succesful... so why not use them 24/7? For me, i have 5 builders (yes i did spend 20 bucks on getting them, but that's the only money I have spent on this game), which allows you to upgrade 5 buildings at once. I would advise you to always make sure your using these builders, and try to upgrade different things at a time (I mean not upgrading all 4 Air Defenses at once, 5 Cannons, etc.) The best way to do this is by upgrading let's say a Barracks, an Air Defense, a Cannon, an Army Camp, and a Mortar. If you do this, 5 builders are being used, creating the ultimate upgrading system, while still not being screwed when people attack you. At Town Hall 9, you would still have 3 other Air Defenses, two other Mortars, and 4 other Cannons. This way a tier one troop raid would still be in danger because of two Mortars still there, and a Dragon raid would still have 3 Air Defenses, etc. Yes, upgrading defenses will hurt a little at that time, but over a long expansion of time, you'll have a GREAT base without getting demolished you upgrade things. Some people say to always have a builder open for Walls, so your attackers will never steal too much gold from you, but I think this reasoning isn't the best idea because you could just upgrade Walls before you upgrade that Cannon or Barracks or whatever it is. Furthermore, it would do about the same affect as having 4 Builders Huts, so why would you pay that extra 10 dollars for nothing? I would also advise you to always research something in you lab. This tip will save you from spending money weekly to finish upgrades :)

HAVE A SWITCH-OUT SPOT WITH YOUR Town Hall
Many people in this game like to keep their Town Hall inside their base heavily covered, which is fine. However, what happens if you have what I had last night (7.5 million gold and 7 million elixir)? Chances are you're going to want your attackers to take your Town Hall out for an easy victory so you can save all your money (note: just because you have your Town Hall out does not mean people won't go all out on you). I would suggest moving your Town Hall out of your base while you have a lot of resources and putting it in while you have not a lot of money. I would suggest to switch out your Town Hall out for your Clan Castle because the Clan Castle helps to be in the middle, but it's not a crucial thing to have in the middle. ALTHOUGH it is tempting to switch your lab and your Town Hall out for each other because they are both 4 by 4 buildings, this isn't smart because the lab holds no value to your trophies or to your money. So I would recommend you sucking up that awkward gap in the middle of your base to have an amazing, easy layout that is interchangeable from farming to trophy hunting.

FIND THE MOST "PROFITABLE" RAID
Almost any trophy range you go to, there's going to be those guys who have 250k of each in their storage's, but are super good. When this happens, I would take a couple seconds to decide: can i get those storage's that i want? Can I make a better profit than I would attacking someone with less loot but easier to get to? Can I make this a successful, worthy raid? If you say no to ANY of these questions, I would not attack that base. NOTE: DO NOT be intimidated my level 7, 8 or even 9 Walls (depending on how good you are and what trophy range you are at). Some people really only upgrade Walls and have them all level 8, but they might have level 5 Mortars or level 8 Cannons. Think about this before you skip this person or raid someone like this.

AVERAGE YOUR ARMY TRAINING TIME WITHIN THE Barracks
This is an easy, non-time consuming, helpful way to allow you to raid more often. Let's say you have all level 10 Barracks (which I wouldn't reccomend but it's easier to explain it like this), and you train all of your Goblins in one barrracks, all of your Barbarians in one Barracks, all of your Archers in one Barracks, and all of your Wall Breakers in the last Barracks. With this scenario, the Goblin Barracks is going to take a TON more time that the other Barracks because it takes 30 seconds to train one Goblin, while the Barbarian Barracks might take half that time. EVEN it out, it will allow you to raid more often, allowing you to make more $$$, which will ultimately make your clash better :) a simple, but outstandingly helpful tip.

TRAIN TROOPS WHILE YOU'RE RAIDING
This is another simple, easy, time-effective way to make more often raids. I would advise training maybe 15 or 20 Archers (or whatever troop is your most common used) in each barrack because this saves time and will usually not give you an overload on that one troop. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this if you use a Dragon, P.E.K.K.A., Golem, etc. in your raid because if you don't need this troop in your raid, you could simply just minus that troop in the Barracks and lose no elixir for it. This way it will save your training time for your next raid.

THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU UPGRADE
Has anyone else had 4 million gold with an open builder and spent it all on Walls and thought to your self "wow, that was a REALLY dumb move", because I know I have. Thinking about what you spend your gold and elixir on is a smart way to keep your money well spent and with a purpose. When you have a large amount of money, like 4 million for instance, you probably don't want to spend all that money on Walls because it's pretty hard to save that much, so you would probably want to spend that on something that costs more and takes time to upgrade. For me, I am working on level 7 Walls, which are 200k gold a piece. That's about the price of one raid in gold, so it won't take me much time to upgrade one wall. But when I have a lot of gold, I usually don't spend it on Walls which are small, single purchases.

JOINING A CLAN THAT FITS YOU
I am not going to cover this area into great detail because there are other guides on this but I feel it is important to know: If your not very active on clash (which is no big deal), it's probably not the smartest idea to join a clan that requires 1,000 donations a cycle. And vice versa, you probably don't want to join a clan that is very inactive if you're on a lot. If you like to talk a lot, try to find a clan that talks a lot.


Hope you liked this guide and learned a lot from it!

If you're interested in seeing my base, look at my profile and check out my bases. Currently I am using "Trophy Push of Summer 2013" (but I changed it a bit to make it a farming base), but I am looking forward to remodeling my base to try out my other setups. My favorite one now is "Saving for level 6 Archers". Even though I already am getting level 6 Archers, it still seems like a great setup. And if you are REALLY curious to see my base: Search up the clan "APOCALYPSE3" and find 'ross is da boss' (that's me). And if your good enough (level 5 Archers) and looking for a great, chill clan that LOVES to donate, feel free to join! And if your better than that and trophy hunting, feel free to join APOCALYPSE 1 or 2 (APOCALYPSE is in the top 50 right now!)

But always remember one thing no matter where you are: CLASH ON!

So you are wondering what is the best way to attack a base? Well first things first, you need to decide whether you are attacking for trophies or for loot, in most cases its both but this needs to be taken into consideration. If you are attacking for loot (Farming) then you will need to drop your trophies depending on your Town Hall. This is just a rough idea of how many trophies you should have for each Town Hall level. This is not the case if you are attacking for trophies.

Level 6 and under. 900-1100
Level 7. 1050-1200
Level 8. 1150-1350
Level 9. 1300-1500
Level 10 1600 +

This is important as you need to find bases with a similar Town Hall level as you, maximum 1 level above yours unless its a really high amount of loot and a really badly designed base with low level defences. The advantage of attacking a high level Town Hall is you will get a loot bonus, I will go through them now. These are the loot bonus/penalties as far as I know.

4 levels or less than your Town Hall level: 10%
3 levels less than your Town Hall level: 25%
2 levels less than your Town Hall level: 50%
1 level less than your Town Hall level: 90%
Same level Town Hall: 100%
1 level above your Town Hall level: 110%
2 levels above your Town Hall level: 150%
3 or more levels above your Town Hall level 200%

Ok now we need to think about different troop combinations and tactics. I will use a 200 troop capacity in this guide as its a very common amount to have, this is available at Town Hall level 7. Also to deal with the Clan Castle troops, I recommend that when they are all out use 1 Lightning Spell on them. If its a PEKKA or Dragon, lure it outside the base and kill it by surrounding it with Archers. Make sure you are attacking bases with a minimum of 150,000 of each loot, it usually takes a minute to find one but it's worth it

Dragons/Archers/Barbarians/Wall Breakers 130,000 elixir cost:

Now I know you might be thinking Dragons cost around 30,000 elixir (depends on the level) and this is not ideal, especially if your farming but trust me, this tactic has worked for me through Town Hall 7 and 8. Firstly you will have to train 4 Dragons, 50 barbs and 60 Archers (1 Dragon, 15 Archers, 13/12 barbs 1/2 Wall Breakers in each barrack). Now firstly you will have to find a base with the air defence/s near the outside of the base. This is very common, especially with players at this trophy count. Use the full 30 seconds before the battle to check for any air defences as you don't want to miss. Deal with the Clan Castle troops first (see above). Now focus on taking out any air defences, use barbs, Archers and Wall Breakers to do so, this should be easy as long as the air defences were near the outside of the base. This shouldn't use all the barbs and Archers. Now take out any Archer Towers with either left over Archers, barbs and Wall Breakers or if you don't have any left just release the Dragons near them so they destroy them. Only release 3 Dragons and make sure the are all attacking from the same side. Now sit back and watch the rest of the battle, if needed release the final Dragon but I rarely need to do so. Big gold profits can be made with this tactic and small elixir profits.


Giants/Wall Breakers/Healers/Archers: 100,000 elixir cost

Many people under estimate Healers and never use them, but trust me they are really good.
This tactic requires 20 Giants, 11 Wall Breakers, 2 Healers, 50 Archers. Now firstly you want to find a base with air defences near the outside of the base again, take all of them out but one with the Archers and 1 Giant for distraction. Now when all the air defences are gone, release all the Giants near the last air defence. When all the Giants are deployed immediately deploy 3/4 Wall Breakers. Now the Wall Breakers should make an easy path for the Giants so they can take down the air defence, as soon as this happens release both the Healers. Now they will heal the Giants and it will be VERY hard for the Giants to die. Next you should release the Wall Breakers just to help the Giants destroy any Walls and speed things up a bit. If you have any remaining Archers, use them up to help speed things up as well, the defences won't target them as they will be shooting the Giants. Big gold profits and medium elixir profits can be made with this tactic.