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Hey guys, not long started playing CoC and would really appreciate some advice. I'm currently TH5 and have been saving up for TH6 with no avail. My trouble is that I keep getting raided and can't progress my gold much past 300,000. Also my mines are at level 8. I'm also struggling to see what needs defending and I've run out of walls. Should I give up on saving for TH6 and max out my walls first, followed by mines?
heres a pic of my base
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/x...8f269dd6d2.jpg
My advice:
1) Learn to post in the correct sub forum. This belongs in the "Tactics, Strategies & Questions" sub forum.
2) You definitely need to upgrade your walls quite a bit more to help hold off some attackers.
3) How often are you attacking others for resources? If you are relying solely on your mines for gold, it will take you a long time to go anywhere in this game. Your primary source of income should be from attacking other players.
~Jeff
That. You need to raid others in order to advance in this game. Good luck with your plundering goals of 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by GameShaman
Don't expect people to be nice in this forum...
I'm sure you will get all kinds of advice from negative people, so ill throw one important thing out there.
Don't go up in trophies any more!
In fact, you should be around 300-500.
Wait till you upgrade your walls and defenses a bit more before you upgrade your town hall and start collecting more trophies.
And enjoy the addiction that is clash of clans!!!😉
never EVER upgrade to TH8 or 9 before absolutely everything is maxed.
Ok nice one, thanks. Is there anything I could move outside of the walls so that I can close the interior walls with the extra walls il free up? I'm struggling to see what needs defending the most as some people guard there TH and others don't and others guard there mines where others don't =S obviously the storages are the most important
Move builder's huts, mines, collectors, and lab outside.Quote:
Originally Posted by Juneau
It's also possible that dropping cups would help. Around 1k gets farmed a decent amount, but if you drop to 5-600 there's not many farming there.
keep your trophies low, use barbs, archers, giants, goblins and a couple of wallbreakers to raid bases quickly for resources. all you want to do is grab them and leave, don't worry about winning the match and try not to use you whole army unless its for a big loot. build your base to protect resources only. lose some fights by dropping one troop on villages to get your trophy level down to where the fights are easy and the loots are plentiful. trophies mean nothing in this game until you are fully maxxed, use them as a way to get easy fights as that's all the matchmaking is based on. move your town hall outside unprotected so people give you an easy shield without taking any resources... read up on farming, there's heaps of topics here about it. will change your game forevever, never have to worry about not having enough resources ever again.
Hi - thanks for posting
you need to use your walls to slow the attacker down - contain them essentially, at your townhall level squares around your best defences and gold storage in the middle with your other defences around that all separated by squares - basically like my son's base here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJjkdNTRz40
Good luck and as the others say take it slowly upgrading, you will enjoy the game more if you have defences and walls that are effective and that takes time and effort to raid for gold
Hope that helps
D
Some people put their town hall outside to get a 'cheap shield' since they will only lose 1K/1K resources and they don't mind losing the trophies. An attacker will often just take the town hall and end the attack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Juneau
Collectors are not that important if you play regularly; as you will be emptying them and lose very little from them during an attack
a few suggestions:Quote:
Originally Posted by Juneau
1. lower your trophies.
2. there are many basic changes that should be implemented to your base. it would probably be best for you to read the strategy guides listed in other threads that go over the basics. but at a very high-level, as you raise gold and elixir to fund upgrades, you want to protect your storage containers most of all. you want your defenses to cover as much of your base as possible, with an emphasis on protecting your "splash" damage defenses (mortars and wizard towers). and you want walls to be arranged in a manner that makes attacking your base require a large number of wallbreakers (you will see other bases use wall spikes to take advantage of wallbreaker pathing weaknesses). move things like your army camp, builder hut, laboratory, spell factory, etc. outside of the walls -- this will increase the amount of time it take for troops to reach your walls. in combination with the superior range of your defenses, this will help pick off a lot of troops before they start doing damage.
3. don't upgrade your town hall anymore until your defenses are maxed for that town hall level.
4. try to keep all of your builders active.
5. keep asking for advice.
good luck!
It sounds daft but everything you move outside of your wall... Place around your walls.....
Like moving your army camp next to your walls.
When people attack they will spen time destroying these buildings whilst your defences spend time killing their army... Better walls means they are longer sitting outside of them trying to get in whilst your defences kill them
Good luck
I might have missed someone saying this, but another tip might be to use the walls you have inside to create squares for your individual storages, or use them to make people have to spawn their troops farther out then they want. The way your inside walls are, they aren't keeping things out, because there are holes in them, and they are not providing a wallbreaker protection strip because there isn't another section within them. Your best bet would be to create individual boxes with your storages inside them, and take out your, builder huts and lab like other people said, to create more space as needed.
Wow! This game is much more complex than I first gave it credit for, but that's a good thing. I feel like I have a much better idea of how the game works now and especially thanks for daddy's video as having a visual is far easier to understand. What is meant by "spikes" though?
Spikes to prevent Wbs attack, well look at forum arround ,good thread are base design contest 2 , look there and you willearn some moreQuote:
Originally Posted by Juneau