WHy place the town hall outside of the village????

Why do folks do this?

Thanks

Farming because people always attack the TH and get a free shield

Free 12 hour shield, and people do not usually go for resources, just the TH and go with their trophies.

A bit of a longer answer:

In general, most of the time a person's goal in the game is to earn loot and upgrade their village. Only occasionally the goal is to achieve a high trophy count. Placing your town hall (aka TH) outside your base helps achieve the earning loot goal in a couple of ways:

As the other posts mentioned, when your TH is destroyed, you receive a 12 hour shield. The shield prevents you from being attacked again. People like this because it lets them have some time where they don't need to worry about their village being attacked and losing a lot of their loot.

A less discussed advantage of the shield is that when someone attacks, clan castle troops are usually killed and some traps are usually set off. If you actually win the attack, it means you have no shield, and without your clan castle troops and traps, your base is much more vulnerable and you are more likely to lose even more loot in subsequent attacks. Getting the shield protects you from losing any more loot until you are able to log in and restock your clan castle and reset your traps.

The only real negative to losing your town hall in an attack is that you lose a few trophies. Considering how easy it is to earn trophies back, there usually is no reason to protect your town hall when you are focusing on loot.

yuppieee for a free shield! :)
to protect our resources

Who hates a free shield

Thanks everyone for all the great info. I really appreciate it.

Hehe, I guess your a newbie then. Some clashers put their town halls outside their base to get a 12-hour shield. What a 12-hour shield means is that you won't get attacked for 12 hours