Clan Wars: A Fork in the Road

I imagine this applies to many clans out there. Clan Wars has sort of brought my clan to a fork in the road. We have about 40 members. Roughly 15 or so members are very active, and are steadily advancing their bases. The rest of the members are casual players who aren't making very consistent progress, but they have been loyal and donate semi-regularly, which used to be enough to stay in the clan.

Now, after clan wars, we are finding that the 15 or so active members are trying to carefully plan out who attacks who, what defenses we give, etc. Then the war starts and the less active players either 1) Don't show for attacks, or 2) do their own thing, contradicting the plan and often failing. Some attacks I'm seeing are pretty pathetic, such as using many goblins, or half full armies, or other things that just don't make sense.

So, that leads to the fork. As a leader, are you going to keep your clan "casual," and keep loyal, but less than stellar members, or are you going all-in, and cutting out all the dead weight, even if they might be nice, loyal, and cause no problems otherwise?

I'm not the leader but here is my advice to you. Clan Wars is a side game. It isn't required. Don't play CW if you don't want to. Our clan isn't going to be warring all the time because it takes a lot of coordination and work and whatnot to get everyone on the same page. We prefer to keep it casual so we have wars once or twice a month and then just chill the rest of the time;):cool:

Funnily enough we are having big discussions today too about the way forward..

Our dilemma is slightly different, we don't have too many inactives, but there is a part of the clan that wants to do back to back wars, a part that just wants to do them maybe on a weekend, and some that don't want to take part at all... It seems that whatever we do we will end up losing good people.. :(

Yeah it is a bit of a dilemma. We don't have any fully inactive players, but rather casually active. The active subset of us really enjoy the wars, and would like everything to be fully planned out step by step. Then other members just treat it very loosely. I would feel bad about kicking players who have been with us for months just because they are not good enough. However, clan wars are very expensive and fruitless if half the clan isn't going all in.

I do feel a bit bad about it, but I'm going with the latter: cutting dead weight. By this I don't mean we are going to kick out all members who are not up to par level-wise and such, but just the ones who are very much stuck in their progress, disregard war plans and fail at everything they try. Especially when it comes to an extremely underveloped TH10 kid who raises the level of the clan plenty for matchmaking without really contributing anything (his two attacks in this war... both 0 stars, under 20%, and the opponents weren't even on the upper half of the map). Or the guys who demand to take on tough enemies without being prepared at all, fail miserably and bring everyone else down.

Most of the people we are kicking are neither extremely participative nor do they donate very much, though, so you could say we're upholding our old policy of keeping worthy members around, but carrying it to a new level where we're all effective in battle.

Since clan wars has started we have lost about 7-10 really good players because of the new dynamic clan wars brings to the game....

Its really to bad that our clan is breaking apart because of the fighting about who attacked who and "why did you do that attack".

In the long run I think that it might be required to almost create just a clan war clan.....we will have to wait and see where the chips fall but we already lost really good players.....

We've found our clan in a similar position as what a few people have said here. I think we've dealt with it pretty well thus far and will see how it goes...

We have a War Clan that is dedicated for All-Waring, All-the-Time. That way you can drop in and immediately get in a war (within 48 hours of course). We've split this clan already into a normal version and a "light" version for all of the lower level players that we have in our clan(s).

The main clan is now a steady 20-30 when not in war and the other has roughly the same, a more manageable clan war for us where we can actually coordinate attacks and donations. The less experienced, lower level guys can learn the ropes in the light version of our clan and attack willy-nilly.

So far so good. We'll see how the main clan holds up. Seems to be a decent solution thus far.

I honestly don't want our members kicked out of the clan due to inactivity. But our leader did. We are not that strict when it comes to winning or losing the war. We just want active members.

yeah im in the same boat with my clan... only a few people are active while the rest are casual...

We just won a war in the last five minutes versus a better clan. Awesome! Chat was on fire!