The Absurdity of Barracks Resetting Troops When You Cancel Nexting

Read and watch video carefully! This is NOT about simply Barracks training troops while you're nexting and raiding, most people already know that. It's about Barracks resetting all troops it qeueu'd up while your camp is full and when you stop nexting and return to your home base.

The weird part is not that the barracks simply just do this, the weird part is that it does it “behind closed doors,” and when you stop nexting instead of raiding, the barracks simply rewind and reset all troops that were trained for as long as you were nexting. This is just very absurd, doesn’t make a lot of sense as to why the barracks were programmed to behave this way. Either way, it’s valuable information for all clashers to know, so watch the video to get an understanding of what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXsOMBPPu5g

Quantitative Proof of this:

I had 2 barracks training Barbs, 2 Barracks Archers, 2 Dark Barracks Minions
Barbs 20 secs (1 housing space), Archers 25 secs (1 housing space), Minions 45 mins (2 housing space)

60/20*2+60/25*2+60/(45/2)*2 = 16 troops per minute

All barracks were full, meaning the last troop in each barrack is instantly inserted into army camp. 2 rax Barbs, 2 rax Archers, and 2 rax Minions means that a total of 8 housing space will be instantly provided to you.


In the first scenario I had 56 troops ready when i return home. I nexted for 2 minutes and raided for 1 minute for a total of 3 minutes.

8 + 3*16 = 56 troops

The exact number of troops I had when I returned to home base!

In the second scenario I came home to 22 troops. I nexted for 2 minutes, returned to home base, and immediately attacked a base for exactly 1 minute. Since this theory claims that barracks resets all troops when you return to home base, the barracks restart their train cycle when I’ve attacked for that 1 minute:

8 + 1*16 = 24 troops

This is still consistent with the 22 troops I returned to home base with. Maybe I returned a few seconds earlier.

So you can see this absurdity or oddity or whatever you would like to call it. The barracks train troops the longer you’re searching for a raid and the longer you’re in a raid. But if you change your mind and return to home base instead, then all the troops the barracks trained “behind closed doors,” somehow just returned to being “untrained.” If that makes any sense…

Or as Aggro put it:

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Originally Posted by Aggro

If you give into the urge to give up pressing next and come back to your camp without attacking you 'lose' the potential troops that were cooked while searching.

So in his example number two, you would waste 2 mins of cook time. So for most efficient farming, don't come back to your camp without attacking first.

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This thread was moved from the General section as it is geared towards strategic discussions.

They were training but when you came back to your base with all your troops they realised the camps were full. Having nowhere to go they turn back into elixir. :)

How do you deploy so many troops in so many different spots??

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Originally Posted by Gama321

They were training but when you came back to your base with all your troops they realised the camps were full. Having nowhere to go they turn back into elixir. :)

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Lol, funny explanation. :p

I'm guessing when you're away from your base to attack, all your troops are away from the army camp. Due to this, the army camp is empty and and so all the troops the Barracks queue up are placed in the army camp (behind closed doors). When you stop nexting and go back to your base, all the troops that were queue'd up by the Barracks move out of the base, turn back into elixir and de, and your army goes back to your camp.

I'm guessing that's the most plausible answer a SC employee could give lol

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Originally Posted by ClashLegend02

How do you deploy so many troops in so many different spots??

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I play on an ipad mini. For that raid, I used both my hands. I use my index finger and thumb in each hand to spawn all my troops at a fast rate on the edges of the base, swiveling them up and down the base.

My bad, sorry.

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Originally Posted by Gama321

They were training but when you came back to your base with all your troops they realised the camps were full. Having nowhere to go they turn back into elixir. :)

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Originally Posted by KyroTheHero

It also takes effect if your camps are empty.

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If your camps are empty, then the tropos queue'd up by the barracks don't go back to elixir or de. They stay in the camps because it has space.

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Originally Posted by Eternal625

Lol, funny explanation. :p

I'm guessing when you're away from your base to attack, all your troops are away from the army camp. Due to this, the army camp is empty and and so all the troops the Barracks queue up are placed in the army camp (behind closed doors). When you stop nexting and go back to your base, all the troops that were queue'd up by the Barracks move out of the base, turn back into elixir and de, and your army goes back to your camp.

I'm guessing that's the most plausible answer a SC employee could give lol



I play on an ipad mini. For that raid, I used both my hands. I use my index finger and thumb in each hand to spawn all my troops at a fast rate on the edges of the base, swiveling them up and down the base.

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Cool, I play on an IPad, so ill have To Try that.

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Originally Posted by ClashLegend02

Cool, I play on an IPad, so ill have To Try that.

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Yea definitely. When I first learned it, it allowed me to 50% bases a lot more efficiently with BAM or Barch.

very insightful. This somewhat proves the idea to just keep 'texting' until the base you want to raid comes up. Otherwise that time you spent was wasted and so was all that gold on the nexts. Just stay patient.

Simply...don't castle the nexts.