Question For Clan Leaders

I helped found our clan and have been its leader for around a year now. We do not claim to be "Elite," but we are a competitive friends and family clan. Managing the clan has been a learning experience for me as a gamer and a clasher that still continues. Early on when we were much smaller and less informed (I was a th8 when we started) we were happy to get any th9 or 10 that wanted to join. We would look at their bigger bases and drool not understanding matchmaking. We of course suffered in clan wars because of our ignorance. We were forced change how we were doing things from a fundamental standpoint.
We have been recruiting smaller bases and focusing on coaching them and helping them to develop in ways that help our clan in war. We advocate using the .5 development route (for lack of a better term) always emphasizing offensive development before adding defensive war weight. This system of in house development seems to be working. Our bases are maturing, we are actually clearing multiple enemy Th9's every war, and we putting some win streaks together ( currently 10, I know small potatoes lol)
I am curious how other clans are organizing their recruitment and development. Are you recruiting ready to war big dog bases? (max 10's with 40/40 heroes are really not beating down our door lol) Or are your clans more focused on developing in house? Obviously big name "Elite," clans are able to recruit bigger war ready bases ( close to max hero th9's and 10's) but what about the other 99% of clans? What have your experiences been and how are you getting your clan ready to compete in war?
Thanks for your time, have a good one, Clash On!

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A lot of my clan happens to be people I know in real life so that helped. Mostly we have a mixture, we've recruited some very war ready players others we've had to coach up and teach some fundamentals. I feel it's nice to have a balance because you can't have more untrained than trained because that becomes frustrating quick. There's a special medium I feel on how many untrained players to bring in. War record for my clan is about to be 22-3 and we're about to win our 19th war in a row. (We're very proud of that streak)

when you recruit always peak at the applicants base and achievements and based on what you are looking for, the answer is always there. if you want a good donor, you do not want to accept some one who still has not accomplished the friends in need task. you can usually find some rogues in global but everyone recruits in global and it gets difficult to call attention to your clan when everyone else already is. really experienced players will just assume your clan looks like the other ones below 10,000 points and move on. the best way to recruit is to sport an impressive league like masters and above and jump in global with a casual hello instead of join now. start conversations with interested players so you do not discourage them. your league will spark interest from everyone including veterans you are looking for. try recruiting on the forums too, plenty of decent folks are always searching. in your signature, advertise your clan so other forum people search you up and pay a visit. best of wishes to your progressing clan.

My clan has followed a similar route to the piint we haven't actively recruited in months. We get new members from time to time, mostly friends or family of existing clan members. It has done wonders for our war log. About 6-7 months ago we had a wall of red. Now we are mostly green with a 17 (going on 18) win streak.

If you have the patience for it, recruiting and developing lower level bases, in my opinion, is a great investment in your clans future. You get to mold your members and shape your clan instead of relying on random recruits. Lets face it, you can have a max base and strong troops but if you can't attack or aren't a team player you are an anchor not a benefit.

Right now, I'm a coleader in my clan. We were having loss after loss, so were starting to try and focus on getting active attackers and well built bases. I've recruited from global, and it can be a nightmare. Best to start a clan with friends or solid members you know.

I recruit similarly to you. There are lots of reasons for it, even thought there are often exceptions. Generally speaking, I've found that the higher the level, the bigger the ego. Of course that's far from absolute and every player should be considered on their merits, but I just don't have as many of the ego issues with lower level players. They're often more willing to adapt to new strategies and learn whereas higher leveled players often think they know best already and aren't always willing to change. I like being able to help a player grow and become accustomed to the way we run our clan. It's very satisfying to take on a new TH7 and watch him develop into a fantastic TH9 3-star attacker.

Just to circle back on generalities, I should add that one of the nicest guys and best players I've come across joined as a max TH10 and warred with us for a while last year before returning to his regular clan. I've also picked up some excellent TH9 teammates (always positive, always trying, always supporting the team) from our opposing clans along the way. I felt I had to point that out, because not every higher level player is a pain in the rear, but if I'm going to take a chance on a new player, I'd rather they not be at a critical level for our wars and that there be more opportunity to teach them before I need to depend on them.

We don't accept anyone we don't know if they are TH8 and higher. They seldom work out and I have found it just isn't worth the headaches.

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Originally Posted by SnarfVader

I helped found our clan and have been its leader for around a year now. We do not claim to be "Elite," but we are a competitive friends and family clan. Managing the clan has been a learning experience for me as a gamer and a clasher that still continues. Early on when we were much smaller and less informed (I was a th8 when we started) we were happy to get any th9 or 10 that wanted to join. We would look at their bigger bases and drool not understanding matchmaking. We of course suffered in clan wars because of our ignorance. We were forced change how we were doing things from a fundamental standpoint.
We have been recruiting smaller bases and focusing on coaching them and helping them to develop in ways that help our clan in war. We advocate using the .5 development route (for lack of a better term) always emphasizing offensive development before adding defensive war weight. This system of in house development seems to be working. Our bases are maturing, we are actually clearing multiple enemy Th9's every war, and we putting some win streaks together ( currently 10, I know small potatoes lol)
I am curious how other clans are organizing their recruitment and development. Are you recruiting ready to war big dog bases? (max 10's with 40/40 heroes are really not beating down our door lol) Or are your clans more focused on developing in house? Obviously big name "Elite," clans are able to recruit bigger war ready bases ( close to max hero th9's and 10's) but what about the other 99% of clans? What have your experiences been and how are you getting your clan ready to compete in war?
Thanks for your time, have a good one, Clash On!

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I have felt the same as you, and now we only recruit in our feeder clan, which means we really take anyone with any base, let them war there and get a feel for the player, before going to the main clan. If we get rushed people, they can stay there while recovering there base and offence.

We are very similar to your clan as well, We prefer to recruit TH7's and low TH8's. We can teach them how to upgrade, how to attack, the strategy of the clan, and if they are Terrible or cant learn, their 2 lacking attacks wont kill a war.

We also try to not bring more than 2 new members into any WAR. This helps us with cleanups, and knowing we can cover if they fail.

We rarely will recruit TH9+, this is simply because there are SO MANY TERRIBLE TH9's. So many of them know 1 attack style, have no clue how to read a base or simply just started to convert from FARMER to wanting to be good at WAR. The training on a TH9 is too much to give unless the person is very smart and a quick learner. We will drill any TH9/TH10 for awhile on questions of attacks, reading bases etc, and if they get flustered or cant answer well, we don't need them in our clan.

The hardest part is finding the loyal players whom stick around. Most important thing is enforcing your Rules equally amungst your members and forcing everyone to attack twice. Use the second attack to practice new strategies if you have the war won.