I was just looking at our clan. When I joined, we had one member around level 90 and no others above 80. Now, we have 10 between 90 and 98, about half of them having been with us the whole time. I've gone from level 49 to level 79 in this clan. I think that's pretty cool. If you are looking for a constant war clan that you can grow with, take a look at us!
We won the war that ended this morning, 77-58. We had a slight advantage over our opponent on paper: we have 3 TH10, they had none. But we also attacked more effectively, and used more of our attacks. We were up 77-16 or something like that with 10 hours remaining, then they finally did most of their attacks. Personally, I was glad to see that I only got 2-starred by 11 level 3 dragons. Until relatively recently, I had a war base that was pretty vulnerable to dragons. I redesigned it a couple of wars ago to keep anti-hog features and enhance the dragon defense, and I've been happy with the results. I'm getting some level 6 wizard towers now, so that will help, too.
The new war match-up looks rough: we appear to be out-leveled and out-trooped at the top. They don't have that many war wins, though, so maybe our experience will win out.
There hasn't been a lot of people either joining or leaving the clan lately. We've picked up a couple or three new recruits in the past week, and no one has left, even though we've lost a couple of wars, which is super nice. I'm fine with slow growth. But I love to see new members come in, especially ones from the forum! We've had some pretty high quality TH9 members join in the last few weeks. I'd love to have someone above level 100 come in and set a new ceiling for us, or a truly fleshed out TH10 with maxed war troops and big heroes. It's good to dream...
Personally, I'm tired of farming dark elixir at TH8. I'm working on upgrading my PEKKA to level 3, and I immediately started collecting dark elixir to be ready to upgrade my Golem to level 2. But when I'm farming DE, I get all paranoid once I get over about 30,000 in my storage, because I figure as soon as I turn my phone off, some TH9 is going to sc♥♥♥♥ my base and take 2,000 DE off my hands. Well, I'm up over 60,000 now, and my PEKKA still has over 4 days to go, so I just have to hang on. Maybe I'll drop back down to gold 2 or gold 3. Surprisingly frequently, though, I do get lucky and someone snipes my exposed TH and leaves my DE alone. Last night, a TH9 tried to BArch in to my DE storage with no heroes, and got 18 of the available 1800, so that was a success.
We were in the lead for 22 hours. Does that count? Unfortunately, our opponent used their superior troops to good advantage at the end, and won something like 81-72. Next opponent is interesting: they have a lot of rushed/gemmed TH9 and TH10 with low-level defenses (but all defenses built, including x-bows and infernos) and heroes, but strong war troops. I'm not sure how it will all balance out.
Against a clan with a bunch of rushed/preemie/gemmed TH10/TH9 bases, we won, 71-53. There were some funny-looking attacks, like someone who brought a jump spell with a hog/dragon army. Preparation is underway for the next war, against another clan that may have some rushing issues, but not as severe.
I'm excited because I finish level 3 PEKKA tomorrow, and I can unload a potload of dark elixir that I've been hoarding to upgrade Golem to level 2. It's tiring trying to protect over 60,000 dark elixir as a TH8! So, I'll probably drop a few hundred trophies and resume farming in Gold 2 or so. I've got Hidden Teslas to upgrade!
I believe we're at 34 members at the moment; one awesome join in the next 18 or so hours would give us 35 v 35 for our next war. In a TH7 or TH8, I'm looking for a base that's at least essentially maxxed for the previous level. For example, if a TH7 has less than 200 camp capacity, it should have 3 level 6 army camps, and one on the way. It irks me to see 4 level 5 army camps and no upgrades in progress. A TH9 with pink or gold walls will not be welcomed. Just by way of examples, and not to accentuate the negatives...
Our current war is odd: the enemy has pretty good bases, and 73 war wins, but through 14 attacks, they have only 14 stars (we're up 51-14), and it's not just their bottom members attacking. But I'm worried that the better attackers will start dropping the hammer at some point, and I hope we'll be able to hang on!
I had one good dragon attack on a rushed TH9 where I took out three ADs with lightning, hogs, and barb king, so my dragons only had to deal with one; that was a pretty easy 100%. I had one bad dragon attack on a solid TH8 with 3 clustered level 6 AD where I tried to send CC balloons into the core to get the AD, but they got drawn off to the side; that was a 70% 1*.
Got through the war without anything bad happening: the enemy tried to make a push, but they just didn't have enough skilled attackers. A couple of new members joined last night, so the war we just started preparation for is 35v35. The new enemy has 3 TH10 (as do we), but I think the 3rd is even more rushed than our 3rd: he has pink and gold walls. They have a carload of TH9, way more than we do, but a lot of under-levelled air defenses, based on my limited scan. So, we'll see how it goes.
The upcoming Christmas update sounds pretty cool so far! I like the level 12 mines and collectors, and the second DE drill at TH8, and increased capacity for DE drills. I don't know yet about the rapid-fire archer tower; for sure that won't make raiding any easier, but I don't know if it will really be any harder or not. Some stuff just doesn't affect my life yet: level 7 Giants, and longer Inferno Tower charge. The only thing that bums me out is removing the elixir option to upgrade to level 7 or 8 walls; I'm about halfway through my level 8 walls, and that's going to slow me down quite a bit. And I'm running out of elixir upgrades at TH8, with a lot of gold upgrades left to do. I'm going to be awash in elixir pretty soon if I can't dump it into my walls. I guess that means I will just have to put my elixir storages outside to discourage TH9 farmers from demolishing my base.
We've had a rash of new members lately. Some of them were visitors from another clan; I'm not sure how it got started, but they like to come see us from time to time. So, a couple of wars ago, we were 45v45. Our visitors have left, though, and we've removed a couple of inactive new members, so we're at 41 right now, starting a 40v40 war. We're back on a nice little winning streak: 7 in a row. And we now have three members at or above level 100, including Zebb, our first clan-grown member of the Century Club.
I am number 22 on our war map. When I joined in July, my current base would have been number 2, so that gives a perspective on how much the clan has grown up in the last few months.
With 41 members, we're not in a rush to continue to get bigger. My emphasis is on quality. I'd particularly like to see highly-developed TH9s with maxed war troops: dragons, balloons, minions, lava hounds if you prefer air, or golems, PEKKAs, witches, hog riders if you prefer ground.
We got our 60th war win. We did lose a few more members, so we're back to 35v35, and continue to look for a few more outstanding clan-mates. Please don't be rushed, particularly from a war perspective: if you're TH7, don't have level 5 army camps. If you're TH8, have respectable air defenses, knowing that you're going to get mass-dragon attacked repeatedly. Don't have one high-level and 3 low-level barracks. Have war troops that are well on their way to being fully upgraded for your TH (TH8 should have level 2 dragons, with short-term intention to get them to level 3, for example).
I'm still fishing for a "monster" with 30+ combined hero levels: a TH9 that can regularly 3* well-developed TH9, or a TH10 that can regularly 2* well-developed TH10, with solid troops and solid strategy and tactics. But, if you're a TH8 that can confidently 3* other TH8 with 3 level 6 Air Defenses, and can teach me to do the same, you are also very welcome!
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