As someone who is always looking for inspiration for new war attack styles is appears the latest trend is for mass witches. Not an attack style I’ve seen for a long time but the introduction of giants and a golem seems to provide enough protection to allow the skeleton swarm to fully spin up and then protect the witches from splash damage. In the video it’s being used by TH10s with high level heroes, but I think this might even work at TH9 as long as the player has level two witches, and reasonable golems and heroes. So who in our clan is going to give this a bash in a war ?

A Colombian clan were this week’s opponents. From the outset they attacked really well, however we weren’t following suit with a long run of one and two star wins. As most people are aware it’s having a comprehensive set of three star wins that gives you the victory. With our final attacks we had too many stars to catch up, we came close but it wasn’t to be. Well played Drakon Colombia. Great attackers !

On a personal note I was really pleased to put together two solid attacks against the opposition’s top 2 bases gaining 2 stars from each using a three jump spell strategy with my usual war army. I think I might continue with this for a while…

Our mid-week war was a more successful affair, despite a low number of attacks by both teams, with the team getting the win and maximum clan XP. In future I think we need to pick our war team more caretully so we have more people attack.

This week we were up against a french clan, les cousins. There was some great attacking by both teams and going in to the last few minutes we need 6 more stars to take the win. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be, with our TH10 players not really delivering against their top bases.

Yours truly was so chuffed to 2 star their #2 yesterday, against a popular anti 2 star base trophy base, but then I followed up with a poorly placed jump on my second attack for a zero star attack against their #1. One week I will get it together for both attacks.

Special note to Drew who as our #15 was always going to have a tough war but went on to 3 star both their #14 and #15, what a great performance !

I’m surprised that people don’t warn or tell me or any other co’s that they can’t be in war. I mean how hard is it, that’s why we don’t get close to full attacks ? Look at last week and the week before and etc. we have won wars and help our clan become a level 3 clan and we have gotten stronger but if you don’t tell me your busy, don’t have wi-fi, or on holiday I would put you in war and see you not attacking. Also I will be giving out long war bans if that happen, not getting stars on purpose, not trying to get stars, attacking without CC troops, spells (unless you are upgrading your spell factory) or not a full army! I will still tell you to join in midweek war if I don’t have enough people (but Pete will say if I can allow then in). I will be watching you if you do any of the list.

When I pick the war team for our main weekend war I get surprised by how all over the place we are in terms of trophy counts. There are great loot pickings at all levels if you are a decent attacker. It would be much easier, and better for our war team selection, if your were all closer to where you should be. So here are some recommended trophy ranges whether you are farming or trophy pushing, or most important of all, dark elixir looting for those awesome hero and dark troop upgrades.

FARMING TROPHY COUNT
Town Hall Level 6 -> 850-1100 trophies
Town Hall Level 7 -> 1150-1400 trophies
Town Hall Level 8 -> 1300-1950 trophies
Town Hall Level 9 -> 1700-2100 trophies
Town Hall Level 10 -> 1800-2500 trophies

TROPHY HUNTING COUNTS
Town Hall Level 6 -> 1150-1350 trophies
Town Hall Level 7 -> 1500-1700 trophies
Town Hall Level 8 -> 1600-2000 trophies
Town Hall Level 9 -> 1800-2300 trophies
Town Hall Level 10 -> 2350 trophies and higher

DARK ELIXIR HUNTING
Town Hall Level 7 -> 1600+
Town Hall Level 8 -> 1800+
Town Hall Level 9 -> 1800+
Town Hall Level 10 -> 2350+

For those of you are on 2000+ trophies you will appreciate that your war win bonus becomes more important the higher the division you are in, but don’t go too far. One great technique is to get into a higher division then drop to just under 100 trophies from where that division starts. You get easier raids but retain the higher division win bonuses. So for example if you are a Crystal 3 player, get to 2200 trophies for Crystal 2, then drop back to 2100-2200 and you keep your +50k/+50k/+200 Crystal 2 bonus but with easier attacks.

Also note for those of you who are trying to level up your heroes from level 10 and up; it is far better to be at 2350 or higher trophies. With hero upgrades costing huge amounts per level you need to make sure you are looting serious DE on each attack. Currently playing at 2350-2450 trophies I’m looting 80,000-90,000 per week which is allowing me to upgrade a hero every week. Three back to back Queen upgrades at the moment from level 15 to17.

Our main war this week was against a french clan, Les Complices. From the start they showed really strong attacking strategy and well coordinated attacks. Also their clan castle troops were almost the same as ours, maybe great minds think alike 🙂 It also appears that they run the war in a similar way to ours. This was not going to be an easy war by any means. However it was close, and despite having a target of 48 stars, which we exceeded, it wasn’t enough to take the win unfortunately. But if anyone from Les Complices reads this, well played, you guys are good !

Our midweek war against Darkside Gaming was a completely different affair. Most of their team didn’t attack. Maybe someone didn’t tell them they were in a war. But only 12 of 30 attacks made for a very one sided contest, but we’ll take the clan xp anyway.

Vikings were our opponents this weekend. We took an early lead but they came back strongly leaving us with 6 stars to gain in our final push. Due to some well played attacks we just got the victory by 1 star and took the maximum amount of clan XP from the war. Well played all.

Our mid-week war was almost as successful, but sadly ended in a draw. However 26 of 30 stars is a great performance so well played mid-week war team !

For those of you who use dragon attacks I’d like to discuss troop deployment. There are two ways of doing this; the spread i.e. the dragons spread out in a line; and the clump where the dragons are all put in the same spot. There is only right way to do this and that’s the spread; do not clump them !

Why is the spread more effective ? Consider the amount of damage done per attack to an enemy base. Let’s say you have 10 max dragons which will do 3000 hp of damage combined on their first hit. Now what happens when they all attack, for example, a builder’s hut. We launch 3000 hp of damage on a structure with 250 hp. The result is 2750 hp of wasted damage. Now imagine we launch those 10 dragons against multiple structures; we end up with each attack doing damage to lots of different structures; the result is that far less attack hp is wasted. Simple ?

So remember when you use a dragon army don’t clump the deployment !

A fabulous win in our main weekly war with 3 star attacks on 15 of 20 bases. We seemed to be slightly stronger in general which might have been a factor but the clan really pulled out all the stops with excellent attack strategies and well played attacks by almost everyone. I’d also like to mention our junior mid-week war where the team won 34-30 in a 15v15 war, so two good results this week. Well done everyone.

PS. My loot bonus was rather nice too !