Well I thought we were back to winning ways but apparently not, with a very disappointing loss this week. It was a 25v25 war which didn’t look too difficult, however some poor early attacking left too many missed stars lower down for us to clean up.

A couple of people have asked how it’s possible to acquire lots of elixir so here’s a quick guide. The most important thing is to know how much you are spending to do a raid. Let’s take as an example my day to day raiding army :

Now I need to know how much this army costs and the easiest way is to get it calculated for you is by using the Clash of Clans Army Planner. Inputting my regular army shows the cost is 125,250.

Now assuming I win an attack I also get a league loot bonus of 50,000 elixir for Crystal 2 so my net cost is 125,250 – 50,000 = 75,250. So I must get at least 75,250 elixir for each raid for my elixir not to go down, and more than that for it to go up. Now this is assuming I don’t use spells, but let’s say I use one heal and one lightning in my raid, and that adds 44,000 elixir (22,000 for each lightning 5 and heal 5) to my cost, so now I need to raid at least 75,250 + 44,000 = 119,250 elixir to break even.

Just knowing the cost of your army will really help you choose the right bases to attack if you are trying to farm elixir, in particular for those huge totals needed for things like level 6 giants (6,000,000).

I also use the same system for calculating the win bonus required in wars, though quite frankly I never get close to the amount of dark elixir I spend.

I have never seen this much loot available before and luckily I managed to take the majority of it, and then add on the +50k gold/elixir Crystal 2 win bonus for a total of almost 1.5 million resources taken.

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After a couple of poor war results we’re back to our winning ways again. It was only a 15v15 war this week due to the absences caused by the Easter holidays. But it was a nice win despite a poorly steered zero star first attack on their #2 by yours truly, and our #1 having a connection failure, again (!) a few minutes before the end of the war.

Also I found it very encouraging this week that very few clean-up opportunities had been left on the weaker enemy bases, so there was some good attacking by our players with weaker bases and armies.

Added a few more bases to the ‘base design’ section. Now every town hall from 5-10 has a farming, hybrid and trophy base!

Over the last few days we’ve been discussing whether to do a war more than once per week. Our normal (senior) war will be weekly at the same time as usual. However it might be possible to do a junior war mid-week. Because of the cost of running a war for our highest level players we would not expect them to participate.

The mid-week war should be an opportunity for our lower level players or those who are not confident attackers to participate in a war without the pressure of the whole clan on them and also against easier, and hopefully less skilled, opposition. I was thinking that we should restrict it to players of level 60 or below, or perhaps TH5/6 and a few of the TH7s. Omer and Jimmy have kindly offered to run the junior war, assuming there are enough of our lower level players who want to participate. Please add your thoughts by commenting on this post and also whether you would like to be a junior war player.

Welcome to our new web-site. Over the coming months I hope we post lots of useful information for our visitors. The site will also be used for clan conversations too so if you want to know what we’re all about please follow us. Our clan has a core of approximately 20 players but we tend to have 25-35 members expanding and contracting as we remove inactive players and add new members. The clan was formed in early 2014 so we’ve been quite successful in keeping it together, and we’re a friendly bunch too, which we hope continues.

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