Beaker had a clan mate who used to try different but successful attack strategies in wars. His favourite was queen walk and mass valkyries. Watch this to see how it works.

For those of us who having been playing clash for a long time will know you hit those patches when nothing goes right, you can’t get the loot, you lose every battle, and you think of quitting. Most of us TH9+ people must have been there. For some players the loot required at TH8+, or more likely their lack of attacking skill must make the game seem impossible, so I understand why they give in; the commitment is too much. It’s not the game for you unfortunately, just move on.

Sometimes it’s worth just taking a break for a week or two, or longer in the case of some of our clan members who have re-joined

But sometimes it’s just about your mojo; I had one of those days today, I lost six in a row which is unheard of ! I rarely lose ! [caveat: AQ upgrading, using super cheap farming armies in Masters 1…] But I kept with it and pulled it back together. What you need to remember is that although Clash seems simple, there are some many layers of complexity and timing choices, and a bit of randomness, that make it a tough game to play well, and that’s why it is a worthy and rewarding challenge. When I nail those big war wins on the enemies top bases it’s a buzz, and that’s why I keep on playing.

Here’s Galadon from Lost Phoenix going through one of those patches, and I think it was really worthwhile that he gave his perspective as someone so prominent in the Clash community.

We’ve got a couple of 1.6 million plus raids shown below but they are nothing compared to this one that Chief Pat shared : over 3 million resources in a single raid. Wow !

Beaker has a vid taking TH11s with TH9 style war attacks. The first attack on this one is superb.

Galadon has just posted a sneak peek video of the next update. It looks like there are significant changes on the way at several TH levels, including nerfs to TH7 dragon attacks and golems at TH11. This could mean a change to some of the attack strategies we use.

It’s nice to see something new; to shadow the high level queen walk strategy here is the TH8 version, the PEKKA walk. It’s well worth considering in war attacks but requires practise and expert pathing skills.

Beaker has just posted a video with some very creative TH9 war raids, from a clan that has just had seven perfect, yes, perfect, wars in a row… hogs, valks, healers etc. all working in perfect harmony. Awesome stuff.

Supercell released information on their forums today, and also Galadon has a brief video, about the next update. The focus seems to be about restoring more loot balance to the game. I’m not completely sure it’s required since I find awesome amounts of loot almost all the time with both the TH10 and TH11 accounts I’m playing, but obviously Supercell have data no-one else does to suggest they thing there is a problem that needs fixing. Anyway check out the first details…

We’ve not had good war results for the last couple of weeks but I hope this weeks war was a turn around. Personally I was pleased to get 5 stars off their #2 and #3 in this war, and most of the rest of the clan played a blinder. But this had to be the closest war yet ending at 35-35 but we took the win for the damage. How close was this ? The clan XP also moved us to a level 6 clan which is great news !

Just in case you don’t about the YouTube channel Beaker’s Lab I thought I’d bring it to your attention. Some of the replays he shows are absolutely amazing with so many 3 star wins at different Town Hall levels. Here’s one for our Town Hall 11 team, but check out some of the others.