The Clash of Clans thread

• GOONx19

  

  I'm in clanburger, but the leader won't add someone unless we tell him we know them.
• ohiobucks1

  

  Holy buckeye. I'm a leader. noobs.
• salto

  

  I think Tribal Wars has an ap. If you join lemme know and I'll come noble your settlement.
• ohiobucks1

  

  salto;1619277 wrote:I think Tribal Wars has an ap. If you join lemme know and I'll come noble your settlement.

  Diamondbuck (plays in sheep league) is in one of the best tribal wars clans or whatever that game calls them in the world.
• Curly J

  

  Just started playing this. Pretty fun game. Haven't joined a clan yet. Been playing it most of today.
• OSH

  

  I hate waiting. That's why games like CoC frustrates me.
• McFly1955

  

  I can't believe I'm still hooked on this game after 5 months...I usually get bored with video games in general after 2-3 months tops. Probably because it's always with me, and I play for an hour on lunch at work, or watching TV, etc...It doesn't require 100% of your attention.
  
  I have 7 days left on an upgrade to hogs level 3 and I'm saving up the DE to start hogs level 4 immediately..I'm at 20,000 out of 40,000 needed, so I think I should be there right on time. After my big push on hogs I'm going to be upgrading minions and balloons to roll with the 'balloonion' strategy...
  
  I've been upgrading hidden teslas (all 3 at once) for the last 20+ days...I'm taking them from level 2 up to level 6 (the max at TH8). The total build time for that is 36 days...Feels like forever, but I'm nearing the end. 75 damage per second at lvl 6, though, which will just wreck stuff.
• Gblock

  Dragons in 3 days for me
• ohiobucks1

  

  McFly1955;1622163 wrote:I can't believe I'm still hooked on this game after 5 months...I usually get bored with video games in general after 2-3 months tops. Probably because it's always with me, and I play for an hour on lunch at work, or watching TV, etc...It doesn't require 100% of your attention.
  
  I have 7 days left on an upgrade to hogs level 3 and I'm saving up the DE to start hogs level 4 immediately..I'm at 20,000 out of 40,000 needed, so I think I should be there right on time. After my big push on hogs I'm going to be upgrading minions and balloons to roll with the 'balloonion' strategy...
  
  I've been upgrading hidden teslas (all 3 at once) for the last 20+ days...I'm taking them from level 2 up to level 6 (the max at TH8). The total build time for that is 36 days...Feels like forever, but I'm nearing the end. 75 damage per second at lvl 6, though, which will just wreck stuff.

  how do you get so much res
• Automatik

  

  I've been at it for almost 2 years off and on. Currently waiting to get about 500k more elixir to get lvl3 dragons. #BALLIN
• McFly1955

  

  ohiobucks1;1622183 wrote:how do you get so much res

  huh?
• ohiobucks1

  

  McFly1955;1622201 wrote:huh?

  How do you get such high levels of resources? It takes me like 2 weeks to save up DE, and even longer to upgrade all my teslas to level 2!
• McFly1955

  

  ohiobucks1;1622207 wrote:How do you get such high levels of resources? It takes me like 2 weeks to save up DE, and even longer to upgrade all my teslas to level 2!

  ahh, gotcha..
  
  I have mostly maxed out collectors, which help, but the majority of my resources are from raiding and wars.
  
  My clan does 2 wars per week and always wins...The bonus for each win is usually 600,000 gold, 600,000 elix, 1,200 DE or so. So I get that every 3 days or so.
  
  I typically play for 1 hour on my lunch at work every day...In this time I typically get in 4 attacks.
  
  here is my strategy:
  
  I stick to around 1700-1800 trophy level (a good mix of dead bases and bases with a lot of dark elixir up here)
  
  -Overnight I cook 10 dragons
  -First attack I search for a base with a lot of resources (and preferably a lot of dark elixir, 1000+). I'd like to be able to at least 1 star the base, and I'd like to get 200,000+ gold, 200,000+ elix, and 1,000+ dark elixir. This is usually easy, it takes some time to search for the right base, but I always find a good target (level 2 dragons right now).
  
  While I'm attacking, I always have the following loaded up: 1 barrack full of barbs, 1 barrack full of gobs, 2 barracks full of archers, and dark barracks making about 10 minions (lvl 5 barbs, gobs, archers, lvl 1 minion).
  
  By the time I'm done searching and doing my mass dragon attack, I'm usually pretty close to having my camps full of the above troops. I then keep loading the barracks and searching and attacked for the rest of my lunch. I sometimes have to hit 'next' for 5-10 minutes until I find the right target, but it doesn't matter because my barracks are cooking up more troops for the next attack, so I have time to be picky.
  
  
  
  What I'm looking for with this attacks is 200,000+ gold, 200,000+ elixir, and preferably 500+ DE...I'm looking for bases that haven't been maintained recently, so I check for full elixir collectors and DE drills (easy to tell if these are full). I then unload all of my gobs and barbs in a circle around the base, focusing the gobs on the DE and gold, then when those are cleared out I send in a large circle of archers to take out the rest. Again, I try to get 50% (usually just barely).
  
  
  Here is what I did on lunch today:
  
  mass dragons: 190k gold, 220,000 elix 2,700 DE
  attack 2 : 220k gold 200k elix
  attack 3 : 140k gold 140k elix 700 DE
  attack 4 : 150k gold 150k elix 100 DE
  
  
  I also have a level 3 DE drill, which makes 1,000ish DE per day.
  
  I also work from home every saturday morning typing reports from dictations, so I'm basically just typing and listening to a machine for 4 straight hours.
  
  During this time I boost 2 barracks (4x production for 2 hours, costs 10 gems), and I do the same thing with the minions, archers, gobs, barbs and just keep searching and attacking when I find a juicy base, which is usually every 10-15 minutes or so.
  
  I've been doing a lot of defense upgrades and walls, so my elixir has been totally full for the past several weeks (4.5 mill, always full). My teslas upgrades are spread out by a few days, so I'll need 3 million to start the final tesla in 2 days, then 3 million more in 3 more days, then 3 million more 3 days after that...I usually get around 1 million of gold and elix every day on lunch, so it won't be a problem.
  
  
  I'll also play at night watching TV some times here and there, usually getting 200,000 plus of gold and elix per attack.
  
  I just looked back at this thread...On May 5 I was hoping to get enough DE for barbarian king level 1...
  
  so, in less than 1 month I've gotten the barb king to level 6 (cumulative cost around 100,000 DE), and I've got hogs upgrading to level 3 (50,000 DE cumulative)...And I have 26,000 DE on my way to the 40,000 needed for hogs 4.
• Gblock

  man im slipping
• McFly1955

  

  Movin on up to TH9 soon (starting the 10 day upgrade on Thursday this week).
  
  Got minions moving to 3 soon, then balloons to 5, then immediately balloons to 6 when I get to TH9 so I can do some balloonion (very OP strategy).
  
  TH8 is kind of frustrating....You are really limited on offense and defense...No base can stop a skilled TH9 with level 6 giants, lvl 5 hogs, or lvl 6 balloons and minions...You just have to hope you get an easy shield and look out for the next attack. At TH9 you can at least get some new defense in place and upgrade camps to take 220 troops instead of 200, so I'm looking forward to the upgrade.
• salto

  

  Have only been messing with Clash of Clans now for a couple weeks. Only lvl 22. (728 trophies Bronze league) Have not spent any $$ on it yet and have not repaired my clan castle yet.
  
  *Anybody of you clash of clans fans ever try Tribal Wars and their App?
• salto

  

  oh yea! A cool game with great background music.
  
  Smash Hit:
  
  [video=youtube;4LPBEUtOWPQ][/video]
• salto

  

  ccrunner609;1629380 wrote:So have I. maybe I will come and attack you, rape your women and kill your children

  Does your barbarians wear flip flops and visors?
• ohiobucks1

  

  Finally got level 2 hogs and level 2 pekkas. Pretty pumped. Level 73 right now.
• McFly1955

  

  Big update coming any day now..
  
  -Valks have been buffed up (never used them before since they sucked)
  -Hogs are getting nerfed by increased damage by big bombs
  -Heros can no longer be 'lured' to the corner of the map and gang attacked, which also is bad for hogs.
  -Watch attacks live during wars (you can watch your clanmates attacking live rather than via replay after the fact)
  -Jump spell is better now
  -Troops attack walls better now (concentrate on the same wall rather than having 20 barbs all banging away at a different wall
  
  The biggest game changer here is not being able to lure heros...I'm in a pretty competitive/higher level clan and so many of the higher level attacks really on luring the heros and the clan castle troops and disposing of them first thing...Not being able to do that now will change things a lot.
  
  
  My TH9 upgrade will be done Sunday --- will have 6 mil gold/elix and 80k DE at the time and I'm going to do a TH9 shopping spree, then get balloons to lvl 6 ASAP. I'm at 50k DE now, so I should be able to pull in the remaining 30k over the next few days.
• bases_loaded

  

  Balloons...are they good? I never use them
• salto

  

  bases_loaded;1632292 wrote:Balloons...are they good? I never use them

  Not sure if the best strategy but after all air defense is taken out I'll send one to help destroy the rest of the ground defense.
• McFly1955

  

  bases_loaded;1632292 wrote:Balloons...are they good? I never use them

  balloons are pretty garbage until you get to th9 and can get level 6 balloons.
  
  Look at some youtube videos, search for "balloonion strategy".
  
  Lvl 6 balloons mixed with level 3+ minions is awesome.
  
  
  Here is a chart from the clash wiki, look at that jump from 5 to 6. Marginal increases from levels 1-5 then bam, at 6 they are beast.
  
  They also do damage when they are destroyed, so when they are shot down they do splash damage to anything underneath.

  Level	Damage per Second	Damage per Attack	Hitpoints	Training Cost	Research Cost	Laboratory Level Required	Research Time
  1	25	100	150	2,000	N/A	N/A	N/A
  2	32	128	180	2,500	150,000	2	1 day
  3	48	192	216	3,000	450,000	4	2 days
  4	72	288	280	3,500	1,350,000	5	3 days
  5	108	432	390	4,000	2,500,000	6	5 days
  6	162	648	545	4,500	6,000,000	7	10 days

• Glory Days

  

  salto;1632301 wrote:Not sure if the best strategy but after all air defense is taken out I'll send one to help destroy the rest of the ground defense.

  This is what I do. focus on air defense then unleash 1 or 2 balloons to help mop up.
• salto

  

  lvl 28
  
  56 attacks won
  9 defenses won