Clash of Clans Strategy

Clash of Clans is a multiplayer game where you fight against other players. It is an very popular and addictive game you play to imporve your village. The fun part is that people can aim for diffirent achivements while playing. Some people play to get in an high level leauge with alot of trophies, while others play to build up and level their village quick. Either way you will need a strategy and a plan to achive your goals.

Building Strategy

If you want to level up your village as fast as possible, you should probably make a plan of which buildings you want to upgrade first. It is not a golden recipe of this plan, as it depends on your gamestyle. Are you a passive player that collect your resources once a day, or are you an very active player that do loads of attacks every day to get as many resources as possible?

Our golden rule either way if your doing loads of attacks or just collect resources once a day is to always level up your resource-collectors first. This will bring you a steady income of resources for the rest of your Clash of Clans journey.

Second tip, is to protect your resource storages with defensive buildings in middle of your base. If you lose your resources, it will take longer time till you can upgrade your buildings.

Third tip, is to use the beneficial of your shields after you get attacked. If you know you dont have time to do more than a few attacks, consider to skip these attacks and leave the shield on.

Attack Strategy

It’s loads of diffirent attack strategies out there. Which you should go for, depends on what your goal is. Do you want to get high in trophies or do you just want to collect the enemies resources and leave? Some attack strategies will probably work for both, while others are better at one of the examples.

We have listed up diffirent attack strategies on the front page of our Clash of Clans site. You should check that for an updated list. Here are some of our attack strategies as of today:

  • Barbarian and Archer : This strategy is ace if you want to do attacks very often against low rated bases. Specially if the resource storages are badly defended. Because Barbarians and Archers are very fast to create, you can do this attack over and over again in a short period of time. This strategy is highly suggested if you want to play alot – and get tons of resources.
  • BAM Farming Strategy : This isalso an very awsome farming strategy that will bring you loads of resources in a short amount of time. It includes the dark barracks – so it will get your troop ready, even faster than the Barb-Archer strategy.
  • Balloons Attack Strategy :This setup is very quite expensive but also very powerfull. It will get you up in a high trophy leauge. At the higher leagues it require that you have a high level of ballons. It’s a fun setup to play, it’s not very difficult and you will get entertained by loads of ballons destroying the enemy base.
  • Balloons and Minions Strategy : This is an enchanced setup of the previous setup. It includes the Dark Barracks which means that the troop will be ready in a shorter amount of time. This is also a very powerfull setup.
  • Dragon Attack : The dragon strategy is a simple and quite strong setup. It’s very easy to a pure dragon attack and you will destroy the enemy base with ease!

Trohpy Strategy

The only way to get a high number of trophies is to win battles against other players. You can use any of our strategies listed over to beat the enemy players. At higher leagues (trophy level) it will be way more dark elixirs in the enemy storages and some will also have quite huge gold and normal elixirs. But, remember that the battles will be harder than at low trophy level.

There is one way to get into 2200+ trophy leauge quick and easy. It doesnt require a huge troop and you will be able to attack as soon as the previous battle ended. The way I’m talking about is to go for the villages that leaves their town hall outside the walls. If you attack the undefended town hall with a few barbarians (use like 5), you will be ablet o do a new attack when the battle end. The trick is to keep hitting NEXT, untill you find a new enemy that has a undefended town hall.

Strategy Videos

Here’s a video that explain some very basic strategies of Clash of Clans

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Dragon Attack

Dragon

Dragons are the second last attack unit you learn to train in the Barracks. They require 20 housing space and deal high splash damage with their fire breath. While they are dealing alot of damage, they also have alot of health which make them quite superior. But at the other hand they have a very slow movement speed. They are flying in air so they are immune to ground defense buildings. Their worst enemy is the Air Defences which you should try to destroy as soon as possible if your using these flying units.

General Information

Dragons is a very strong troop unit and can be used at any range of the trophy leagues. The experience needed to use them is various and depends what setup you are going to use. Equal to the Balloon and Minion Strategy, walls are no challange, they simply fly over them. The negative thing about using this strategy to farm Resources is that they cost alot of elixir and which can be hard to gain back in every battle. But you will win most battles and gain alot of gold along the way! If you consider this as a problem, you should consider to use the BAM Farming Strategy.

Attack Strategy

You can use Dragons in alot of diffirent ways. Either in a mix with other units or as a pure Dragon Attack. Both are usefull and strong attack strategies. Because of their high health pool they can be used to tank damage from the enemy defensive buildings. But as already mentioned, you have to watch out for the Air Defenses. Consider to take these out with a Lighting Spell if they are hard to reach, or spawn your dragons so they destroy the building quickly. You can also take the Air Defence out with ground-troops or your Barbarian King or Archer Queen.

You should also try to lure the Queen Archer out from the base and kill it, before you spawn your Dragons. These will save your dragons for alot of trouble inside the base. The same goes for the Clan Castle if possible. On the other hand you dont have to mind their Barbarian King as he can not hurt flying units.

As a pure Dragon attack you should spawn your dragons in a group and zerg the base down. Rage Spells are very usefull to destroy buildings quickly and getting into the middle of the base – to destroy their Town Hall. You can also consider to use healing spells.

Suggested setup:

12 x Dragons (or as many you can create)

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Video about Dragon Attack

I’ve added a video to show you some examples of pure Dragon Attacks.

Fun Bases

Randomly in Clash of Clans you will come across what we choosed to call fun bases. It is simply players that are drawing funny stuff with their buildings and walls to illustrate something. It can be diffirent logos or texts and hidden messages. Some of the common fun bases are the Batman logo, Flowers and Teddy bears, but only your mind is the limit and people use their creativety to create anything!

Some of the fun bases actually works while playing. Others use them while they have shields on so that they dont get attacked. If the resources/town hall are inside the walls, the base will most probably work as any other base.

Note that these pictures are not sorted after your town hall level. You can check our front page for base setups sorted after town hall level.

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Fun Bases

Fun base: Teddy Bear
Teddy Bear, Town Hall 10
Fun base: Butter Fly
Butter Fly, Town Hall 9
Fun base: Batman
Batman, Town Hall 9

Flower Square
Flower Square, Town Hall 9
Batman
Another Batman, Town Hall 9
Flower
Flower, Town Hall 9

Butter Fly
Another Butterfly, Town Hall 10

Town Hall 9 Bases (Page 2)

We have found some more interesting and very good base setups for town hall 9. So this is an continuation of our previous post about Town Hall level 9. You should check both post to find the layout you like most. We’re seperation two kind of setups based on what your goals are. We’re calling them defensive layouts and farmer layouts. Our farmer layouts do not protect the town hall to let random players destroy it quickly so that they gain trophies. That might sound bad you think? But the goal and idea is that it will give you a free 8-12 hour shield! Alot of these attackers wont touch your resources as they just go for the town hall.

The defensive layouts/bases do protect the town hall. You should use this if your goal is to get into the high leagues and a high score of trophies.

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Base Setups for town hall level 9 (page 2)

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#1 Defensive Base

Town Hall 9

#2 Farmer Base

Town Hall 9

#3 Farmer Base

Town Hall 9

#4 Farmer Base

Town Hall 9

#5 Defensive Base

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#6 Defensive Base

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#7 Defensive Base

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#8 Defensive Base

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Town Hall 10 Bases (Page 2)

We have included six more Clash of Clans Town Hall level 10 bases. This is a second post and an extension of the first Town Hall 10 page. It includes diffirent layouts for both resource farming and trophy-hunters.

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Base Setups for town hall level 10 (page 2)

 

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#1 Defensive Base

Town Hall 10

#2 Defensive Base

Town Hall 10

#3 Defensive Base

Town Hall 10

#4 Farmer Base

Town Hall 10

#5 Farmer Base

Town Hall 10

#6 Defensive Base/ Hybrid Base

Town Hall 10

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Town Hall 7 Bases (Page 2)

We have gathered loads of images of diffirent base layouts. This post is an extension of Town Hall Level 7, which also includes diffirent farmer and defensive layouts for the clash of clans Level 7 village.

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Here’s some good base setups for town hall level 7

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#1 Defensive base

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#2 Farmer base

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#3 Defensive base

#4 Hybrid base

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Town Hall 8 Bases (Page 2)

This is is an extension of our original Town Hall Level 8 post which include base layouts for your clash of clans village. We’re including both farming bases and defensive layouts for trophy hunters.

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The best level 8 base setup (page 2)

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Here’s some good base setups for town hall level 8

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#1 Farmer base
Town Hall 8 (6)

#2 Defensive base

Town Hall 8 (11)

#3 Defensive base

Town Hall 8 (29)

#4 Farmer base

Town Hall 8 (14)

#5 Farmer base

Town Hall 8 (20)

#6 Hybrid base

Town Hall 8 (24)

#7 Farmer base

Town Hall 8 (25)

#8 Hybrid Fun base

Town Hall 8 (26)

#9 Defensive base

Town Hall 8 (28)

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Balloons and Minions

Ballons and Minions are a popular setup for trophy hunting. It’s an easy to use, yet powerfull setup. The strategy is similar to our Balloon Strategy, but includes minions. It’s a well known and much used strategy, even at 2600+ trophy league. Compared to the balloon strategy this setup is faster to train as we use the dark brackets aswell. The training time of minions are 45 seconds, so it really speeding up the progress. They cost 8 dark elixir each, which is not alot – but its still dark elixir.

General Information

Balloons and Minions strategy allow you to do heavy attacks often, compated to its strenght. The mix of heavy damage and quick units make this setup very good and successful even in the high leauges. The balloons have an movement speed of 10, while the minions has a movement speed of totally 32! The minions health is on the other hand quite low, but the housing space is only 2, which means you can make a lot of them. While the balloons prioritize defending buildings, the minions will damage anything that is close.

Attack Strategy

The Balloons and minion attack is based on air units. That means we don’t have to mind mortars and canons. Our worst enemy is the air defense and thats the buildings we should try to take down first. Try to choose bases where these can be taken out quick. The shaman towers can also be a pain as they will slay alot of your minions quickly. Consider to use spells when needed. I suggest healing spells close to shaman towers to refill your units health, rage spells to take down crowded defense buildings quickly, or lightening spells to take out air defenses, without loosing your units.

The Balloons and Minions can be sent out together, or spread around the base. An idea can be to send the minions in first, and then send in your ballons, so that the air defenses get busy hitting minions instead of balloons. But remember that the minions should be used to clear the base and take down buildings after the balloons have taken down all the defensive buildings. The minions are quick and they do some nice damage as a crowd. They are perfect for clearing up the base when the clock is ticking!

Suggested setup:

28 x balloons
50 x minions.

Remove or add as your able to with your current level of camps.

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Video about Balloons and Minions

I’ve added this video about balloons and minions strategy. It’s a fight at 2600+ trophies.

Balloon Attack

Clash of Clans Balloon attack is a entertaining strategy that works with low trophys aswell as 2400+ trophies. We will look at some key points to be aware of while using this strategy sucsessfully. The setup itself can be used at low and high trophy level. But the levels of your balloons might set a limit of your possibilities in the higher leauges. If you like air-attacks, you should check out our Dragon Attack aswell.

General information

The balloons takes 5 housing spaces and 8 minutes to train. With 4 barracks training balloons only, it will take 25 minutes to fill 200 housing spaces (level 6 army camps). If you boost your barracks it will go 4 times faster and the troops will be ready every 6 min 15 sec.

An important fact everyone that consider to use the balloons should know, is that their favourite target is defenses. That’s equal to giants, which also favourite defense buildings. This means that these units will destroy defense buildings before touching the other buildings.

If you ever used the balloons you also probably noticed that their movement is very slow. Their movement speed is set to 10, while giants have 12. With this in mind, you have to be aware of the battle time. Their prioritized attack order and their slow movement speed is important to have in mind while your using this balloon attack strategy.

Attack Strategy

When your attacking with ground troops, you simply ignore the air defense buildings as they don’t do damage to these units. But when your attacking with balloons you have to change that foucs. Your main priority should be to take out these air defenses as fast as possible. The air defense buildings usually shoot down the balloons in 2-3 hits, and they shoot quite often! With this in mind you should aim for bases with exposed air defense buildings.

You should also try to baith out their clan castle defenders. Many people have arches inside these buildings, which also attack air units. This also include their Arch Queen, which has ranged attack. But on the other hand you do not need to mind the King as he’s not able to touch air units.

Some people likes to use the balloon strategy mixed with other units. An example of this could be sending in a dragon in front to take the damage from air defenses, while your balloons slay it down in no time. The negative thing about is that it takes alot longer to train the dragons. It is also smart to bring some units that are fast, to destroy all buildings after the defensive buildings have been taken down. I would suggest you to check out the Balloon and Minion strategy, which is a very strong.

What most people do when their attacking with this strategy is either to split up in groups and take out the air defense in diffirent places in the base. Or, you can send in all the units at once, as close as possible to the defensive buildings. I’ve added a video at the end of this article to show you some examples of this strategy.

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Video about Ballon Attacks

Play Clash of Clans on PC

Clash of Clans PCAlot of Clash of Clans Players want to play the game on PC and not only their smartphones or tablets. With this guide you will be able to download and play Clash of Clans on your PC in just a few minutes. It’s a simple program that let you run mobile applications on the PC and it does not require any complicated tweaks. It’s really quick and simple.

3 steps to play Clash of Clans on PC

  1. Download and install BlueStacks
    Download AppPlayer for Windows or MAC. BlueStacks is a program that allow you to run Android Apps on your PC. You can see more information about their program on their homepage.
  2. Download Clash of Clans
    Just download and install Clash of Clans trought BlueStacks. It takes around a minute, depending on your PC and internet connection.
  3. Start Clash of Clans.
    Congrats! Your complete and ready to start up Clash of Clans.

After you have installed the game on your PC, you probably want to get your village synced. To do so follow these steps:

First you will need to complete the introduction tutorial in the game, so that you get up the settings button ingame.

Android users: Start Clash of Clans and click Settings and then the Google+ button, log in to Google+ and simply load your village.

For iOS (iPad/iPhone): You will have to create a google+ account first. Then: start Clash of Clans, click Settings and then Google+ signin. It will ask you to log in or create a new account. Create an new account and then log in. Go back to your iOS device and to Settings and then Link Device. Use the code you get and fill in on your PC running Clash of Clans (Settings -> Link Device).

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Video that takes you trough the guide