Clash of Clans - Clan Wars!!!

Hey clanmates!

I wanted to post a few things regarding Clan Wars.

The Blood Mafia is going to be participating is Clan Wars once it starts.

Here's a little information to sum up Clan Wars.

What is a Clan War?

A clan war is a strategic battle between two clans. There are two phases in a clan war, the preparation day and the battle day. Each participant can attack twice during the battle day. At the end of the war, the clan that earns the most stars from attacking wins the clan war.

Every clan member who makes successful attacks during a clan war will earn some bonus loot, but only the winning clan will receive a large loot bonus (plus 2 thumbs up). Clan wars are free to start and participate in, and, unlike normal multiplayer battles, clans get to choose if and when they would like to go to war. Clans do not have to participate in clan wars.

Quick Link to the fast youtube video about Clan Wars explained.

Don't worry about how safe your village is, it will not be affected by the war once started. There will be 2 villages, your war base and your regular base. Trophy count and regular resources will not be affected by the clan war.

If a clan member decides to leave the clan after starting a clan war, their war base will remain with the initial clan they started the war with. You can only participate in 1 clan war at a time.

Inactive clan war participants will not receive war loot, but will still count towards the war effort. Sp, please participate in the clan war once it is started. We need to make sure that we are attacking other bases that we know we can win at. Try your best to get 3 stars from the attack also. 

How is strength calculated in clan wars?

Strength is based on each member’s attacking power (troops, army camp capacity, spells and heroes) and defensive strength (defense buildings, walls, traps and heroes). Different layouts and base designs do not affect strength. The only way a member’s strength can be changed is if they upgrade their troops, defenses, spells, etc.

• Upgrade your camps
• Upgrade troops, if possible, to the highest level you can go while leveling your village.
• Upgrade defensive buildings
• Start with splash damage buildings first; wizard towers and mortars.
• Work on Archer towers next. These towers have a large range for defense and can target air and ground.
• Place traps in strategic locations and make sure you re-arm them.
• Strength will also be helped with your wall levels. But try not to worry to much about max level for walls all the time. People with a Town hall level 7 should work on at least level 6 walls. before you move up to Town hall level 8, you should then work on increasing the wall levels. A good reason for increasing wall strength at Town hall level 7 should be if you plan on increasing your trophy count above 1800.

Let's all plan on making ourselves involved as much as we can with the clan wars.

The Blood Mafia - A clan where cement shoes are half price...

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Click HERE for a more detailed description of the Clan War Facts.

Next competition

What would you like to see as the next competition to possibly receive a $10.00 itunes gift card?

There's a few things I have been thinking about; caption contest, trophy count growth, troop donations to a high amount, and a few others.

What kind of contest would you like to see? Reply to this post with responses.

Troop Funneling

I wanted to talk about ways to improve your defense techniques by funneling attacking troops.

There are ways to funnel troops with walls, buildings, and with decorations. 

First up is wall funneling...

Using the approach of funneling attacking troops through walls can benefit you by giving your defense more time to take out the attacking force. As you can see in the picture above, troops will go towards the clan castle then work their way up to the air defense unit. In the meantime, while the troops are funneling through the walls to get to the air defense unit, they are being torn apart by the wizard towers and the mortars. Of course there's the traps that are placed that will decrease the amount of attacking troops that make it past the clan castle.

The picture above also gives us a good example of funneling with buildings. Buildings are just the units that can be destroyed. There are the three types of buildings when it comes to how troops react towards. Barbarians will attack anything... So they don't care what type of building or unit is involved.They will attacking the clan castle, barracks, or gold mines... Whatever is closest, they go for. Goblins will go straight for the resource buildings before attacking anything else. The giants will be the troop that will fall for the funnel effect most of all. They go straight for the defensive units and bypass all other buildings to get to their target. you can view each troops favorite target by selecting the info button in the barracks (dark barracks included).

Here's another example of funneling with walls:

This picture shows how easy it is to break up a persons strategy of using the wall breakers to get inside your main portion of your base. It also shows a good setup for town hall level 8.

Decorations for funneling?

Pictures should help with the explanation. You can see how decorations and walls were both used to funnel attacking troops. The troops were forced to gather together in one spot after stopping to fire. Nearby mortars or wizard towers are easily able to take them out with a few blasts...

I hope this helps out for setting up your defense or even what to look out for when attacking.

Leave some comments on what you think.

1200 GEMS!!!

1200 GEMS FOR FREE!!!!

I'm going to have a contest!

Who's interesting in getting one of the $9.99 packages that will supply your account with 1200 gems?

Contest Rules:

• Your trophy count for your donations must be at least 1000 by July 19th 2013.
• You must submit a picture of your funniest place to play clash of clans to my email listed below on or before July 19th 2013. (this portion is just in the email to me so I know who the winner is)
• You must also write at least 100 words explaining what your favorite troop is in the game and why by July 19th 2013. (this portion should be added as a comment on the blog posting, just make sure you include your game name)
• Finally,  and don't forget, have fun while playing the game and increasing our clans potential to get to the top 200.

Here is a picture of the 3 gift cards that I have to give away. Once the contest is finished and the winner for this first one is chosen, I will email you the card info and instructions. 

We will do a contest once a month to see who can get the reward. If you post as anonymous, then type your game town name into the comment so you get credit. 

When you send your email, type your game town name and real name into the message so you get credit. your real name will not be public for all to know. Unless people already know your real name, then you're in trouble for making your friends jealous... haha

My email is brianfavre@icloud.com
You can also add me to game center if you want.

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Splash Damage Upgrades

Hey everybody!

I wanted to start a post about what type of splash damage defense units seem to be the best choice.

We start off with Mortars and Wizard Towers....MAKE EM BURN!!!

Mortars...

In my opinion, this is the best thing to upgrade at each level. There are many advantages when it comes to using these to fend off attackers. Best part about them is how they can kill multiple troops at the same time and have a very long range. To me, this makes them one of the most powerful things we can use to protect our resources among other things. You can see in the picture below how far the range is for the mortar.

Wizard Towers...

Wizard towers are great for splash damage on troops attacking you. The best part about the wizard tower to me is, it doesn't have a black out or area where it can't keep shooting. The range is shorter when compared to the mortars, but you have that other advantage of being able to keep attacking the invading army. You can see in the picture below how far the range is for the Wizard Tower.

I'm interested in figuring out everybody's opinion of each of these awesome defense units would be your choice for upgrading.
If you post, try to put your game name in the comment.

Clash of Clans Farming

UPDATE regarding farming:

Do you want your banks to look like this???

 

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Farming is a great way to get resources that you need for upgraades. One of the keys to farming is to be at a good trophy count where you will not get hammered by players that can take you for everything you have. You also have to be aware about who to attack and get the most out of each attack.

If you are able to use archers and attack resources from a distance without alerting the defenses, it will pay off to gather from this type of situation. If the defenses are covering the resources well enough to where you can send in a few giants as distractions, try it out and see how much you can gather before the giants are knocked out.

Some people go the route of lowering their trophy count to be able to save resources and go from shield to shield and use their pumps or mines to gather for them. You can find these types of people will usually place their townhall just outside the reach of defenses. Most of the time, this will allow a player to attack your townhall for the trophy points they're looking for and to gather just enough resources to replace a few troops they might have lost. For this type of method, you will find that the trophy range from 1100 - 1300 will work fine. This range will set your base in the same range as other people that are trying to get to that 1250 trophy count for their gem prize.

There are a lot of different ways to go about farming in Clash of Clans. If anybody else has any other suggestions, let us know.

Archers

Hey everybody! 
I wanted to add a reat video on this blog that talks about the archers that we all use day in and day out. It's found on YouTube and can help out when thinking of what troop to donate or what troop to use in attacks.

http://youtu.be/84CD30UwbAQ

Lt Nixon is the person's name who makes these videos. Very helpful if you are trying to figure out a few things in Clash of Clans.