Gameplay TipsFactual points about the game beyond opinion:
- Clan Castle Troops surviving a defensive Raid will return to your Clan Castle at full health, even if they were damaged during the attack. Clan Castle Troops deployed as part of your own attack will be lost regardless of whether they survive the battle or not.
- Healers will fit into a level 2 or higher Clan Castle.
- Dragons will fit into a level 3 or higher Clan Castle.
- P.E.K.K.As will fit into a level 4 or higher Clan Castle.
- A Golem will fit into a level 5 Clan Castle.
- Enemy troops can still spawn on the darker colored grass where you cannot place buildings.
- Multiplayer matchmaking is based on Trophy count only. Enemy levels and capabilities will vary widely.
- You get a 12-hour Shield if your Town Hall is destroyed, or if 40%-89% of your buildings are destroyed. The Shield increases to 16 hours if 90%+ is destroyed.
- Leaving the Town Hall unprotected is ideal if you are farming.
- Your Army Camp troops cannot defend, but they are unaffected if their Army Camp is destroyed during a Raid.
- Upgrading your Resource Collectors stops production, and they won't begin to collect until their upgrade is completed.
- If only 40-49% of your buildings are destroyed (not including Town Hall or walls ) you gain a 12-hour Shield with no loss to your Trophies. (Use this time to upgrade defenses.)
- Defensive Buildings are rated in damage per second rather than per shot; therefore slow firing Defensive Buildings like the Mortar have high damage per shot and yet have a relatively low damage per second rating. This does not mean they are not important.
- You can't cancel a Troop upgrade in the Laboratory, so plan your upgrades beforehand!
- Donating Troops to clan members gives high experience points; however the player level currently has little meaning.
- The player level can roughly show how long a player has been playing.
- Army Camps, Clan Castles, Gold Storages, Elixir Storages and the Dark Elixir Storage can be used while upgrading.
- You can move your Buildings/Walls/Decorations during building/upgrading.
- Players cannot Raid your village while you're online, though the game times out if not touched for a period of time (even if your iDevice does not go into screen lock).
- The higher level your town hall is, the more defensive buildings you have. However, you will be subjected to loot penalty. Also, the battle searching cost also increases. These are the main reasons why you should not upgrade your town hall too early.
- The placement of Bombs and Spring Traps, along with Air Bombs and Seeking Air Mines are really important.
- Your Gems cannot be stolen.
- Traps and Decorations can be built without the need of a free Builder, unlike building/upgrading Walls and removingObstacles.
- The Wizard Tower is the only Defensive Building that does splash damage to air units.
- The amount of Experience needed to go up a level is (current level-1)*50. So it will take 50 Experience points more every level you are rising. For example: to go from level 10 to 11 requires 450 Experience points, so to go from level 11 to 12 it will require 500 Experience points.
- Being in a Trophy League will also provide a loot bonus in addition to the loot from the raid. You enter Trophy Leagues automatically by raiding successfully.
- Even though you are in your own Trophy League, you can still raid people from higher (or lower) leagues from up to 200 trophies below and above you.
- Healers only heal ground units as well as Heroes. They do not heal flying units, such as Dragons or other Healers.
- Try to upgrade Defensive Buildings during Shields as they do not defend while upgrading.
- It is recommended that you upgrade all your towers and buildings to the maximum level allowed before upgrading your Town Hall.
- A good place for the Clan Castle is in the middle of the village. Archers are nice all-purpose Troops to fill it with. Other good troops are Wizards, Dragons, and Minions.
- Try to spend, or hide, all your Resources at the end of the day if you don't have a Shield. That way those who Raid for Resources will most likely ignore your village.
You can "hide" a maximum of 589,200 Elixir in your Barracks when you're offline. Make sure the Army Camps are completely filled with troops you need the next time you come online. Then train the maximum amount of Dragons(or Wall Breakers if you don't have Dragons) in the Barracks. When you come back online, you just cancel all these trainees and you get the training costs back! (Three level 4 Dragons, seven level 5 Wall Breakers and one level 6Archer in each of the four level 10 Barracks = 589,200 Elixir.) - If you wish to remodel your village without using the Village Edit Mode, try to do so when you have a Shield. If for some reason the game crashes, you will get three-starred easily while your village is only halfway finished.
- If you see someone who has a high amount of loot, and the loot is a rounded number (92,500 for instance) then their storages are most likely empty and the Resources are all in the Gold Mines and Elixir Collectors.
- If you have a lot of resources and your shield is about to run out, stay online or purchase a Shield.
- Believe it or not, all a Farmer needs sometimes is a few Wall Breakers and a horde of Goblins for stealing resources.
- Abandoned Bases (players who have not played the game for 50 hours) are easily identified by having available loot anywhere from 20,000-450,000 Gold and Elixir each, all builders in their huts sleeping (ZzZ....), no league badge, abundant tombstones, etc. Attack these bases by using Archers to gain easy Gold and Elixir.
- Watch out for a high level player with a village that looks weak. Some players will make their base look easy to break into, but they will have Hidden Teslas spread out in the base, which will destroy a weak army.
- Make sure you are prepared for all situations during battle. For instance, make sure you have at least some troops that can target air units, as Minions or a Dragon that may be stored in the Clan Castle .
- One way to avoid the Clan Castle troops from ruining your attack is to use a Barbarian or two to "lure" the them to an area where the defenses cannot reach, and spam your Barbarians or Archers. This works extremely well when attacking a player whose base is "small" and his/her Clan Castle is easily accessible.
- Be wary of the nearby defensive structures like Wizard Towers, Mortars, etc. and the amount of troops you use.
- Just before a Troops upgrade is finished, make sure the Army Camp are full and train as many upgrading troops as you can in the Barracks. When the upgrade is finished all the Troops in the Barracks are upgraded as well! You can then sell them with profit.
- Leave resource buildings or defense buildings outside your walls that still have a long way to complete upgrading. They will not be productive in any way (except for storages). You can also choose to place Spring Traps around this "bait" for giants or goblins . This way, when the giants target the upgrading defense or when the goblin targets the upgrading resource building, they will be thrown out of the field since the Spring Trap is touching the building and the goblins would stop right on the Spring Trap. It can weaken an opponent's army or maybe, very unlikely, ruin his attack. Giant Bombs work well here too, and so does all other traps.