Plans to step up our game in Clan Wars

Hi everyone,

So unfortunately we have finally met a clan that was able to beat us in war, and our streak of wins ends at 15. We can take this opportunity to rise from the ashes stronger than ever before!! Now in order to do so we need to understand a few things:

1. What makes the other clan so strong?

2. Where did we go wrong that we were not able to match them?

3. Most importantly what did we learn and how can we become stronger?

So first off what makes the other clan so strong? They have good strategy and tactics and organization. Their attack strategy as a clan is what I've been hoping we could achieve; which is, to make sure that as many as possible of our first attacks are 3 star raids. Why is this important? By being able to produce good 3 star raids on our first attacks; even if we have to hit down, allows us to concentrate our remaining attacks on the higher lvl bases which in turn means less wasted attacks, and more loot if we can afford to hit higher lvl bases for 1 star. On top of that, the intimidation factor is huge. The other area that they excelled in was attack strategy and well designed war base layouts. I will try to include a number of their better base layouts that gave us trouble following this post.

So where did we go wrong that made it feel like we weren't able to perform as well as we usually do? Two main factors, attacking too high and lack of attack strategies that worked against their base layouts. These are the areas that we will try to address in order to become stronger for future wars.

Now what did we learn and how can we become stronger? Our opponent mainly used one attack strategy, that used all dragons and lightning spells. Overall the strategy is very simple; use lighting strike to take out one of the air defenses and then send in the dragons from the side where you can most quickly take care of them. By watching their replays I have determined these approximate figures: (note that this is assuming one air d was taken out with lightning spells)

• lvl1 dragons should be able to 3 star a TH7 with 1 remaining lvl5 air defense
• lvl3 dragons should be able to 3 star a TH8 with 2 remaining lvl5 air defense
• A TH9 attacker with lvl3 dragons should be able to 3 star TH8 with 2 remaining lvl6 air defense
• 3 lvl4 lightning spells can take out a lvl6 air defense (note all 3 spells need to be dropped directly over the air defense.

We can use this as a guide for dragon raids, but obviously attacking lower will allow better chances of success.

Plan of action:

• Prioritize upgrading Air defense and big bombs to max lvl for your TH and lightning spells to at least lvl4. You might not want to upgrade all your air d at once, but you should have at least 1 air defense upgrading at all times.

• In order to quickly help our members gain these skills, I ask that all members discuss their attack plan with us before doing their war raid. This maybe as quick as letting us know what strat your using and where your planning to start your raid, or it might be as in depth as us helping you decide on troop combination and drafting up attack diagrams.

I would like everyone to have read this and understand what we are doing for the next war, so please comment below this post with your clan name any any thoughts or comments you have on this, so that I know you have read this.

Thanks,
Xu (Tokhoi)


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