Monday, November 10, 2014

War Participation Post

This post is for record keeping. This is the number of attacks each person has used in war out of the total number of attacks they have been able to use.

This record was started on November 10, 2014
So far, 1 war has been recorded.

SDworks2Much: 2/2
Mikesp2012: 2/2
ytowncoach: 2/2
jbunting521: 2/2
sammie: 0/2
noillinator: 1/2 (1 Work)
Rich: 2/2
Bdon: 1/2 (1 Technical Problems)
weston: 2/2
Wolfmannn: 2/2
Tex 1224: 2/2
Adamvill: 2/2
Sam: 0/2
Cory the Great: 2/2
Tyler: 2/2
Digital: 2/2
BabzBro2000: 2/2
mike: 0/0
Micah: 2/2
darren: 2/2
masterhawg: 2/2
Andy: 1/2
braxton: 2/2
peepdeezy: 2/2
Ginger Fix: 2/2
mikaela: 1/2
Hebrews: 2/2
Pampyyyyy: 0/2
irene: 2/2
Wilber14: 2/2
The Donald: 2/2
KingLuna: 1/2
PoOper: 2/2
Tluna: 2/2
E-Speak14: 2/2
Tiberius: 2/2
Dee: 2/2
Cody Sp2014: 0/0
thed11: 0/2
Cargul1: 0/0
ZEUS: 0/0
EndBringer: 0/0

War Analysis November 10, 2014


Our Clan Their Clan
Total Stars
82 108
Attacks Used
63 79
Attacks Won
55 71
Attacks Lost
8 8
Attacks Remaining
27 11
3 Stars
15 24
2 Stars
15 16
1 Star
7 4
New Stars per Attack
1.30 1.37
Average Destruction
81.9% 86.5%
Average Attack Duration
2M 14s 2M 25s
 I brushed up on my coding for you guys! Yay tables and aligning the table to the left so I can write text next to it! (Hey it's been a while since I've had to dabble in HTML with all this WYSIWYG stuff).

Onto the stuff you care about!
Most heroic defense was assigned to Cory the Great and Most heroic attack went to Hebrews. Congrats you two!

ATTACK

Wall of Praise

6 Stars
Hebrews
5 Stars
Adamvill
Weston
peepdeezy
Dee
E-Speak14
4 Stars 
Mikesp2012
ytowncoach
Tex 1224
Rich
Willber14
Wall Of Shame
sammie
Pampyyyyy
carson
supersuz
jakothus
sam
Megan
Hawg
Boileru
collin
DEFENSE
(I don't like doing this section.)
Micah and Willber14 were both attacked the most at 5 times. Both only gave up 2 stars.
Please comment if you think a base deserved particular attention.
Also there were a lot of good bases on the other side that defended well against dragon attacks, so you might want to take a gander at the opposition's bases if you're curious about defending against dragons.
I just found out my base does not do well against 30 level 3 hogs.

-Sarah (Gingerfix)

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

War Analysis October 12, 2014

Hey Everyone!

Sarah again. I just noticed that I wrote the last war as November instead of October. OOPSIES!
(Note to self: In my new role as co-leader and existing status of unemployed, I should probably attempt a higher level of professionalism than OOPSIES!)

OH AND

CONGRATULATIONS!
WE WON!

Okay. Onto what you're all waiting for. And I'll try to do better this time.

OFFENSE

Wall of Praise

6 Stars:

peepdeezy

5 Stars:

Wolfmann
Pampyyyyy
Tiberius
E-Speak14

4 Stars:

SDworks2Much
ytowncoach
Digital
ZEUS
weston
masterhawg

Thank you to everyone else who participated and gained stars for our clan.

War Stats

Our Clan: Total Stars - 87, Attacks used - 67, Attacks Won - 55, Attacks lost - 12
Their Clan: Total Stars - 85, Attacks used - 61, Attacks Won - 49, Attacks lost - 12

Our Clan: 3 Stars - 20, 2 Stars - 11, 1 stars - 5, NSPA* - 1.30, AD** - 89.1%
Their Clan: 3 - Stars - 17, 2 Stars - 15, 1 Star - 4, NSPA* - 1.39, AD** - 87.5%
*New Stars Per Attack, **Average Destruction

Most Heroic Attack: Tiberius (3 starred someone 3 bases above his)
Most Heroic Defense: masterhawg (Gave up 0 stars to someone 14 bases above his)

Wall of Shame

Megan
Dominic
Sup96dawg
KingLuna

DEFENSE
Got Lazy. :P

Thursday, October 9, 2014

War Analysis October 1, 2014

Hello! Sarah again with the weekly war analysis.

We lost 87 - 103

OFFENSE

Wall Of Praise

6 Stars
Dee
peepdeezy
Tyler

5 Stars
SDworks2Much
ytowncoach
Ginger Fix
Bdon

4 Stars
mikesp2012
Wolfmann

Extra kudos for peepdeezy for getting 6 stars twice in a row!

Stats
Our Clan: Stars - 87; Attacks used - 57; Attacks Won - 51; Attacks lost - 6; Attacks Remaining - 33
Their Clan: Stars - 103; Attacks used - 75; Attacks Won - 62; Attacks lost - 13; Attacks Remaining - 15

Our Clan: 3 Stars - 22; 2 Stars - 9; 1 Star - 3
Their Clan: 3 Stars - 26; 2 Stars - 10; 1 Star - 5

Other things to note: Our new stars per attack was higher, our average destruction was higher, and our average attack duration was shorter. This means that participation was definitely the highest factor to blame in our loss this war. WE NEED EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE IF WE WANT TO WIN WARS. Four people were kicked after this war for making a habit of not participating. Don't let us down and don't let this be you. Please participate.

Is it possible that this was caused by our change in time, or are people just busy and forgetting? We would love to hear from you what makes getting your attacks in difficult and what could be done to encourage participation.

Speaking of that...

Wall of Shame
jbunting521
sammie
tyler (left of own accord I believe, not to be confused with Tyler)
izac (left on own accord before war started)
kelham (kicked)
EndBringer
Kbomb the Great (kicked)
Mikaela (kicked)
Megan
Sup96dawg
Cody Sp2014
Micah (kicked)

DEFENSE
Sorry, this is not as detailed as the previous week's defense analysis. Got busy. Will give a better summary next week.

Town Hall 7
One TH 7 was only two-starred (and was attacked 4 times!). However, two TH7 were attacked 6 times, and another two were attacked 5 times. One defended 3/5 times, so I feel that it is worth posting.

Town Hall 8
Eight of our TH8's were two starred. Two of their TH8's were one starred and three of their TH8's were two starred.

Town Hall 9
Four of our TH9's only gave up one star! Every TH 9 that was attacked on their side gave up at least 2. (I hope that means we have better defenses than them at TH 9.)

Thursday, September 25, 2014

War Analysis September 24, 2014

Hello!

It's Sarah again! In this post I will review the last war from September 24, 2014. We lost 81 - 92.
I thought this could be useful because it seems that you can't view past detailed war logs.

I thought we could use a look at the good things we did with offense first. (Mostly because it's shorter)

OFFENSE

Wall of Praise

6 Stars! Man you guys are the bomb!
Wolfmann
peepdeezy
AsianXL

5 Stars
Digital

4 Stars
SDworks2Much
jakothus
Rich
Weston
Hawg
Bdon
Tluna

Some observations on 3 star attacks:
   I watched 10 of the 38 3 star attacks and hoped that was a good enough sample to gather advice. (By the way, we had an equal number of three star attacks at 19. If we could have converted 6 of the 7 losses into two stars, we would have won. Not trying to guilt trip anyone.) Anyway, there were a few common themes. One was that the clan castle troops were generally drawn out first into corners. I did see a strategy where a person drew the clan troops out using a wallbreaker, so that could be an option in getting troops out of a centrally located clan castle.
  Three of these ten attacks were almost purely dragons. I like to say that pure dragon attacks are like the one night stand's of clash of clans because dropping a bunch of dragons in one place just kind of feels good and accomplishes the goal, but doesn't require a lot of thought or planning. Keep in mind that it is still a good idea to keep 20 troops free to draw out the clan castle troops. Someone successfully used 5 wizards and a lightning to accomplish this.
  Another common thing was that it was easier to three star people with a lower ranking than you and to three star people with high-level troops. I figure that's a given.
   When people didn't use dragon armies, they dropped at least 15 giants all in one place (usually a corner it seemed) after the clan castle troops were taken care of. Wizards and hogs were typically dropped quite some time after the giants were. Healing spells were often used on giants. Good placement of a spell went a long way in some of these attacks, so make sure your healing and rage spells are being placed in areas where there is a high density of troops.

Stats
Our Clan: Total attacks - 61/80, 0 Stars - 14, 1 Stars - 2, 2 Stars - 11, 3 Stars - 19
Their Clan: Total attacks - 63/80, 0 Stars - 7, 1 Stars - 1, 2 Stars - 17, 3 Stars - 19

Most heroic attack went to peepdeezy who 3 starred someone ranked 7 levels above him (or if you're Andrew, 7 levels less...lol)
Most heroic defense went to Tyler

Wall of Shame
You were busy, you forgot, you gave up, excuses, excuses. Welcome to the Wall of Shame.

jbunting521
sammie
kelham
mikaela
Megan
Dominic
Micah

We hope you can participate in the next war!

DEFENSE

Key:
L1-5 = Level 1-5
Barbs = barbarians, Arch = archer, WB = Wallbreaker, Wiz = Wizards, Heal = healer, loons = balloons, drags = dragons, HSp = Healing spell, RSp = Rage spell, LSp = Lighting spell, JSp = Jump Spell

Town Hall 7's
Many Town Hall 7's are 3-starred. This could be because a dragon army wiped you out, or a hog army. It happens. These are the TH 7's that were not three-starred.

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 58% (least)
Attacked by: 15 L5 giants, 14 hogs, L1 Barbarian King, 15 L5 Wiz, 15 L5 arch, 2 L4 RSp, 1 L4 HSp

(Sorry Hawg, it did not want to blur your name)
Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 82%
Attacked by: 14 L4 giants, 16 L4 barbs, 12 L4 wiz, L2 barbarian king, 40 L4 arch, 1 L2 Heal, 6 L4 WB, 4 L1 hogs, 2 L4 HSp, 1 L3 RSp

(iPhoto is picky I guess...)
Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 95%
Attacked by: 10 L4 Giants, 2 L2 Heal, 2 L4 WB, 3 L2 drags, 4 L1 Hogs, Lv1 Barbarian King, 5 L4 loons, 8 L4 wiz, 1 L3 HSp, 1 L3 RSp, 1 L4 LSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks taken: 1
Damage Received: 97%
Attacked by: 35 L5 barbs, 60 L5 arch, 10 L5 wiz, 9 L5 giants, 10 L5 WB, 1 L1 pekka, L2 Barbarian King, 2 L4 HSp

(Pretty much the same base as above)
Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 99% (oooo so close! Dragons ran out of time...)
Attacked by: 10 L4 barbs, 10 L4 arch, 15 L4 wiz, 6 L2 drags, L1 Barbarian King, 3 L4 HSp 

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 2
Damage Received: 99% (THOSE STUPID BUILDER'S HUTS IN THE CORNERS! RAGE!), 51%
1st Attack: 9 L2 drags, 2 L1 hogs, 8 L4 arch, 2 L4 barbs
2nd Attack: 6 L5 giants, 5 L4 WB, 8 L5 wiz, 2 L3 Healers, 5 L3 drags, L1 Barbarian King, 1 L4 HSp, 2 L4 RSp

Town Hall 8's
10 of our Town Hall 8's were two starred. On the other side, 2 Town Hall 8's only gave up one star. Also I got lazy and stopped including what troops were used on the last three. Note: Good bases can still get 3-starred, but will not appear in this post.

Stars Given: 1
Attacks Taken: 2
Damage Received: 40%, 38%
Attacked by (40%): 8 L2 Pekka, L7 Barbarian King, 5 L1 arch, 1 L1 drag, 3 L3 RSp, 1 L1 JSp
Attacked by (38%): 27 L5 giants, 20 L6 barbs, L5 Barbarian King, 2 L4 Heal, L4 Archer Queen, 47 L5 arch, 3 L5 LSp

Stars Given: 1
Attacks Taken: 3
Damage Received: 85%, 82%, 70%
Attacked by (85%): 3 L5 giants, 10 L5 WB, 27 L5 arch, 1 L1 Golem, 12 L4 wiz, 4 L3 drags, L5 Barbarian King, L4 Archer Queen, 10 L4 barbs, 4 L5 LSp
Attacked by (82%): 21 L6 barbs, 13 L5 giants, L4 Archer Queen, 44 L5 arch, L5 Barbarian King, 5 L3 drags, 1 L5 HSp, 2 L5 LSp
Attacked by (70%): 9 L2 drags, 2 L1 hogs, 8 L4 arch, 2 L4 barbs, L1 Barbarian King

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 54%
Attacked by: 65 L5 arch, 12 L4 giants, 29 L5 barbs, 7 L4 WB, 10 L4 wiz, 1 L3 Heal, L3 Barbarian King, 2 L4 HSp, 1 L3 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 2
Damage Received: 55%, 44%
55% attack: 22 L4 barbs, 48 L5 arch, 15 L4 wiz, 12 L4 giants, 8 L3 WB, L2 Barbarian King, 1 L3 Heal, 2 L3 HSp, 1 L3 RSp
44% attack: 31 L5 barbs, 52 L5 arch, 9 L5 wiz, 8 L5 giants, 8 L5 WB, 10 L3 hogs, L6 Barbarian King, 2 L5 HSp, 1 L5 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 60%
Attacked by: 36 L5 barbs, 47 L4 arch, 8 L4 wiz, 15 L4 giants, 5 L4 WB, L5 Barbarian King, 5 L1 loons, 2 L4 HSp, 1 L3 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 66%
Attacked by: 23 L5 wiz, L5 Barbarian King, L2 Archer Queen, 4 Pekka, 9 L5 WB, 1 L3 Heal, 13 L1 arch (someone didn't dump), 3 L5 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 67%
Attacked by: 28 L5 arch, 4 L5 giants, L1 Barbarian King, 3 L1 wiz, 8 L3 drags, 2 L4 HSp, 1 L4 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 3
Damage Received: 77%, 64% (2s), 71% (1s)
Attacked by (77%): 29 L4 barbs, 41 L4 arch, 15 L4 wiz, 13 L4 giants, 12 L4 WB, L2 Barbarian King, 2 L4 HSp, 1 L2 RSp
Attacked by (71%, 1 star): 10 L1 drags, 4 L1 hogs, L1 Barbarian King, 1 L4 RSp, 2 L4 HSp


Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 77%
Attacked by: 57 L4 arch, 18 L4 wiz, 1 L2 Heal, 13 L4 giants, 6 L4 WB, L3 Barbarian King, 2 L4 HSp, 1 L3 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 79%

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 89%

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 95%

Town Hall 9's

Stars Given: 0
Attacks Taken: 2
Damage Received: 40%, 36%
Attacked by (40%): 29 L2 hogs, 2 L3 Heal, 52 L5 arch, L7 Barbarian King, L5 Archer Queen, 1 L1 drag, 4 L4 LSp
Attacked by (36%): 29 L5 giants, 7 L5 arch, 8 L4 barbs, 10 L5 WB, L5 Barbarian King, L4 Archer Queen, 4 L4 wiz, 1 L3 Heal, 4 L1 hogs, 4 L5 LSp

(I have no idea why iPhoto is selective)
Stars Given: 0
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 44%
Attacked by: L6 Barbarian King, L7 Archer Queen, 5 L6 wiz, 3 L5 pekka, 6 L5 hogs, 3 loons, 5 L4 drags, 2 L5 RSp, 2 L6 LSp, 1 Freeze Spell

Stars Given: 0
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 46%
Attacked by: 15 L5 arch, 5 L1 giants, L6 Barbarian King, 2 L6 barbs, 2 L6 wiz, L7 Archer Queen, 3 L5 pekka, 15 L5 hogs, 3 L4 drags, 2 L6 LSp, 3 L5 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 2
Damage Received: 58%, 50%
Attacked by (58%): 6 L6 giants, 36 L5 arch, 10 L5 wiz, 26 L3 hogs, 1 L4 Heal, L5 Barbarian King, L1 Archer Queen, 3 L5 HSp
Attacked by (50%): 40 L 5 arch, 23 L5 wiz, 2 L2 Heal, L4 Barbarian King, 3 L2 drags, 1 L3 HSp, 2 L3 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 59%
Attacked by: 20 L5 barbs, 3 L1 pekka, 18 L5 wiz, 2 L3 Heal, L5 Barbarian King, 12 L5 WB, L2 Archer Queen, 3 L5 R Sp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 2
Damage Received: 64%, 53%
Attacked by (64%): 8 L6 giants, 20 L6 barbs, 26 L6 arch, 18 L5 wiz, L5 Archer Queen, 8 L5 WB, L9 Barbarian King, 15 L5 hogs, 3 L6 HSp, 1 L5 RSp
Attacked by (53%): 5 L5 giants, 26 L5 barbs, 40 L5 arch, 15 L5 wiz, 8 L5 WB, 10 L3 hogs, 2 L3 Heal, L6 Barbarian King, L4 Archer Queen, 2 L5 HSp, 2 L5 RSp

Stars Given: 2
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 70%
Attacked by: 23 L5 barbs, 39 L4 arch, 12 L4 wiz, 15 L4 giants, 6 L4 WB, 2 L2 Heal, L5 Barbarian King, 2 L4 HSp, 1 L3 RSp

Town Hall 10

Stars Given: 0
Attacks Taken: 1
Damage Received: 44%
Attacked by: 20 L6 barbs, 53 L6 arch, 6 L6 giants, 17 L5 wiz, 12 L5 WB, 11 L5 hogs, L7 Barbarian King, L5 Archer Queen, 2 L6 HSp, 2 L5 RSp

-Sarah

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Sarah's First Post

Hey Everyone!

Just letting you know I am now officially a co-author and this is my first post.

We have a few hours still before our next war starts! Good luck all! I suppose I will update this post and add in some defense options.

-Sarah

Edits:

After war I will be posting the bases that gave up the least stars in both clans.

 Town Hall 8 War Bases
Last updated 09/23/14 28:14

I am having difficulty finding recent posts after the hero updates.

This guy claims that his base is good for defense against dragon attacks. The clan castle is centralized so that it is difficult to lure out clan castle troops. The post only lists three experiences, one in which he defended against a level 2 dragon attack, another in which he got two-starred. This was posted back in May. A poster in June said they were three-starred in two different wars with a mixture of troops, so it's definitely not perfect, but it seems that it defends well against dragons and hogs.



On that same thread, many people talked about this layout on the clash of clans forum. Again, the centralized clan castle makes it impossible to draw out clan castle troops first. It's supposed to be good against hogs and balloons. The poster said it is somewhat weak against a barbarian and archer army. This was posted in March.

This is the basic layout.

The layout they suggest for clan wars

One poster said "For clan wars, I put my Barb King, teslas and [air defenses] in the core with the CC and the town hall. I've never been three starred by dragons (only levels 1-3). By putting the teslas in the core I had spacing issues I needed to address, which leaves two big gaps in the core. These gaps have saved me multiple times because the dragons fly out of the core. 

In addition, these gaps could be double giant bombs so hoggers may skip the base due to thinking bombs are in the core. I get two starred a lot, even by level one dragons but I've never been three starred and I'm fine with that."

However, there's another poster right above him that says he was three-starred by a dragon army. I guess it depends on luck as well.


I've also been looking at this site. It looks like it has pretty good attack strategies to try out that might be worth reading for attacking TH8's and TH9's and it has one TH8 base that looks alright. It is also supposedly weak to a strong barbarian-archer attack. This is also the most recently posted base I found.


Hopefully this helps as you look for the best town hall 8 layout for you.

This is my first war with a Town Hall 8. I am a big fan of encircling each and every defense, so I might check out how that works for me first.


Town Hall 7 War Bases

I asked Bdon what he normally does for his war base. He says he usually just looks up "clash of clans layout" on google and tries the first one that comes up. So that's an option. :)

Here's a popular TH7 war base from the wikia.
The biggest con seems to be that it could be pretty easily 50%'d, but the "spaced-out-ness" is supposed to help keep clan castle troops from being lured.

I don't really trust this site, since the top-rated war base is a bat and I think the next highest-rated is an islam symbol? Anyway this was the top-rated TH 7 base on there. They don't have a picture, it's some kind of flash program.


Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Tuesday war

Alright we are giving a weekday war a view.  Last one we did we won.  Suggestions were made by Mike and Digital.  I am trying to combine the two.  I think both have value.  Mike suggested our bottom ten should attack THEIR bottom ten until we 3 star all of them.  Now I know we have preached get three stars but maybe we are putting some of our lower levels in positions that they try to go for 3 but in reality they can't...so let's have them get something they can be successful at.  If you are in the bottom ten, use your attacks to try and get all their bottom ten 3 starred.  Then using. Digitals idea as well.  We have always been about attack in your level, that's not working.  Digital suggested comg in in mid war and having upper levels drop down to get for sure 3stars.  Let's say its me.  I look and see the first possible 3 star i can get is their 10th position person.  A lot of times i haven't done that because I feel like i might be stealing a chance for say Rich to get three stars out of their number 10...  I shouldn't feel that way, we want the win, so I should hit it...chance are Rich couldn't get three stars on that person anyhow.  SO I WANT YOU to DROP if you are higher.  I also want to see you chat it up before you attack.  It works.  Endbringer does this all the time.  So does Donald and Rich...Mike, Bdon, Digital, Noll, and Sarah ...also Silent Wolf and Wolfmann do it as well.  It helps.  A lot of time i watch people just pop in and attack...they kind of do a troop dump, think about attacks ask for help.  Lastly if anyone can help me how to post pictures of dfense set ups on here i want to do that.  Sarah or Bdon or Silent maybe you guys know...E, Cody, Wilber, Tyler,or Sup96dawg maybe u guys know...i want to do it to help our defense in war.  Some of our bases still need work, mine included.  Welcome all our new members, Tyler recruited them and we are happy to have them.  We also have a few from the last few weeks Tluna, Sup96dawg(Codysp roommate) Irene, Rangenoer( i know i spelled that wrong I apologize). Shoot suggestions if ya want...Boiler Up