@ The Clan

Outside of War

• Donate before requesting, and Donate regularly
• No specific troop requests unless for war; You may specify a preferred troop in your request, but you must allow for anything to be donated.

During War

• War search every Friday and Tuesday evening 8.30pm (Australia Eastern Standard time, GMT+1000hrs)
• NO LOOTING: We fight our clan wars together as one clan.
• No claiming bases. Follow the strategy.
• Choose requested Clan Castle Reinforcements for your war attacks, and select "Only allow max level donations" for war

• Do NOT donate to war castles without Leaders' permission: We usually discuss a strategy of filling war castles before each war (See the war preparation section for more information)
• Protect your Town Hall in your War Base: If the enemy cannot destroy your Town Hall, the maximum number of stars is only one.
• Come back here (this wiki: https://theclan.wiki) during Preparation Day of each war to see your recommended first enemy base to attack
• Attack your assigned base early so that others can clean up if you didn't 3 star your base
• You MUST battle twice each war: If you cannot battle for some reason, drop out from this clan and join the “feeder” clan:

  Search for “@ the clan 1” where the Leader is Dan.

  Princess Xena describes it thus: “It is a holiday/vacation/I-need-a-break clan.” Feel free to re-join the main clan when you are ready again.

  Note also: “You must come online in the holiday clan at least once per week otherwise you will be kicked if leaders think you are no longer active.”

• If you want to be effective in war, you need to understand war weight. This will explain why poorly rushed bases are so bad for war.

50 v 50

40 v 40

30 v 30

About War Bases

Protect your Town Hall, preferably place it at the centre of your structures. If the enemy cannot destroy your Town Hall, the most they'll get is one star. Leave your storage (Gold, Elixir and Dark Elixir) and related buildings (Gold Mine, Elixir Collector and Dark Elixir Drill ) outside the walls. In War, their utility is simply like walls, slow down the enemy troops for your defensive buildings (Cannon, Archer Tower, Mortar and Wizard Tower) to do their stuff. Some warriors like to leave a building at each corner to waste time for the attacking troops.

What is war weight?

Your war weight is a calculation of your base's total defensive and offensive capability, and it is the primary influence to the matchmaking system in Clan Wars. The matchmaking system will try to match one clan with another clan having similar strength, or war weight. Overall, clan weight is the combined weight of each base. Each base has it’s own war weight number that represents the base strength.

When people upgrade to Town Hall 9, they are often quick to build their Xbows. But why do that? Xbows weigh a lot, and if your walls are still level 8 (or even lower), a bad match could occur in Clan Wars. This is not Supercell’s fault; the war search is for two clans with the same combined war weight. Therefore, it is ideal to maintain a lower war weight to gain an advantage in the clan war matchmaking.

Important Notes

• Your war weight will increase more from stronger defences (like Xbows and Inferno Towers).
• The higher your war weight gets, the stronger opponents you and the clan will get.
• Maintaining a lower war weight provides you and the clan with an advantage in matchmaking.

As a member of @ The Clan, your offence should always be prioritised before defensive upgrades. Please refer to the upgrade priority section for a detailed list of the most effective buildings to upgrade for each town hall.

Upgrade Order

1. Heroes
2. Storage, Laboratory, Clan Castle
3. Barracks, Army Camps, Spell Factories
4. Resource Collectors
5. Traps
6. Defences
   1. Air Defences, Air Sweepers
   2. Wizard Towers
   3. Mortars
   4. Archer Towers
   5. Cannons
   6. Bomb Towers
7. Walls
8. Xbows, Infernos, Eagle Artillery, Scattershots
9. Town Hall

Heroes

It takes at least 396 days to get your Archer Queen or Barbarian King from level 1 to 75, so the sooner you start, the better. Heroes are one of the most important upgrades in the game, because the power of your heroes can be one of the biggest deciding factors to determine whether you will be able to 3 star a base.

Heroes should be an ongoing priority. Try to prioritise hero upgrades earlier on so that you don't have to wait around and play a catch-up game when you have completed all your other upgrades. Having your heroes at their max level for your current town hall will also help you farm the rest of the resources that you need to get through the rest of your upgrades.

Storage

Resource storage are very important upgrades, because the extra space is necessary for certain upgrades, and you will be able to store more loot when all of your builders are busy.

Laboratory

The Laboratory is a very worthwhile upgrade because you will be able to start upgrading your favourite troops, and any troops that you need to strengthen your army compositions. Ideally, you should aim to have upgrades running in the lab constantly, because the lab is one of the hardest buildings to max in the game, taking a total of 4 years, 73 days and 18 hours to max everything.

Time is the most valuable resource. Due to the significantly longer upgrade times in the lab, it is more efficient to spend your clan war league medals on hammers of fighting or spells as opposed to hammers of heroes or building, as these hammers cost 120 medals (as opposed to 165 for the Hammer of Heroes), and have the ability to instantly complete very long laboratory upgrades, which can only be done one at a time.

Clan Castle

Upgrading the Clan Castle allows you to bring more powerful reinforcements into battle, and the extra capacity significantly improves your defensive strength.

Barracks

It’s a great idea to unlock new troops right away, so you can start upgrading them in the Laboratory. You only need to upgrade one barrack to unlock a new troop, as each additional upgrade reduces the training time for that troop, however, while upgrading a barrack, all troop training times will be increased due to the barrack not being available for training. For that reason, it’s a good idea to upgrade barracks over time and not all at once.

Army Camps

The more troops you can bring into battle, the better. However, it is important to focus on quality over quantity, as a large army of weak troops will do significantly worse than a small army of strong troops. We recommend upgrading your Laboratory and Barracks first, and then your Army Camps, so that you can start getting stronger troops, and then have more of them.

Spell Factories

Your Spell Factory upgrades are important, but they need considerable planning. While upgrading, you will be unable to brew spells for the duration of the upgrade. It’s a good idea not to upgrade both Spell Factories at the same time; as for example, having only dark elixir spells is better than having no spells.

If possible, try to plan the upgrade around wartime, but if not, please brew your spells before you start the upgrade so that you still have some for your war attacks.

Resource Collectors

Upgrading your resource collectors helps you gain a greater passive resource income. The more resources you can generate, the more progress you can make.

Traps

The value of traps is often significantly underrated. They're hidden to enemy attackers, and their potential to deal high amounts of damage can easily disrupt an enemy's attack. By upgrading your traps, you gain a much greater defensive capability for a very minimal increase in war weight.