Townhall 9 Three Star Attacks

Let's talk about hero levels.  Many people believe the reason they don't three star in their war attacks is because their heroes are lower level.  I will always agree that the higher level your heroes, the easier it is to win, but often times people assume that it is solely the hero levels that dictate the success of the attack.  Under this logic, we should never war while a hero is upgrading and definitely not while two heroes are upgrading.  Enter Burrito, my iPad account!

If you have read the most recent blog post about our war with Kernow Clan, you know we won by only two stars.  Burrito got two three star attacks and did so with both heroes upgrading.  Both attacks were versus other townhall 9 bases.  Without these attacks we may have tied or lost.  It goes to show that with proper planning, proper troop selection, and a bit of luck you can still be successful in your clan war attacks regardless of the level of your heroes.  Take a look at the first attack which featured a quadlavaloon strategy.  I picked this strategy because the base had already been attacked and I knew what was in the castle.



As you saw, the three star attack was never in jeopardy; it was a solid victory.  Many people would say that because the clan castle had a pekka it was similar to attacking a base with no clan castle.  The next battle featured a level 5 dragon in the clan castle and I attacked it blind with no idea of what was in the castle.  In this battle I used a golem and wizard kill squad and lavaloons to get the three star.  It is also a higher level base on the war map.


                  

By watching the video you can see that I was able to destroy one air defense and lure the castle with the kill squad, but was unable to immediately kill the dragon.  I was still able to three star the base because lava pups killed the dragon, where as I mentioned before a little luck comes into play.

In closing I would like to point out that while I was successful with Burrito in the clan wars, I did one star my second attack with my main versus their number 2 base.  If I had gotten the second star it would have put the match out of reach and by not achieving it I put the clan at risk of a tie or loss.  I wanted to use that attack to point out that every attack is not going to be perfect but they all matter.  Just because you are not at full strength does not mean you cannot be a valuable asset to your clan.

Clan Wars: Kernow Clan

We got matched with a nine win clan for our weekend war.  The clan is named Kernow Clan.  Kernow seems to be a place in Great Britain, but I don't know if that's where the clan is from.  They are listed as an international clan that wars only once a week.  They are a level 3 clan right now so it does appear that they are either new or don't war very often.  The match is slightly in their favor at the top; they have twelve townhall 10s to our eight.  We had nine townhall 9s to their seven.

We performed pretty poorly against this clan but were able to take advantage of their lack of experience to squeak out a 68-66 win.  It is one of the lower scoring outputs that we have had and actually won.  We were able to outscore them with 14 three star attacks to their 13.  We also got one more one star attack than they did.  They had a chance at the end to go for an easy tie but instead tried to attack for the win which resulted in them failing their last two attacks.  We didn't play up to our ability and probably didn't deserve to win, but we will take it.  Our next war will be in the middle of the week.  Until then it's time to upgrade some heroes and walls!

Clan Wars Result: Victory over Elegante

We won our clan wars match over Elegante.  The final score was 73-65.  We were able to defeat every base they had and achieved maximum experience.  We are over halfway to Clan Level 6, despite only warring twice a week.  It doesn't hurt that we are on a 18-2-1 streak!  Here is a view of the final score and my huge loot bonus:

We won on the strength of three more three star attacks than they had.  We also defeated more bases than them which lead to the comfortable win!  One thing I'd like to point out about this war is that one of their top three bases attacked our 10th and 14th base.  This is no war to consistently win wars, but it is a great way to get individual war stars.  So for all the people out there recruiting solely on war stars just remember that you may actually be hurting your can by getting that individual player as opposed to a team player.  Either way, Evil Queso is going to enjoy the loot and start another war later today!

Clan Wars: Elegante

Well after the short maintenance break today we started a war.  We got matched with a clan named Elegante.  They have 125 war wins so far and are a level 5 clan.  They are based out of Turkey.  It seems as though we have been getting a lot of foreign clans of late!  This clan has one more townhall 10 than we do.  They also have two more townhall 9s than us.  Hopefully we can overcome the townhall advantage.  As always we are fighting 30 vs 30.  The last two wars my barbarian king was upgrading, so I'm ready to go tomorrow at full strength!

Taco Tuesday: No Benchwarmers!

We had a couple members opt out for war this weekend.  This is unusual for Evil Queso so I thought I’d talk about it. 

With very few exceptions, all members participate in clan wars.  Before the opt out feature was implemented this was because I got tired of remembering who would be in or out, reminding people to leave or, more often, kicking them before war prep, and, if applicable, recruiting a replacement.  After the opt out feature was implemented, people started to use it and I decided pretty quickly I didn’t want to go down that path, mostly because every time someone opts out I have to recruit, recruiting is annoying, new members who can’t get it together to follow our strategy and help us win make me cranky, and when I’m annoyed and cranky I don’t enjoy the game.  When I stop enjoying the game I clean house and I start with those who aren’t helping the clan. 

Now that clan perks are in play, I feel more strongly than ever that everyone should battle.  Check out the perks that come with level 5 status:

We get and can hold more war loot, request troops more frequently, donate more and better quality troops, and we get a donation refund.  These are awesome perks, they are earned by participating in war, and they are only going to get better.  Anyone who wants to enjoy them must help earn them, period. 

There are really only a couple of scenarios where I think it’s okay to opt out: 1) international travel that limits access to a data plan and…. uh, that’s about it.  Even so, we have had members opt out for camping, illness, family trips, etc. and as long as it’s not a regular thing it’s not my hill to die on, but people need to remember it’s a burden and I will not drag anyone through this game.  If our clan culture changes over time I might look at opting out differently, but right now we only war twice a week and we have a bunch of members who have never once opted out of war (or even missed an attack) since clan wars came along over a year ago. I feel pretty comfortable with our approach for now. 

PS. Every now and then a noob comes along and argues that players should be able to opt out when heroes are upgrading. Hell. No. Heroes should be upgraded whenever possible until they are maxed and planning war around the hero upgrades of 30 different players would be a logistical nightmare.  Also, people need to harden up!  This is war!

Clan Wars Result: Victory over the Asian Clan!

We were able to achieve a victory over the Asian clan with 139 wins! The score was 74-72.  We had a minor scare when Daan disconnected on his first attack but due to a strong second attack by Daan and a bunch of solid attacks by everyone else, we were able to prevail.

The difference in the war came down to us getting one more three star attacks than they did.  We also got one extra one star attack.  Ultimately it is the small things that usually end up winning the war.  Here is a view of the star counts.

You can tell by the new stars per attack they didn't use as many attacks as we did.  That said, they wouldn't have gotten any more stars even if they had because they only had low level attacks remaining.

Their number two player used an interesting strategy in getting two stars from our number 1 and 2 bases.  He even had an outside chance at three stars on one of the bases.  It involved the use of eight healers, a golem some giants and a bunch of archers.  He used the archers to steer his archer queen in the right direction and used the healers to keep his archer queen alive.  His archer queen destroyed about 35% of the base before he put down his army.  He ended up get 87% and ran out of time, but with more time or a bit better use of his troops he may have gotten a three star.  I'm not sure if this was two lucky attacks or the sign of a new townhall 10 strategy but here it is:

Clan Wars: Asian Clan

We are stacked up versus an Asian clan with 139 wins for our weekend war.  They have 9 townhall 10s to our 8.  One of their townhall 10s does not have an inferno towers.  We have seven townhall 9's and they have but four.  They do have one fully maxed base with fully maxed heroes, so it will be exciting to see what they can do.  The war will end Sunday afternoon.  I will update you then!