War Debriefing - July 6th, 2014

Well we came up short again.  Great effort by pretty much everybody.  For those that didn't use your attacks, we could have really used those stars.

MVP's of this war are: CZ, FaultyTask, Straw, MeDooley, Sparx, and papaturkey.  Great job guys!

For those of you still in the clan, Dmoney, Elie, and Lihon... we could have really used your attacks.  We are on a set schedule now for our clan wars, so not getting 2 attacks in for a 24 hour period is pretty unacceptable.

From here on out, if you are going to be gone for a war, please e-mail me at united.donators@gmail.com to let me know.  that way I can keep track better.

Dmoney, because you have been a long time member of the clan, I'm giving you a break for this war.  If you are going to be gone, please just let me know so I have you listed as excused before hand.

Also, I wanted to note something as well... if we have an odd number in the clan (like 34 right now), the top 30 trophy level wise will go to the clan war.  then they seed you based on your base strength.  So if you are farming and hovering around the last 4 or so, you may want to raise your trophy level up or you could get left out of the war.

Some war notes that papaturkey shared with me that I think are good to bring up to all over you...

1)  You have to take into account clan castle troops, Barb kings, and Archer Queens.  Your first priority on every attack is to draw them out, and take care of them first.  If you don't, you can, with almost 100% certainty, NOT get 3 stars in the battle.  Take care of them first, and worry about the rest after that.

2) If you are going to use Giants... You have to use them in conjunction with wall breakers.  Giants are very slow when it comes to busting through walls, and they will just get picked off one at a time.  Best way to deploy them is to deploy one giant at a wall to draw first or take care of any traps.  if there are no traps, then deploy the wall breakers to bust through the wall.  Watch out for mortars though... make sure you time the deployment between mortar shots.  Once the wall breaker take care of business, then let the giants loose.  You need to makes sure that the initial giant draws the fire of the defenses otherwise your wall breakers will get picked off.

3) We really need to be smarter with our attacks.  The last war and a number in the past, we lost because they 3 starred all of our bottom 10-15 people and they didn't have to have higher up levels use their attacks to just get one star from the lower level people.  Use the week to practice and find a good attacking combination.  Figure a good combo of troops, and then find a non-farming base, and attack it to see how you do.  You may need to tweek your troops until you figure out the best combo for your style, but this is the best way to do it.

4) Also, please remember during the planning day to let the higher up level people handle troop donations.  Priority donations should be lvl 3 dragons.  After that we will fill in with lvl 5 wizards or archers.  We have a lot of lvl 3 archers, and GIANTS in clan castles.  NEVER donate a giant as a clan castle defense troop.  You get no credit donating it, and they will be dumped.  I think we all saw this war how much a dragon can change the whole ball game.  The lvl 4 dragons they all had in their castles I think won them the war.  Granted the best we can do is 3 right now, but they are still game changers.

Finally, if you are having a hard time figuring out your attacks, use youtube.  Great players have put tons of videos on there showing ways they have found to work when it comes to farming or attacking.  Copy their style, as long as it works for you and helps the clan out, who the heck cares :-)

If you have any questions about the war, feel free to ask one of the council members or one of our generals, straw or papaturkey.