What a great war and an awesome 3peat. I hope we can keep the streak going. I was nervous after it first selected that team but we not only found a way to win, but to pretty much dominate them. While doing this writeup for the first time I had a billion thoughts running through my head. I love winning in wars, I definitely watch as many live matches as possible and think in my head about how their strategy's are great or how I think I could do the attack better. I realize not everyone is as active as I am though, and I'm actually okay with that.
As much as I'm getting tired of constantly doing the same raid to earn some sweet loots, I love clash of clans and I love this clan. CoC provides me a method to keep in touch with multiple friends that have moved to different states, it provides water cooler talk at the office and at lunch, and will soon provide great tour guides when I do some international traveling. :-) It supplies me with hours of entertainment reading the chats, doing raids (even though I'm starting to hate them) and then wondering when I'm going to pass Faulty and Sparx (you both should know I'm gunning for you). Everyone doesn't have as much invested or the same passion and that's perfectly fine. I don't think I'd really want to change that about them as this clan just seems to be clicking right now.
Onward to the war. I cannot say this enough, awesome victory. We struck first, we knocked them back onto their heals and they couldn't recover. We had great participation as we used 59 of our 60 total attacks. They were a tough opponent who had really really good bases. We got slightly lucky that they were horribly attackers as our overall number of stars was down. The past few 5 wars with the same number of people we were averaging 76.2 stars and this war we fell to 70. It just speaks to the difficulty of their bases. We actually left 4 stars on their bottom 10 where the past 3 wars we hadn't left any on the bottom 10.
First, the most obvious thing that's been brought up many times before but I'll beat the dead horse. You need to eliminate the clan castle troops. Even if they don't have a dragon in there and just have wizards or archers, those troops will still eat your giants alive if you do not kill them. Most of the time its quite easy to eliminate these troops as well. The best way is to click scout on your opponent, click on their clan castle and see the radius that the clan castle shows. If you can get a troop inside of that radius, the clan castle troops will start to come out. Be sure you watch how many do come out as you may be required to get more troops in the radius to get them all out. Then simply lure them away to the corner of the map where the fewest of their towers will attack you. Use a slew of archers or wizards to dispose of whatever comes out and you're ready to execute your gameplan. As a caveat, if you are doing an all dragon attack, saving one rage potion for when your dragons face their clan castle troops is known to work best.
Next, I noticed on a couple of attacks the poor use of spells. Be sure when using a healing or a rage spell to lead your troops. It's best to find the radius where they currently are and where they will be moving to so that you can maximize its efficiency. The outer ring of the spell should just be touching where they currently are. She was able to keep nearly all of her hogs alive as she perfectly placed her 3 healing spells. While I'm discussing spells, be sure to couple the spells that work best with your attack. If you are using hog riders, healing spells will be the best pairing spell. If you are doing all dragons, rage is going to work best for you. Practicing during the week the various combinations is obviously the best way to figure out what works best for you. Final note is that I'm not sure how much value the lightning spell holds in the wars, just about every clan castle we've encountered in the past month has had dragons or wizards in there. One single lightning spell cannot kill either of those troops. 1 lightning spell will also not deal significant enough of damage to any single tower. Just my thoughts.
Hog riders have been nerfed a little bit by big bombs. If you happen to notice big empty gaps where a big bomb can be on the outside. Sacrificing just one hog rider to trip the bomb is much much better than having 30 of them go up in the blast. If you're looking for examples of how to do this efficiently, check out Cz's attacks this past war.
Finally, my thoughts on dibs. I really wish we had the ability to do some kind of sticky forum thread that would be at the bottom of some frequently viewed page. I believe that just keeping a list works but I know its possible I may have missed one. Be sure when you do call dibs that you still try and do your attack as early as possible. Not everyone reads the clan mail and not everyone is active as you may be. I'm wondering if maybe we should keep a list on the page or possibly even get a Google+ page. Things to think about and chime in if you have better ideas.
I feel I could ramble on for another hour and have many more topics but want to leave topics for next go round.
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