War Donating

I meant to point this last week and I forgot... Then this week again, I forgot, so i figured it deserved its own post ....

I just wanted to thank oli for busting his hump to upgrade his dragons to level 4 for us. I know in a conversation we had, he said he never used them at all, but he would start upgrading them to benifit the clan. 

So thank you for being selfless and putting the clan first in this reguard. I know myself and others really appreciate it, and thoes dragons help. 

And a shout out as well to guys like medooley, sparx, straw, bjohnson and others who have always been so giving of their elixer and lvl 3 dragons as well. 

War Debriefing - 8-31-2014

WAY TO GO!!!!!!

Guys we came out swinging again and they didn't have an answer. Everybody did great and I am really thrilled!  I hope you all enjoy the bonuses. 

MVP this week... Abdullah Muaddi. Great job against some tough competition. 

Also, great job again VooDoo.  And shout out to babyturkey for the great 6 star effort as well. 

Not much to really say guys. You all did great. Gonna just sit back and relax and enjoy this one. And you should to, we all earned it. 

Scratch that... One thing... Use your attacks. Even if we have it won, you need to use both of them.  

Also, this war was the war we said good bye to Lihon. Last war he only used one attack, and this was he used none. Lihon was a long time member of this clan. Well his dad was anyway.  Thanks for all you did for the clan Lihon's dad. 

Again, great job this week everybody. We are going to go back to 35 for the war. Should be interesting. 

War Debriefing - August 24th, 2014

First off... GREAT JOB!  This was a fun war for once.  We came out swinging, and truth be told, I feel we knocked them out in the first round.  3 STAR attacks beginning the war from Spartian, Strong, Voodoo, Ltdan2g7, Antilles, Earl, and Brett right off the bat set us up good for the rest of the war because we weren't having to waste a lot of other attacks down in the lower rankings.  If you got a 3 star attack this war, bravo!  You were the reason we won.

MVP of this war goes to spartian.  Nice 6 star job this war.  Not only were you the first attack and got us off on the right foot, but you made sure we didn't have any mop up work with either one of your attacks.  Well done!

Honourable mention goes to Strong and Voodoo.  Your 6 star efforts were crucial as well.  Spartian went up 2 ranks for one of his attacks, and that is why he got the slight edge.  Both of your efforts were very instrumental to our success and I don't want to diminish that.

Couple notes:

Review your attacks.  See what you did wrong.  If you can't figure it out, ask one of the council members or one of the people who had a lot of success.  We saw a few instances where people fed their troops to clan castle troops.  I'm not going to call anybody out on this, but we preach it after every war.  There is no rush to these attacks.  Use what the generals have said in past wars.  And like I said, review your attacks and learn from them.

Also, I wanted to point out something as well... With about 6 hours to go, we pretty much knew we had this war in hand.  And then a lot of people were going more for the loot bonuses than getting us some more stars. Now, I can't fault you for this, because I can't control who you attack, but I want you to keep something in mind...  The only reason that you may have been in a position to do that, is because of the hard work and efforts of others before you.  Guys like I listed above you got us off to a fast start.  They could have attacked harder targets and got better bonuses for themselves with only one star attacks, but they attacked people at their level and got the clan a lot of hard earned stars.  Weather we are up 20 or down 2, I think we owe it to all the people in the clan, especially the ones that fought early and built up our stars, to try and better our total score on every attack.  Especially for the people ranked in the top 10 or 15.  People did their job down low to make sure "we" don't have to clean up after them, let's make sure that we don't profit off their hard work.  We win as a team, and we loose as a team!

Finally, if you are ranked 25-30... it is in your best interest to attack as early in the war as possible.  Your targets will dry up very fast if you don't.  Please make sure to get your attacks in early if you are in these positions.  It helps the generals formulate a plan of attack for the rest of the war.

Great job again guys... let's do it again this weekend!

Frosty

War Debriefing

From the desk of General Straw....

Another war, another close one, yet another loss.  This last war was just draining.  We started off horribly slow and then made a contest out of it.  The result was the same.

Luring Troops Out:

To beat the dead horse another time.  Unless you are doing an all dragon attack, you pretty much have to lure out the clan castle troops AND KILL THEM or you won't get 3 stars.  It's as easy as that.  There's really no exceptions unless you have significantly overpowered troops.  This includes when doing wizards, giants, balloons or anything.  The first two attacks reiterated that but plenty of others followed suit.  Please read the past half dozen recaps for tricks on how to actually lure them and kill them.  Note, making a circle or moon around them is necessary as dragons, wizards or balloons do splash damage and will destroy you when your troops are stacked.  Not luring clan castle troops out correctly will more than likely result in a temporary boot from the clan going forward.  It will serve as a warning to remind you to do this and then if it continues to happen the boot will lose temporary and become permanent.  I hate this as I'm friends with everyone in the clan but I hate losing and wake up calls are needed.

The Cost Of Warring

Wars are expensive.  I lost 1 million this war and it sucks.  My townhall is a day away from finishing and I really could've used that money to buy a new DE drill.  We don't really war to earn a profit but when you do win it definitely helps you recoup the costs.  We war as it provides another fun aspect to the game and it should unite the clan with a common goal.  Everyone needs to be putting their best troops forward to help shoulder the cost of the wars.  When we win wars, we all have a chance to at least make some gold and DE profits.  If you don't have a viable strategy for how you're going to attack, use dragons.  They are simple, they are easy, and they usually always 2 or 3 star everyone.

Requesting Troops:

First things first.  Request troops for war.  I saw a few attacks where people went in without help.  Next, when you are requesting troops for wars.  Ask for the best troops possible.  I saw many times people saying anything or level 4 troops.  This is war, at the bottom levels some level 6 giants or level 5 wizards can destroy nearly half of your opponents base by themselves.  Find the troops that work best for your strategy and ask for high level troops.  The people who are able to donate those high level troops are here for you and want to help you out.  This is soo simple that if I see it next time, you're going to get called out on it.

Getting the 3 stars.  It is soo important for the bottom 50% of our enemy clan to be 3 starred.  These are the must haves to have any shot at winning a war.   It will be impossible to win a war without the 45-60 stars of the bottom people being 3 starred.  This needs to also occur from our bottom 60% of people.  The reasoning is, you need to let the top ten to fifteen people go out and attempt to get 1-2 stars on their top 10 people.  The top 10 people are impossible to fully roll, it just cannot happen, but we cannot just rely upon the bottom stars either.  So we need to have the bottom clean up what they can to allow the top half to their work.  This is why its very important to try and attack within your range for your first attack and then to understand where the clan is for the second attack.  If other clan mates are struggling, we'll need help dropping down and picking up those stars.  Additionally, if you couldn't get 3 stars during your first attack, you really need to look at moving down and finding someone who hasn't been 3 starred yet that is lower.  Unless you just really messed up, or have a drastically better strategy, the ordering system is fairly accurate and as you move up, the defenses are going to harder.  

Spells:

Be sure to place your spell in the correct spot.  This means ensuring you're getting the corner of your current troops while leading them to their next few locations.  Additionally, make sure you're actually healing/raging troops that matter.  I've seen a rage be performed on just a few archers.  Really? A few archers, how does that help?  The rage needs should be used to eliminate clan castle troops that have been drawn out or should be used when you have a sizable quantity of troops ready to inflict maximum damage.  

Participation:

Everyone needs to use all of their attacks.  As evident by last weeks war.  If you don't fully participate in the war, you won't remain in the clan.  The clan is planning on downsizing, we need to get rid of 3 people which is going to be rough.  Show you want to be here by doing amazing donations, by showing you've learned how to war and that you want to participate.  

Dibs:

My final note is on dibs.  If you call dibs on someone, you really have to be ready to attack that person.  We've previously said 3 hours but I would like to shorten it to 1 hour.  Additionally, you need to have an attack in mind.  I wish I had recorded statistics on the dibs from last time.  I know that of the many dibs called, most were done right away and I'm appreciative of that.  However, of the dib calls, many did not earn 3 stars.  Thanks to those that did.  I remember Antilles had an amazing attack on 21 that I didn't think he could do, but the others I remember that Brett, Spartian, Baby were not able to 3 star their dib attacks.  Most of those just ran out of time but its part of understanding a strategy to ensure you don't allow quantity of archers to be eaten by a mortar.  

War MVP August 17th, 2014

Congratulations to Aubullah Muaddi and Voodoo for being this wars co-MVP's.  Both of you got 6 stars right around your level. 

I also wanted to give shout outs to the following:  sparx, medooley, Antillies, and papaturkey for your 6 star efforts as well. 

You guys all did great!

Quick War Observation

Now I am not sure if Straw will hit this in his notes or not, so i figured i would share one of my own observations reguarding the war.  

If you have dragons, USE THEM!!!!!!!!!!  If you are attacking on your level, it's almost everytime a guaranteed 2 stars. If you have lvl 3 dragons and use them, you shold have no less than 4 stars. And if you are lucky enough to have lvl 4 dragons, then there should be no reason you arent using them and getting the clan 6 stars EVERY WAR!!!!!

I am guilty of trying other things, but from this point forward I will only be using Dragons for war. If you have them, pair them with rage spells, and get the clan some stars. 

Congrats Papaturkey

Way to go on getting 5,000 donations in a season!  Now give the rest of us a chance :-). Seriously, way to go!