Basic Tips on Base Defence

Having a strong defence is critical to this game.

You may win 30 trophies in 5 raids when you were logged on, but when you log off, you were raided 4 times and lost 40 trophies because your base was not well-defended! In the long run, you may be out of your league, literally!

On the other hand, a good defence will help you gain trophies passively! While you were sleeping, your strong base defence could have helped you win 50 trophies!

So, how to build a strong defence? I admit my defence is not impregnable, but it has helped me win my fair share of trophies, so here are some personal tips from me.

1. Know the rules of the game.
Raid victories are counted in terms of percentage of buildings destroyed and how many stars earned.
You need at least 1 star to count for victory in a raid.
3 ways to win a star:
1. Destroy 50% of buildings (including defence towers, not counting walls and decorations) in a village.
2. Destroy the Townhall.
3. Destroy 100% of buildings.

This means that the least you must do to secure a victory is to destroy the town hall and/or destroy 50% of buildings. If your attack cannot achieve either, then you would have lost.

As a defence strategy, consider the opposite - you should deny the opponent your Townhall and/or 50% of your buildings.

This knowledge becomes important the higher up the league you go. At upper Gold and above, it is almost certain that when raided, you will suffer much damage. If you can deny the opponent 50% damage and/or townhall, you will win trophies because doing so is not easy! You have to accept that in any attack, some buildings will be lost, and any walls can be breached. The trick is in your LAYOUT.

2. Protect the Townhall at all costs!
The common-sensical way is to put the Townhall right in the middle of the map, wall it up, and surround it with all manner of guns. Again, layout is critical.

3. You only have so many walls! Prioritise!
It is impractical (at lower levels, and impossible at higher levels) to wall up ALL your buildings.
After wall-ing up your Townhall, wall up your guns. If you still have walls to spare, then protect your storage facilities. Remember - enemy goblins and other attackers will be running for your storages!

4. Force enemy to Deploy Further - space out your buildings a little so that enemies have to deploy further from your walls, giving your guns a little more time to mow down approaching enemies. Notice the flashing white borders when you move and place your buildings. That indicates the limit where enemies can deploy. So I usually place barracks and other such buildings outside my walls so that enemies have to deploy beyond them and have to hack thru them to get to my walls, allowing my cannons and archer towers a few more precious seconds to shoot at them.

5. Never leave your guns exposed!
Protecting your guns not only prolong their life and by extension shortening the enemy's, they also distract the enemy from your other buildings!

6. Only the mortar and Wiz Tower do splash damage!
Splash damage is very useful against large hordes of cheap troops such as Barbs, Archers and Goblins. I would place my storages around or behind my mortars and wiz twrs so they can wipe out enemy goblins or archers in droves.

7. Don't neglect air defence! If you are short on budget and cannot afford an air defence tower, then get those balloon traps! Jorge Yao became the first person to hit 4000 trophies by using an ALL-DRAGON army! You don't want to be caught out by crazy tactics like that!

These are just some basic tips. I strongly suggest you visit the Clash Wiki site for more ideas and tips!