Know the Game AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Hi Clan,

In order to level up the trophy league, we need to be savvy players who know the game AI , know how to exploit it, and inversely, know how to prevent opponents from exploiting it against our village.

1. Units have Preferred Targets!
When composing your raiding party, be careful to check that you take a good mix of units.
Giants are great tanks, but remember - they do relatively low damage and they go only for defences.
Many a times, my horde of giants were next to the enemy's Town Hall and they just walked off to bash a wall beside it!! And if you leave them alone, they will keep bashing walls and guns... leaving refineries and storages unattacked. Golems (and balloons) have the same problem too.

Take units that target 'All', such as Barbs, Archers and Wizards. Their weakness is that they will target the nearest thing in sight - enemy units or buildings, or walls....

2. Single Target vs Splash Damage.
There are only 2 defence towers that do splash damage - Wizard Tower and Mortar. This means they can quickly wipe out groups of barbs, archers and goblins, better than your cannons and archer towers can. Defend them well!

3. Know your priorities.
If you are a farmer, then resources is paramount. Farmers tend to keep their storages in the centre of the field, walled up and well-protected by a maze of guns.
If you are a trophy hunter, then your townhall is paramount. Keep it in the centre and protect it at all costs.

4. All walls are breakable/breachable.
We all dream of building an impregnable defence held up with high walls all around our village. The reality is - your enemies will eventually shoot through or past your walls. It is a fact. with Jump Spells, Wall Breakers and Balloons, walls have only limited usefulness against enemy raids.

5. A good defence goes a long way.
While walls only provide limit protection, they are essential to any village defence, and a good defence is critical to doing well in this game: A poorly designed defence can cost you those 35 hard-won trophies you got through 4 raids simply because when you logged off, successful enemy raids deducted trophies from your score! In the long run, a poor defence may cause you to slowly slip down the league... I will talk a little about base defence in the next post.