Clash of Clans: Town Hall Level 8

As you know by now each TH level has a different base that should accompany it. In this post, I will show you some of the worst TH lvl 8 setups and some of the best (in my opinion). Let me know what you think in the comments section!

Here are a few of the absolute worst town hall level 8 bases I have ever seen… it really makes me wonder what they were thinking.

There are so many things wrong with this base, I don’t even know where to begin. Okay, here goes… first of all, if someone is farming, then they may have all of their resources in a 4 layer deep wall, but this person’s Town Hall is on the inside of the walls. Since his TH is on the inside, that means he is not farming. He also has his gold and dark elixir storage on the outside of his walls, so he is not trying to protect resources.  And, since he does have his TH on the inside of his walls, that leads you to believe that he is trying to protect his trophy count. This would be extremely easy to get one star on. All you would need to do is implement GlitterPony’s Attack Strategy, especially since none of the defenses are behind walls. If you own this base, please comment and let me know what the heck you were thinking. Thanks 😉

Horrible Base Number Two:

This base  is protecting the army camps much too much. He is hardly protecting his elixir or gold. It makes me wonder how he got level 5 & 6 walls, because I guarantee that is the first thing that gets stolen. I smell gems! He may think that your troops all die if you camp is destroyed. Rest assured, that is not the case anymore. I have tested this theory! Your troops are safe to fight another day!

Here are some examples of good bases for Town Hall Level 8

This is a pretty good TH lvl 8 setup. The only thing that really concerns me with this base is the placement of the clan castle, but since this player isn’t in a clan anyway, it really doesn’t matter where they place it. For a player that is in an active clan, be sure to centralize your castle and protect it somehow. If a clan castle is destroyed during a raid, all of your troops will be trapped in side and will not be able to help you. This base does a good job of protecting it’s borders, but not much of the inside. Let’s hope that the enemy is dead before it even would reach the center! This one just barely fits into the “good” category.

This base is good. It defends the borders and has a pretty decent splash area. The only thing I would suggest is spreading out the spiking a bit more and adding them to all sides of the base… and bringing in the research closer to the rest of the base. Spreading out your buildings like that is only good when you are of a lower level and want to make sure someone doesn’t get 3 stars. Spreading them out when you get higher up is just basically giving away buildings, so your enemy can get to 1 star that much easier.

I like this setup. It uses traps efficiently and he is building up his strongest walls on the weakest part of the base. It looks pretty solid. Once the walls are done, I think it would work well. The teslas and wizard towers are placed well and the town hall/resources are in the most secure spot in the setup. All in all, I like it. Try this one out of you are having problems with winning while you are not on.

This is my favorite base, but I suggest staying below 1800 trophies with it. Once you get past 1800, it is pretty hard to defend. I am partial to traps and really like the way the tesla is hiding where people would likely enter. Then the two teslas by the TH would protect that well. Everything is grouped together pretty well, so nothing would be given away for free, making it harder to get any stars. Try it out and let me know what you think.

Clash of Clans: Town Hall Level 4

The very beginning stages of CoC is not as easy as it looks. You have to protect your gold and elixir with pretty much no defenses.  I would really not worry about your town hall in the beginning, you don’t need to protect it. If you are at TH level 4, TH really should be the last of your worries. In order to progress you will need gold and elixir, so keep those safe.

Here is a really good set up for TH level 4. In this setup, they protect their gold and elixir, but leave the unimportant stuff alone. Down the line these items will become important, but not at the beginning. If you have any questions at all about starting out, leave a comment on this post and I will help you.

Clash of Clans: Laboratory

Hi Clashers! I was not going to make a post about this, but, surprisingly, it is the question I have gotten the most! Here is all of the information you need to know about your laboratory!

The best advice I can give you is to always have a troop in the lab upgrading, this will help immensely when you start to upgrade your town hall. To upgrade your troops, click on your laboratory and click which troop you would like to upgrade. When the upgrade is complete, all of the troops you currently have in your camps will be upgraded as well. The training costs rise the more you upgrade your troops.

You can build your laboratory when your Town Hall is at level 3. The initial build of your lab costs $25k elixir. With a level 1 lab you can upgrade your archers, barbarians, and goblins to level 2. Each of these troop upgrades costs $50k per troop type.

Lab 2: You can build a level 2 lab when your TH is at level 4. Upgrading your lab to level 2 costs $50k elixir. With a level 2 lab you can upgrade your giants, balloons, and wallbreakers to level 2. Each of these troop upgrades costs $100k per troop type.

Lab 3: You can build a level 3 lab when your TH is at level 5. Upgrading your lab to level 3 costs $90k elixir. With a level 3 lab you can upgrade your archers, barbarians, and goblins to level 3. You can upgrade wizards to level 2. Upgrading your wizards and barbarians costs $150k elixir. Upgrading your archers and goblins will cost $250k elixir per troop type.

Lab 4: You can build a level 4 lab when your TH is at level 6. Upgrading your lab to level 4 costs $270k elixir. With a level 4 lab you can upgrade your giants, wallbreakers, wizards, and balloons to level 3. Giants and wallbreakers cost $250k. Wizards and balloons cost $450k elixir.

Lab 5: You can build a level 5 lab when your TH is at level 7. Upgrading your lab to level 5 costs $540k elixir. With a level 5 lab you can upgrade your wizards, giants, wallbreakers, balloons, archers, barbarians, and goblins to level 4. You can upgrade your healers, dragons, and PEKKAs to level 2. Barbarians cost $500k to upgrade. Archers, goblins, giants, healers, and wallbreakers cost $750k elixir per troop type. Balloons and wizards cost $1,350,000. Dragons cost $2 million and PEKKAs cost $3 million.

Lab 6: You can build a level 6 lab when your TH is at level 8. Upgrading your lab to level 6 costs $1,080,000 elixir. With a level 6 lab you can upgrade your archers, giants, goblins, wallbreakers, barbarians, goblins, and balloons to level 5. You can upgrade healers, dragons, and PEKKAs to level 3.  These upgrades range in cost from 2.25 million to 6 million.

Lab 7: You can build a level 7 lab when your TH is at level 9. Upgrading your lab to level 7 costs $3 million elixir. With a level 7 lab you can upgrade your archers,  giants, balloons, and barbarians to level 6. Barbarians, balloons, and giants cost $6 million and archers cost $7.5 million. All updates for this level take 14 days.

Clash of Clans: Town Hall Guide

Like many people, you may be confused as to when to upgrade different aspects of your base. Never fear, here is some info that should help you.

Many players are so excited to upgrade their Town Halls that they do not think about the strategy involved with it (me included, my bad!). In order to restrict farmers from taking everything lower levels had, Supercell put a loot restriction on different level Town Halls. Basically, if you attack a player that has a town hall within two levels of your current level, you will get 25% of the loot in their gold/elixir storages and 50% of the loot in their gold mines and elixir collectors. For example, if you have a level 5 town hall, in order for you to get the most amount of  loot possible, you would need to attack someone between TH lvl3 and TH lvl 7. If you were to attack someone lower than a level 3, you would only get 25% of the loot (gold and elixir) in the storages and 5% of the loot in the collectors.  Dark Elixir is a little different, if you fall into the two TH level rule, you can raid 5% from the DE storage and 75% from the drills. Your DE looting is capped at 2,000 from the storage. At first glance, this helps the little guy… but lower level upgrades cost less and high levels need more loot. It would make more sense to me to keep it how it was before this November update. Maybe they will change it back, hard to say. But I can tell you it gets incredibly hard for lower level players if they upgrade their town hall quickly. They do not have the level of troops they need in order to fight higher level players, so they really don’t stand a chance, unless they plan on buying gems. Supercell really wants everyone to buy gems, so they make it as hard as possible for you to not spend money. Play smart and you will never need to. Use patience and strategy.

My advice to all of you, upgrade your defense buildings and walls as high as they can go for the level town hall you are at, then, once you have everything upgraded, move to the next town hall. There really is no reason to be so eager to jump to a high level town hall if you can’t defend yourself and also get less loot once you have upgraded. Be sure to always have a troop upgrading in the lab, so you are offensively prepared as well. You will need very high level troops to loot level 8 & 9 TH.

Town Hall Level 1

Defense: At Town Hall Level 1 you get 2 cannons and you can upgrade them to level 2.
Resources: 1 gold mine up to level 2, 1 elixir collector up to level 2, 1 gold storage, 1 elixir storage
Offense Buildings: 1 barracks up to level 3 and 1 army camp

Town Hall Level 2

Defense: At Town Hall Level 2 you are allotted 2 cannons at level 3, 1 archer tower at level 2, and 25 walls at level 2.
Resources: 2 gold mines up to level 4, 2 elixir collectors up to level 4, 1 gold storage up to level 3, and 1 elixir storage up to level 3
Offense Buildings: 2 barracks at level 4 and 1 army camp at level 2

Town Hall Level 3

Defense: You are allotted 2 cannons at level 4, 1 archer tower at level 3, 50 walls at level 3, 1 mortar at level 1 , and two bombs to be placed strategically throughout your base.
Resources: 3 gold mines at level 6, 3 elixir collectors up to level 6, 2 gold storage up to level 6, and 2 elixir storage up to level 6
Offense Buildings: 2 army camps at level 3, 2 barracks up to level 5, 1 clan castle, and 1 laboratory

Town Hall Level 4

Defense: You get 2 cannons at level 5, 2 archer tower level 4, 75 walls at level 4, 1 mortar at level 2, 1 air defense at level 2, 2 bombs, and 2 spring traps
Resources: 4 gold mines at level 8, 4 elixir collectors up to level 8, 2 gold storage up to level 8, and 2 elixir storage up to level 8
Offense Buildings: 2 army camps at level 4, 3 barracks up to level 6, clan castle up to level 2, and 1 laboratory level 2

Town Hall Level 5

Defense: You get 3 cannons at level 6, 3 archer tower level 6, 100 walls up to  level 5, 1 mortar up to level 3, 1 wizard tower  level 2, 1 air defense level 3, 2 spring traps, and 4 bombs
Resources: 5 gold mines at level 10, 5 elixir collectors up to level 10, 2 gold storage up to level 9, and 2 elixir storage up to level 9
Offense Buildings: 3 army camps at level 5, 3 barracks up to level 7,  1 spell factory, a clan castle up to level 3, and 1 laboratory level 3

Town Hall Level 6

Defense: You get 3 cannons level 7, 3 archer tower level 7, 125 walls level 6, 2 mortars level 4, 2 wizard towers at level 3, 1 air defense level 4, 4 spring traps, one giant bomb, and 4 bombs
Resources: 6 gold mines at level 10, 6 elixir collectors up to level 10, 2 gold storage up to level 10, and 2 elixir storage up to level 10
Offense Buildings: 3 army camps at level 5, 3 barracks up to level 7,  1 spell factory, a clan castle up to level 3, and 1 laboratory level 3

Town Hall Level 7

Defense: You get 5 cannons at level 8, 4 archer tower level 8, 150 walls at level 7, 3 mortars at level 5, 2 wizard towers at level 4, 2 hidden teslas at level 3, 2 air defense at level 5, 4 spring traps, 2 giant bombs, and 6 bombs
Resources: 6 gold mines at level 11, 6 elixir collectors up to level 11, 2 gold storage up to level 11, and 2 elixir storage up to level 11
Offense Buildings: 4 army camps at level 6, 4 barracks up to level 0,  1 spell factory up to level 3, a clan castle up to level 3, and 1 laboratory level 5

**NOTE** Please be sure to place your teslas correctly!!

Town Hall Level 8

Defense: You get 5 cannons at level 10, 5 archer tower level 10, 200 walls at level 8, 3 mortars at level 6, 3 wizard towers at level 6, 3 hidden teslas at level 6, 2 air defense at level 6, 6 spring traps, 3 giant bombs, and 6 bombs
Resources: 6 gold mines at level 11, 6 elixir collectors up to level 11, 2 gold storage up to level 11, and 2 elixir storage up to level 11
Offense Buildings: 4 army camps at level 6, 4 barracks up to level 10,  1 spell factory up to level 3, a clan castle up to level 4, and 1 laboratory level 6

Town Hall Level 9

Defense: You get 5 cannons at level 11, 6  archer tower level 10, 225 walls at level 10, 3 mortars at level 7, 3 wizard towers at level 7, 4 hidden teslas at level 6, 3 air defense at level 6, 2 XBows at level 3, 6 spring traps, 4 giant bombs, and 6 bombs
Resources: 6 gold mines at level 11, 6 elixir collectors up to level 11, 2 gold storage up to level 11, and 2 elixir storage up to level 11
Offense Buildings: 4 army camps at level 7, 4 barracks up to level 10,  1 spell factory up to level 4, a clan castle up to level 4, and 1 laboratory level 6

Town Hall Level 10: Likely coming very soon.

So, the moral of my story is to UPGRADE EVERYTHING BEFORE TOWN HALL! Good luck!

Clash of Clans: beginners guide

Clash of Clans is a free IOS app brought to you by Supercell. CoC (as it is commonly referred to) was released to the iTunes store on August 2, 2012 and is compatable with iPhone, iPad, and iPod. The graphics are stunning and very detailed, which can be directly attributed to Supercell’s mission to create tablet games. Creating the game on a larger scale, makes it look great on all platforms.

Getting Started: Tutorial
When you first download this game, you will be taken to a tutorial scene. In this scene, you will learn how to access many different areas in the game. Though you will be excited to get started, I highly recommend waiting the full upgrade time instead of using gems (like they will prompt you to do). The wait in the beginning of the game is very short compared to when you start getting to higher levels. Save your gems, do not use them to speed up upgrades. The only gems you should spend in the beginning is for the 2nd builder.

In case you already missed the important parts of the tutorial, here is a quick reference tool:

This is where you keep track of your builders, gems, resources, trophies, and levels.

The top left bar shows your current level and experience points. You get more experience points for each upgrade, fight, troop donation, and any other basic function of the game. Levels are not incredibly important in CoC, but the higher your level, the easier it is to recruit players in your clan.

Right below your level is where your trophy count is located. Trophies are very important in CoC. It is the measure of your worth as a player and how you are matched up with opponents in multi-player battles. You can collect trophies by winning multi-player battles and by defending your base against attacks successfully.

Below the trophy counter is your achievement menu (not pictured). This is where you can see the achievements you have accomplished and the ones that you have yet to accomplish.

The builder’s status is located in the middle of the resource bar. Here you can see how many builders are working currently. Builders are very important because they upgrade your buildings and resources. If you do not have a builder free, you can speed up their time for gems, though I highly discourage this. Patience is a virtue in CoC.

Your shield is directly to the right of your builder’s status. The shield will protect your village from attack for the allotted time given on the status bar. You receive a shield by buying one with gems or by losing enough of an attack for it to activate (40% or one star). Shields last anywhere from 12 to 16 hours. When you attack in multi-player, you also turn off your shield.

The gold status bar tells you how much gold you currently have. Gold is used for upgrades of defense, town hall, walls, and other building upgrades. To hold more gold, upgrade your gold storage.

Elixir is what you use to train troops, update barracks, level your troops up, and upgrade army camps. To hold more elixir, upgrade your storage.

The green bar below this tells you how many gems you have. Gems can be used to speed up many aspects of the game. It is also the only way you can buy builders. Oh, and the pirate flag is bought with gems too. Conserve these, you will need them later on! You can get more gems by buying them, winning them in achievements, or by finding them when you clean up your village of trees, mushrooms, stones, and stumps.

Not pictured in this photo, but newly added to CoC is dark elixir. You can earn dark elixir by stealing it and with the dark elixir drill. The storage unit for dark elixir is available at town hall level 7 and the drill is available at town hall level 8. Though a neat addition to the game, this should not be your first priority.

Shop Menu:
You will find this menu on the lower right hand corner of your screen. This menu allows you to buy structures, resources, decorations, defenses, and more.

Shop menu description for Clash of Clans

Treasure: Here you can buy gems, and also use your gems to get more gold, elixir, or dark elixir.

Resources: This section of the menu is very important. Here you purchase all of your resource-makers (elixir, gold, dark elixir, builders huts). It is crucial to get all of the resource-makers you are allotted and that you upgrade them substantially from the very beginning. This will make your playing easier when you get to be a higher level.

Decorations: There is no need for this section in the beginning of the game. Decorations just pretty up your base. Enemies cannot deploy on decorations either, so use them strategically.

Army: This section is where you will find everything offense related. Create a strong offense by updating all of these structures to the best of your ability. It contains Army Camps, Barracks, Laboratory, Spell Factory, Barbarian King, and Archer Queen.

Defenses: This is probably one of the most important aspects to CoC. Click here to start setting up your defenses to protect your village. Some players rely solely on being a defensive player (I will touch on this in the section labeled “defensive player”). You can be the best offensive player out there, but it will not matter if you cannot protect your own base. You need to protect your resources and your trophies. Also remember that when an army camp is destroyed, all of the troops in it are destroyed too. Upgrade your defenses to the max your town hall will let you. Located in this section: Cannon, Archer Tower, Walls, Mortar, Bombs, Air Defense, Spring Traps, Wizard Towers, Giant Bomb, Hidden Tesla, and X-Bow.

Shield: Here you can use gems to buy a shield. You can buy a one-day, two-day, or one week shield. The cool down time varies for each shield.

**Note: Town hall levels determine what items you have at any given time and the level to which you upgrade them**

This is just a quick step beginners guide to CoC, for more detailed explanations on different aspects of the game, visit the rest of this site.