Hardcore Casual

Edit: Stats and writeup provided by Delpez.

Supreme Cream! Vs Warlordz

This was still an easy win, but at least the opponents put up a fight. Their bases were better designed (especially air defences) and they were quite active. However, most of their successful attacks were against lower TH levels, and they did not achieve enough 3-star attacks.

Our lower TH level stats were skewed by a number of very new players – we had six TH4 and 5 bases, compared to only two enemy TH5 bases. Considering this I think our lower levels did quite well. Just a couple of tips for our new guys – it’s extremely difficult for a TH4 or 5 (or even a new TH6) to 3-star any base in a war, and it’s also not expected of you. We had a number of our low level guys not using their attacks, and I guess some of it was because they though they couldn’t contribute anymore. If there are no bases left for you to get stars off, just attack any base where you can score at least one star (even if that base had already been 3-starred by someone else). Firstly, this is good practice and secondly you get nice loot at the end of the war (provided we win, of course!).

At TH7 they were obliterated; we were attacking TH7&8’s with dragons and they were attacking TH6 (and lower) with everything from barbarians to giants. The Valks in the castles enjoyed that!

They scored more 3-stars at TH8 than us, but only one of those attacks was against TH8 opponents. We did much better against their TH8’s than vice versa. I’ve also included the average stars per attack for the higher TH’s, as it gets more and more difficult to 3-star bases at higher levels. In that case the average stars per attack against other high level bases become more important. We comfortably bested them in that category.

TH9&10 were quite close, but we scored more 3-star attacks against their high level bases, and also scored more stars per attack.

Pretty impressive win – we only missed five stars for a full house! It actually appeared quite close for a while; the scores were something like 95-94 with equal numbers of attacks at one point. However, our higher 3-star percentage just wore them down; they stayed close with lots of 2 stars, but eventually ran out of profitable bases to attack. For example, with the scores close we still had a number of potential 3-star bases to hit, while almost all our bases already had one or two stars against them. This meant that our future attacks had a higher potential yield, while the enemy could only score 1 or 2 stars from their attacks, we could still get 3 stars from a number of bases. Bottom line, don’t just look at the score and number of attacks left during a war, but also count the number of bases without any stars against them to determine the potential value of future attacks.

On a TH level basis, our lower levels improved a lot, scoring a number of 3-stars and also some pretty good attacks for 2-stars. Keeping in mind that it is difficult for a TH6 to smash another TH6 base, those 3 stars were quite valuable. It meant that our TH7’s could focus more on other TH7 bases and less on TH6 bases.

Our TH7 performance was very impressive and our TH8’s also outscored them for 3-stars. At the top we got some important 3-stars from their best bases, while they didn’t even attack our top guys.

Quick Clash of Clans update time: Our last few wars have been absolute slaughters, and not worth putting stats or a report together for.

Most clans in the game are mass-invite clans, which by nature tend to be less organized and loyal. This, combined with the fact that most people just are not very good at the game, leads to poor attacks against us (zero stars) while we rack up a large lead due to our members being ready to attack a base they can 3-star. If we jump out to a big enough lead, the other clan effectively quits on the war.

This then starts a ‘failcascade’ where the clan starts to lose members, which means even fewer people able to attack us during the war, which results in everyone else in that clan not even bothering to attack. Our last three wars have been something along the line of 100-40, which is extra-nice for us since we can then use our second attack for loot rather than stars, making winning a war all that more profitable.

Hopefully at some point soon clan wars get a trophy-like system, where winning a war earns you trophies and losing one takes them away, creating some sort of ranking system. The current system is half-decent for creating even-looking wars before the fighting starts, but does nothing to account for past performance and clan consistency.

We, Supreme Cream!, are currently sitting at 43/50 members after a little spring cleaning of inactives. If you are at all interesting in the game and joining a fun group (everyone is a blog reader, so clearly a distinguished group minus Sam), apply and mention the blog.