Clash of Clans - Base designs - part 1 - Base types

In Clash of Clans you need to have both a good attack and a good defense.

And today I'd like start covering the many aspects of base defense.

Your base serves as protection for whatever you need protected.

And in Clash of Clans there are only two things that counts:

1. Your resources (Gold, Elixir and Dark Elixir)


2. Your trophies

That sound pretty simple, right?

No, absolutely not.

It rather complicated as your base cant do both at the same time.

This means that base can be divided into two main groups and a mix of both.

1. Farming bases

Farming bases are designed to protect your resources at the cost of trophies. The strategy is to provide trophy-hunters with an easy access to trophies without loosing any resources.

This is done by exposing your base to attacks by few troops, so the trophy hunter can get the trophies form destroying your Town Hall and then move on to the next.

Here is an example where my base is setup as a farming base.

You see how the Town Hall is exposed and that all resource storages are kept inside a set of at least two walls. Outer ring wall and inner ring wall. The Dark Eliksir is even more protected by a third center wall ring, so you need to break through three walls before being able to get to the resource.

In this type of farming base you need to empty your pumps, mines and drills frequently in order not to loose to much of your precious resources.

2. Trophy bases - War bases

For trophy bases it is the exact opposite. You don't care about your resources but only your trophies.

So you provide the farmers with easy access to your resources while you get plenty of trophies from their "failed" attacks.

This means two things:

1. Your Town Hall have to be protected


2. The amount of buildings exposed to direct hit from enemy troops have to be lower than 50%

The first is rather easy to understand, but second is more or less overseen by most players.

Some attacking tactics at high level attacking involves attacking with 50 barbarians and 150 archers all level 5 or 6.

If 50 % of your base is exposed to these troops, you will loose trophies to this type of attack.

So 50% of your base equals 50% of the sum of buildings. Not the sum of hit points, but the sum of buildings.

The way the game computes the destruction percentage is dividing the number of buildings destroyed by the number of buildings in the base, irrespectively the hitpoints of the destroyed buildings.

So a builders hut with 200 hitpoints counts as much as a storage with 2500 hit points. But it is so much easier for the barbs and archers (barchers) to destroy it before being gunned down by your defense.

This means that all weak buildings go inside the walls and all the strong goes outside.

My trophy hunter base looks like this. It made 483 defensive trophies in 1 week!

It is the same base as I have used in all our clan wars. And I haven't been attacked yet. :-)

3. Hybrid bases

Well, some people wants it all. They want their trophies and they want their resources.

For those we have hybrid bases.

A hybrid base protects the Town Hall and the resource storages. 

For me it doesn't make much sense to use a hybrid base for anyone below lvl 100, because if you are below lvl 100, you should not care about trophies at all.

The only thing about trophies that is important for anyone below lvl 100 is which trophy range to farm in.

So if you are below lvl 100 use a farming base when your clan is not at war, and convert it shortly on preparation day to a trophy/war base and then convert it back as soon as preparation day ends.

But if you are above lvl 100 a hybrid base is still relevant, and my base would look like this when setup as a hybrid base.

It will still hold most attacks off and get me some defensive trophies, but at the same time keep my resources from being taken at each attack, and it will at least give me a shield if they do get to all of the resources.

This covers the base types. I will explain more about the concept of my base in a later post.

SEMPER ARDENS!!!

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