Getting Started
Clash of Clans is a free to play, pay to win, strategy game. When I say pay to win,
you're looking at hundreds or perhaps even thousands of dollars to get
comparable to the high end gamers now. If you're cheap like me listed here are
my tips to getting started. Have patience! Unless you happen to be just swimming
in dollars and your hobby is throwing money out the window, persistence is the
key. Just examine your clan a couple of times a day. Day by day you will notice
your clan become stronger. It's honestly a great deal of fun viewing the slow
progression.
Save your gems. Upon commencing the short tutorial you'll get around 500 gems.
These gems are incredibly valuable and I suggest conserving them later on. Each
building takes anywhere from ten minutes to many weeks. Save your gems for
later. Upgrade your town hall. Your town hall as it upgrades gives you all the
options you need to expand. For each level of your town hall the cap of how many
buildings you can build raises. It also opens more and more buildings.
Build protective buildings. Without a good defense you will see your clan killed
every day. Be sure to smartly put your defenses to optimize the damage they are
able to do. Also never position them all next to each other. This forces the
opponent to split their soldiers around your own town making it more difficult to
destroy. When you place your protection next to each other it allows their units
to simply hack through every one in succession.
Walls, walls, and more walls. Towards the start this is difficult to do, it takes
around a level 4 town hall to make a full wall around your clan. Once you are able
to construct your own wall you will see a huge rise in ability of your defensive
towers to take out the enemy. Decide between two play styles. Farming or
attacking. The reason you need to choose either is by farming you can your
trophies low. Think of your trophies as your benchmark level for others to attack,
therefore if your trophies are low you will simply get attacked by low trophy foes.
This enables you to farm more at low levels. There are methods for players to get
around this and farm you right back but for the most part it functions. If you'd like
to be aggressive and simply construct and attack, go all out!