How to Play Clash of Clans

Clash of Clans is an addictive game where you build a base, protect it, train troops and attack others. As you get more and more gold and elixir resources, your base will get bigger and better! Here is a simple, easy to follow method of how to become an experienced Clash of Clans player.

Part One of Four:
Getting Started

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Get your base up and running. First priority is to make your base more defensive so no one takes away your treasures. Focus on trying to put your town hall in the center of your base so that it is hard to take more trophies from you that come with taking down the town hall.
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Go to the Shop, the items to protect your base are under "Defense." Good initial defenses are walls and the mortar. If you have these, you are much less likely to have someone raid you and steal your gold and elixir. Walls are much better upgraded so make sure you can do that quite quickly.Try to get the walls to level 3 as quick as possible.
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Since you have limited resources at first, put the walls you buy around the most important buildings only. It is great if you can protect the town hall, gold storage(s) and elixir storage(s). Kick the builder huts and army buildings out. Also, do not try to put walls around everything. It's better to have double thick walls than one huge line.
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Spend your gold, elixir and gems wisely. Do not waste them, especially your gems because they come in short supply. Do not spend your gems! Save them for another builder hut!
- Use your gems to build builder's huts. It is tempting to them all right away, but don't. You will need your gems later.
- In the tutorial, you are given 5 wizards to destroy the base. If you only use two, you will have the other 3 in your army camp already. This will let you have wizards at Town Hall 1, which you usually don't unlock until later in the game.
- The most efficient way to spend gems is to invest in builders' huts as this enables you to upgrade multiple towers and other defenses at once.
- Don't spend on extra gold or elixir storage at first, because you don't need it.
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Decide if you want to use real money to get ahead in the game. You can buy more gems with real money.^[1]
- There are other ways of getting gems than spending money. So if you don't want to spend your money, not to worry. You can get gems when you remove trees and obstacles from the area around your base. Next . Part Three of Four:
  Attacking Others
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    Attack whenever possible. Attacking is all good. There is no downside and you can get valuable items and trophies. You may want to lose trophies to get resources from easier defenders. You will not get as much per raid but it's easier and you don't have to spend as much on your army. It is easier to steal resources than mine for them. And, it is fun!
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    Check how much gold an enemy base has before attacking. You can see how much gold each possible enemy base you can attack has. If it has none, don't bother attacking. If it has a very large amount, it may be too well defended for you to attack. However, if it has a large amount and you can take it ,do it. Take a few risks!
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    Attack the treasures. Have your troops attack the storage areas for gold and elixir first.
    After a successful attack, you will bring back more gold and elixir, which you can then spend.
    If you are losing an attack, there is no shame in just pulling back your troops to your base. You can always train more troops later. Know when to quit.
    When you attack a gold storage, the gold will go into your bank account immediately. Even if your troops are killed during the attack, the gold remains in your account.
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    You get even more treasure/bonus if you completely destroy the opponents base or town hall.
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    Make sure you train more troops to replace the ones lost in battle. To train, tap the barracks and you will see the train menu. The best ones to train at first are barbarians (for 25 elixir each) and giants (for 500 elixir each.)
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    Build a laboratory. The laboratory lets you upgrade your troops so they have more offensive power and can sustain more damage. You can also get advanced kinds of troops such as archers, a wizard, and goblins. You can also build a spell factory after a while. This can create many spells that add different advantages to your attacks.
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    Learn about leagues. As you start collecting trophies, you will go up in leagues, each league has a bonus of extra gold and elixir win winning a match. The higher league level is the higher the bonus becomes. The higher level leagues also provide a dark elixir bonus.
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