Strategy

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New Update - March 2013
Check out tips for the new wallbreakers

Agui has posted a comprehensive summary of all attacks on his list here

Dragon has uploaded some of his recent attacks here..

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Raiding
The best strategy for raiding depends on your troop levels and trophy count, as well as your target's town hall level.

You will need to use higher tier troops against higher level targets, and of course it's more cost effective to use tier 1 troops against lower level targets.

Another strategy to keep in mind is raiding collectors. Collectors can hold a lot of resources when they're level 5+, and are often left in easy to access positions so can be raided with just a handful of goblins.

Empty collectors look like this:

Full collectors look like this:

You can also have a look at whether the town says there's a lot of loot, and the storage looks empty to decided how it's best to attack.

Managing resources
The trick to using your gold and elixir efficiently is planning with your builders. Decide what you want to build/upgrade well ahead of time, and gather enough resources to be able to do your next build(s), and not too much extra.

When you do find yourself with excess gold/exlixir and it's time to logoff for the night you don't want to lose it all when you get raided. The more resources you have, the more powerful raiders are going to be attracted to attack. So, what are your options?

Elixir - whether or not you have builders, you can build troops for your next attack when you're back in-game, and then when your camps are full, you can queue up wallbreakers (because they are the most expensive per housing space) in your barracks to hide the rest of your elixir. When you next log on, make sure to unqueue them before attacking or donating otherwise you will end up with camps full of wallbreakers (I've done this!).

Gold - There aren't really an methods to hide gold at the moment, but if you have between 200k and 800k gold you should consider creating spells or, if you have a free builder, upgrading some walls even if you are trying to save up for another build. This way you lose less if you get raided, and have spent it on something useful.