Millionaire Raid

Loot was so good over the holiday weekend. 

Clash of Clans Base Update

My farming base:

• This is the hybrid version of the Ringus10.  It is pretty good at protecting loot.  A solid attack will take 2 or three storages.  I change my multiplayer base often.

• My war base is the SuckerHole 2.0
• Shout out to mike in COC University - who as you can see didn't one star me.

Farming the rcooperkaty way...

Farming is the forsaking of trophies in favor of loot.  You might farm for gold, Elixir or Dark Elixir.  The strategy for each would be different.  Typically I farm for Elixir or Dark Elixir and the gold takes care of itself.

Preparing to Farm

You really only need a few things to begin farming:

1. Enough Elixir to support your first few raids.  This is in case you make a couple of bad decisions right off the bat.  I'd say for TH6 and below you can get away with starting at 50K Elixir if you farm the way I describe.  If you are higher than that I would bank at least 150K. 
2. Full camps
3. Stick your Town Hall as far from your main camp as you can get it.  
4. Have enough gold to be able to be picky.  This will vary depending on what TH you are.  It costs me 750G to hit next.  I usually have at least 50K banked.

Getting It On

OK - WE DON'T CARE ABOUT TROPHIES!  Pick a range you want to farm.  Right now I farm from 1700-2200 trophies with great success.  I also know 1000-1200 and 1200-1700 is decent.  Sub 300 can work if you are patient.  The higher you go the more Dark Elixir you are going to find.  Whatever the range is you want to battle up to the top end, for me that is 1700.  Now you are ready to farm. 

My approach farms with Goblins or mostly Goblins when heading down in trophies.  Then I use Archers and Barbarians or farm back up.

My armies are:

• Farming Down - 20 Archers, 10 Wall Breakers, and 160 Goblins for a cost of 52,000E per raid.  My lower limit on Elixir in order to attack a base is 62,400E, which is 120% of the cost.  That way I know I can cover without hitting any storages.  I want a Clan Castle full of Archers.
• Farming Up - 50 Archers, 50 Barbarians, 100 Goblins for a cost of 32,500E per raid.  My lower limit on Elixir in order to attack a base is 39,000E, which is 120% of the cost.  I want a Clan Castle full of Wall Breakers.

When farming I'm looking for heavy hitters.  What is that?  Lots of loot stored in collectors.  The storages are going to look empty and the collectors will look like the images below. 

If I'm climbing back up to get to the top of my range I am a little less concerned with the loot as long as I am covering the cost of the army.  When you find your target just aim your troops at the collectors and go.  If you choose a base with a Barbarian King or Archer Queen drop some troops by them and then use your archers or Clan Castle to take them out.  The same goes for the enemy's Clan Castle.  Try to draw them out and eliminate them before dropping your Goblins.  I always keep at least some archers so that if I find a good score with the Town Hall on the outside I can take it out and not drop trophies, but when in doubt get the loot.

11 Days of BARCHing and BAMing

I've got 11 days until my current crop of upgrades is done.  This will mark the end of defensively upgrading my town hall 9.  After that I'm going to work on upgrading walls and heros until I jump to TH10.  While I wait for my upgrades I'm going to exclusively BARCH and BAM. So far it's going great and I am going to post progress over the next few days. 

Clash of Clans Update

It's been a while since I've updated on Clash of Clans.  Since my last update I've left the Wrecking Crew due to drama and joined Bad Rabbits.  Currently we are in the Spring 2014 Trophy Push and ranked 284 in the world.  Go us!