J-Rex64's Strategy Guide/Village Layouts

Hello, this is J-Rex64. I am just a contributer to the wiki and dedided to try to make a stratagy guide about village layout. I would like to point out that this is just my stratagy when making my village so if you have different opinions, please dont be mean about it. I would absolutly love to hear your opinions, but in a constructive criticism sense. Also if there are any mistakes in spelling, grammar, or information about the game (and let me assure you, there will be) then feel absolutly free to correct it. I would perfer it if you told me you were doing so first. Now, on to the stratagies!

Notes about the guide.
This is a work in progress, i will add pictures soon.

There will be several capitalization and grammatical errors, please ignore that and try to understand.

I will revise them as i go along.

Also, this is my first wiki page so i probobly dont know how to use all the features.

Design Basics
When i am redesigning my village i try to keep a few things in mind. i keep my most important buildings in the middle, paired up with a strong defensive building. For example, i keep one elixir storage, gold storage, and my dark elixer storage all in one compartment, but i put my clan castle in there too. Another thing i like to keep in mind is that you should build your village from the center out. that means that i start by putting important buildings and defenses in the middle, and slowly work my way out. So mortars and air defenses are better towards the middle because of their range, and cannons and archer towers are better on the outside because of their fire rates. Something else i keep in mind when designing my village is spaceing. I try to keep my village as compact as possible so that all my defenses cover one another. this also saves walls, so that the walls that could have been wasted by spacing out a village can be used to protect another valuble building. Something that helps with space is symmetry. if a base is symmetric then it usually will be very organised and spaced correctly. one last thing to keep in mind is that it is better to put more than one building or defense in one compartment. what i mean by that is that if you put every single building in their own wall, then you will run out of walls very quickly. so put a defense in with the storages or put defenses in the same compartment. If one keeps these basic concepts in mind while redesigning, then their base will be harder to crack.

Traps and Tricks
When making your base, it is important to make some traps for your enemy to accidentaly fall into. Hidden teslas, bombs, and spring traps are your best friends when making a base. I really hate it when i see someone wall in their teslas (unless i am attacking them) because it defeats the point of the tesla. Without upgrades, the tesla is really weak. its just as good as a level 7 cannon but has less hitpoints. The best advantage it has is that its HIDDEN. When i am attacking someone and i see an air defense that is unprotected, i immediatly go for that air defense, it really messes up my attack when a hidden tesla appears and kills all my troops. Hidden teslas will turn the tables in a defense/attack if they are used correctly. The other traps are extremly helpful too. Spring traps will launch 15 housing space of troops out of the battle. That means 15 archers or 3 giants. This is extremly effective if you set them up in spaces in your walls. The screenshot (will add it soon) shows an archer tower and a cannon surrounded by walls and that has a space with traps in it. This is a giant trap... no not a giant trap like a big trap, it is a trap set up for giants. The giants will be attracted to the defenses (and the hidden tesla, once it pops up), then they will run over the spring traps, being launched out, and then attacked by the defenses all at the same time. This will ruin an attack too, because if someone tries to attack a defense on the inside of my base first, then the giants will still be attracted to the cannon and archer tower. I havent really figured out how to use bombs effectively yet because they do so little damage. i just put them where i get attacked most.

More stratagies will be added soon!