Talk:Flammy's Strategy Guides/Matchmaking Guide: Trophies, Experience, and Town Hall Level/@comment-24953083-20140518155615/@comment-25245637-20140730191835

As Phreak says, it's indeed very simple. I reached 1250 as a TH lvl 4, and then dropped again as I can't keep that up.

You need to do some rather long sessions of constantly training archers, and hitting "next" a lot of times (though that "next" button was cheaper at TH lvl 4). Whenever you find a lonely town hall, attack it. Most of the time, you even end up gaining resources. You only need to use 5 archers per town hall (though keep a lot of troups available in case someone funny had hidden some bombs, traps or even teslas there), and you shouldn't have to hit "next" more than 10 times on average to find a suitable target.

After that session, also place your town hall outside of the walls. So the first one who sees your base will attack it, and hopefully only take down your town hall (so only get 1/3 of the normal trophy count). After which you get a 12h shield, by which time you should start a new session. Trying to put your TH inside your walls is not a good idea, as you're no match for the regular players in there, so they'll destroy your entire village, take all your resources, and get a lot more trophies from you.

For every raid, you must be sure you can win it before continuing. As losing will cost 20 to 30 trophies, while you'll only gain 4 to 11 trophies for taking down a TH.