DragoShadow's Strategy Guides/Defense Strategy Guide

Hey everybody. So everybody loves dat gold and elixir right? You wanna take as much as you can in raids and just get the hell out of there right? When people attack your village, they think the same way. So how exactly do you protect your goodies from those other... players? This guide will hopefully get you started on building a better defense to keep your goodies protected.

Prevention
So as I said in the intro, people go after resources (unless they have no life and attack people just for fun). And furthermore, they go after villages with a lot of resources; not some kind of noob village with 1k of resources total. For example, I go after villages that have at least 150k of  each resource (so basically 300k in total).

Now that you know how most people think (they want resources, if you still haven't gotten the point yet) you can prevent attacks by not having what they want. In case that sounds confusing (and it probably does because even I have trouble understanding what I just typed), I'll reiterate it in different words. You just want to get rid of all your stuff that might attract raids- gold and elixir.

Ok... so now what???
Right now you're probably thinking: "What the heck is this page talking about? Philosphy?" No it's talking about COC, but I'll get to the point now. Get rid of gold and elixir... but no don't just burn your gold and then throw it in acid; use it in ways that are productive and efficient, but use quite some gold and elixir.

For example:

Elixir: Gold:
 * RESEARCH!!! Not only does researching take a crapload of elixir, it also boosts your troops power and attack and stuff and makes them look better and wickeder (is wickeder a word er somethin?)
 * Queue up troops even when your army camps are full. This saves you a ton of time because once you go on a raid, your extra queues will be in automatically. And of course it also takes away some of your elixir and your some of your "proneness" to attacks.
 * WALLS!!!. Upgrade your walls. Yup upgrade those walls too. And those ones. Mmmmhm. Just don't upgrade the spawn forcing walls that you use to push enemies' spawn points. (I'll talk about that later.)
 * Upgrade your defensive towers, especially wizard towers. Why wizard towers? Cuz they're good, duh. Defensive towers that take a lot of gold to upgrade are usually good. Just a rule of thumb in life. < But no that rule of thumb does not always apply.

====That will conclude this first section. Hopefully just by doing that every time you exit COC will prevent attacks. But... there are always those people who have no life and attack you just for fun. Reeeeemember?====

OK, I tried prevention but haters still attack me.
So you tried prevention? And it doesn't work for you? Okay well then, it's time for REAL defense strategy. YAY!!

This is a top 4 list  of what I feel are the most essential defensive towers or... defensive items if you will. So right now, you're probably wondering 1 thing. Why is air defense so important?
 * 1) Wizard Tower
 * 2) Mortar / Air Defense
 * 3) Walls / Archer Towers / Cannons
 * 4) Clan Castle Troops (mainly archers and giants)

Okay so as you advance in TH level, actual level, and league level, (lots of levels in COC) you will see more and more people using flying troops like dragons and minions and especially healers. So once you start seeing all these flying troops you should already have a minumum of a lvl 3 air defense to counter and slow down all of these flying troops.

OK roger that bub. But tower placement? Where should I put in my walls?
Wait, first things first. I have to talk about what kind of base you should have. Then comes placement.

Packed base: A packed base is essentially what it sounds like. Everything in the village is crammed together inside one single layer of walls. Send in 3 wall breakers at most to break the walls and boom you've pretty much won the battle. If you have this village, fix it to another base type asap.

When your're building your base, make sure to put your Town Hall at the very center of your town because if your opponent destroys that one single building, then you just lost, even if they didn't destroy anything else. Put your storages in the second most inner layer of walls or even the most inner if you're all over your resources (I'm gonna shorten resources to res). Put your mortars in the center as well. Some people put their wizard towers in the most inner layer, but I don't do that becuase the wizard tower has a very limited range. By the time your opponent gets to the center of your base, the wizard tower is not going to be any use. Mortar towers however have a range up to 11. This means that they can shoot all the way over to your 3rd or even 2nd layer depending on how thick each layer is. (1st layer=outer most layer)