Notes:
- Pairs you up with a random offline player's village within your Trophy range. View more under Multiplayer Raiding Mechanics. If you have a current Shield, you will get a message saying "Shield is active: Attacking will disable your shield, and other players will be able to attack you. Are you sure?" Pressing "Okay" will remove your Shield and take you through to the enemy village. Once you click "Okay" your Shield will be removed regardless of whether you actually initiate an attack by deploying troops or casting spells.
- The cost to find an enemy village to raid. Each different village that you view charges you this price. This cost increases as you upgrade your Town Hall to higher levels.
- The amount of Trophies you currently have.
- Shows a list of the Clans and players with the highest Trophy count and an option to search for Clans.
- The amount of stars you have earned in the Single Player Campaign.
- An uncompleted level. You are allowed to continue on to subsequent levels, but you only have some of the stars (and possibly resources) that can be earned on this level.
- A completed level. You have earned all 3 stars and collected all resources.
- An uncompleted level. No stars have been earned, so you cannot proceed to the next levels.
- A locked level. You need to complete the previous level to unlock (earn at least one star on it).
Raiding Mechanics
Multiplayer
This screen warning appears when you log on but are under attack.
Test your skills against another player! Matchmaking matches you with another player based on your Trophies. Alternatively, you can enter a 'revenge' match by tapping the "Revenge" button in your battle log. This allows you to fight against a person who has attacked you first. Beware of this when you attack higher level villages as they will be able to 'revenge' match you.
Prior to Battle
When the opposing player's village first appears, you get 30 seconds during which you can scout the enemy's defenses and plan your attack. Although you can deploy troops during this time, the battle will start immediately upon doing so (you do not get extra time). When viewing another player's village to raid, potential loot and Trophies that can be earned/lost are shown. Before the battle has started, if the village you are first paired up with is not to your liking you can press the 'Next' button for a small amount of gold and be shown another village to potentially raid. The 'Next' button disappears once the 3-minute battle timer has started, but if you have not actually deployed troops or cast a spell, you can tap 'End Battle' to return to your own village without penalty.
Victory (and Defeat)
Trophies are awarded upon a multiplayer victory. Victory is determined by how many stars you earn during the raid. There are three stars available to be earned in each battle:
- The first star is earned for destroying 50% of the buildings.
- The second star is earned for destroying the Town Hall.
- The final star is earned for destroying 100% of the buildings.
For each star that you earn, you receive one-third of the available trophies. This means that destroying your opponent's town hall gives you an automatic victory. Also it is impossible to get more than one star without destroying the town hall. Failure to get any stars means a loss causing you to lose Trophies.
Gaining and Losing Trophies
There is often a lot confusion surrounding Trophies as it is often possible to lose a lot more Trophies than you can win; sometimes the opposite is true as well. The reason for this is simple: If you have more Trophies than your opponent, it is presumed that your opponent is "weaker" than you (Town Hall or Experience levels are irrelevant for the purposes of this determination). If you defeat this "weaker" opponent you will receive fewer Trophies than you would an "equal" opponent; losing will cost you a higher amount of Trophies. The opposite is also true: If you have fewer Trophies than your opponent, it is presumed that your opponent is "stronger" than you. Defeating this "stronger" opponent entitles you to more Trophies than you would get by defeating an "equal" opponent, and likewise being defeated by a "stronger" opponent costs you fewer Trophies.
There is no hard and fast rule, but in general the higher your Trophy count the more difficult opponents you will encounter, both those you are matched with to attack as well as those attacking your village. Because of this, many higher level players keep an artificially low Trophy count by intentionally losing battles; in this way they can both make their villages easier to defend (as they will on average be attacked by weaker opponents) as well as ensure themselves less difficult bases to attack for resources.
Before attacking, pay attention to how many Trophies you can when or lose; often this can help give you an indication as to how difficult the upcoming battle will be. If you see a large discrepancy in the number of Trophies available to win vs. the amount available to lose, there is a large Trophy difference between you and your opponent. If the number of Trophies available to win is much higher than that available to lose, you are likely to encounter a difficult battle. If the number available to win is much lower than that available to lose, the battle may in fact be relatively easy. However, do not rely solely on this comparison, as Trophy counts can be easily manipulated (as shown in the above paragraph).
Match Cost
| Town Hall level | Cost Gold |
|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 50 |
| 3 | 75 |
| 4 | 110 |
| 5 | 170 |
| 6 | 250 |
| 7 | 380 |
| 8 | 580 |
| 9 | 750 |
Single Player Campaign
Fight the goblins in the Single Player Campaign! Each level has a preset amount of loot that can only be earned ONCE, however most of the time you will spend more Elixir on troops than you get as a reward. In addition, most of the villages past stage 16 are quite hard, so you'll have to wait until you're much higher level to complete them. Note that no Trophies can be won or lost in the Single Player Campaign and it will not cancel Shields.
The lower levels (1-16) usually have no aerial defenses such as Air Defenses or Archer Towers, allowing easy completion with a single Balloon or Minion. Some levels after level 16 can also be easily completed by taking out their aerial defenses first with ground units, and then using a Balloon or Minion to destroy the rest of the village. Note that using a single air unit in this fashion can take quite some time; in fact often it will take so long that the game will time out due to inactivity, causing the attack to fail (regardless of how many stars you had earned to that point). To prevent this, pan or zoom the screen every so often, or attack with additional units.
Keep in mind that you can view a level before attempting to raid it. You can do this by simply getting into the battle, then tapping "End Battle". This results in no penalty and allows you to plan your army to easily take out their defenses. Unlike multiplayer battles, there is no time limit when you attack. However, you will not be able to view the village without at least one troop trained in your Army Camp (you do not have to deploy it).
Many players find the higher levels in single player to require more than one try. For these levels, it can be wise to use higher level troops such as Wizards, Healers, Dragons and/or P.E.K.K.As to complete the level, which often saves them more Elixir than attempting the level mutiple times with cheaper units. That being said, raiding the goblins can be quite lucrative once you progress through the hard levels. In fact, some levels can reward you with Gold and Elixir as much as 800k each!
It is interesting to note that while the difficulty of the Single Player Campaign increases quite rapidly as one progresses in level, the available loot rises considerably as well. Resources above 300k can be found after the level "Choose Wisely"
Army Planning
Army planning is one of the most important parts of raiding. If your army is not planned out well enough you are probably going to lose or at most earn 1 star. A good starting point for a mid-level raiding army is as follows (requires 175 housing spaces):
- 1 Healer
- 15 Giants
- 40 Archers
- 30 Barbarians
- 10 Goblins
Loot
Gold/Elixir
Gold and Elixir can be stolen from three types of Resource Buildings: storages, mines/collectors and the Town Hall.
- Storages: The percentage of Gold/Elixir that can be stolen from storages is 20% and is capped at 199k. This means that if more than 792k is being held in storages, it is subject to the cap.
- Mines/Collectors: The percentage of Gold/Elixir that can be stolen from mines/collectors is 50% and is capped only by the storage capacity of the mine/collector.
- Town Hall: There is an additional 1k of each resource that can be stolen inside the Town Hall.
Therefore, calculated loot = (20% x stored resources, up to 199k) + (50% x amount in mines/collectors) + 1k. This means that the maximum calculated loot, for each resource, that can be stolen from 1 opponent (with maxed mines/collectors and full storages) is: 199k + (6 x 75k) + 1k= 650k.
These figures are before the loot multiplier is applied. The loot multiplier is what is behind the loot "penalty" and the loot "bonus". The amount of available loot = calculated loot x loot multiplier. The loot multiplier is determined as follows:
- 5% for attacking someine with a Town Hall (TH) 4+ levels lower than the attacker's.
- 25% for attacking someone with a TH 3 levels lower than the attacker's.
- 50% for attacking someone with a TH 2 levels lower than the attacker's.
- 90% for attacking someone with a TH 1 level lower than the attacker's.
- 100% for attacking someone with a TH level equivalent to the attacker's.
- 110% for attacking someone with a TH 1 level higher than the attacker's.
- 150% for attacking someone with a TH 2 levels higher than the attacker's.
- 200% for attacking someone with a TH 3+ levels higher than the attacker's.
Maximum loot after the multiplier is applied is [(200%) x (199k + 6 x 75k)]+1k = 1.299 million of either Gold or Elixir. In practice this is almost impossible for someone to actually raid, though.
The comprehensive foruma for finding available loot is as follows:
loot = (loot multiplier) x [(20% x storage amt, 199k max) +(50% x mine/collector amt)] + 1k
NOTE: The 1k that the Town Hall stores is subject to the PENALTY but not the BONUS, as 1k of each resource is the most it can ever store.
Dark Elixir
Dark Elixir Storages have 5% of their contents available for raiding and Dark Elixir Drills have 75% available for raiding. The cap for raiding from the storage is 2k, while the drills are raidable according to (75% of uncollected DE) x (loot multiplier) or the maximum capacity of the drill, whichever is lower.
The formula for Dark Elixir loot is as follows:
loot = (loot multiplier) x [(5% x storage amt, 2k max) + (75% x amt in drill(s))]
For example, a town hall 7 attacking a town hall 9 with plenty of dark elixir:
6,600 = 150% x (2000 + 2400)