Clash of Clans Attack Strategy

Giants and Archers Attack Strategy

Giants are good at taking fire. Archers are good at taking out defenses but they don't have very high HP. This strategy uses Giants to shield the archers. The Giants keep the defenses busy while the Archers give extra fire power to take them out.

I start off with a good size arsenal of troops, pictured below.

Look for a good entry point into the camp where gold or exlixir are close to the outside walls. In the screen shot below I am going for elixir. Then look for key defenses you need to elimiate. In this case, I want to eliminate the archer tower as soon as possible so I am using a lightning spell to weaken the archer tower. I use the lightning spell first to weaken the defense before it has any chance to weaken my troops.

After that I deploy are my giants at once. I find that 10 giants and 2 healers is a good combination to last to the end of the round, allowing me to use the remaining troops to grab treasure. Giants go for the closest defenses but sometimes they split up. In this case most of giants appear headed for the archer tower while a few look like they are going for the wizard tower. I don't deploy my healer right away because I want the giants to take out the air defense first.

At this point, I use my healing spell (gold flask) to keep the giants healthy while they are working on the wall. I know they will be there for a few seconds and there will be other troops on the way so it's an efficient use of the healing spell. In the screen shot below the giants are white as the healing spell builds up there health.

The healing spell only lasts a few seconds so it's important to get those giants through the wall before it wears off. Taking out defenses fast is the key to winning the round. I have 5 wall breakers so I send in 3 to make sure I punch a hole in wall, see blue circle below. I send it 3 instead of 1 because 1 wall breaker might get picked off by an archer or mortar. The presence of giants draws fire away from the wall breakers and the healer spell helps them too but you don't want to take any chances.

Unfortunately you can't control wall breakers very well. These three veered off to the left instead of going in directly behind the giants as I intended. Such is life in the world of clans. As it turns out, my giants ended up punching a hole through the wall at the same time as the wall breakers. The giants quickly eliminated the archer tower because it was weakened by the lightning spell. It doesn't take them long to eliminate the air defense so as soon as they reach air defense I launch my 2 healers behind them, see below.

Depending on the situation, you may want to let the giants do a bit of work here. The more defenses they clear out, the less your other attackers will be at risk. But if you let the giants go to town you don't want the healers to get taken out so you want to use other troops to avoid this. In this case I'm concerned the wizard tower may take out the healers so I send in some barbarians to distract the wizard tower and hopefully take it out, see below.

Unfortunately, my first wave of barbarians didn't succeed in taking out the archer tower to I kind of panicked and deployed my only dragon, see below. Not sure the was a brilliant idea because archer towers can kill dragons so I'm hoping my dragon will take it out first.

At this point, it's time to send in all you troops to overwhelm the opponent. I sent in a wave of archers. My dragon took some serious damage from the archer tower and the other air defense but at least the dragon is taking out the canon. I may have waited too long for the archers in this attack, fingers crossed.

The last thing you want to send in is your goblins. They don't have a lot of health but they are good at moving fast and getting gold and elixir. So you want to wait for the opponents defenses to be severely weakened. In the screen shot below you can see that they went for elixir collectors at the top of the screen. I wanted them to go for the elixir storage but I didn't punch a hole through the wall so the goblins went for easier targets.

All-in-all this was not a very successful attack but they say you learn as much from failure as from success.

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