War Recap: Dragonblood vs Antialdea Esp

2/8/2015 War Recap: Dragonblood vs Antialdea Esp

spicy nips was kicked for not using either attack in war.  He came on three hours before war ended and said he needed to talk with a co.  3 cos came on within a couple of minutes (bigdave699, Sky and pounds32) and spicy nips didn't respond or say anything afterwards.

Buzz Tribe, mpcborn23, Meadhbhuel, brixniccolo and Wolf Storm all only used 1 attack.  Mead and mpc both got stars on their first attack.  The others did not.



Soumya (#35 attacking #34 with mass dragons, 100% 3 stars) - 2 air ds, 3 lightnings, nice job Soumya.


Lessons learned:
- Lure & kill cc before dropping all of your giants
- Half air and half ground army rarely works (unless hogs are involved)
- Noah's Ark and armies including Barch are not the strongest


Waldo (#10 attacking #5 with GiWiPe, 37% 0 stars) - Waldo dropped his 15 lvl 6 giants near the cc and didn't lure CC first and didn't heal his giants when wizards came out.  So they all disappeared almost instantly.  So Waldo, I would use that heal spell and/or lure cc first.  You saved your heal and rage spell until almost all of your troops were already gone. Also as Ninja mentioned TH9 attacks really need GoWiPe instead of GiWiPe.

Laser0806 (#25 attacking #33 with Noah's Ark, 47% 1 star) - Laser, as I mentioned giants and drags don't mix for war.  If you're using drags for cleanup there are better troops that clean up much faster.  Also you get hit with a double whammy: all of the ground traps and defenses plus all of the air traps and defenses.  You almost got 2 stars but can easily get 3 stars by just using mass dragons.

King Quentin (#32 attacking #35 with Noah's Ark, 61% 2 stars) - 2 stars is not bad King Q but on the very bottom th7 base we should easily get 3 stars.  Same advice as Laser, just use mass dragons or even loonion or anything besides Noah's ark with Barch.  You can get 3 stars with almost any war army on a th7.

2/7/2015 Kick Report Prior to War

The following people were kicked and all were re-invited back:

AKM - AKM is a new member with a th9.  He has 122 war stars in his profile which is low for how long he's been playing.  Also based on his donations he's not that active in clan even though he was active in raiding.  He needs to share a war attack replay with us prior to warring.

PG-13 - PG-13 is from DB2.  He got 2 stars for clan in last war at DB2 but will not be successful in DB1 wars against th8s.  He's a th8 with th6/7 troops and has 36 wars stars in his profile.

janik - janik is a newer member who is active but only has 6 war stars in his profile.  last war he got 0 stars for the clan.  I spoke to him ahead of time and let him know we would kick and re-invite and he was cool.  he said he'll work on upgrading his troops.

henkelientje - henk is a long-time DB member who rushed his th10 but has slowly been catching up on his troops and defenses.  he has 88 war stars in his profile and still struggles attacking bases around his own level.  so we usually kick and re-invite him for war.

feshkake & InQontrol left and went to db2 before war search began.  thus we were only able to kick 4 people rather than 5 or 6 in order to have a 35 person war.  If we kicked more then 4 additional people would have dropped out who wanted to war.

War Recap: Dragonblood vs. FORASTEIRO$ BR

Hey guys,

Here are the war results from last week.  Cos please re-review so we can determine the war list for the next war.  Also everyone please re-read the war tips posts and if you are new and want to be in war then share a replay of a strong war-like attack so we can decide whether to include you.

War Tips Part 1
War Tips Part 2

Analysis (Why We Lost)

Two wars ago we lost because we could not attack the enemy's top 3 th10 bases and they were able to attack ours and earn 7 extra stars from our top 3 bases.  This war we lost for a few reasons.

1) Less Attacks Used - We used 9 less attacks than enemy and lost by 6 stars.  So everyone needs to use both attacks and go for maximum stars even if this means starting at the bottom and working your way up.  At the end of the war this is the only smart thing to do.  If you know you're not going to be available for war or can't attack or don't feel like attacking or have your heroes or spell factory upgrading etc then just let us know and opt out by leaving and rejoining.

2) Enemy had a better strategy - We did not choose smart targets and build the right armies for those targets.  The enemy had a simple and effective strategy.  They attacked our top 15 bases (th9+) with GoWiPe and the rest of our bases (th8 and below) with mass dragons.  The enemy used a total of 6 different army composition variations to earn their stars.  We used over 10 army compositions including several with giants.  We also did 4 attacks on th9 bases with mass dragons and all of those attacks earned only one star.  The enemy earned 67 stars from mass dragons and we earned only 40.

3) Base designs can improve - Enemy had 5 more 3 stars than us.  If you get 3 starred by an opponent with the same town hall level as you watch the replay and see if and how you can improve your base.  Check out YouTube and Google if you need ideas.

4) War Map Clan Castle donations were not optimal - The enemy had no th10s and we had a th10 in war (Lord GI) with max troops but did not capitalize on that advantage.  We should let our highest players fill the war map first, followed by our lower players.  That's why I always wait to fill the castles.  I want to give LGI a chance to put in his max wizards and archers before I add mine.  We didn't wait and filled the castles with lvl 4+ troops.  Don't worry if the castles aren't filled right away.  They'll get filled.  Be patient.  LGI if you can fill the castles earlier that will help too.

Using 9 less attacks will not get it done.