How to plan a war attack in Clash of Clans
By ClashBuilder Team · Updated
A good war attack is decided before the first troop drops. Scout the base, pick where you enter, plan how you will open a path to the core, decide when every spell goes down, and leave time to clean up. Drawing each of those on the base is the quickest way to spot the step you have not thought through.
A good war plan answers six questions
- Where do you enter the base?
- What does the funnel clear, and on which side?
- Where do the heroes go, and when do they use their abilities?
- Which defenses get Freeze or Invisibility?
- When do Rage and Healing follow the push?
- What is left for the cleanup, and how much time will it need?
1. Scout the base
Find the Town Hall, the Eagle Artillery, the Scattershots, the Inferno Towers and the Clan Castle, and note which defenses cover each other. Look for the gap in the walls you can use, and where traps are most likely: open tiles between defenses and the paths into the core.
2. Pick the entry point
Enter where the base is weakest, or where taking a few defenses early makes the rest easier. Mark it with a Target, and draw an Arrow for the direction you want your main troops to travel.
3. Build the funnel
A funnel clears the buildings on both sides of your entry so troops walk into the base instead of around it. Put the funnel troops in step one and draw where each side should go.
4. Plan the main push
Place the main troops, the siege machine and your heroes in the next step. Note who goes first, and where your heroes should be when they use their abilities.
5. Time your spells
Draw each spell circle where it should land and number it with the step it belongs to. Healing and Rage follow the push; Freeze and Invisibility are for the defenses that would stop it.
6. Clean up
The last step covers the buildings at the edges the main push will miss. Leave a few troops for them so the clock does not take the third star.
Bring the right army
Build the army in the Army Builder, or start from one other players have shared for Town Hall 18 and Town Hall 17, then plan it here on the base you are attacking.