Ground Attack Links

I've come across some amazing videos recently on various forms of ground attacks, from mass hogs and GoWiVa and GoWiWi to hybrid GoHoWiWi attacks. If you like ground attacks in Clash of Clans, you are going to want to check these out!

• Hog Rider New Attack Strategy- New Hope Episode 3 - Vodka CoC has a really good guide here to "post-update" hogging, in this new world with unlurable heroes and bigger badder giant bombs. He doesn't just take on premie bases in farming raids, he shows a pro CW 3-star attack versus a powerful TH10 base. A key for the two attacks in this video is enemy heroes positioned near the outside of the base. He uses 36 hogs, 5 wiz, 4 witches and some others, with 3 heals, 1 rage and 1 freeze. 
• Hog Rider Attack Strategy for TH9 - Episode 2 combo with witches - Vodka CoC also shares some tips for TH9 hoggers post-update. Overall: lure and kill CC, ideally near AQ and with witches; take out the AQ by whatever means necessary (usually your heroes), send in the hogs in a way that avoids double giant bombs and gets to core, 3 heals with a rage in the core; 36 gos, 3 witches, 3 wiz and assorted. A second nice attack is shown with 34 hogs and 4 witches.
• Have you been crushed by basically giants and wizards in a clan war? Want to know how?
  Vodka CoC is back with a strategy and attack video using giants and wizards to two-star a tough TH10 base in a clan war. It's more of a GiWiWiPe as he adds one pekka and some witches to the 15 giants and 18 wizards. Spells used: 2 rage, 1 heal, 1 jump, 1 freeze.
• The Hulk shows how to beat "The General" TH9 base with Hogs with a nice 3-star clan war attack. A highlight of Hulk's videos is that he explains every aspect of the attack first, then shows the raid. Watching the HulkFiles can really take your game to a higher level. This attack uses 35 hogs, 2 witches, 7 wizards and assorted troops with 4 heals spells.
• Like Hybrid attacks? Like GoWiPe but wish it had more 3-star potential as a TH9 facing a max TH9 with lava walls?! Check out this TH9 vs TH9 GoWiPeLoon 3-star clan war attack. The attacker built a custom army for the base, using 2 golems, 2 pekka, 12 wiz, 6 wb, 5 barbs, a giant and 14 balloons along with a jump, bolt, heal and rage. The balloons were sprinkled in throughout the raid as the closest AD dropped. Though the main force could not escape the lava walled core, the loons took out the defenses and got the full win.
  - the same channel, Clash of Clans 3 Stars Clan Wars, shows some other nice hybrid raids with GoHoWiWi (hog-GoWiWi mix), with both a TH10 GoHoWiWi and TH9 GoHoWiWi. These basically subsitute hogs for witches and pekka, following a typical golem-wiz-wb-royals deploy. Or swap out the third golem for 2 witches. For TH9 the hogs do a lot of working, taking 3 heals and one rage. 
• OneHive Raids has a truly excellent channel for Clash of Clan strategy lovers. One of his favorite attacks is a hybrid of balloons and hogs with witch and wizard support - the HoLoWiWi. It's not for every base, but on certain base types it does a great job at getting three stars. He has a video showing How to Use HoLoWiWi.
• Cold Blooded GoHo! The Hulk shows a TH9 ripping apart a TH9 with hogs. Coming with the hogs is an attack force designed to kill the AQ and get to the giant bomb area - that queen killer is the "Cold Blood" squad. Lure the CC first, pull to corner you will deploy the Cold Blood squad. Kill CC and golem/witch/royals move in. When bomb dismantled the hogs roll, and roll, and crush. Composition: 32 hogs, 2 witches and 8 wiz 4 barbs, Golem in CC, 3 heals and a jump to get to the buried queen and core bomb.
• Check out this TH9 vs TH9 GoWiPeLoon 3-star clan war attack. The attacker built a custom army for the base, using 2 golems, 2 pekka, 12 wiz, 6 wb, 5 barbs, a giant and 14 balloons along with a jump, bolt, heal and rage. The balloons were sprinkled in throughout the raid as the closest AD dropped. Though the main force could not escape the lava walled core, the loons took out the defenses and got the full win.
  - the same channel, Clash of Clans 3 Stars Clan Wars, shows some other nice hybrid raids with GoHoWiWi (hog-GoWiWi mix), with both a TH10 GoHoWiWi and TH9 GoHoWiWi. These basically subsitute hogs for witches and pekka, following a typical golem-wiz-wb-royals deploy. Or swap out the third golem for 2 witches. For TH9 the hogs do a lot of working, taking 3 heals and one rage. 

Some Clan War summary videos with Amazing Attacks

• CoC Clan War E05: InTheDark vs Schlaflos: these guys are incredibly good. ClashWithEd narrates five attacks from this war.
  - First attack (2:10-3:40): A solid GoWiWiPe for 2 stars on a max TH10
  - Second attack (4:00-6:22): An incredible duolavaloonion hybrid 3* with golem and some hogs :)
  - Third attack (6:45-9:05) Duo-Lavaloonion 2* with golem-pekka-hero opener
  - Fourth attack (9:58-12:46) Another great duo-lavaloonion 3* with golem-hero open
  - Fifth attack (13:20-16:10) Duo-lavaloonion with heroes leading the way... another three star!
• Jake from OneHive Raids gives a recap of war #102 showing four great attacks.
  - First attack (1:00-2:50) GoWiVa plus some hogs, 3 heals and 1 rage, a TH9 on TH9 3-star
  - Second attack (3:00-4:50) An old-fashioned hogging with a twist, loon for CC lure/kill, heroes with witches to take out their heroes, then the hogs are let loose.
  - Third attack (5:11-7:45) GoWiWiPe very close to 3-star, TH10 on TH10.
  - Fourth attack (7:53-10:13) Trilavaloonion crushes a lava-walled max TH9 by a TH9. One hound and a few loons take out one AD and lure CC. Kill with splat. Then his own CC golem and royals followed up by taking out another AD. 
• OneHive Raid recap of war #103 has some equally spectacular attacks. Two I want to highlight
  - TH9 on TH9 3* Lavaloonion (3:35-6:15) Hound with four loons and rage to kill one AD and lure out. Corner CC and splat kill. Royals deployed near edge for AQ+AD and take both out. The two remaining hounds and just 12 balloons and remaining 9 minions and 3 rage crush the base.
  - TH9 vs TH9 (6:28-) creative 3* of a base with 3 super central AD and big anti-hog ring. Army comp: 30 loons, 2 witches, 10 wiz, 6 barb, CC golem and heal, 2 rage, jump. He uses all the baloons to destroy the outer defense ring and lure (one rage used). Cornered them, deployed witches to kill, the golem released with wiz and soon heroes as normal. Basically the only defenses left are in the core. Jump, rage and heal get it done. Boom, it's wrecked. Similar to ao HoLoWiWi but way more balloons left and less units in phase two.   

Got any other favorite ground strategies or videos for clan wars?

Air Attack Links

I've come across some amazing videos recently on various forms of air attacks, from mass dragons and dragon-balloons (dragoon) to Lava Hound - Balloon - Minion. If you're an air attack fan in Clash of Clans, you really need to check these out!

• How to Dragloon at TH8 - Part ONE and Part TWO
  Incredibly helpful videos by OneHive Raids specifically looking at TH8 vs TH8 air attacks with dragons and a few balloons. The first part covers centrally clustered Air Defenses; part two looks at more spread out AD's. OneHive has other excellent videos for strategy lovers, uch as this base attack breakdown. 
• JTJ University Clan War Tactics - wiping out TH8 with 105 Dragoon and 813 Dragoon
  This series also considers the difference between clustered and spread out air defenses. The 105 Dragoon uses 10 Dragons and 5 Balloons in the Clan castle with clustered AD best faced with heals and rage spells while the 813 uses 8 Dragons and 13 total balloons with a triple lightning bolt. Almost any TH8 can be three-starred with one of these two raid styles.
  --> he added two extra videos to round out the type of bases covered:
  11 Light Dragon Attack (all dragons, using lightning to knock out a far away AD)
  Dragon Snipe Attack (using hogs to knock out external AD's)
• Quatrolavaloonion! Galadon's epic "Lethal Attack Combo" video using four lava hounds to wreak havoc on enemy bases. This is a very powerful and novel attack, you really have to see it to believe it!
• More Lava Hound attacks focusing on the use of multiple hounds (PolyPuppy as I call them) have also been posted. Some especially good ones by: Galadon on TH9 Quatrolavaloonion; Clash with Ash on using Lava Hounds in Champion League to 2-star and more gameplay vs max base; top clash air attack master Ed on using Lavaloonion to 2-star; even Godson is starting to like them as he shows a great 3-star attack. Here is andreinen's sick 100% vs a max TH10 using 2 LH 20 Loons 40 Minions and very well timed spells.
• Super Dragoon explained by Galadon, both for TH10 and for TH8-9. In SuperDragoon (or Dragloonion as I would call it) the idea presented here is to use a raged tactical squad of balloons to take out one external AD and triple lightning bolt another AD. Send a line or V-formation of balloons, and use two dragons on each side to clip off distractions and create a funnel. Release the killer force of four balloons once the funnel is established. Army composition at TH10: about 8 (or 9) dragons with 14 (or 10) balloons and some barbs-archers and 5 more balloons. The last rage is saved until the main force is upon the TH. The first tactical squad of balloons also activates the clan castle. Use the barbs-archers to position troops over the air defense you want to bolt. :)
• HoLoWiWi - Using Loons as a supplement to a GoWiWi ground attack. There are many variants to the GoWiWi. In the GoHoWiWi 8-20 Hogs are used after Golem and heroes and witch clear one side of path and distract or kill royals (Hogs are not dead after the update, you just need to modify your approach!). The HoLoWiWi is a custom attack good versus certain kinds of bases only: the super spread out one with a large defense ring and inner AD. Loons are used to knock out all or most of the outer ring and hogs wreck the core and rest of the base. Heroes with witch and wizard is used to kill the CC which must be lured. TheHulkFiles goes into a lot more detail with HoLoWiWi, considering variants with 10 or less balloons (the Needle) and >11 (the Swarm HoLo). 

December 2014 - More Air Attacks

• Lava Hound are the hot item right now! Some of my favorite recent videos include:
  - Vodka CoC's TH10 3-star Lavaloonions showing two great attacks. First used 4 LH 24 Loons 12 Mins 5 Barb 3 WB and standard 3 rage 2 freeze, clip-lure-AQ-AD-main attack; second attack had AQ deeper so he swapped out a hound for a golem.
  - Vodka CoC's TH10 3-star with Quattro-Lavaloonions showing how four hounds can work well. He uses one a bomb-killer/CC lure. two great attacks. Total of 19 loons, 27 minions, and some great spell timing and placement.
  - Vodka CoC again? Yup. Two more super Lavaloonion attacks in his Lava Hound strategy guide episode 7. I had to chuckle at his subtitle that this guide was for non-max heroes. I'm thinking lvl 15... no, he means BK is "only" lvl 30! :) The first attack takes advantage of two AD fairly near each other. He uses a hog lure, CC, kill then heroes after golem to knock out those two AD, using a jump spell to negate those blue walls. Three hounds and 21 loons (14 in camp, 7 in CC) and 10 minions wail on the other two AD and the rest of the base. The second attack is different from what you normally see. Zero minions! 33 loons and three hounds, with 2 rage and 2 freeze, plus a lightning bolt for CC since minions wouldn't be killing them. The attack began with a heroes-based AQ kill and CC lure.
  - How to Lavaloonion Like a Pro - Guide from the UN Family has some great information. Army combo's; what bases to attack; the steps in an attack; and common mistakes. One popular army when going for three stars is 3 hounds, 23 balloons, 13 minions, 3 wb, 3 archers (and commonly 7 more loons in your CC).
• Toucharcade1 had its first Lavaloonion CW 3-star. Bax narrates this quattrolavaloonion attack by TH9 boyzpod vs a TH9. 
• Chief Pat at PlayClash of Clans has a decent Lavaloonion strategy guide. His composition is fixed at 2 hounds, 20 balloons, 30 minions, one dragon, with more of whatever in the CC.
• Clash of Clans 3Star Clan Wars brings a powerful duo-hog lavaloonion 3* vs a tough TH10. (Xbows were all down). Two AD near TH, two up north. The raid starts atypically, with king and queen released up top, before a full air deploy south. 28 balloons, 2 hounds (including one in CC) and 31 minions roll very quickly. As the AD were deeper, he holds just a few seconds on the hounds (best practice when deep). He knew CC was a lot of archers and such so he brought a lightning along with two rage and two freeze. You can tell the attacker studied the pathing of the balloons, as the rage were perfectly placed. The freezes went up simultaneously left and right on the IT and teslas, allowing the loons to get ahead of the minions and take them out. The heroes up top had cleared buildings and were just starting to come inside at this point. They took out the two top AD just in time as the remaining air troops were mopping up. 3*.
•  What's that? You want to see some high level raids, none of this polylava stuff?
• Galadon is not scared to admit defeat, and in his new video, Extreme Clan War Domination, Lost Phoneix just got owned by 300! War. (No shame there!) There were seven 3-stars on top TH10 bases, and he showed three of them. First was a cool quatrolavaloonion wrecking the base in 1:15. The second was a GoWiPe where everything just went right, starting with a super wide three-golem spread. Third was a mass hog rider raid, with golem-led royals 
• ClashWithEd brings us a video with 3 high level TH10 2-stars with balloonion. First attack is 27 balloons with 45 minions (one hound) with 4 rage and a freeze. Second and third attacks use the same composition. He leads off with a CC hound and balloon to lure CC and take out one AD. He uses a rage and about 9 balloons with that to take out a whole quadrant. A prelaged tactical balloon squad takes out the adjacent quadrant. Some minions clean up free buildings to get percentage close to 50%. He very cleverly uses barbs to pull away the BK to kill him with minions. By the time all that is done, he's already over 50% :) Hero time, with some beefy heroes, take down the TH with no worries. Those of us with mortal heroes won't take out fully max TH's with this, but we can hit non-max ones for two-stars pretty nicely! :)

Got any other favorite air strategies or videos for clan wars?

Hogs Ride Again

I ran across a great strategy guide for Hog Riders in this brave new world of unlurable heroes and bigger giant bombs, by Noel. In the guide he covers general principles, then walks you through key tips for several different specific cases. The example videos are all from Clan Wars, so no preemie bases with empty clan castles! Specifically Noel covers:

• Hogging a TH9 with Anti-hog base
• Hogging a TH10 for 3-Stars with a Single Mode Inferno and central heroes
• Hogging the popular TH10 box base
• A TH9 clan-mate 3-stars a Deep Lure TH9 with anti-hog ring
• Hogging a TH10 for 3* with Multi-mode (disco) infernoes
• Hogging for 3* a TH10 with Multi-infernoes and anti-hog ring (sheesh!!)
• Hogging a TH10 with one single tgt and one multi tgt inferno for 3*
• Hogging a TH10 for 3-stars (Using golem to take out AQ)

Below is the TH10 disco base, but check out the entire forum guide which has all these videos embedded.

Dragaloonion example - TH8 three-stars TH8

In clan wars it is essential for TH8 bases to be able to 2- and 3-star other TH8 bases reliably. Balloonions (balloons and minions) are very good at this. In many cases adding one or dragons to the mix can help -- the Dragaloonion attack. TA1's ltbaxter provides narrated commentary on a sample TH8 three star with a one-dragon Dragaloonion. This is from visiting a clan war by CBC Ballas. Watch this blog for more Dragaloonion attacks and even a Dragaloonion guide :)

Clan War 2014-08-02

While Toucharcade1 did not win this class war, we had some really excellent attacks. The ones below were particularly good, and represent our troops from TH8 through TH10. Hats off to our foes with strong TH9 bases and a lot of skill getting two-stars.

Step Up vs 33 (GoWiPe)

GoWiPe isn't just for the big boys! Nice first GoWiPe attack by our lowest TH8 with his new lvl 2 pekka - 91% vs a near max TH8. BK was asleep upgrading. A lvl 5 pekka in your CC doesn't hurt.
2 Gol 3 Pekka 12 wiz 16 wb 10 barbs; 2 Rage 1 Heal.

Malakai vs 28 (GoWiPe)

GoWiPe vs TH9 for the three-star. Wide and rapid deployment of golems/wiz/pekka allowed three death squads to sweep the base, lef by a Lvl 5 pekka in the CC 

2 Gol 4 Pekka 14 Wiz 6 wb 2 Gia 5 min 1 arc 1 gob; 4 rage

Helbaga vs 27 (GoWiWiPe)

GoWiWiPe vs TH9 three star. Late wizard deployment and crazy BK AI were salvaged by great use of spells and a tactical hog rider squad. Four witches, surviving golemites and AQ wiped out the base!

2 Gol 4 Witches 1 Pekka 13 wiz 5 wb 25 arc 6 hogs; 2 rage 2 heal

Meowr Jr vs 20 (Balloonion)

Methodical dissection of a spread out TH9 for two-stars with Balloonion. Balloon sweep lured CC and opened path to core. Textbook balloon splat killed entire CC. Final squad of raged balloons with minions took out central AD and town hall.

Meowr Jr vs 19 (Dragaloonion)

Another nice 2-star vs TH9 with central AD, this time using a combination of Dragons, Balloons and Minions - Dragaloonion!

Balloons knock out defenses and lure CC. Minions "clip" buildings on the side that would distract dragons. Once path is clear and leads to TH the dragons are released and raged near TH. Nearby AQ pulls them all together right on top of TH, ftw!

6 Drag 18 Bal 20 Min; 3 rage 1 heal

Lolipopz vs 12 (Dragoon)

Mass "Dragoon" done right! (Vs TH9) To counteract dragon's love to spread out, attacker used a few dragons to clip the edges, balloons to kill two AD and other defenses, then a squad of four dragons to fully cleat. only when path to TH was certain were the last four drags released together and raged on top of AQ and TH. Outcome was never in doubt!

8 Dragons with 22 Balloons; 4 rage and 1 heal

Boyzpod vs 10 (GoVaWiPe)

A crushing 92% 2-star vs a near max TH9 by a TH9 GoVaWiPe. After a wide deploy/clear the Valkyries went into hyperdrive rushing into core to take out CC troops. Well timed jump and rage caught a large force that shredded the TH and core. 

2 Gol 3 Pekka 4 Valk 16 Wiz 6 wb 6 barb 1 arc

LTBaxter vs 7 (GoWiPe)

Our only 2-star of a TH10, despite a missing AQ. This was a close call, with the jump and freeze missing. Well timed iron fist summoned barbarians to distract IT from wizards. Two pekka to core and two circling worked great to get the 50%.

2 Gol 4 Pekka 22 Wiz 9 wb 7 barb 2 arc; 2 Freeze 2 Rage 1 Jump. 

Clan War vs brgy.TIBAY Dos

Meowr has posted our first round of Clash of Clan attacks from our July 2014 Clan War vs brgy.TIBAY dos. You can subscribe to our YouTube video channel to see all the raid highlights from wars.

• cwm - dragaloonion attack - solid two star vs exposed AD
• morijikun - 2-star Balloonion attack vs TH9 - great technique
• Meowr Jr shows us an excellent Dragaloonion attack vs TH9 with exposed AD
• ben nails the GoWiPe vs a TH10
• Perfect Trumpet, our fearless leader, learns the GoWiPe strategy and does well with a deuce!