Raiding Tips

There are essentially two types of attack in Clash of Clans, if you discount the deliberate trophy loss strategies. The most familiar has already been described, which is where you set out to try to destroy the opponent's Town Hall. The second is called Raiding, or a similar strategy called Farming. In these scenarios, the ultimate goal of any attack is to get resources. Players will specifically target resource Storages, Elixir Collectors and Gold Mines.

They will send cheap, small armies at unprotected resource sites to pillage the Gold and Elixir. The key to this strategy is that the cost of the army attacking, plus the cost of finding the match, must be lower than the amount of resources the person receives from the attack. Many players choose to attack in this way, so it is certainly a viable tactic for building up a great base.

Raiding armies are also far quicker to train, which means you can attack repeatedly in the time it takes to build up a proper, decent-sized army.

TIP: You can work out if a player is likely to have a lot of Elixir or Gold in their Collectors or Mines by the amount in their bank. If they have lots of Elixir but not much Gold, they have probably been online recently and spent all their Gold, but have a stockpile of Elixir waiting for you to raid!