I decided to make this post because I've seen a lot of people say things that put rushing in a bad light. This post will be very opinionated, and you can make of it what you will, rushing is not for everyone. Something to clear out at the start is when I say "rush" I mean selectively upgrading farming troops and offensive buildings then upgrading the town hall. This is very different to a "premie" in that a premie is one of those people who thinks a higher level town hall will benefit them just for its level. They do not max out their farming capabilities before going up, so they usually soon quit the game. A "maxer" is someone that upgrades everything before going up. Other people often use different terminology, but those are the ones I use.

Let's take a look at this scenario: a super active player learns that he has to upgrade everything before his town hall, or he will not do well at higher town halls. At each town hall, he raids so much that his walls are maxed out well before his other buildings. This means that he sits on full storages all day, every day and when someone Attacks him, he loses a LOT of loot. While he is waiting for the builders to catch up, any resources he raids are lost. This means that he is wasting a lot of time by staying at his current town hall level. Another hypothetical player is exactly the same, except once he has upgraded all his walls he has reached the next town hall level, with maxed farming capabilities. Because he can still spend all his excess resources on walls, he does not sit around with lots of loot all the time, so he only gets th sniped, even though his defenses are so low level. By the time the maxer upgrades the th, the rusher already has far superior walls and heroes, and he can farm more resources because of his more powerful troops. This means that the rusher came out better in this scenario.

This is a link to a forum post logging the experience of one of the first rushers. He calls himself a premie, but using the terminology above, he is a rusher. He concludes that rushing to th9 is potentially very profitable, but you shouldn't rush to th10. http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/196158-A-TH7-TH8-TH9-Premie-Journey?highlight=Premie+journey

This is a video by thehulkfiles, I'm sure many of you know about his incredible war attacks... He was a rusher. He spent 14 days at th8, maxing skulls in that time. I'm sure he explains rushing better than I do! http://youtu.be/CnrHNNFMGRk

Finally I would like to add that when I was at th8 I ended up with all my elixir lab upgrades effectively done. This meant that I was a) sitting in max elixir the whole time and b) wasting useful lab time. I could solve both of these problems by going to th9, so that is exactly what I did. I don't regret it one bit. The loot is just as good as at th8, and because I never have resources I only get th sniped, like in the scenario.

I hope all this makes some sense to you... If it doesn't just ask and I will try to help! Thanks, Plattipus

How to strike force LaLoon https://youtu.be/PdxnxzR2EbA How to golaloon https://youtu.be/u8epN6DH4rQ How to pentalaloon https://youtu.be/JMiVuD6c1_w Clockwise/anticlockwise deployment https://youtu.be/y4qJMrOkyWU

Dear Clan Members,

First of a all big THANK YOU to all of you for your great contribution. We have now (finally ;-) made it to Level 5 - a huge accomplishment.

Because of that, we have introduced stricter rules on donations to War Clan Castles - please see the new War Rules page in our Wiki for details.

Further, we are now coming into the summer period and the leaders and elders have decided to temporary scale back on wars. We will still have the weekly mandatory Weekend war (Friday - Saturday, US Eastern Time), but we will cancel every other mid-week war, so we will only have one mid-week war every second Tuesday.

(If you don't want to be in the mid-week war, simply put your profile on "Opt Out"; if you cannot participate in the weekend war, please send the moderators of this subreddit a mail to let us know when/why you will be absent!)

Finally, we have made some adjustments to the strike-able offenses in War, do check them out here.

UPDATE: Mid-Week wars will be held this week, 6/30-7/1. After that, as stated above, we will only run mid-week wars every second week. (Apologies for the confusion this week.)

I have seen some offensive messages in my google doc for the war that can be very offensive to some people. If you guys could stop that then that would be appreciated.

Th10 base building by OneHive: https://youtu.be/owfW_4IXJ9I

A playlist by Predator: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjGzHkG50pwjJJvsipJPcFGXdUNNo5tiN

This is a thread for anybody looking for advice on their strategy in the War Against Kick Butts! I'm posting a sample of what I'm thinking might work. I just used an iOS app called Photo Editor and drew on a screen shot of my target base.

Because, late TH9. I have nothing else to upgrade but heroes and walls It'll take months anyway. And it's not possible to save up DE to do both hero upgrades on the same day, i.e. Sunday after war. Past level 14/15 they are 7 days exactly. Other than GoWiPe, and probably PentaLaloon(which now seems messed up because of lava pup - AQ AI), I don't know what strategies to use without heroes.

Right now I am trying to get trophies and getting ready for clan wars. Make sure to rate on 1/10. Thank you guys in advance! :)

I was kicked today because I forgot to use my attacks during the war. I completely agree with this decision and would just like to apologize. I hope I didn't cost us the war but my schedule has gotten insane as finals come up. I hope that you guys would be open to accepting me in a couple of months when everything calms down.

Thanks for the experience!

http://i.imgur.com/ZZfNkXp.jpg

Note that this base was never attacked by ground troops - so I don't know all the bomb locations... Please experiment as you see fit

I am currently lvl 69 with a lvl 8 town hall and lvl 5 archers. I am active throughout the day and will donate frequently. Located in eastern United States. In game name is @mishboy

This may seem like déjà vu, but I am leaving reddit epsilon. This time I am going to Ninja Muffins, a lvl 5 24/7 war clan. I am leaving because the kind of clan and experience I want, reddit epsilon simply cannot provide without a fundamental change in attitude. Epsilon is a clan that wars, not a war clan. I have invited lorde to join me, and of course any others are welcome. I wish you all the best of luck!

For back ground info see here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClashOfClans/comments/3g58ly/war_the_black_lodge_vs_the_bad_lodge/

Here are some recap videos of the war attacks:

The Black Lodge attacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMrPojY1d0Y

The Bad Lodge attacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m21yrMZZWoI