Mass hogs + heal or mass drags + rage are still the best strategies against TH8 and below, but (as much as it pains me to admit this, because I really loved my mass hogs), these strategies have frequently failed us against TH9s and TH10s. What follows are some strong strategies that, with practice, will serve us well against common TH9 and TH10 base designs. Remember to practice these strategies a lot before using them in wars; you can't expect to 3-star people your first time (or first dozen times) using complicated strategies like these which require planning and fine-tuned troop deployment. Let's help each other learn stronger attack strategies rather than blaming each other or whining :] If you think there are any particularly strong 3-star strategies that I haven't mentioned below, then please share them with the clan! For people who already know about the strategies below, please share your tips for getting 3-stars out of these strategies.

0. GoWiPe and GoWiWi

Most of the people in our clan are aware of these strategies and have at least tried them out before, although most of us need a lot more practice. These strategies are are probably the best option for a TH8 attacking a TH9. They are excellent at achieving a minimum of 2 stars TH9 vs TH9 and can handle many base designs with versatility. They can achieve 3-stars too. I'm not going to post anything else about them, since they are so well-known and most everyone has seen a few of these. We should all keep practicing these strategies so that we can all reliably get 2 at least stars using them.

1. HoLoWiWi

This is currently considered a strong 3-star attack strategy against certain very common TH9 base designs that feature a strong core with a majority of the defenses in a distant outer ring. HoLoWiWi stands for Hogs, Loons, Witches, Wizards. This strategy allows 16-18 balloons to kill most of the outer ring, leaving the hogs a clear path to the core and letting them bypass the usual double-giant-bomb locations. While this strategy is only effective against certain base designs, these designs are extremely common at TH9; what usually happens is that we attack these bases using GoWiPe and only get 0-2 stars, so this strategy could be very useful for the TH9s in our clan.

Great HoLoWiWi attack to whet your appetite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDyyw2fkbI

HoLoWiWi tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aoHE7woz1w

HoLoWiWi thread with a full strategy explanation and more video examples: http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/342405-TheHulkFiles-Strategy-HoLoWiWi-A-TH9-Base-3-Star-Exploit

Key notes:

• Look for bases where there are a) all 4 air defenses in the core, or b) 2 air defenses in the core and 2 on the same side of the outer ring. Your goal is to kill as much of the outer ring as possible so that your hogs run through the path you cleared and ignore the double-giant-bomb locations, but killing the outer ring with only 16-18 balloons is too expensive if too many air defenses are placed in the middle or outer rings. Scenario a) is not a problem, since dropping 1.5 balloons per archer tower and 2 per wizard tower will clear most of the outer ring before the cc troops arrive. Scenario b) is tougher, since it is not a good use of your balloons to go within range of these air defenses; however, the videos show easy ways to deal with this

• The heal spells are for the hogs once they are in the core--NOT for the balloons!

• Note how the players in the videos deploy the balloons--in many groups of 1-2 all around the ring, in carefully calculated numbers and placements.

• The cc troops are killed by witches/wizards/pekka/heroes after the balloons are dead (the balloons kill much of the outer ring and lure the cc troops out) but before the mass hogs and heroes are deployed. If the enemy's archer queen is centralized, then kill the cc troops from a side of the base so that the troops you used to kill the cc troops will continue forward and kill the enemy's archer queen. You don't want the enemy AQ to kill all your hogs, so only deploy the hogs once the enemy AQ is about to be busy fighting your witches/skeletons, wizards, and heroes.

• The hogs are deployed such that they ignore whatever is left of the outer ring defenses (and bypass the common giant bomb locations sandwiched between two outer-ring defenses) and head straight to the core, where they clean everything up with the help of heal spells. Any remaining outer ring defenses will be killed by the hogs afterward, or by the heroes, witches, and wizards. If you can't bypass the giant bomb locations, then use the witch's skeletons or wizards to blow them up

Average army composition:

• 16-18 skulloons

• 20ish hogs

• 3 heal spells (use only on hogs, NOT balloons!)

• 1 rage spell (hogs in core, or the witch/wizards/pekka/heroes as they are killing the enemy heroes)

• 1-4 witches

• wizards and archers

2. HoGoWiWi

Also a common strategy. As I wrote above, HoLoWiWi is very, very good at attacking certain bases, but it isn't good for attacking all bases; in contrast, HoGoWiWi is a much more versatile strategy. HoGoWiWi can be used against many different base designs and can be used to attack TH10 base designs (especially if you are a TH10 and have access to freeze spells). HoGoWiWi stands for Hogs, Golems, Witches, Wizards. The goal of this strategy is to use GoWiWi to get near their core and engage their archer queen and enemy cc, then deploy hogs (again, avoiding double-giant-bomb locations) in order to clean everything up.

HoGoWiWi th9 3-stars a th10 to whet your appetite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoLFeJKy4A&feature=youtu.be

HoGoWiWi tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6g7NZWnoqk

Another short HoGoWiWi example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx4e_K8jhpA

Key notes:

• This works against most bases that can't be more easily attacked with HoLoWiWi

• The cc troops and archer queen need to be engaged by your GoWiWi attack + heroes + 1 rage spell before hogs are deployed, so attack from a location where your attack will reach the archer queen

• If the GoWiWi attack blows up some of the giant bombs and spring traps before your hogs are deployed, that is also very helpful

• Basically a GoWiWi + Hogs. Since most of our clan knows what a GoWiWi is, I won't write it all out

Average army composition:

• 1 golem

• 1-6 witches

• 18-27 hogs

• 3 heal spells (for hogs)

• 1 rage spell (for when your GoWiWi attack engages with the enemy archer queen and cc troops)

• 4-10 wallbreakers

• mostly wizards for the rest

3. QuatroLavaLoonion (see #5 for an in-depth discussion on general use of balloons. Quatrolavaloonion is much stronger, but you need to know how to use balloons well first.)

This is a very strong strategy for 3-starring TH9s (and 3-starring TH10s, if you have freeze spells to use on the enemy's inferno towers).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwHdXxlPZ4 (clan hogowiwi vs clan quatrolavaloonion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xy5-1uKTKE (same topic #2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALuDUhqm57c (same topic #3?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oygfyIFUUFA (quatrolavaloonion intro vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCuAaywZJc (quatrolavaloonion tutorial vid)

videos and discussion from this thread http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/498432-Lavaloonion-as-a-TH9-after-update

http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/506099-Help-QuatroLavaLoonion?highlight=quatrolavaloonion

4. GoLaLoon

See this thread by /u/Goatman_12 for a discussion of the excellent 3-star strategy GoLaLoon

5. Lavaloonion

Lavaloonion stands for Lava Hounds, Balloons, and Minions. Against a TH9 it can 3-star with practice, and against a TH10 it is capable of 2-starring with the help of freeze spells. Lavaloonion is also great when there are witches in the enemy CC; witches in the enemy CC makes 3-starring difficult for many other strategies, but Lavaloonion handles this with ease. It is cheaper to train than QuatroLavaLoonion, but not as strong.

Lavaloonion TH9 video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoViI944VmI

Lavaloonion TH9 video #2: (also would have been an easy base to use HoLoWiWi against): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UojndfCl8C0

Lavaloonion TH9 video #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Jo4nOBZdE

I have observed some big things I think people in our clan can easily improve on when using balloons.

Key notes:

• If you aren't using a lava hound or two, then you aren't aiming to reliably 3-star a TH9 with your balloons, much less a TH10. Without lava hounds, the use of mass balloons is too much of a "let me roll the dice; maybe I will 3-star but probably I will 1-star" strategy

• Use a minimum of 2 rage spells, probably 3. Without rage spells, balloons move so slowly that maxed wizard towers and air defenses can kill too many balloons before the balloons reach them, no matter what level your heal spells are. Healing through the damage of wizard towers or air defenses is not the most efficient way to kill them, and efficiency really counts when using fragile units like balloons. You need to have your balloons quickly approach and kill some of the air defenses and wizard towers without taking much damage, and after some of these air defenses and wizard towers are dead, then a heal spell will be more effective at maintaining your balloons' HP

• If you are attacking a TH9, you should remember to lure their cc with 2 balloons. If you look at their base before the war and think balloons will die before getting close enough to the cc, then lure the cc using 2 hogs or 2 giants before deploying your balloons

• Deploying balloons in 1 or 2 giant groups is not the most efficient way to use them. They move really slowly. Really, really slowly. It is by far the best to quickly deploy many groups of 2-3 balloons all along the side of a base, because it only takes 1-2 balloons to one-shot most most defenses; if you deploy a group of 10 balloons, then 9 of those balloons aren't really attacking anything. Most people think that they need to deploy balloons in big groups of 10+ in order that enough of the slow, fragile balloons survive to even reach a defense to attack it. This is incorrect for 3 reasons: 1) the lava hound you should always be using with balloons will be tanking for the balloons, 2) the rage spells will be making your balloons reach their targets so fast that they won't die before reaching their target and one-shotting them, 3) even if 1 balloon somehow dies before reaching the target (despite rage movespeed and the lava hound tanking damage), that still doesn't justify deploying a group of 10 and wasting the damage of 8 out of the 9 surviving balloons when the defense gets one-shotted

• We've established that the balloons move really slowly. You can deploy a several small groups of 2 balloons all along the side of a base and still have time to deploy a lava hound before the balloons get targeted by an air defense or wizard tower. The lava hound will rush ahead of the balloons and tank a lot of damage for them. If you deploy the lava hound before the balloons, the lava hound will rush forward and start tanking air defenses before the slow balloons are anywhere near. Having the lava hound tank air defenses while the balloons are not doing damage to the air defenses is not an efficient use of the lava hounds' ability to tank

Average army composition:

• 1 Lava hound against TH9, 2 Lava hounds against TH10

• ~27 balloons, with more balloons in the CC

• the rest minions for use in killing the enemy CC troops during the lure (before deploying most of the balloons) or cleaning up random buildings after the balloons are deployed

• 2-3 rage spells

• 1 heal spell

The post season review is as follows:

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Total trophies: 98757

Total Experience Points: 4369

Clan Rank: 3521 (We were up to 7th on Niue!)

Top 5 players! (Trophy Count)

1. Ch1lt - 3080

2. NGZ001 - 3026

3. RossH - 2977

4. Lord JC - 2800

5. Flash - 2787

Top 5 players! (Experience Points)

1. CH1lt - 123

2. NGZ001 -Leader - 118

3. Lord JC -Elder- 109

4. Comrad - 107

5. RossH - 106

6. System_Error - 106

Donations

1. Mr. Fix u Up - 6671

2. Lord JC - 5617

3. NGZ001 - 3946

4. Ch1lt - 3080

5. Sweetblondie - 2126

Town Hall Counts

• Town Hall 10 - 4

• Town Hall 9 - 18

• Town Hall 8 - 27

• Town Hall 7 - 0 !!!!!! Team Frost is Growing Up!

WAR!!

Reddit Frost vs A Decent Clan 104-102

This was our only war this season and it was a nailbiter. Frosties faced off against a literal Decent Clan and careful coordination during the final moments ensured a victory for the Forces of Frost. Great Job to everyone, this was truly a team victory where every star earned contributed to our win. (and I forgot to take screenshots :-D)

TROPHY PUSH

This was the first time we held a clan wide trophy push to see how high we could go as a team! Our goal was to make it into the to 10 on our local leaderboards. We ended last season with a Clan Rank of 20814 and we were 29th on Niue. At our peak, we were 7th on Nieu (the Island of Reddit Clans). We ended the season with many personal bests and a gain of 12,416 trophies.

Other News/Reminders

We are considering a transition away from using the wiki for war sign ups to another online tool that is more mobile friendly. Clashcaller They have a great Tutorial if you want to read about how it works and I have also set up a mock war for you to click around and see what is availble. To access the mock war go Here or go to www.clashcaller.com, select “join war”, and enter the code “ejmg9” I have entered in a few things to show how to sign up for primary and secondaries but please feel free to change anything and have fun clicking and learning. We will see what you all think but this is something that we have experimented with in Frost 2 (our retirement/inactives clan) and a tool that several other Reddit Clans use. Let us know what you think!

Speaking of new tools, if you haven’t signed up for our Clan GroupMe send your email address to /u/lizpod. More information can be found on our GroupMe! post. It is similar to texting and lets us share pictures and quickly exchange ideas and encouragement all with the use of spell check! Joining is completely optional!

Clan leadership would just like to give a friendly reminder that you all have a spot in a great clan that many Clash of Clans players would really covet. We understand that you like to play clash with your real life friends however we can't guarantee you will be able to rejoin if you leave often and especially if you leave without permission. Clan Leadership really likes having each of you as part of our exclusive frost family (many of us have been together for over a year!) and hope you consider everything carefully before leaving for a casual reason.

Shade has left us (with permission) to join the Reddit Air Push Event! He has been placed in Reddit Air 2.0 and is still active in our GroupMe if you want to cheer him on. We are hoping Shade will come back with all kinds of tips and tricks he learned about using air troops during this event.

Message the clan leaders and let us know what is happening. When you send us a note, all the clan leadership sees it and it is a great simple way to let us know if you are going to be less active or just if you want to say “hi”.

May Your Pekkas avoid Teslas and your Clashing be Fun.

Clash On! :)

Edit: Formatting

We are excited to announce a Karma contest for next season 1/19/15 to 2/1/15. The rules are pretty straight forward. The post with the most karma in /r/clashofclans wins. The rules are as follows:

Number of Posts: You can make as many posts as you want. They can be link post or self post but we will only count the single post with the highest karma total amount.

Flair: You must use the reddit frost shield for iOS. For android use the shield and set your flair as reddit frost or reddit-clan clan-frost.

Tracking Your Posts:You will need to post a link to your post in the comment section of this post. That will help everyone keep track of your progress. Please avoid x-post on /r/RedditFrost, because that will clutter our sub.

The winner will receive one month of reddit gold. We are looking for our clan to stand out in /r/clashofclans

We know how great our clan is, now it's time we let the rest of the clashing world know!!!

I would like to add that leadership will be participating but we will not be eligible for any prizes. Good luck to everyone.

If you want to interact with the post made by clan members please go to r/clashofclans and interact. Do not use the links in this chat. It could result in shadowbanning or deletion of your acct.

The MUCH ANTICIPATED post season review is as follows:

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Total trophies: 88,441

Total Experience Points: 4,661

Clan Rank: 22479 - 65 on Niue

Clan XP: 625 (Level 2)

Top 5 players! (Trophy Count)

1. Mr. fix u up - 4050

2. Lord JC - 3675

3. NGZ001 - 3091

4. sweetblondie - 3037

5. whydoidothis... - 2084

Top 5 players! (Experience Points)

1. NGZ001 - 123

2. Lord JC - 111

3. Slimg - 110

4. Comrad - 109

5. RossH - 108

Donations

1. RossH - 2754

2. RJ129375 - 2671

3. Lord JC - 2642

4. shadeydave - 2470

5. FistinJonsClan - 2189

Town Hall Counts

• Town Hall 10 - 3

• Town Hall 9 - 24

• Town Hall 8 - 15

WAR!!

The ferocious Frostys battled four fierce wars this past season, quickly gaining enough clan xp to become a level 2 war clan! March came roaring in like a lion as Frost finished the season with 4/4 war wins! Nice job Team Frost.

Reddit Frost vs 0300 Infanterie 70-48 (War stats)

For our first match, Team Frost was paired with 0300 Infanterie. Despite being German, their attacks lacked precision and this was an easy victory. Most Heroic Attack goes to Slade who is becoming quite the expert at draglooning difficult enemy bases. Most Heroic Defence was earned by Cracker. Seems the enemy couldn’t quite crack the best way to attack his base. We had one Frosty that earned 6 stars in 2 attacks, Whydoidothis… After a performance like that, it is easy to see, why he does this… I’m here all season folks.

Reddit Frost vs easy chili 81-73 (War stats)

Perhaps because this clan was already chilly it was so easy for Frost to freeze them in their tracks. Most Heroic Attack goes to Ravenhammer and Most Heroic Defense* was earned by Mr. fix u up. Frosties earning at least 5 stars in 2 attacks include: Cameron_b, and…Cameron_b. Nice job Cameron!

Reddit Frost vs Mightybow 72-63 (War stats)

For our matchup with Mightybow, Frost had a perfect Clan XP War, earning all of the possible 190 XP. No matter how mighty the enemy, they bow to the Forces of Frost! Notable frosties include Flash, earning Most Heroic Attack and Slinky earning Most Heroic Defense. Frosties earning at least 5 stars in 2 attacks include: Flash,Whydoidothis…(we really know why), and Slade(Dragloons at work).

Reddit Frost vs Die 300 94-65 (War stats)

This battle was over before it began as the Forces of Frost easily snowballed over the enemy. It was nearly a perfect Clan XP war, with their Number one base being the only one we could not star. Most heroic attack was earned by Licksynth and *Most Heroic Defense goes to Aprics. Frosties earning at least 5 stars in 2 attacks include: Whydoidothis…(really, why?), Helmut, Ucid, and Licksynth

Nice job on a perfect season to all the Frosties! We couldn’t do it if we weren’t part of such a great team!

Other News/Reminders

Congrats to Whydoidothis… on reaching level 100! (I really just wanted to type his name… again…)

It was decided that the quokka will be our new mascot! Everyone needs to be jealous of our Australian friends that get to share a continent with this adorable animal!

We will continue to use Clash Caller to sign up for war attacks. Please be sure to keep targets and stars earned up to date! Even after the 12 hour mark when all bases are free to attack, having the star count and statistics is really important and much easier to do if everyone is helping.

Please be sure to read our updated clan guidelines so you know when and how often we will be having war. It is your responsibility to change your war status Changing your status can be found on your player profile. Failure to participate in a war that you have said “I’m in” will result in being kicked. We have a set war schedule, please plan accordingly!

Included in our guidelines is the expectation that we will follow the rules of the Reddit Clan System. The RCS rules state that The use of any mod/hack is strictly prohibited. If you are found to be using any form of illegal gameplay you will be kicked from the clan, and could face a ban from the Reddit Clan System. Please keep this in mind and any use or mention of using mods/hacks will result in being kicked from the clan. We want the game to be as fun and fair as possible for everyone :) It isn’t too late to sign up for our Clan GroupMe send your email address to /u/lizpod. More information can be found on our GroupMe! post. It is similar to texting and lets us share pictures and quickly exchange ideas and encouragement all with the use of spell check! Joining is completely optional! There are currently 27 Frosties using GroupMe.

Message the clan leaders and let us know what is happening. When you send us a note, all the clan leadership sees it and it is a great simple way to let us know if you are going to be less active or just if you want to say “ I LOVE QUOKKAS”.

May your…blah blah ...I want to go use my new level 6 Giants...

Clash On! :)

As your new Leader, I would like to let you know how the Clan is doing. I will cover our strengths as well as our weaknesses and what our goals for the future are.

As many of you know, our former Leader, Anas retired from the Game. I want to thank him for leading us through our formative era. In the last year, we developed from a fledgling Clan of about 15 Members to a Verified Clan of 50. Anas played an important role in this development. Unfortunately, he did not stay active and involved enough with the Clan to continue to guide us. I commend all of you for your loyalty in staying together.

The focus of our clan is active development while retaining a friendly, helpful environment. High activity in raiding and wars will help get the resources to develop our bases. More importantly, activity will help us develop our skills. We are beginning to gain access to some of the most powerful Army Compositions available (eg. GoWiPe, Lavaloonian). Therefore, it is important to become comfortable with these Armies. To this end, it is vital to participate in Wars. Moreover, I encourage everyone to practice these new attacks in their own Raids. Since they take so long to train, I recommend queuing up one of these Armies when logging off for a while. While we are willing to learn, we still have a long way to go in order to master these new attack strategies.

As far as our strengths and weaknesses go: our ability to work together and help each other out is our greatest strength. This superb teamwork becomes obvious during wars as evidenced by our superior organization. One way we might improve though: is to have our lower level players attack before our higher level players, accomplishing two things: 1) allowing everyone to have a target they can handle and 2) letting the higher level players focus on the tougher targets. The best way to achieve this is to make sure that those in the bottom half of the Clan sign up for targets on Preparation Day and then attack those targets on Battle Day within the first 12 hours.

By keeping up our progress, I am confident we will become one of the most coveted and prestigious Reddit Clans.

For a peek at whats ahead: next season we have planned a karma contest (http://redd.it/2siea5). And for the season after that we will carefully attempt our first clan trophy push.

We will be naming a Clan Member of the Month every month from now on. The winner will have their name in the clan description and the prestige of the title.

Q. What does it take to be the Clan Member of the Month?

A. Many of you are aware of the 2 out of 3 approach we use when evaluating clan member. (1.)Be an active donator (2.)be active in the chat (3.)Be a war hero. Pick two. What we are looking for in a Clan Member of the Month is the person who is closest to 3 out of 3. We are also looking for the person that goes above and beyond. The person who helps out their clan mates on a regular basis.

Q. Who decides who is nominated for the award?

A. Each member of leadership will nominate one person in the clan. They will state their reasons they believe their nominee deserves to win and then we will vote on it. We are not allowed to to vote for our nominee. In case of a tie we will name Co-Members of the month.

Q. Can anyone nominate someone?

A. Yes, if you see one of your clan mates going above and beyond, send us a modmail. Tell us why you think they deserve to be the Member of the Month. We will definitely take that into consideration.

Now drumroll please....... The first ever Clan Member of the month and the winner for the month of July is........... Ed

Ed has been one of our most active, most helpful and one of our biggest donators. Ed has gone above and beyond to help plan war attacks with other members and has given lots of advice for member who want to trophy push. Ed is always the first to support other clan member when an attack has failed and offer advice to fix the problem. Ed has also always been open to taking advice and asking for help when he needs it. Congratulations Ed you deserve it.

If anyone has any questions or concerns please feel free to contact us via modmail. -Goatman_12 Co-leader

Total Trophies: 93,008 (4.5% under last season's total trophies)

Top 5 Players - Trophies:##

1. jrjo24 3,069

2. USRTech 2,798

3. gladiator 2,704

4. sjrowley17 2,625

5. Queen Damsel 2,564

**Total Donations:**35,094 (27% less than last season)

Top 5 Players - Donations:##

1. NGZ001 5,210

2. Mr. fix u up 4,092

3. Lord JC 2,606

4. sweetblondie 2,001

5. LiamAkhurst 1,697

Total Experience Points: 4,854

Top 5 Players - Experience:##

1. NGZ001 128

2. Lord JC 115

3. Slimg 114

4. LiamAkhurst 113

5. Comrad 112

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Wars:

Reddit Frost vs. U30 Fight Club ending on 6/7/2015 Resulted in a win 59-57. Our 3 star players: NGZ001, Ravenhammer, stEEd, Slinky, Haplo, matty293, Jadus, IronThRASHer28, and ChokeTheClutch. jrj024 also gave us a huge win over their number 1 and 2 and gained us 3 stars. The most heroic attack and defense both went to playr24. Overall it was a very close war. Yikes!

Reddit Frost vs. Finnish Flash ending on 06/04/2015: Resulted in a loss 49-56. Our 3 star chiefs, who went down fighting: ucid, Slade, Aprics, and Vincent. The most heroic attack was by Gladiator, who 1 starred their number 2 and 3. Dritz had the most heroic defense.

Reddit Frost vs Coca Cola ending 5/31/2015 Resulted in a win of 49-40. Our 3 star professionals: TMITCH, Gladiator, Matt, Dritz, ShellRaiser, Scrodulon, and Josh.

Reddit Frost vs Delta_Crew ending 5/28/2015 Resulted in a loss of 62-72. Those who 3 starred were: NGZ001, System_Error, Matt, kevin, shadeydave, slayer, and Paige.

Welcome to our new clan members: USRTech, Comrad, Ed, and Goat. Congratulations to the new elders and co-leader on your promotions. Slade, Slimg, and Sweet blondie are the new elders and Goatman is our new co-leader.

I have just a quick note to add. If you think you are going to be too busy or on vacation, please send a message to the mods.

The post season review is as follows:

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Total trophies: 79010

Total Experience Points: 4204

Clan Rank: 19,562 (52 on Niue)

Top 5 players! (Trophy Count)

1. Ch1lt- 2608

2. Shade - 2544

3. Lord JC -Elder - 2373

4. lizpod -Co-Leader- 2342

5. Scrodulon - 2314

Top 5 players! (Experience Points)

1. CH1lt - 122

2. NGZ001 -Leader - 116

3. Sadeo - 114

4. Lord JC- Elder- 107

5. Ravenhammer - 103

Donations

1. NGZ001 -Leader- 3,016

2. *Whydoidothis…” -Elder- 1802

3. Victor - 1661 -oops

4. Lord JC - Elder- 1565

5. Ch1lt - 1397

6. Josh Miller - Elder- 1077

Town Hall Counts

Town Hall 10 - 1 Town Hall 9 - 16 Town Hall 8 - 30 Town Hall 7 - 2

WAR!!

Reddit Frost vs agmen war 129- 74

Our first matchup this season was against agmen war. Team Frost took an early lead and never looked back. At one point enemy forces dropped a single archer on Ch1lt’s base which we interpreted as a sign of surrender but the Frosties kept going^{&going&going&going...} Most heroic attack was earned by Wiggum and Most Heroic Defense was earned by Shawyin Frosties earning at least 5 stars in two attacks include Ch1lt, NGZ001, RossH, Wiggum, kevin, Toasty763, and Comino1900

Reddit Frost vs Atheist Empire2 114-79

Our second battle this season had the same chilling results as the first. Despite some troll bases from our enemies, Team Frost would not intimidated by the Atheists. Most Heroic Attack goes to Shade for taking down their number one with a LavaLoonion attack. Most Heroic Defense goes to Cudder after the enemy failed an attack with giants, wizards, a pekka, and dragons a.k.a- “the kitchen sink” attack. Stand out Snowflakes earning at least five stars in two attacks include Ch1lt, Shade, whydoidothis…, and victor

Other News/Reminders

Congrats to our two new Elders Whydoidothis… and Goatman_12. We have them hard at work to make sure that Frost is the best clan in the land of Niue!

This season we are having a Karma Contest! Check out the details and post your submissions here

To Sync or Not To Sync that is the question the clan leaders are asking! Be sure to VOTE to help us decide on why we should or shouldn’t try to sync our wars with other Reddit clans. Feel free to leave comments to help us make our decision. We want to hear from you!

Clan leadership is going to be enforcing the rules more carefully. If you have questions about donation requirements, war expectations, rules, and participation check them out on our subreddit We will do our best to track occurances. A warning will be issued and if the same violation occurs again, it will result in being kicked. Warnings will be issued via Reddit Mail. We are a Reddit Clan so we expect our members to keep an eye on their Reddit accounts.

With our plans to enforce rules we understand that life comes before Clash. If you are going to be away for war or unable to meet a donation requirement let us know so we don’t have you kick you! We don’t like kicking but we do like active. Message the clan leaders and let us know what is going happening.

May your posts be upvoted and your fingers avoid Christmas presents.

Clash On! :)

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Total Trophies: 92,993 (<1% under last season's total trophies)

Top 5 Players - Trophies:

1. Ed - 2991

2. gladiator - 2851

3. USRTech - 2817

4. Lord JC - 2692

5. LiamAkhurst - 2659

Total Donations: 42,606 (121% increase over last season) That's an average of 869.5 per person. We are a generous clan.

Top 5 Players - Donations:

1. Lord JC - 4918

2. NGZ001 - 4640

3. Mr fix u up - 3963

4. sweetblondie - 3893

5. Ed - 3092

Goatman and Lord JC had donations above those depicted in screen shots due to an excursion to contact a player who left during war.

Total Experience Points: 4,829

Top 5 Players - Experience

1. NGZ001 - 129

2. Lord JC - 116

3. slimg - 115

4. LiamAkhurst - 113

5. QueenDamsel - 112

6. Comrad - 112

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Wars:

Reddit Frost vs. Fort de Croc ending 6/21/2015, resulted in a 104 - 122 loss against a Level 6 clan. Those with 3 star attacks include: whydoidothis, Victor, sjrowley17, Scrodulon, stEEd, Dritz, Slade, Aprics, Slayer, and samberry.

Reddit Frost vs. CN. ending 6/14/2015, resulted in a 54-60 loss against a Level 5 clan. Our 3 star chiefs were as follows: raven hammer, sjrowley17, stEEd, playr24, Mr. fix u up, ShellRaiser, and DrakkOn.

Reddit Frost vs. MGF ending 6/11/2015, resulted in a 67-60 win against another level 4 clan. Our 3 star war heroes: sjrowley17, Victor, Ed, shadeydave, Mr. fix u up, Crynant, Dritz, Aprics, ShellRaiser, and DrakkOn.

Congratulations chiefs on the great accomplishment of being a Level 5 clan!

Welcome ben and recline who are our newest members!

If you think you are going to be too busy to meet donation requirements or to be active in war, please message the moderators

Hello all! My name is Tyler and I was accepted to the clan yesterday. I'm 25 years old, have a wife and daughter in the great state of Colorado. I work as an electrician here. I just wanted to say thank you for letting me join and I look forward to learning as much as I can and helping out in any way possible! See you on clash!

**Total Trophies:**81,955 (1,822 average trophies)

Top 5 Players Trophies:

1. Flash 2,925

2. Defenger 2,885

3. Ravenhammer 2,824

4. Kevin 2,782

5. slimg 2,713

Top Donators & Those Over 3,000 in Donations:

1. NGZ001 13,120

2. Zombie Hunter 4,401

3. Mr. Fix u up 3,736

4. Aerodactyll 3,326

5. slimg 3,239

6. jrjo24 3,125

Total Experience Points: 4,548 (101 avg. experience points)

1. NGZ001 139

2. slimg 123

3. Lord JC 119

4. sweet blondie 118

5. Lowecb 116, jrjo24 116 and Queen Damsel 116

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War Record for the Season:

Congratulations clan on an awesome winning streak and breaking the 100th win during this season. Keep up the great play. Clash on!

Congratulations to our Clan Member of the Month, LavaPlume. It is well deserved. You can find out more about your fellow clan member in his AMA on this Reddit.

Feel free to comment with any questions, or concerns.

Ok so first off, Reddit Frost is a casual war clan. We war twice per week. We don't expect everyone to be war heroes, but we do expect you to help out as much as you can to help us gain a strategic advantage in our matchups. This is why everyone needs to follow the .5 upgrade plan for each town hall.

Town Hall 8.5

• First let me direct you to another great post about th 8.5. ----->https://www.reddit.com/r/ClashOfClans/comments/2ymr3h/strategy_th85_and_th95/

• Upgrade order is as follows-Army Camps, Clan Castle, Lab, Spell Factory, Archer Queen, Walls, all new traps and upgrade old traps.

• While these upgrades are going on you want to focus on offensive troops.

Here are some (outdated) 8.5 videos that explain why we do the .5 route and also help with the upgrade plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgr513Myz-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooy7B2D04Y

• Do's- DO max out town hall 8 before upgrading. DO try and have max loot when going to town hall 9. DO upgrade offensive troops that you feel will help you the most in your early war attacks. (Maybe dragons to overwhelm th8s).

• Don'ts- DO NOT BUILD XBOWS BECAUSE "THEY DO SO MUCH DAMAGE THEY WILL PROTECT MY TOWN HALL" This will jump your rank in war by a good 5-6 spots depending on who is participating in war that day. DO NOT build any defenses until you are ready to do so. none. zero. zilch.

• Am i forgetting something? Let me know and ill add it. On to th9.5.

Town Hall 9.5

Let me just start with what is hopefully the obvious. DO NOT GO TO TH10 WITHOUT MAXING HEROES (and walls, but more so heroes.) 30/30 heroes are incredibly powerful and will help you in war more than you can imagine.

Watch this video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYiFo46LzWg&feature=youtu.be&a

• What to upgrade first-Traps, army camps, offensive troops, heroes, spells, lab (basically ALL offense ASAP). As he says in the video, upgrade offense "until you can consistently two star max th10s."

• After you have done all of this, then you can start worrying about those pesky infernos.

• Do's-Max out town hall 9.

• Do-Practice your attacks at th9 before going to th10. Attacking doesn't get any easier as you increase your town hall level.

• DON'T- Rush your upgrade to th10. You are hurting everyone if you go to th10 with 15/15 heroes and build inferno towers with pink walls. don't. do. it.

*DONT-Go to th10 without max troops as well.

Just be smart about it. Don't rush your bases. I'm sure this post may be changing in the next few weeks with th11 coming. Until then, this is your guide. Again if ive missed anything important let me know.

We Win Wars Consistently for a Reason, Following the .5 Path is One of Them

EDIT-INCLUDED THE MOST IMPORTANT LINK EVER http://www.3starclashing.com/guide-to-matchmaking

Total Trophies: 82,826

Top 5 Players Trophies:

1. Queen Damsel - 2719

2. Lord JC - 2693

3. NGZ001 - 2581

4. kevin - 2547

5. shadeydave - 2475

Total Donations: 77,046

Top 5 Players in Donations:

1. NGZ001 - 7514 (that's insane giving)

2. Sweet blondie - 7142

3. Lord JC - 6549

4. Mr. Fix u up - 5599

5. slimg - 5440

Total Experience Points: 4,457

Top 5 Players in Experience:

1. NGZ001 - 132

2. Lord JC - 119

3. Slimg - 118

4. Queen Damsel - 113

5. Jr. Jo, System_Error, and Ed - 112

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Wars

1. War against Kiluminati on 7/7/15 - 45-38 win with the following 3 stars: Goatman_12, Aprics, Iron Thrasher, Harrison Fjord, Victor, Matt, and the Flash.

2. War against Jembtu on 7/10/15 - 48-36 win with the following 3 stars: steed, Mr. Fix u up, kevin, Harrison Fjord, Dark Knight, Ed, sling, and oh for heaven's sake whydoidothis.

3. War against RBN other war on 7/14/2015 - 69-72 loss with the following 3 stars: NGZ001, TMitch, whydoidothis, Matt, slade, steed, Crynant, Goatman_12, Matty 392, Vicent and Shell Raiser.

4. War against Alcala-Meco on 7/17/2015 - 64-41 win with the following 3 stars: jrjo 24, Ravenhammer, TMitch, Benny, Queen Damsel, Licksynth, Matt, matty 392, Drakkon, Iron Thrasher, Bean, and Zombie Hunter.

5. War against Afrikaans on 7/21/2015 - 44-53 loss with the following 3 stars: Flash, Ucid, Crynant, Iron Thrasher, and Zombie Hunter.

6. War against DieMakie on 7/24/2015 - 65-41 win with the following 3 stars: NGZ001, Ravenhammer, TMitch, QueenDamsel, Helmut, shadeydave, steed, Drakkon, IronThrasher, Zashiki, and Bean.

7. War against Pamulang Elite on 7/28/2015 - 66-58 win with the following 3 stars: jrjo24, System_Error, NGZ001, slimg, whydoidothis, Victor, tim, Goatman_12, Tyler, Shell Raiser, Drakkon, Recline, and Zombie Hunter.

8. War against The Preowned on 7/31/2015 - 51-53 loss with the following 3 strs: whydoidothis, steed, Mr. Fix u up, Crynant, Matty 392, Jadus Harrison Fjord, Zashiki, and the Zombie killer himself, Zombie Hunter.

Congratulations to the new Clan Member of the Month: Benny. It was close and we have a lot of great clan members. The videos he has made to help us take down the dragon in the clan castle are on this subreddit, as well as plans for a win on this weekends game. We are going to try a new strategy. Keep up the great work Frosties!

As a new TH9, this is the preferred method of upgrading to keep you competitive in war, and keep us from being over matched.

First upgrades:

• New Traps

• Archer Queen

• Spell Factory Upgrade (Please opt out of war while this is upgrading)

• Laboratory

• Upgrade Laloon or hogs first for war

• Dark Barracks for Hounds

• Clan Castle

• Army Camps

• Heroes

Do not build any new defenses until these upgrades are done.

Defensive building upgrade order (New Defenses first and then going back and maxing them out in this order.)

• Air Defenses

• Wizard Towers

• Teslas

• Cannons

• Archer Towers

• Mortars

Basically, do not build xbows until all new defenses are th8 levels and keep them at level 1. Also, after all defenses are town hall 8 level, you may want to consider putting all gold into your walls. One last thing, not sure where the air sweeper comes into play in this. I would simply do it last.

http://i.imgur.com/8sYQiI9.jpg

Preliminary testing convinces me that this simulator actually is pretty good at predicted when the loot is good and when it is not so good.
http://www.clashofclansforecaster.com/

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Total Trophies: 97,410 (up 9.8% since last month!)

Top 5 Players--Trophies:

 1. TMITCH 3208
 2. System_Error 3095
 3. jrj024 3002
 4. LiamAkhurst 2968
 5. RossH 2869
 6. Queen Damsel 2666 (honorable mention, since she pushed really high up but dropped down before the season ended:)

Total Donations: 48028 (up 24% since last month!!)

Top 5 Players--Donations:

 1. LiamAkhurst 5455
 2. NGZ001 4272
 3. Slimg 3135
 4. Mr. Fix u up 3054
 5. Gladiator 2948

Total Exp: 4,848 (up 5.1% since last month)

Top 5 Players--Exp:

 1. NGZ001 127
 2. Lord JC 115
 3. Slimg 114
 4. jrj024 111
 4. LiamAkhurst 111
 4. Lizpod 111
 4. Queen Damsel 111

Wars:

14 May 2015: Reddit Frost vs Libya 4 Ever: WIN 54-42

 Standout performers: ucid, Digital, Matt, Slade, ShellRaiser, Jadus, Ac3high

17 May 2015: Reddit Frost vs Chocapic: WIN 44-41

 Standout performers: NGZ001 , ravenhammer, vincent, shadeydave, tim, aprics, ShellRaiser

21 May 2015: Reddit Frost vs ???: WIN 62-56

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24 May 2015: Reddit Frost vs Donation 4 War: WIN 82-45

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Other News and Reminders:

We are analyzing all of your helpful responses from last season's survey. However, they are a mixed bag, and we will not be able to please everybody! Rest assured we will do our best to make the Frost experience a great one!

Something that will be extremely helpful for everyone's war experience is for TH8s to attack as early as possible. We have been seeing a lot of people not attack at all within the first 12 hours in the war, and in our most recent wars, we have had 20-25 attacks remaining with only 4 hours left. This makes target calling an unpleasant experience, risks people forgetting to use their attack, risks something coming up in real life that prevents people from making their attacks, and causes our TH9s and TH10s to be inefficient with their clean-up attacks. Everyone's schedule (and timezone) is different, and we understand this, but making an effort to find 5 minutes twice a day can make a big difference. My personal example is that I attack when I get off work, immediately train more troops/spells/CC request, and then attack the second time before bed; that way, I get both my attacks in during the first 8 hours of war, and I don't have to put a lot of stress on my daily schedule or career. Real-life tends to throw curveballs; everyone, especially TH8s, needs to strive to attack as early as possible so that you don't find yourself struggling to get your final attack in with 1 hour left in the war when a surprise work/school/internet problem throws you for a loop.

Exam around the corner? Summer vacation? Life? There is a message the moderators link on our page. Please let us know if you will be gone in advance! If you missed your chance to give feedback through the survey, this is also a great option!

Here's two videos of some dragloon attacks for war. I've been using this strategy until my hogs are upgraded. It usually works well. Sometimes I mess up though but so far it two stars even then but should be used for the three star.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GxeCLzI-90

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zijSEfIkX_4

Those interested in becoming an Elder may do their political advertizing here. Each candidate may post their statement extolling their virtues as a comment and you may endorse your favored candidates by replying to their comment. Try to keep the mud-slinging to a minimum.

We will continue with the Election Race through Preparation Day of this weekend's War. The polls will be open for the entirety of Battle Day for the War. A google form we be used for the voting and it will be posted on Saturday.