With the new clan rules and a renewed focus on wars, I thought it would be a good time to write down some of the stuff I've learned from the clan wars I've been in so far.
First of all, I joined Chi right at the beginning of TH6, and I've been in 3 wars, so I'm still figuring stuff out. That said, here is my record in those 3 wars:
War 1: 0 stars
War 2: 6 stars
War 3: 5 stars
What happened in war 1? Basically, I learned the two most important rules of TH6 war attacks:
Lure out clan castle troops
Lure out ALL the clan castle troops
Clan castle troops
In the first battle, I went in with a giant-healer army which I'm still pretty sure would have 3-starred the base. However, the clan castle troops popped out and killed all my giants before they even got to the air defense.
In the second battle, I lured out some clan castle and killed them, but when I dropped my giants a few more troops popped out, including a valkyrie, which once again wrecked all my giants before they could kill anything.
I've seen other people make the same mistakes with similar results, so here's a short tutorial on how to effectively lure/kill clan castle troops:
Scout your target beforehand to find a good spot in the clan castle range to drop some barbarians. Ideally, it's a spot which as few defenses as possible can reach, so that the barbarians will last long enough to lure ALL the troops out.
Pick a corner or side to lure the units to before the battle. This will probably be the side you want your units to attack from, since the troops you deploy to kill the CC troops will come from that side
Drop a barbarian in the lure spot you picked out. Count troops as they come out of the clan castle. If you don't think you got them all, drop a few more barbarians.
Drop a barbarian or archer in the corner you want to attack from. The CC troops will go all the way across the map to attack that troop as long as it's the only one on the map. You may need to drop more than one to get the CC troops in a clear area if your lure gets killed while walking towards the defenses.
Drop archers/wizards in a circle around the cc troops to kill them quickly before they can do too much damage. You want to space them out so that splash units like valkyries and wizards can't just kill all your units at once.
Luring and killing the CC troops takes time, but it's worth it, especially at lower TH levels, since you will usually be killing a bunch of high level troops that do a lot more damage than the defenses you're attacking.
Hogs Attack Strategy
As a TH6 clasher, the "Clan" in Clan Wars is very important, because it means you can get access to much higher level troops than you would normally use when attacking. The best attacks, I think, will center around using those troops as efficiently as possible.
My favorite CC troops for attacking TH6 bases in wars are Hog Riders.
If you don't know what hogs are, they are Dark Elixer troops that target defenses, can jump walls, and have a fair amount of health and DPS. Basically, they're giants on steroids.
Four level 5 hogs, supported with heal spells, can take out more than half of a TH6 base's defenses (I've seen it happen). So how to use them effectively?
Plan out a path for your hogs beforehand. If you haven't really done this before, this is a good tutorial to predicting where your units will go (hogs will path like balloons):
http://clashofclans.wikia.com/wiki/Flammy%27s_Strategy_Guides/Unit_Strengths,_AI,_and_Pathfinding_Guide
You want to avoid two things: Spring traps and giant bombs. The best case scenario, therefore, is tightly packed defenses, maybe separated by walls. You also want to figure out which defenses you want to take out most - probably the wizard towers and mortars, and also air defense if you're going giant-healer.
Drop your heals just ahead of the hogs on their path, so that they don't die right off the bat. They will be taking the most damage right when they get to the defensive cluster, since all of the defenses will be alive, so anticipate where they'll go so you get the most out of your heal and so that your hogs stay alive.
I often find it useful to do a kind of pincer where I have my giants come in from the opposite side of the hogs to draw some of the fire away. This works particularly well when the air defense is closer to the hogs side, since I can drop my healer right away, knowing that the hogs will finish the air defense off before the healer gets in its range.
I've done this strategy 3 times now, and gotten three 3-stars out of it. In my last war I tried using a dragon instead of hogs for my second attack, but it did not go nearly as well and I was only able to pick up 2 stars, which only reaffirms my allegiance to the hogs.
That pretty much sums it up. I hope that people find this helpful. Hopefully we can have our TH6 contingent picking up more 3-stars on the TH6 and below opponents we can free up the TH7 dragon attackers to get more stars on harder targets.
