Clash of Clans: Building further - 2 months of an Alt.

Haven't checked in for a while, continuing to build and get stronger!

Like most people I go through phases where I am more interested in playing certain games, watching movies or TV shows, reading, etc. However, Clash of Clans has had the ability to stay at the forfront of my entertainment attention for quite some time - I haven't checked in on here in almost a month (sorry about that) but I have continued to keep both my main and alternate Clash of Clans accounts up to date - and our clan is currently enjoying a Clan War winning streak of 12!

First up is the Alternate account. Last we checked in we had just moved up to Level 7, but now we are knee deep. I'm conentrating on getting my Elixer collectors and Gold Mines up to max right now but have tried to not neglect my offense or defense in the process. I have fully maxed the Army Camps and all of the Barracks are 1 level below max (Healer level, I'll do Dragon level on each before moving to TH Level 8) I've also gotten almost all of the Research in the Lab done for this level (Barb, Arch, Giant, Goblin, Balloon, Wizard, Healer and Shock Spell - doing Heal spell now and then just need to finish Rage spell). On the defensive side I've maxed the Wizard towers and am currently maxing the last 2 mortars. I also have one Air Defense max and the other 1 level below, all the Archers and Cannons are one level below max and I've built both Teslas and upgrade 1 to level 2. I built the Dark Elixer storage and have acrued some Dark but not enough to build the Barbarian King just yet - hopefully I will by early December. 

Over on the main base we're getting quite strong for TH Level 8. On the Offense we've maxed Army Camps, 3/4 Barracks 1/2 Dark Barracks (the remaining Barrack and Dark Barracks are maxing now) and we've done Barbarian, Armcher, Giant, Wizard, Shock Spell and Rage Spell to level 5, Dragons and Healers to level 3, PEEKA to level 2 and am currently working on Heal Spell level 5. Goblins and Wall Breakers are on level 4 and Balloons are level 3 (I rarely use them). Defensively I have maxed Mortars (all 4) Wizard Towers, Air Defenses and Cannons. All the Archer Towers are one level below max (9) and I have all three Hidden Teslas upgrading to level 4 & 5. My Barbarian King is at LEVEL 9! I'm anxiously awaiting being able to move him up to Level 10 for his ability to get upgraded. Shortly after I will probably start thinking about moving up to Town Hall Level 9!

Star Wars Commander: Back on the Wagon

It's been a while, our Rebel and Empire bases continue to grow!

I haven't been playing much of Star Wars: Commander lately, as I've had so many other games to play (and will have many more later today) but I did notice the Galactic War: Tournament 1 they have going on so I popped back on to see if I could rack up some points and get some rewards.

On the rebel side we are working on maxing out the Level 6 Headquarters base. I build most of the new stuff in the top right (and I'm thinking about restructuring the base entirely but haven't gotten around to it). I've been concentrating on trying to get all of my gold and alloy collectors up to Level 6 then I'll swing back through the new stuff and upgrade them to level 5 and then work on getting everything up to level 6.

On the Empire side I just moved up to Headquarters Level 6 and have just about got all the new collectors, turrets and other stuff built. I'm lagging behind my Rebel base still but quickly catching up thanks to the 3rd Droid (and easier raiding for some reason).

I have Starships on both bases now (more on the Empire base, but they unlocked earlier there) which makes raiding more fun. I'll try to update this each week again to keep up with our progress.

Clash of Clans: Halloween 2014 Update

Clash of Clans got an update for Halloween

If you haven't logged into your Clash of Clans account in a while, you should know that they have released their Halloween update (as of the 22nd). It includes (among other things) a Halloween restyle of several of the sprites and effects (pumpkins, spooky spells, etc.) along with some gameplay tweeks and improvements.

The new Skeleton Trap

The update also introduced a new set of traps for anyone Level 8 and up. The Skeleton Trap is hidden when deployed and produces a number of Skeletons (like the Skeletons the Witch deploys) that can either attack ground troops or use balloons to attack air troops (one or the other). It's cheap to build and can be upgraded to Level 2 (on Town Hall Level 8) and Level 3 (on Town Hall Level 9) - I wonder if they'll eventually add a Level 4 at Town Hall 10 but not right now (although they can build more of them)

Also Level 8+ gets ANOTHER MORTAR!!! I assume they are trying to encourage the new Lava Hound and other air troops by making ground only defenses stronger - get to building

Also Loot Bonuses are bigger now after battles, doesn't help much in Silver/Gold, but Crystal III went from 21,000 Gold/Elixer & 50 Dark Elixer to 35,000 Gold/Elixer and 100 Dark Elixer - raiding is awesome right now (when I can find a good one, the update brought more activity and more raiders snatching up the good raids!)

Sneak peak for my weekly update, I slightly reorganized my main account to accommodate the new Mortar and my Barbarian King is moving up to Level 7! My clan mates have asked me when I plan to move to Townhall Lvel 9, but I don't want to rush it. My Alt. Account doesn't get any of the new stuff yet, but it is getting stronger on Level 7, hopefully I'll have all my newish stuff up to snuff soon so I can start unlocking stuff like Dragons, Barb King, etc. - fun times! 

Office Update Info:

http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/427896-Update-22-10-Halloween

Star Wars Commander: Week 6

Continuing to build both bases on Headquarters Level 5

This was our Empire base last time.

This was our Rebel base last time.

We've just about built all the new stuff for Headquarters Level 5 on the Empire base, including: 2 Shield Generators, a Starship Command, 2 Burst Turrets, 2 Resource Collectors and 10 new wall pieces. We still need to build the second Factory and reorganize the base with the new toys! Also I'm excited to start using the Starship Command and start to research level 5 troops!

Back on the rebel base we are getting closer and closer to upgrading everything to Level 5, we have all of the resource collectors, transports and factories maxed, and we are upgrading our last storage and barracks to max. We also have all of the research done in the Research Facility and have upgraded the Hero Command and Squad Complex. The main things we have to work on now are turrets and walls so I need plenty of Ally - I will likely raid for this some time this week to keep my workers building!

Clash of Clans: Building an Alt. Week 7

Finally moved up to Town Hall Level 7!

This was our base last time, with moving up a Town Hall Level we've had some major changes!

Our New Town Hall Level 7 Base!

We have built several new additions, including: an additional Barracks, Army Camp, Mortar, Air Defense, Archer Tower, 2 Cannons, 50 Walls, a Dark Elixer Container and a Hidden Tesla! I also upgraded my Laboratory and am working on unlocking some Level 4 troops!

Right now I am concentrating on getting those new items upgraded to the same level as the old ones, then I will work on upgrading everything to the new maxes for our level. Also I'm hoping to start acruing some Dark Elixer soon (just got the container finished, only have like 50 so far) because at 10,000 I can build the Barbarian King, we also have the ability to build the first Dark Barracks at this level, but I don't use Dark Troops that much (rather save my Dark Elixer for my hero). I also have one more Hidden Tesla I can build (and of course both can be upgraded to Level 3! that's going to take a lot of gold). I also need to upgrade my storages for gold and elixer so I can raid without worrying about filling them up.

Level 7 is one of the funnest I've been through so far, being level 8 on my main account I miss being in 7. It's relatively easy to find lucrative raids, there are a bunch of things to upgrade and new things being unlocked (like the Dark Elixer & Barbarian King, Dragons, Rage Spell, etc.)

A quick look at my main account.

Back on my main account, I slowly trying to upgrade things - we have won 3 wars in a row so that's been nice but things are getting really expensive. I'm having a hard time finding the time to raid enough to keep all 5 workers busy. I hope to get about 360,000 Gold and 200,000 Elixer during the football games this afternoon so I can start another air defense to level 6 (to max it for my level and because it takes 8 days so I don't have to worry about that builder for a while) and my last barracks to level 9 (Dragon Level) - but then I have another builder who will be done with the Dark Elixer Container by morning and my lab will be free (and another builder) by tomorrow evening! So basically I need 3.5 million Gold and 2.5 million elixer by tomorrow night (which is no really feasible) so I'm going to have a builder down for a while unless I can find extra time to raid. Not the biggest deal but I do like to keep them all working if I can (and the lab).

Star Wars Commander: Week 5

We continue to grow in power - both on the light and dark side.

On our Empire base, we are getting close to maxing everything out for level 4 - just a few more turrets and research and we will be ready to move up to Headquarters Level 5! We finally got enough crystals to get the 3rd Droid - but am currently not able to use him (once we move up town hall levels he'll have plenty to do).

I haven't been raiding in this much due to all the other games I'm playing currently (and heavy Clash of Clans raiding) and I haven't gotten much further in the single player - currently fighting on Dandoran and proving that first guy was an a-hole.

On the rebel side, we are getting close to maxing out the Headquarters level 5 base. I finished all of the single player missions (although I will need to go back to 3 star a few to get the crystal bonuses). I haven't raided on this in a long time, but probably should soon as some of the upgrades are getting pretty expensive, don't want to have droids sleeping too long - onward for the Rebel Alliance!

Clash of Clans: Building an Alt - Week 6

We're getting stronger, moving to Town Hall level 7 very soon!

Still not much physical change since last week, we haven't built anything new in a while - but we finally have everything upgraded to max (except the resource collectors) and are moving up to the Level 7 Town Hall.

We are going to have a bunch to do when the Town Hall finishes upgrading on Monday, so I'm raiding this weekend to have max resources when it does. We are going to have another Army Camp and Barracks to build, 2 more cannons, an Archer Tower, 50 new walls, a new mortar, air defense, several new traps and 2 Hidden Teslas to build. Not to mention we can build a Dark Elixer storage, start raiding for Dark Elixer and build the Dark Barracks and Barbarian King (once we have the Dark Elixer to do so of course)!

Level 7 is where the game really starts to get good, we can upgrade our barracks to make Dragons and help out more in the wars, level 4 troops are decent and the Barbarian King is loads of fun - can't wait to see how far we get by next weekend!

Back on my main account I am slowly working on maxing out my Town Hall Level 8 base. I have just recovered from the lull in raiding last weekend and got my last spell (Rage) to level 4. Now I'm working on Lvl 5 Giants (already have Barbarians and Archer) then I plan to do Wizards and then work on Lvl 5 spells (I also did Lvl 3 Dragon already!).

In 1d 18h I will have all of my Archers and Canons to level 9 (1 below Max) and am starting to move my Wizard towers to level 5 (also 1 below max). My Mortars are maxed and my Air Defenses need 2 levels and my Hidden Teslas need 3 (to max). They added a lot of multi-level upgrades at this town hall level so there is a lot of upgrading to do.

Tomorrow I will start my Barbarian King upgrading to level 6, recently got him to level 5 and his Iron Fist Ability is awesome! I'm hoping I can get him to level 10 within a few weeks (I'll need to raid heavily for dark but I think its doable) so when I move to TH Lvl 9 and work on my Archer Queen I won't have to worry about spending Dark on my Barbarian King when it should go to her.

I'm hopefully going to upgrade my Dark Elixer Drill and last barracks to Dragon Level within a week or two. Getting close to moving up to Town Hall Lvl 9, once I get all my walls to Dark Purple (lvl 7) and have maxed out Wizard Towers, Archers and Canons I will think about it (should be by the end of October I would think).

Star Wars Commander: After 1 Month

Both our Rebel and Empire bases are continuing to grow.

Our Rebel Base is getting more and more developed, we are moving more stuff up to Level 5 (max right now) and continuing to work on the Single Player missions (they are starting to get pretty tough!) I unfortunately don't spend much time raiding in this game so the upgrades are fairly incremental, I keep the two workers working and research going in the lab and that's about it.

Our Empire Base is catching up quickly, currently I'm upgrading the Transports for a single player mission and working on maxing out the Level 4 base.

I participated in the Campaign missions last week but didn't get very far after about 5-6 on each side they got a lot harder quickly. Hopefully when the 3rd one pops up I'll be a good bit stronger on each account and can take the time to really try to bust some heads - I would love to get some Campaign prizes! (I got a few this time around but nothing major).

Clash of Clans: Building an Alt - Week 5

We are getting close to moving to Level 7 and continuing to grow.

The base hasn't changed much but we're getting close to having everything Maxed!

I went away on a mini-vacation to the mountains with my friends this weekend so I didn't do much raiding, but I was able to keep all my workers working and we are getting really close to being able to move up to Town Hall Level 7! I have all the Defenses at max (Mortars, Wizard Towers, Cannons and Archer Towers, even the Air Defense), we've done all of the research in the lab and have all the traps and Army Camps upgraded as well. Right now I'm working on a Barracks (to Healer Level) and the Clan Castle. Once those are done I will start the Town Hall upgrade and while its finishing I'll do the other two barracks and mop up some Resource collector upgrades (they are all on 7 or 8 right now) and hopefully get enough to max out all the walls.

Town Hall Level 7 will be a big update. We get two more Canons, an Archer Tower, another Air Defense, Mortar, Barracks, Army Camp, Giant Bomb and two more bombs. Along with a new Seeking Air Bomb, Dark Barracks, Hidden Tesla and 50 new walls - along with the Dark Elixer Storage (and once we can collect 10,000 Dark Elixer) The BARBARIAN KING!

We are also at 737 Gems, I'm hopeful that within a few weeks we will get the 1000 to let us get a 4th builder (as this is my alt I'm not putting any money in, I bought the 4th and 5th builder in my main account).

We are continuing to chip away at the stone, Level 8 has a lot to do!

My weekend off was a little harder on my main account, I still have all my workers working and my lab researching, but I'm going to have a hard time to pay for the next things to do once they finish. I am expecially low on Elixer and despite raiding all day today I am still low (had to crank some dragons for the war this evening so it will be a while until I can get the elixer back). Thankfully I have almost 5 days before the Lab needs restocking so I will concentrate on Elixer and research level 5 Wizards or level 5 Lightning Spell next I believe (just got level 3 Dragons!).

I have Mortars Maxed and all my Wizard Towers and Archer Towers (once they finish) one level below max. My Hidden Teslas, Air Defenses and Canons need several levels of upgrades but they got a few this level so that's to be expected. I am working on getting all of my barracks to Dragon Level (not really interested in P.E.E.K.A.s but I will get them eventually). I have my Resource Collectors all maxed although I could use one more level on my Dark Elixer Drill, I have my gold and elixer storages maxed and Dark Elixer Storage can hold 40000.

I finally got the level 5 Barbarian King! (Iron Fist Ability is awesome!) and have been raiding with 100 of both Lvl 5 Barbarians and Lvl 5 Archers. My plan is to start upgrading Canons next (as they are relatively cheap at 800,000 each) as I build back my storages that were depleted over the weekend. Once they are all done I will work on their next levels along with the next Archer Tower levels to try to max them all out. I hope to be able to do the next Dark Elixer Drill level (2mil Elixer) and Level 5 Shock Spell (2mil Elixer) this weekend when the Level 4 Rage spell finishes. If I can churn Canons and Archer Towers until then and do some good raiding this week I am hopefull I can do this.

Then its off to continue upgrading the big guns (Wizard Towers and Hidden Teslas) along with Air Defenses, Barracks/Dark Barracks and of course walls (which I hope to get all Dark Purple before moving to town hall Level 9). My hope is to have all of that done and be moving to 9 by the end of October!

Star Wars Commander - Week #3

We continue to gain power and fight back against the Evil Empire (and join them....)

This is a screenshot from our last checkin, we've moved up to Headquarters Level 5 since then so there are several new things!

Two new Turrets (Burst Turrets!) a new Shield Generator, a second Factory, 2 new Resource Collectors and some new walls round out the new stuff for this level. I'm working on bringing all those up to the same level as the previous stuff and then maxing them all out. I also upgraded my Research Center and am working on all the Level 5 researches.

In the campaign I'm stalled waiting for my base to get strong enough to let me help out Han Solo in the 'Scoundrels and Savages' missions. I participated some in the Campaign for this last weekend (it's still going on, they are 6 days long it seems) called Campaign 2: Dandoran Escalation. But I was quickly outmatched by the 6th battle or so.

I also started an Empire base! I have two clash of clans accounts and figured why not have two Star Wars Commander accounts. I am having fun playing the campaign missions again as the Empire and doing the exact same fights but to oppress instead of liberate, on orders instead of pleas, etc. decidedly nasty.

I'm well behind my main account here but I'm quickly catching up as I know exactly what to do. I expect this will be caught up and start surpassing the Rebel Base in a week or two (as it will have an extra builder Droid, I was smarter this time and saved every crystal!).

Stay tuned for updates, maybe I'll be lucky enough and be able to fight one with the other, that would be fun!

Clash of Clans: Building an Alt - 1 Month

We're getting stronger - slowly but surely.

This is a screenshot from the last time we checked in on our base. We had just gotten to the Level 6 Town Hall.

As you can see we haven't built anything new in a while, we have however upgraded both Wizard Towers, both Mortars, all the storages, the Lab and Spell Factory, all the research except Balloons (and currently finishing Wall Breakers) and we've upgraded one of the Army Camps and am finishing the Air Defense.

Over the next week I plan to upgrade the other two Army Camps and then the Barracks (to Healer Level, I don't use those so it hasn't been a priority, I do want them all upgraded before we move up however). The Barracks and Army Camps are 700-750,000 a piece so it will take me at least all week (if not into next week) so while I'm doing that I will upgrade the walls and work more on Resource Collectors (those are still behind where they should have been for the last town hall level, I raid a lot so I'm not usually worked about them).

My hope is to move up to Town Hall Level 7 by the end of Next Weekend, but I don't want to rush it so I may hold off - depends on how well raiding goes.

This is a pic of my main account, I am getting things together in Town Hall Level 8, I will have enough Dark Elixer soon for a level 5 Barbarian King, my last Mortar is maxing out and my Dark Elixer Drill is level 2. All of my defenses are max for level 7 now and I'm circling back and working on Archer Towers (plan to do cannons after that as they are cheap as well) then I'll make a pass through and upgrade Wizard Towers and Hidden Telsas to max and by that time I expect it will be mid-late October and I'll be ready to move to Level 9!

Star Wars Commander: Two Weeks In

We continue to grow strong and strike back at the Empire on Tatooine! 

This is a screenshot from last week, we've made some major upgrades and changes since then.

Our base has been reconfigured, we moved the HQ to the south and reorganized the turrets mainly because the campaign defensive missions usually have the Empire forces coming from the north.

Upgrades all around, new walls, shield generator, factory, and barracks along with a bunch of research in the research facility have really added to our strength. I recently upgraded the Hero station and unlocked Leia, haven't used her yet though (I don't raid real people much as the single player is keeping me involved).

We just finished the 'Rebels Shoot First' chapter of the campaign, its the only one I haven't been able to 100% (I went back and 100% the 'Alliance of Convenience' missions with the Jawas, especially the one with the set number of tanks was hard to 3 Star but I eventually did).

I am waiting to start Chapter 9 because the first mission requires a Level 4 factory (mine won't be ready until tomorrow morning). In Chapter 8 we fought some pretty big Empire bases, we've been double crossed by Jabba the Hut, helped out Jawas and fought just about every Tuskan raider camp on the planet - I have to say, especially compared to other mobile games like this, the single player in this game is actually quite fun!

My hope is to have my new Tank and Hero (Leia) researched up to their highest levels, all the walls upgraded and be working on my last few upgrades before going up an HQ level by early this coming week. Hopefully I'll be at that new HQ level and working on new stuff by next weekend!

Until then!

Clash of Clans: Building an Alt. - Three Weeks In

Another week and another Town Hall Level!

This screenshot from last time shows our level 5 Town Hall base, almost everything was upgraded to max so we upgraded!

Our base now at Town Hall lvl 6.

25 new walls (upgraded to Gold), a new Wizard Tower and Mortar and a few new traps were built. We finished the last Laboratory Research for level 3 (The Lightning Spell) and are upgrading it so we can start researching the Lab level 4 upgrades. We also got new resource collectors and I did a few levels of upgrades on them. I'm currently going slow and concentrating on spending elixer to upgrade things and gold for walls. My main account just went to Town Hall Level 8 last week and now that I've built everything in it I am concentrating on raiding and upgrades (want the lvl 5 Barbarian King!)

I think I will post an update on this each weekend, I suspect I'll still be at Town Hall Level 6 next weekend, but I should hopefully have the resource storages upgraded (so I can hold 2 million of each) along with the lab upgraded and some research done, the Heal spell unlocked and possibly the Healer as well and be chipping away at wall upgrades (to light purple!) and a few defensive upgrades.

Until next time!

Clash of Clans: Building an Alt. - Two Weeks In

We've been playing this account for about two weeks, doing pretty well so far!

A screenshot from the last post, just after our last war (we've been quiet all week, think the leaders are taking a break, hopefully we'll be back at war tonight).

Our base currently, maxed walls are the most notable change (as I haven't actually built anything new). However, I've also maxed all of the defenses (except the Air Defense which is upgrading now), traps and army camps. We're working on the second to last Laboratory Research (just Goblins left after Wizards) and the last two barracks are max upgrading right now.

Once the two workers currently working on our barracks finish I will likely start the Town Hall upgrading to level 6! It will take 4 days so in that time I'll finish the Air Defense and work on catching the levels up on my resource collectors (they are a little behind, and the only things not maxed) I haven't been making them a priority due to how lucrative raiding is at these lower levels - however I do need to get them upgraded eventually and hopefully can get quite a few upgrades in while the Town Hall is upgrading.

The next town hall level brings with it a new Wizard Tower and Mortar, 25 new walls (and the ability to go to light purple walls) some new traps and two new resource collectors - we'll have plenty to do!

Star Wars Commander: After a Week

After about a week, Star Wars Commander is starting to pick up some.

This is a screenshot of our base from the last post, we've been able to do a few upgrades and new construction since then.

A more recent screenshot shows the new walls, resource collectors, unit transport and turrets we've built. I've been trying to build and upgrade in a balanced way and I think I'm doing fairly well so far.

I'm slowly working my way through the single player campaign, I basically hit a wall a few stages into Chapter 5 and am waiting until I can bring more and stronger forces to bare.

In the meantime I'm raiding in the PvP mode and doing fairly well (I'm intentionally keeping my ribbons low to face other weaker people like me). This raid got me the resources to start the factory and one shield generator!

After the tutorials and first extremely easy parts of the single player campaign, the game seriously slowed down. A big reason is the capacity of the Credit and Alloy collectors, they max out after about 3 hours so if you can't check it at least that often you are curtailed in your progress (and unfortunately I can't check this game at work) so I'm going to be held back some. However, the pace seems to be picking up some as I unlock more and stronger troops and more building, etc. I'm still having fun and plan to continue to play. I also recently read that over 5 million people have downloaded the game (not bad just a few weeks in). I'm sure that number will continue to grow as they tweak the game to make it better, introduce more stuff and eventually (probably) put it on Android.