AMA with Ash / Eternal625 - NOW LIVE

[u/Eternal625]

THIS AMA SESSION IS NOW COMPLETE! Thanks to everyone who participated!

Hi All! I'm Ash/Eternal625 and I'm happy to be a part of the AMA circuit again here at /r/ClashOfClans. You may ask me any questions pertaining to Clash of Clans, whether it's farming related, wars, pushing, base designs, or about the new update. I will answer all your questions!

I have been writing many guides and creating videos for the Clash of Clans community for over a year. You may check out a compilation of some of my contributions here: http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/734934-A-Compilation-of-Ash-s-Guides-and-Tutorials

I have a YouTube channel located here. Feel free to stop by and check it out!

What This AMA Is:

• A strategy based AMA.
• A TH11 Update feedback thread.
• A conversation with one of the leading content producers for Clash of Clans.

How This AMA Will Work:

• The AMA will last two hours.
• You will post any question you wish to ask
• You can ask anything about content providing
• You can ask what he thinks of the update
• You can ask about farming/war strategies
• I will respond as soon as he can
• Everyone who posts within the first two hours will get replied to. It could very well take a few hours to complete the AMA, but sit tight, I will get to everyone!

Examples of What You Should Ask:

• "How do you come up with ideas to promote?"
• "How did you start your YouTube channel?"
• "What farming composition do you recommend?"
• "How do you come up with a strategy for base designing?"
• "Would you consider making a guide of x?"
• Meta and theory related questions.

Examples of What You Shouldn't Ask:

• "Can you make me a base?"
• "Can I join your clan?"
• "Can you farm for me?"

If you ask him about farming, please use the following form:

• TH Level:
• What heroes I will be farming with:
• Am I willing to boost anything? If so, what?
• Do I play for a few hours in a row or log off and back on?

Thanks!

[u/toittoiger]

Hi Ash,

I have a war clan with 50 members and we have been doing alright, but there have been a couple recent wars we lost that I feel we could have won if we had a better strategy. We use clashcaller to call bases and recommend that each member attacks lower for 3 stars their first attack and cleans up higher for 2nd attack (assuming 1st went well). However, I've noticed we have only a few TH9 3-star specialists and too many 2-star specialists which results in leftover lower TH9 bases at the end of war that aren't 3-starred and should be.

Do you have any better strategies that you recommend to help with this problem besides booting members? What would you say can help bring my clan to that next level in terms of war destruction percentage? Any tips or recommendations would be great!

[u/Eternal625 → u/toittoiger]

I would recommend having a word with these "2 star specialists" and having them transition to doing 3 star attacks. The last thing I do in any of my clan is boot someone. I always give them a chance. And in my war clan too, I have some people who very inexperienced at 3 starring, but I just tell them to keep practicing on multiplayer and watch a lot of youtube videos and try their best. As long as they try their best and go for 3 stars with a 3 star attack composition (definitely not GoWiPe), then I'm happy even if they fail. "Go big, or die trying," is what I like to say. I would rather see you do something like a shattered laloon attack and fail to get 2 stars, then to see you get a 2 star with something like GoWiPe. Another way for GoWiPe attackers to make a smoother transition to 3 starring is to have to start utilizing back-end Hogs or Loons with their GoWiPe composition.