Gameplay
A replay of gameplay, where a player is attacking another player's village
Clash of Clans is an online multiplayer game in which players build a community (in the form of a
clan), train troops, and attack other players to earn gold, elixir and Dark Elixir. Gold and elixir can be
used to build defenses that protect the player from other players attacks. Elixir and dark elixir is also
used to train and upgrade troops and spells. The game also features a pseudo-single player
campaign in which the player can attack a series of fortified goblin villages and earn gold and elixir.
The game has 2 'builders' by default but one can install more builders (maximum 5) using gems,
builders are important for upgrading any building. If all builders are busy one has to either wait (if the
player wants to upgrade a building) for them to be free or free them up using gems [3]
Buildings
To earn and store gold and elixir, players must build gold mines and gold storages and elixir
collectors and elixir storages, respectively. Elixir is used to train new troops, carry out research in the
laboratory to upgrade troops, to re-load X-Bows (available from Town Hall 9) and to build and
upgrade certain buildings, mostly pertaining to buildings used in attacking another player's base.
Gold is used to build defensive buildings and to upgrade the town hall, which allows access to more
buildings and higher levels for existing buildings. At higher levels, dark elixir becomes available; this
type of elixir is used to train and upgrade dark elixir troops and heroes, create dark spells, and fuel
the Inferno Tower, a defensive building that is available only at Town Hall 10. The Eagle Artillery
which is a defensive building that is only available at Town Hall 11, is fueled by elixir. Town Hall 11
also provides access to a new hero - The Grand Warden. It is the only hero born out of elixir. To earn
and store dark elixir, players must build dark elixir drills and dark elixir storages. [4]
There are a number of buildings available to the player to defend their village, including cannons,
mortars, bombs, teslas, traps, archer towers, wizard towers, inferno towers and eagle artilleries.
Players can also build walls, which can be upgraded, as a players town hall level increases. [4][5]
Troops and spells
The game has two kinds of barracks (barracks and dark barracks) and two kinds of spell factories
(spell factory and dark spell factory). The barracks create troops using elixir whereas dark barracks
create troops using dark elixir.
The spell factories follow the same pattern, normal spell factory creates spells using elixir and dark
factory using dark elixir. All troops and spells have different properties. As the player progresses,
several new troops and spells get unlocked.[6][7][8][9][10]
Hero is an immortal troop of this game. Every hero can be healed again and again by keeping them
in sleep or by using gems.
Gems
Aside from the game's resources (gold, elixir and dark elixir), the game also uses gems as
a currency. Gems may be used primarily to finish the time that certain processes take, such us the
remaining time of a building's or a troop's upgrade, or to instantly train an army. Additionally, they can
be used to "boost" certain buildings, such as resource productions and barracks. Gems may be
acquired through in-app purchases, they may be awarded for reaching certain milestones or
completing achievements or they can be earned from clearing obstacles, such as trees, mushrooms
or gem boxes, which spawn randomly on a player's base.
Clan wars
Clans are groups of players who join together to support each other, either materially (donating
troops) or verbally (giving advice). Players can join clans once they rebuild the special Clan Castle
building early on. A major component of the gameplay of Clash of Clans is clans facing off against
one another. Clan leaders and co-leaders can begin wars against other clans. Each clan is then
given one "preparation day" and one "war day." When a player attacks a member of the opposing
clan, they receive stars based upon the amount of destruction they cause to the opponent's
community. Each player is limited to two attacks per war, and the team with the most stars at the end
of the war day is declared victorious. If the two clans' amount of stars are equal, then the victorious
clan is the one that has a greater percent destruction. Players receive bonus war loot if he/she use
their attacks in the war. This loot is different on different bases and is decided by Supercell, the top
most base has the most war bonus loot and the last base has the least amount of bonus loot. If the
clan wins the war, the bonus loot is fully delivered to the player but during a loss one-third of the loot
is delivered to the player. [11] In the May 2016 update, Friendly Challenges were introduced to allow
clanmates to compete amongst other clanmates, however these challenges do not provide loot or
trophies and does not affect a player's army.[12]
