Together We Rise

WAR is a 48 hour period of time where two clans can attack each other’s bases.  The team that earns the most stars during those attacks wins the war.

 

Type of Wars Winterfell does:

Winterfell Wars always.  Full clan wars are called Winter War (50vs50) and are mandatory, battle day for Winter War starts on first Friday of every month.  XP wars are all volunteers and vary in number, we are always doing XP wars.

 

Who gets to go to war?

The top people from each clan are automatically chosen by the computer to go to war.  The number of people who are chosen to goes to war is a number divisible by 5. The size of groups going to war will always be groups of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50.  If your clan has more than one of these numbers, for instance 29 members, the 4 members with the least amount of trophies will be left out of that war.

 

How is war started?

Only the leadership of the clan can start a war (Leader and Co-Leaders).  This usually starts at an announced time.  In Winterfell, we start our wars on Thursday evenings at 8 pm Eastern USA time.

 

How does war work?

War is split into two different days.  The first 24 hours is called the Preparation Day.  During this time you need to set up your “war base” and the highest level players in your clan will donate troops to your war castle for defense purposes IF YOU ARE NOT PART OF THE DONATION TEAM DON’T DONATE DURING WAR.  Your “war base” layout is separate from your everyday layout used outside of war.  At the start of every war you need to edit and save this layout within the war map.  The second 24 hours of war is called the Battle Day.  On this day, each team is able to attack members of the opposing clan.  Each clan member gets 2 attacks. If one base gets attacked more than once, only the best attack (the one earning more stars or destruction) will be counted towards the stars earned for your team.

 

How do you win a war?

The team that earns more stars than the other team wins.  One star is earned by destroying a base’s town hall, another by achieving 50% destruction of a base, and the third strat by achieving 100% destruction of a base… for a maximum of 3 stars, the same as in the non-war part of the game.

 

Who do you ATTACK?

Town Hall Six and UNDER will attack straight across with their first attack. This means that if you are ranked 15 on the war map, you will attack number 15 on the enemy war map. You DO NOT attack what the game gives you as a RECOMMENDED TARGET.

For your second attack check chat and request approval for clean up target. The target that you choose should be one that you feel confident you will earn 2 or 3 stars on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winterfell War Rules

• 1st and most important rule is that every single member must use BOTH of their attacks.  Often, wars in Clash of Clans are won or lost based on how many people from each team use both their attacks.  It may seem like a simple rule, but every single war, there will be members who do not use their attacks.  

• 2nd Rule - Town Hall Six and UNDER will attack straight across with their first attack. This means that if you are ranked 15 on the war map, you will attack number 15 on the enemy war map. You DO NOT attack what the game gives you as a RECOMMENDED TARGET. Leadership will begin Clean UP, check chat and request approval for clean up target. The target that you choose should be one that you feel confident you will earn 2 or 3 stars on.

• 3rd Rule - For your second attack check chat and request approval for clean up target

• 4th Rule - You will request WAR troops of your choosing and use them in your attacks there is no OVER KILL in WAR

• 5th Rule - Attack with full armies and SPELL

• 6th Rule - CHECK IN with leadership before Thursday’s “house cleaning” let us know you WANT to go to War.  You can do this via this website or in the Facebook page where the event was created.

 

Winterfell War Attack Order

In order to maximize the amount of stars won each war, a specific strategy must be used.  In Winterfell, members who have Town Hall 6 and UNDER attack first on Friday night, DURING THE FIRST FOUR HOURS OF THE BATTLE PHASE.  If your town hall is level 4 or 5 or 6, please plan in your schedule to get into the game Friday night so that you can use both of your attacks at that time.  Members who are town hall 7 attack late Friday night or Saturday morning.  The job of NEW Town Hall 7 is to “clean up” any bases that were not 3 starred by the town hall 4, 5 and 6s, as well as attack other town hall 7s from the other team.  Town hall 7 and 8 will attack Saturday afternoon and clean up what bases were not starred by town hall 7 and attack their own level bases as well.  This method allows each level above your own to attack bases that you were not able to completely destroy in your own TH level range.

 

Upgrading during War ?????

Base upgrades during war can be a confusing thing. It is best to think of War as a completely separate game from the regular game. In the normal part of the game, when your defenses are upgrading, they are disabled and do not function.  But when you go to war, your towers are not disabled, and will function at the lower original level. A common question is, "What happens if my tower completes an upgrade in the middle of war?" This section is to help you understand the special circumstances of base upgrades and how they effect your war experience. 

 

War is split into two days (48 hours).  A preparation day and a Battle day.  The time at which the tower upgrade completes is what will determine whether or not you will be able to take advantage of its new HIGHER level during war.  The most confusing thing in war to understand for beginners is the clan castle.

 

When war starts, you will have 24 hours of preparation.  You will see the enemy bases on the war map and you will notice that you can now donate troops to other people's clan castles on the war map.  Here's the confusing part... and why it is essential to think of the war map as a separate game.  The troops that you donate to clan castles within the war map are the troops that will be released (during war) when you are defending against an enemy attack.  The clan castle troops that you take with you to attack someone in war need to be requested in the normal part of the game.  Most clans refer to the castle on the war map as the WAR CASTLE (defensive troops), and the castle on the regular map as the CLAN CASTLE (offensive troops) to help avoid confusion.

 

REMEMBER, in Winterfell only the highest level people in the clan donate troops to the WAR CASTLES on the war map.  This is because we want the highest level troops defending that we can manage.  Imagine... a town hall level 4 base defending with troops made by a Town hall level 8 or 9 player.  We've had a clan member successfully defend against 9 or 10 attacks during war because of these high level troops.  So remember, leave the donating during war to the veterans.

 

***DEFENSIVE ITEMS*** (Defensive items in general need to be completed during the PREPARATION PHASE of war.  Some will require you to edit and resave your war base for them to take effect)

 

WEAPON TOWER UPGRADES (cannon tower, Archer tower, Wizard Tower, Mortars)

Your weapon tower upgrades need to finish in the PREPARATION PHASE of war.

 

TRAPS

Bombs and traps need to finish upgrading in the PREPARATION PHASE of war.

 

***OFFENSIVE ITEMS*** (Offensive items in general can finish upgrading any time during war and be used at their new higher level)

 

• BARRACKS

Barracks can finish upgrading any time during war and function at their new higher level.

• CAMPS

Camps can finish upgrading any time during war and function at their new higher level.

• SPELL FACTORY

Spell factory can finish upgrading any time during war and function at their new higher level.

• RESEARCH LAB

Research can finish upgrading any time during war and function at their new higher level.

 

***HYBRID ITEMS*** (The only item that is both offensive and defensive (hybrid) is the Clan Castle)

 

CLAN CASTLE UPGRADES

 

• WAR CASTLE - to take advantage of higher troop capacity for defense during war, it must complete prior to the start of war.  Once war starts, the amount of troops someone can donate to you for war is locked in on the war map.

• CLAN CASTLE - to take advantage of higher troop capacity for offense during war, it must complete prior to the battle phase of war AND you must not have edited and saved your war base layout prior to the upgrade completing.