The Air Sweeper is a defense that shoots blasts of air at Air Troops. Although it deals no damage, it pushes back air troops, giving other defenses more time to take down these troops. It cannot harm ground-based units, or interfere with them in any way other than potentially distracting them from attacking a more ...

This base layout is for th level 1 players. It is hard to make this base though, There are a lot of rocks and trees around your base and you have not enough resources to remove them. Also, why would you hunt for trophies at level 1? It is better to just grow your village. The town hall is placed ...

Traps are very important in clash of clans. They allow you to strategically arrange your village to maximize your defense. Traps are relative inexpensive. You can upgrade traps with builders. Once a trap is build you can not sell it. If a trap is under upgrade it will still work. When a trap is set you need to re-arm it. This ...

Walls are a barrier that you can place in your village. Multiple wall will interconnect and form a line of defense. They can deal with a great kind of damage and keeps enemies out of your base. If there is a gap in a wall it is useless. Troops will simply walk thru the gap.There is the possibility to funnels ...

The inferno tower is a defensive building that shoots a jet of flame to attackers. It has 2 modes: Single mode that attacks a single troop and Multi mode that attacks up to 5 troops at once. You must recharge the inferno tower with dark elixir in order it to keep working. It does not have a preferred target. Appearance ...

The X-bow is an defensive building that shoots elixir. You must load it with elixir in order it to work. The x-bow has 2 settings: the first one to target ground units. The second one to target ground and air units. The range is 14-tiles for ground units only and 11 tiles for ground and air units. Appearance of the X ...

The hidden tesla is a defending building. It works other then normal defensing buildings. It is hidden underground, when a troop comes in it’s range (6 tiles trigger) it shoots out of the ground and starts attacking the units. This makes it a surprise defense. It can hit targets at max 7 tiles. When a village is destroyed more then ...

The wizard tower is a defensive tower with a wizard on top of it. The wizard shoot electric bolts to attacking troops. It deals splash damage to air and ground troops. It is good at killing large groups of low health troops like archers, barbarians or minions. It does lower damage per second then the mortar, but is fire rate ...

The air defense is a critical defensive building, it has a high damage per seconds and attack air based units like the balloon or dragon. The air defense targets one troop at a time and deals hits damage, it cannot attack ground units. When you reach  town hall 4 you can build the first one. It is wise to build ...

The mortar is one of the most valuable defense. It shoots explosive bombs at any troops that come into it’s range. They deal high splash damage and are very effective against groups of low health troops like the archer, barbarian or goblin. The mortar can only attack ground troops. They shoot a bomb every 5 seconds and have a high range of fire. ...

The archer tower attacks ground and air troops making it a very versatile defense unit. Their archers have a good range. The archer tower is with the cannon the base of a village defense. Appearance of the archer tower Defending with the archer tower Because they attack ground and air units from a distance, they form one of the basics ...

The cannon is the first building that a player of clash of clans build at the starting tutorial. They are cheap and effective at low levels and in the beginning of the game. They attack only ground units. The cannon is great as point defense against single units. They are strong against weak units like wall breakers, most of the ...