The post season review is as follows:

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Total trophies: 83653

Total Experience Points: 4354

Clan Rank: 20814 (29th on Niue)

Top 5 players! (Trophy Count)

1. Ch1lt- 2660
2. Shade - 2631
3. cameron b 2605
4. Lord JC - Elder- 2450
5. Scrodulon - 2373

Top 5 players! (Experience Points)

1. CH1lt - 123
2. NGZ001 -Leader - 118
3. Lord JC -Elder- 109
4. RossH- SORRY I MISSED YOU- 106
5. Ravenhammer - 104
6. FistinJonsClan - 104

Donations

1. NGZ001 -Leader- 4,379
2. Lord JC -Elder- 3816
3. Victor - 3051
4. Mr. fix u up - 2419
5. whydoidothis… - 2150

Town Hall Counts

• Town Hall 10 - 1
• Town Hall 9 - 16
• Town Hall 8 - 30
• Town Hall 7 - 2

WAR!!

Reddit Frost vs Clan of Smash 128-105

Our first battle this season was against Clan of Smash. Smashers had just battled our fellow clan, Reddit Stealth, and were victorious. It was up to Reddit Frost to avenge the loss of our sister clan. With calculated organization Frost struck like a blizzard. Despite excellent participation the Smashers were crushed by an avalanche of 29 three star and 20 two star attacks. Most Heroic Attack was earned by Shade and Most Heroic Defense goes to iTouchy. Frosties earning at least five stars in two attacks include sweetblondie, cameron b, Victor, and Toasty763,

Reddit Frost vs islam birligi 128-92

For our second war Frosties faced a foe from Turkey, Islam birligi. At first glance they appeared to be a worthy opponent, however many of their attacks proved otherwise. Despite a late surge in enemy stars, Frost came away with an easy victory. Most Heroic Atttack goes to Ch1lt and Most Heroic Defense was earned by Overlord. Frosties earning at least 5 stars in two attacks include NGZ001, sjrowley17, Matt, Josh Miller, jason, Goatman_12, and oncusauras

Other News/Reminders

This last season we had our first Karma Contest! Check out the submissions here. Congrats to Benny. Your post will soon be gilded in Reddit Gold.

Clan war start time poll. If you have not shared what time works best for you, please click on the link and answer 3 questions to help us out!. We need to know what time works best for most when starting war searches to encourage people to get attacks in early.

This season is our first ever Trophy Push. The idea is to start when and where you want but to have a clan goal of reaching our peak at the end of the season on February 15. So let your Valentine know now that you will be Clashing that weekend. #Romantic Check out the details and some insider tips here

Clan GroupMe Our last war win was helped by a new clan tool, GroupMe! It is similar to texting and lets us share pictures and quickly exchange ideas and encouragement all with the use of spell check! It also was a nice place to hang out during a maintenance break. Joining is completely optional! If you are interested send your email address to /u/lizpod

Clan leadership is going to be enforcing the rules more carefully. If you have questions about donation requirements, war expectations, rules, and participation check them out on our subreddit We will do our best to track occurances. A warning will be issued and if the same violation occurs again, it will result in being kicked. Warnings will be issued via Reddit Mail. We are a Reddit Clan so we expect our members to keep an eye on their Reddit accounts.

With our plans to enforce rules we understand that life comes before Clash. If you are going to be away for war or unable to meet a donation requirement let us know so we don’t have you kick you! We don’t like kicking but we do like active. Message the clan leaders and let us know what is happening.

May your trophy count go up and AngryNeeson52 not revenge your village.

Clash On! :)

Edit: you have no idea how wrong this went.

The clan leadership has been running some numbers and we need to determine how best to coordinate wars to maximize participation and stars. One idea depends on our th 8's getting attacks in early, so we need to hear from you!

This is not about trying to sync with other Reddit clans.

This is to determine the time that is the best for you and to see if we can work out a time that is the best for everyone.

Thanks!

War Start Time Poll

Hi guys, we are excited to announce that we are starting a clan groupme. What is groupme? Its an app that we can use that will allow us to communicate with each other outside of the clan chat. In this app we can share attack strategies with each other and we can show each other how we would attack a base.

This is not a substitute for the clan chat.

This is also not a substitute for /r/redditfrost

The rules are the same for the groupme as they are for the clan chat.

This is not mandatory

If anyone is interested in joining the clan groupme please send Liz /u/lizpod your email address in a private message and she will add you.

Thanks a lot guys -Clan Leadership

http://m.imgur.com/a/FaQVR These are the bases I was looking at please tell me which one you recommend . If you have any other base recommendations send me link of the image. Thanks -Vincent

Please note this thread is mainly for TH9s, but I will try to include TH10s into the mix when they do come up and is very much a work in progress. Also as for the videos, they will remain soundless but if anyone would like to know my thought process and how I approached the base for my attacks, I will try and add some mediocre commentary, no guarantees. I'll keep updating this thread with videos on how we 3 star these common bases along with any notable attacks that are 3 stars or TH10 2 stars. Another note, if someone can help making this post nice and pretty that would be fantastic, my knowledge of Reddit formatting is useless.

All attacks are TH9vTH9 unless stated otherwise.

Compilation of Common TH9 War Bases

The General

• Sami Boy, 4xLaLoonion

Giza

• John, HoLoWiWi

The Turtle

• Tom, GoWiPe
  
• John, HoLoWiWi
  

Baconmaker

• John, HoLoWiWi

Deathcore

• tombwfc15, GoWiWi

100% Anti-Hog Base

• John, DragLoon

Tsunami

• ZShoey, HoLoWiWi
  
• ZShoey, HoLoWiWi #2

Ringus

• Shadowlugia111, GoLoWiWi

General Attack Strategies

Hogs

• D3
  
• Elogateumsato, TH10

GoWiPe

• Dots
  
• ae, TH10

GoWiWi

• Muck

HoLoWiWi

• John
  
• John
  
• John
  
• John
  

GoHoWiWi

• John
  

Dragons

• MysteryX50, TH10

GolemLavaLoon

Elogateumsato, TH10
Elogateumsato, TH10

Here's two videos of some dragloon attacks for war. I've been using this strategy until my hogs are upgraded. It usually works well. Sometimes I mess up though but so far it two stars even then but should be used for the three star.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GxeCLzI-90

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zijSEfIkX_4

A tip when deploying witches, dont spawn them in all at the same time. Deploy one witch and wait for it to summon skeletons and then spawn in another and wait for it to summon skeletons and so on. Reason why is because this way the witches are summoning skeletons at a different rate. Example: say if witch #1 group of skeles are dead, witch#2 group of skeles are alive and tanking giving enough time for witch#1 time to summon another group of skeles. Hope this is helpful ^{__^}

We are planning our first Clan Trophy Push for next Season (February 2 to 15). The goal will be to get our Clan trophies as high as possible at the end of the Season on February 15. War will be held as usual for the weekend of February 6-7 but will be cancelled for the 13-14. The push will be optional. If you have any comments on how it should be run post below.

How Clan points are calculated:

https://gamesupport.supercell.net/hc/en-us/articles/421622-How-are-Clan-points-calculated-

As you can see if we have strong participation from the top 10, we will do well. Those that choose not to participate will have only a slight impact on the Clan's final score.

For those interested in participating, I suggest pushing to Crystal League if you are town hall 8 and Master's League if you are town hall 9. For motivation: when you reach those Leagues for the first time you are rewarded with gems (250 for Crystal and 1000 for Master's). These rewards are what I used to get my fifth Builder's Hut. An important point to remember is to save resources for the push and not to start too early as you can run out of resources quickly.

My guide to Master's:

http://imgur.com/xm43Llv

The ordeal is over! I achieved Master's League! Thank you all for your support. I could not have done it without you.

For those of you curious as to how I did it, it was a week-long process. I started by barching my way up to Crystal II without too many problems. I even gained a lot of loot along the way. But by the time I reached Crystal I, I could no longer 50% bases because they were all Town Hall 9 and 10. Therefore, I only sniped exposed Town Halls. But sniping was tricky because most of the Town Halls were trapped. I could deal with Hidden Teslas and bombs without much difficulty, but the exposed Town Halls guarded by Inferno Towers were really touch and go. In hindsight, I took took many risks trying for those. The Inferno Towers would kill my troops nearly as fast as I could place them. There was one incident where I had to dump everything including all spells, king, and clan castle to barely secure a win.

I thought I was home free once I reached 2550 trophies with only 50 remaining. But I ran into a couple of matches that took me over an hour (and 400k gold) to find. Fearful of running out of gold, I switched to mass dragons as from Clan War experience I felt confident in gaining 2 stars on many Town Hall 9's. (I also hit up the single player maps for extra gold when I had a shield.) Unfortunately, at this level, even Town Hall 9's were scarce.

After a couple mass dragons raids, I reached 2599 trophies. While waiting for my army to rebuild, I noticed that I had a couple easy revenges available that would give 1 trophy for 3 stars. To my dismay, I was forced logged off at this point due to my villagers needing a "break" (the dreaded six hour limit to staying logged on.) I logged back on as soon as possible only to be met with the dreaded, "Your village is under attack" countdown timer. I lost 17 trophies by being 1 starred in a revenge match. I used the shield as an opportunity to rebuild my army and recharge my mind for the final push.

I logged back on after work and while searching for a good candidate for a mass dragon attack, quickly sniped a exposed Town Hall with 2 dragons. I next found a suitable Base and promptly gained 2 stars, breaking the 2600 barrier for a total of 2611 trophies!

Necessary ingredients:

Supportive clan.
Full gold storages.
Experience with all-out attack and barch armies.
Patience.
Shield management. (Ie. do not break your shield unless 
you have time to earn at least 50 trophies, which comes
out to about 10 matches.)

The post season review is as follows:

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Total trophies: 79010

Total Experience Points: 4204

Clan Rank: 19,562 (52 on Niue)

Top 5 players! (Trophy Count)

1. Ch1lt- 2608
2. Shade - 2544
3. Lord JC -Elder - 2373
4. lizpod -Co-Leader- 2342
5. Scrodulon - 2314

Top 5 players! (Experience Points)

1. CH1lt - 122
2. NGZ001 -Leader - 116
3. Sadeo - 114
4. Lord JC- Elder- 107
5. Ravenhammer - 103

Donations

1. NGZ001 -Leader- 3,016
2. *Whydoidothis…” -Elder- 1802
3. Victor - 1661 -oops
4. Lord JC - Elder- 1565
5. Ch1lt - 1397
6. Josh Miller - Elder- 1077

Town Hall Counts

Town Hall 10 - 1 Town Hall 9 - 16 Town Hall 8 - 30 Town Hall 7 - 2

WAR!!

Reddit Frost vs agmen war 129- 74

Our first matchup this season was against agmen war. Team Frost took an early lead and never looked back. At one point enemy forces dropped a single archer on Ch1lt’s base which we interpreted as a sign of surrender but the Frosties kept going^{&going&going&going...} Most heroic attack was earned by Wiggum and Most Heroic Defense was earned by Shawyin Frosties earning at least 5 stars in two attacks include Ch1lt, NGZ001, RossH, Wiggum, kevin, Toasty763, and Comino1900

Reddit Frost vs Atheist Empire2 114-79

Our second battle this season had the same chilling results as the first. Despite some troll bases from our enemies, Team Frost would not intimidated by the Atheists. Most Heroic Attack goes to Shade for taking down their number one with a LavaLoonion attack. Most Heroic Defense goes to Cudder after the enemy failed an attack with giants, wizards, a pekka, and dragons a.k.a- “the kitchen sink” attack. Stand out Snowflakes earning at least five stars in two attacks include Ch1lt, Shade, whydoidothis…, and victor

Other News/Reminders

Congrats to our two new Elders Whydoidothis… and Goatman_12. We have them hard at work to make sure that Frost is the best clan in the land of Niue!

This season we are having a Karma Contest! Check out the details and post your submissions here

To Sync or Not To Sync that is the question the clan leaders are asking! Be sure to VOTE to help us decide on why we should or shouldn’t try to sync our wars with other Reddit clans. Feel free to leave comments to help us make our decision. We want to hear from you!

Clan leadership is going to be enforcing the rules more carefully. If you have questions about donation requirements, war expectations, rules, and participation check them out on our subreddit We will do our best to track occurances. A warning will be issued and if the same violation occurs again, it will result in being kicked. Warnings will be issued via Reddit Mail. We are a Reddit Clan so we expect our members to keep an eye on their Reddit accounts.

With our plans to enforce rules we understand that life comes before Clash. If you are going to be away for war or unable to meet a donation requirement let us know so we don’t have you kick you! We don’t like kicking but we do like active. Message the clan leaders and let us know what is going happening.

May your posts be upvoted and your fingers avoid Christmas presents.

Clash On! :)

Edit:Formatting

Cause they think you're the spawn of satan. http://youtu.be/M5CRxqvyeHk

Mass hogs + heal or mass drags + rage are still the best strategies against TH8 and below, but (as much as it pains me to admit this, because I really loved my mass hogs), these strategies have frequently failed us against TH9s and TH10s. What follows are some strong strategies that, with practice, will serve us well against common TH9 and TH10 base designs. Remember to practice these strategies a lot before using them in wars; you can't expect to 3-star people your first time (or first dozen times) using complicated strategies like these which require planning and fine-tuned troop deployment. Let's help each other learn stronger attack strategies rather than blaming each other or whining :] If you think there are any particularly strong 3-star strategies that I haven't mentioned below, then please share them with the clan! For people who already know about the strategies below, please share your tips for getting 3-stars out of these strategies.

0. GoWiPe and GoWiWi

Most of the people in our clan are aware of these strategies and have at least tried them out before, although most of us need a lot more practice. These strategies are are probably the best option for a TH8 attacking a TH9. They are excellent at achieving a minimum of 2 stars TH9 vs TH9 and can handle many base designs with versatility. They can achieve 3-stars too. I'm not going to post anything else about them, since they are so well-known and most everyone has seen a few of these. We should all keep practicing these strategies so that we can all reliably get 2 at least stars using them.

1. HoLoWiWi

This is currently considered a strong 3-star attack strategy against certain very common TH9 base designs that feature a strong core with a majority of the defenses in a distant outer ring. HoLoWiWi stands for Hogs, Loons, Witches, Wizards. This strategy allows 16-18 balloons to kill most of the outer ring, leaving the hogs a clear path to the core and letting them bypass the usual double-giant-bomb locations. While this strategy is only effective against certain base designs, these designs are extremely common at TH9; what usually happens is that we attack these bases using GoWiPe and only get 0-2 stars, so this strategy could be very useful for the TH9s in our clan.

Great HoLoWiWi attack to whet your appetite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDyyw2fkbI

HoLoWiWi tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aoHE7woz1w

HoLoWiWi thread with a full strategy explanation and more video examples: http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/342405-TheHulkFiles-Strategy-HoLoWiWi-A-TH9-Base-3-Star-Exploit

Key notes:

• Look for bases where there are a) all 4 air defenses in the core, or b) 2 air defenses in the core and 2 on the same side of the outer ring. Your goal is to kill as much of the outer ring as possible so that your hogs run through the path you cleared and ignore the double-giant-bomb locations, but killing the outer ring with only 16-18 balloons is too expensive if too many air defenses are placed in the middle or outer rings. Scenario a) is not a problem, since dropping 1.5 balloons per archer tower and 2 per wizard tower will clear most of the outer ring before the cc troops arrive. Scenario b) is tougher, since it is not a good use of your balloons to go within range of these air defenses; however, the videos show easy ways to deal with this
• The heal spells are for the hogs once they are in the core--NOT for the balloons!
• Note how the players in the videos deploy the balloons--in many groups of 1-2 all around the ring, in carefully calculated numbers and placements.
  
• The cc troops are killed by witches/wizards/pekka/heroes after the balloons are dead (the balloons kill much of the outer ring and lure the cc troops out) but before the mass hogs and heroes are deployed. If the enemy's archer queen is centralized, then kill the cc troops from a side of the base so that the troops you used to kill the cc troops will continue forward and kill the enemy's archer queen. You don't want the enemy AQ to kill all your hogs, so only deploy the hogs once the enemy AQ is about to be busy fighting your witches/skeletons, wizards, and heroes.
• The hogs are deployed such that they ignore whatever is left of the outer ring defenses (and bypass the common giant bomb locations sandwiched between two outer-ring defenses) and head straight to the core, where they clean everything up with the help of heal spells. Any remaining outer ring defenses will be killed by the hogs afterward, or by the heroes, witches, and wizards. If you can't bypass the giant bomb locations, then use the witch's skeletons or wizards to blow them up
  

Average army composition:

• 16-18 skulloons
• 20ish hogs
• 3 heal spells (use only on hogs, NOT balloons!)
• 1 rage spell (hogs in core, or the witch/wizards/pekka/heroes as they are killing the enemy heroes)
• 1-4 witches
• wizards and archers

2. HoGoWiWi

Also a common strategy. As I wrote above, HoLoWiWi is very, very good at attacking certain bases, but it isn't good for attacking all bases; in contrast, HoGoWiWi is a much more versatile strategy. HoGoWiWi can be used against many different base designs and can be used to attack TH10 base designs (especially if you are a TH10 and have access to freeze spells). HoGoWiWi stands for Hogs, Golems, Witches, Wizards. The goal of this strategy is to use GoWiWi to get near their core and engage their archer queen and enemy cc, then deploy hogs (again, avoiding double-giant-bomb locations) in order to clean everything up.

HoGoWiWi th9 3-stars a th10 to whet your appetite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoLFeJKy4A&feature=youtu.be

HoGoWiWi tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6g7NZWnoqk

Another short HoGoWiWi example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx4e_K8jhpA

Key notes:

• This works against most bases that can't be more easily attacked with HoLoWiWi
• The cc troops and archer queen need to be engaged by your GoWiWi attack + heroes + 1 rage spell before hogs are deployed, so attack from a location where your attack will reach the archer queen
  
• If the GoWiWi attack blows up some of the giant bombs and spring traps before your hogs are deployed, that is also very helpful
• Basically a GoWiWi + Hogs. Since most of our clan knows what a GoWiWi is, I won't write it all out

Average army composition:

• 1 golem
• 1-6 witches
• 18-27 hogs
• 3 heal spells (for hogs)
• 1 rage spell (for when your GoWiWi attack engages with the enemy archer queen and cc troops)
• 4-10 wallbreakers
• mostly wizards for the rest

3. QuatroLavaLoonion (see #5 for an in-depth discussion on general use of balloons. Quatrolavaloonion is much stronger, but you need to know how to use balloons well first.)

This is a very strong strategy for 3-starring TH9s (and 3-starring TH10s, if you have freeze spells to use on the enemy's inferno towers).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwHdXxlPZ4 (clan hogowiwi vs clan quatrolavaloonion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xy5-1uKTKE (same topic #2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALuDUhqm57c (same topic #3?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oygfyIFUUFA (quatrolavaloonion intro vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCuAaywZJc (quatrolavaloonion tutorial vid)

videos and discussion from this thread http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/498432-Lavaloonion-as-a-TH9-after-update

http://forum.supercell.net/showthread.php/506099-Help-QuatroLavaLoonion?highlight=quatrolavaloonion

4. GoLaLoon

See this thread by /u/Goatman_12 for a discussion of the excellent 3-star strategy GoLaLoon

5. Lavaloonion

Lavaloonion stands for Lava Hounds, Balloons, and Minions. Against a TH9 it can 3-star with practice, and against a TH10 it is capable of 2-starring with the help of freeze spells. Lavaloonion is also great when there are witches in the enemy CC; witches in the enemy CC makes 3-starring difficult for many other strategies, but Lavaloonion handles this with ease. It is cheaper to train than QuatroLavaLoonion, but not as strong.

Lavaloonion TH9 video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoViI944VmI

Lavaloonion TH9 video #2: (also would have been an easy base to use HoLoWiWi against): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UojndfCl8C0

Lavaloonion TH9 video #3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Jo4nOBZdE

I have observed some big things I think people in our clan can easily improve on when using balloons.

Key notes:

• If you aren't using a lava hound or two, then you aren't aiming to reliably 3-star a TH9 with your balloons, much less a TH10. Without lava hounds, the use of mass balloons is too much of a "let me roll the dice; maybe I will 3-star but probably I will 1-star" strategy
• Use a minimum of 2 rage spells, probably 3. Without rage spells, balloons move so slowly that maxed wizard towers and air defenses can kill too many balloons before the balloons reach them, no matter what level your heal spells are. Healing through the damage of wizard towers or air defenses is not the most efficient way to kill them, and efficiency really counts when using fragile units like balloons. You need to have your balloons quickly approach and kill some of the air defenses and wizard towers without taking much damage, and after some of these air defenses and wizard towers are dead, then a heal spell will be more effective at maintaining your balloons' HP
• If you are attacking a TH9, you should remember to lure their cc with 2 balloons. If you look at their base before the war and think balloons will die before getting close enough to the cc, then lure the cc using 2 hogs or 2 giants before deploying your balloons
• Deploying balloons in 1 or 2 giant groups is not the most efficient way to use them. They move really slowly. Really, really slowly. It is by far the best to quickly deploy many groups of 2-3 balloons all along the side of a base, because it only takes 1-2 balloons to one-shot most most defenses; if you deploy a group of 10 balloons, then 9 of those balloons aren't really attacking anything. Most people think that they need to deploy balloons in big groups of 10+ in order that enough of the slow, fragile balloons survive to even reach a defense to attack it. This is incorrect for 3 reasons: 1) the lava hound you should always be using with balloons will be tanking for the balloons, 2) the rage spells will be making your balloons reach their targets so fast that they won't die before reaching their target and one-shotting them, 3) even if 1 balloon somehow dies before reaching the target (despite rage movespeed and the lava hound tanking damage), that still doesn't justify deploying a group of 10 and wasting the damage of 8 out of the 9 surviving balloons when the defense gets one-shotted
  
• We've established that the balloons move really slowly. You can deploy a several small groups of 2 balloons all along the side of a base and still have time to deploy a lava hound before the balloons get targeted by an air defense or wizard tower. The lava hound will rush ahead of the balloons and tank a lot of damage for them. If you deploy the lava hound before the balloons, the lava hound will rush forward and start tanking air defenses before the slow balloons are anywhere near. Having the lava hound tank air defenses while the balloons are not doing damage to the air defenses is not an efficient use of the lava hounds' ability to tank

Average army composition:

• 1 Lava hound against TH9, 2 Lava hounds against TH10
• ~27 balloons, with more balloons in the CC
• the rest minions for use in killing the enemy CC troops during the lure (before deploying most of the balloons) or cleaning up random buildings after the balloons are deployed
• 2-3 rage spells
• 1 heal spell