FARMING BASE- This style of base is used when players are actively out hunting resources and are in and out of their village frequently. The main objective is to protect your $$ at all costs by getting your storages as far away from the outer walls as possible. Players have also been known to place their top defenses in front of each storage to help protect them. Key to the Farming Base is to not only get the storages away from the outer walls but to separate them as best as you can to force invading armies to conquer many different sections of the base in order to get 100% of the available loot.

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TROPHY BASE- This style of base is designed to preserve the player's trophy count and it usually at the expense of the loot stored on the base. Most players will set up their trophy base in a similar fashion to their war base. If you do not know the fundamental difference between the war base and the village it is a fairly simple concept. War bases use the storages and their very high hit points to act as shields for their defenses. They will place key defenses behind the storages, forcing attackers to go through the storages to get to the defenses during which time the attacking player's troops will incur a tremendous amount of damage from the defenses. Trophy hunters will also use their storages to reinforce their base often placing them on the outer layer of walls.

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WAR BASE- There is one more main factor that separates the war base designs from their similar counterparts the trophy base. The trophy base will get attack one time by a player and never be seen again by that player. Many players will overload strategic areas on the base with an overabundance of traps hoping to end the raiding troops reign in a massive explosion of 3-4 Giant Bombs at 1 time. The war base does not have that luxury because the base may get attacked several times in one war. If the base is built with an uneven placement of traps or everyone's favorite, the Hidden Tesla towers in the corners, the next player planning on attacking that base will be at an advantage. Therefor the war base has to have a delicate balance of well placed traps and uniform defenses. Although there are many styles of war base one that has to be mentioned in the Anti- 3 Star base. This style of war base is constructed using as much of the mapspace available as possible in hopes that the long distances traveled by the attacking troops will take up too much time and the attack will end with several of their troops left still attacking as time expires. A very popular technique is to remove the importance of the star given to Town Hall and to place it either outside the walls or on an outer wall. This concept is designed to use the Town Hall's high Hit Points as another shield for the defenses... 

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TROLL BASE- This type of base is designed to trick the new players (called Noobs by the veteran clashers) into thinking that either the Town Hall or another key target will be easy to destroy only to find that particular key target is heavily defended with unseen traps. These are the bases that cause players to reach for their blood pressure medication! Several signs of a troll base will be when there are tombstones all over the base (which usually means that the owner of the base is fairly inactive because he/ she hasn't collected the loot for the tombstones) yet their key defenses like the Inferno Towers of X-Bows are still fully loaded. Or when there is a defense upgrading that has been curiously placed directly in range of several splash damage defenses. Or.. everyone favorite, when Town Hall is highly exposed and easily accessible but unseen by the attacker it is surrounded by Hidden Teslas and/ or Giant Bombs. When the unsuspecting player strolls in fro the kill the traps are all sprung at one time and all of the attacking troops all seem to melt in an instant!