Managing Your Clan in Clan Wars

In order to have a shot at winning in Clan Wars, your clan has to have maximum participation in attacking, donating and setting up effective defenses. In addition, you have to think about your clan's composition (ie, does it have more beginners or more mid-level/advanced players or a mixture of both). Your clan composition and numbers will be considered when your clan is being matched with an opponent.

Recruiting

The basic principles apply. If you are setting up a new clan, have a buddy or someone you trust act as a co-leader to help you out. If you want to participate in clan wars, make sure you make it clear that participation is mandatory (Note: you need at least 10 players to participate.)

There are several ways to find people: global chat, person to person, certain youtube channels or other forms of social media pertaining to Clash of Clans and Forums. Do NOT promise free Co Leader to just anybody unless you know them well. My old clan fell apart this way when these elders and co-leaders did whatever they pleased. My old clan lost good players because of this so be careful. You also want to be careful on who you promote to elder as well.

Building relationships and trust with clan members is good too. You never know, you could see them again, even if you quit the clan and move else where. Or you can recruit them for your new clan or vice versa. When my old clan fell apart, members went their separate ways. Three of them formed a new clan. The leader of the new clan liked me and another member so much, she had 2 other people looking for me until they found me. I joined her clan and was immediately co-leader (I was co-leader in our old clan too). She went out looking for another old member and put me as leader of the clan. I also went on Facebook and recruited a friend who was also in the same old clan I was in. Two days later, she found that member and I stepped down from leader to co-leader. This display of relationship and trust at the high level is observed by other members and those who were new that day stayed. So far in my current clan, we have 7 members who were in the same old clan and it's very nice. No stupid politics and members can enjoy playing and socializing as well.


How Often Should My Clan Go To War

Now that you have a decent relationship between clan members, you want to establish how often you want to participate in Clan Wars. Declaring war everyday is a bad idea. Rather, you want to establish, with input from other members, how often and when the war should be. You must take into account the time it takes to upgrade defenses, spells, army barracks and troops and see if members are okay with participating while their stuff is still upgrading.

Going to War too often will use up a lot of resources and many people cannot keep up with that type of game play especially those who work or are students. If the clan goes to war every day for a long period, members will not be able to afford the resources needed to win and will not be able to get the maximum stars needed to win. Then people will stop participating or quit the clan all together. The leader and co-leaders need to make sure the war is sustainable to everyone to increase the odds of victory. Allow members upgrading to leave the clan and let them join after war is declared works well too.

There are several strategies for use out there for clans that are available: Clan Wars Tactics and Attacking Strategies in Clan Wars.

Another reason for not going to war everyday is that you clan lessen the impact of hoppers in your clan and at the same time, those who are new and serious will get a chance to join. Remember, you want to maximize participation and/or odds of participation in the wars. Taking the time to talk to members including new ones and waiting until declaring war will help your clan a lot.

Additional Pointers
If you want your clan to participate and win as many wars as possible, you want to make it clear that participation is mandatory or members will get kicked. For more laid back clans, you want to be more diplomatic but at the same time, you want to encourage participation as well. If you are a leader or co-leader, screen your elders and members and lead by example. Kick people out who trolls or harasses other members. You may also want to kick out inactive members or those who don't participate. Also, enforce rules and regulations as set by your clan. When your members respect and trust your clan's leadership, your clan can start winning wars.

Lastly, DO NOT accept members during the Clan Wars unless you know them well. During wars players can create a bogus account, join the rival clan, snap shot all of the bases and forward this information to the opposing clan. During Clan Wars, keep you clan closed until the war is over. Make sure elders and co-leaders don't invite during this period either. Do NOT accept unknown accounts into your clan during the battle phase.

Upgrading During Wars
If you are upgrading your defenses (archer tower, cannon, mortars, infernal towers, x-bows and telsas) during the preparation phase and the upgrades are not completed by the end of the preparation phase, your defense will still work but be at the original level prior to the upgrade. Lets say your lvl 4 wizard tower has 14 hrs before going to lvl 5 and there's 13 hrs until the battle. Your war base will still have that lvl 4 wizard tower even after the 14hrs where your 'real' base has the lvl 5 wizard tower. It is advisable to have a set war schedule and time your upgrades. Traps that are upgrading during the preparation phase that don't finish before battle will be inactive.