ClanWarden
Guides for people who run clans

Everything nobody tells you about running a clan

War setup, missed attacks, CWL rosters, recruiting, promotions, upgrade order and rush, written for the person who has to make the call, not the person taking the attack.

Start here · Clan management

The best Clash of Clans clan management system is the one that remembers

Discord bots, stat sites, spreadsheets, and the pinned message nobody reads. What each is good at, and the one job none of them finish.

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Leadership

Elder, Co-Leader, Leader: who to promote and when to stop

Elder is not a thank-you card and co-leader is not a friendship badge. Both are permissions, and one of them can empty your clan.

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Recruiting

Recruiting for a Clash of Clans clan without wasting your evenings

Most clans recruit by accepting whoever knocks and hoping. The clans with full rosters do three specific things differently.

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Basics

Player tags and clan tags: how to find, share and look them up

It is under your name, it starts with a #, and it is the only thing anyone needs to look your account up. Here is where it is and what it exposes.

6 min read
Upgrades

What to upgrade first in Clash of Clans

Builders are the scarce resource, not gold. The order to spend them in is the same at every town hall, and almost nobody follows it.

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CWL

CWL roster planning: picking fifteen without starting a fight

The hard part of CWL is not the attacks, it is telling five people they are not playing. Do it with a rule, published early.

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War

How to track missed war attacks in Clash of Clans (the game deletes them)

Per-member attacks exist only while the war is running. What that means, why screenshots fail, and how to keep a record that survives.

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War

CoC war setup: the roster is the strategy

Most wars are lost during setup, not during attacks. Size, benching, the mirror rule, first-attack timing, and who cleans up.

6 min read
Roast

Roast my Clash of Clans base, and what the roast is actually for

The joke and the audit are the same numbers. One of them people actually read to the end.

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Rush

What "rushed" actually means in Clash of Clans

A rushed base is not a town hall level, it is a ratio, and the parts that matter are not the ones people count.

6 min read
Bases

TH18 bases: what actually holds in 2026

TH18 changed what a good layout looks like. Here is what holds, what does not, and how to pick the right layout for what you are actually doing.

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Bases

Legend League bases: what a legend layout is actually doing

Legends is scored on percentage, not on loot. That single fact changes everything about what a good layout looks like.

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Bases

Anti Electro Dragon bases: the geometry that beats the chain

Electro spam is not beaten by more air defence. It is beaten by geometry, and the geometry is specific.

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Bases

How Clash of Clans base links actually work

One tap copies a whole layout into your village. Here is what the link is, how to use it, and why it sometimes refuses to load.

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Track war attacks, rank members by reliability, plan CWL and chase missed hits. No bot in your clan, nothing to install.