Clash-of-clans – Do Golems and Lava Hounds return to the Clan Castle if Golmites or Lava Pups survive

You should always upgrade everything to the max with every Town hall level.

The Clan Castle should be considered amongst your higher upgrade priorities. Increasing its capacity will significantly improve your defensive strength. However, it is not your number one upgrade. It is usually a better use of builders to grab brand new structures and buildings while focusing upgrades on the Laboratory.

Imagine the Clan Castle as the strongest defensive tower, it should be upgraded first before you upgrade any other old towers, but upgrading other structures and setting up an appropriate base layout for your Town Hall level takes precedence.

Analyse the base first:

1. Locate the defences on the perimeter that are within the clan castle radius. The perfect one would be the one that is located on the side from which you wish to attack.

2. After having chosen a defence to use to lure the cc, check if there is a wall hindering you from getting to the defence.

3. If there is a wall you will need hogs. If there is no wall you will need at least two giants. Two giants because there maybe a spring trap waiting for the first giant, so send them with maybe a one second difference between dropping them.

4. If there is a wall and a lot of defences around your chosen defence, you will need 2 or 3 hogs. This is because one hogs may get wiped out before it even reaches the intended target. The hogs may seat just outside of the clan castle radius when they reach the target so having three will make sure they plough it down quick and move deeper and therefore awakening the castle troops.

5. If there is no wall do not send your lure giants at once, send one first, if it gets flung out by a spring trap you still have a second one. Same applies for hogs, do not drop the lure hogs at once, if there is a trap they all get flung out (likely).

Special conditions:

1. If there is a wall and the clan castle is too deep, you will need a giant to distract the selected defence, and at least 3 or 4 hogs to wipe out the outer defences and then move in to a deeper defence to lure out the CC troops. Youtube search "giant hog lure" and you will definitely find this strategy.

2. If you absolutely want to use lightning to kill the cc, don't kill them while they are still moving. wait for them to stop moving/to settle in a cluster then drop that lightning.

3. If using dragons at TH7 or 8, destroying an air defence using three lightings works well. Your dragons will kill the cc themselves.

4. If you follow point 3 above. Do not drop your dragons on spot, if there are wizards in the clan castle they can wipe them out quickly or at least bring all their health down in that one spot. I have seen this happening a number of time with newbies.

5. If using dragons to try to get to a entered down hall, do not drop all of them in one spot, they will all go to the sides following the buildings on the perimeter. Instead, drop one on the left and one on the right with a space difference of 3 buildings, drop one in the middle. They will move on the perimeter, and leave an open space where they have cleaned up, this is where you drop your other dragons, they will definitely move towards the centre.