Strategy for after finished attacks and no shield

Say you just attacked a base and used up your army and have no more guard left. You want to take a break from the game. What strategies are there for minimizing the resources lost when your base gets raided?

One strategy is to fill up your queue with dragons and spells and refund them after you've been attacked. The problem with this is 1) no one might attack in the time it takes to make a dragon and even if you reset it then you've wasted time when you could've been building an army you actually wanted to use 2) if you forget then you end up with a bunch of dragons and IMHO they aren't cost effective

Another strategy is to keep making an army that you actually would use as soon as your last one is used. Since I'm trying to go for cost effective armies, this doesn't always save the most resources.

Any other ideas?

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Best Answer

With the changes to the shields, it is no longer a valid strategy to put your townhall in the corner to provide a free shield. This was one of the main strategies to protect loot.

Now, it is fairly likely that you will be hit by a big raid and lose quite a bit of loot every time your attacked. To help prevent this, one technique is to spread out your storages throughout your base. Don't group them all up in the middle, because if some one gets in to that compartment, you will lose it all.

Another strategy is to make it easier to get 1 star on your base, and leave some loot in your collectors. This may help people who are raiding with weaker troops to hit you for the easy star and loot, while protecting the majority of the loot.

Also queueing troops and spells will help "hide" your loot, but if you want to train an army to use in case you dont get attacked soon, you can put the troop composition for your army queued up first, and then top off the queues with more expensive troops to hide some loot. This will give both the benefit of protecting some loot, and making it easier to attack again if you dont get attacked.

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Do you lose your shield if you revenge attack?

"Shields prevent attacks from others. Shields aren't affected by browsing targets in Multiplayer or Revenge, but they will shorten if you start an attack."

What happens if you remove shield in Clash of Clans?

The point being: if you have a shield that is going to expire prior to your expected waking time the next morning, emptying your collectors and removing shield increases the chance that someone will attack you and grant a shield BEFORE your collectors fill up and you get hit for much more of a loss.

How do you get unlimited shields in Clash of Clans?

Shields prevent attacks against you, but if you start an attack against another player in Multiplayer battles, some shield time will be deducted. If you decide to search for a target to attack but do not actually start an attack (by pressing the "End Battle" button), the shield duration will remain unchanged.

This Mistake Could Cost You Upgrade Time! Never Wait for Shield to End to Attack in Clash of Clans

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