Town Hall 5

Town Hall 5

For 1 or 2 Stars Trophy rush: Barbarians, Archers, Wall Breakers

Farming Strategy: Barbarians 

For Destroying Base: Wizards, Giants, Wall Breakers, Balloons

By Town Hall 5, you will want to have a few Wall Breakers as part of your army in case you need to break through tough walls for trophy farming and power armies. You can still farm resources easily with mass Barbarians. I prefer this approach at this level due to the low training time required between runs. Wizards can be added to the power army at the expense largely of Balloons. Wizards scale extremely well with upgrades, so if you plan on using them regularly, do not forget to upgrade them!

In Clash of Clans, Town Hall 5 represents perhaps the easiest farming in the game. At Town Hall 5, a lot of things are working in your favor that make farming incredibly easy:

TH5 unlocks a third Army Camp along with a new level upgrade (new max army size: 135 units).

Barbarians get a level 3 upgrade at this level.

Town Hall 4 and 5 players do not have an easy way to stop 135 Barbarians.

While you can probably guess the strategy we are going to use based on this introduction, below I will share not only the best farming composition and attacking strategy for Town Hall 5, but also the proper order for upgrading your buildings and research in order to maximize your farming speed. I will also be covering target amounts of resources you should be striving for in order to ensure efficient farming.

TH5 Farming Strategy

As you can see from the video above, my recommended plan is to make nothing but Barbarians and go on the offensive. There is no need for additional units or even spells at this level – you will maximize your farming speed by cranking out Barbarians from your Barracks.

A trophy count in the range of 500 to 1000 seems to work fine at TH5 – you really do not have to pay much attention to trophy count for farming at this level. If you somehow get up over 1,000 trophies, you may want to drop down, but overall it is not a major concern.

Your goal is to find one of two base types: high level bases with full collectors (look for dark purple in the elixir collectors) or TH4-TH5 bases with full storage buildings where the where the Wizard Tower is either easy to destroy or not near the storage buildings.

If you happen to stumble upon an enemy base with full storage collectors and a lot of loot to grab, the strategy is simple: spread your Barbarians around, dropping 5-10 per elixir collector or mine and dropping more Barbarians as your initial Barbarians are destroyed. You need to spread your Barbarians out so you do not get killed by bombs or mortar shots and so you can destroy all enemy collectors and mines. Do not worry about trophy count on these bases.

If you run into an enemy TH4 or TH5 with enough loot to steal to be worthwhile (see the “farming goals” section below), drop your Barbarians in a fairly spread out fashion initially to take out outside buildings. About 50 is fine for this purpose. Take your remaining Barbarians and pile up close to the Mortar or Wizard Tower to try and break down a wall (if it is protected) and take it out. As soon as those two towers are down, the rest of the match is easy.

TH5: Upgrade Order

The most important aspect of farming efficiently as a Town Hall 5 player actually does not have much to do with attack strategy. Massing Barbarians is an easy strategy to use. Instead, I wanted to take some time to discuss how you should focus on upgrading your buildings in order to maximize your farming ability with this build.

As soon as Town Hall 5 finishes, you want to use your two builders to increase your Barbarians’ numbers and strength. Use 1 builder to start building your new Army Camp and the other builder to start upgrading the Research Lab. While this latter upgrade takes awhile, it is worth getting right away.

If you have three builders, use the third builder to start upgrading old Army Camps. If you only have two builders, as soon as the Army Camp you built finishes, upgrade it and keep doing so until it is at max level. Since all of these buildings and upgrades cost elixir so far, be sure to dump spare gold into extra walls or upgrading preexisting walls in between Army Camp upgrades.

Once your Laboratory upgrade finishes, make it your top priority to start researching 3-Star Barbarians. Use both builders to max out all 3 Army Camps at this point. Continue spare gold into walls.

Once you have maxed out your Army Camps and finished researching level 3 Barbarians, your farming ability will be very high. At this point, you can raid quickly with a strong yet very cheap and fast to train 135 Barbarian army that is very hard to stop at this level.

Upgrade whatever you like at your own pace from here. I prefer to upgrade the Barracks at night or once TH6 has started, as upgrading the Barracks will naturally slow down your ability to produce new Barbarians for raiding. Try to max out your base entirely before starting the TH6 upgrade.