Clash of Clans Town Hall 5 : Farming Strategy and Guide (part 1)

Town Hall 5 perhaps represents the simplest farming in Clash of Clans. At Town Hall 5, many things are working in your favor that make farming pretty easy:

a.TH5 unlocks a third Army Camp along with a new level upgrade (new max army size: 135 units).
b.Barbarians get a level 3 upgrade at this level.
c.Town Hall 4 and 5 players do not have a simple way to stop 135 Barbarians.

While you can probably guess the strategy we are about to adopt 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 for maximizing your farming speed. I will also be covering target amounts of resources you should be striving for in order to confirm efficient farming.
Town Hall 5 Farming Strategy Video Guide
Here is a video guide detailing the accurate farming strategies described in this Clash of Clans TH5 farming guide. This will give you a great idea of how to select bases for attacking and how to raid those bases efficiently:






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.

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