We've worked our way through escalating for beginners and escalating for intermediates and now it's time to cover advanced strategies! If you wish to attain the highest levels at CC, you will need to employ these strategies with great care and diligence!
First: join a clan (choose wisely...not all clans have advanced strategies figured out). This is a team game after all and you need a strong team to succeed!
With that you will have access to all kinds of fun clan challenges and the like, but more importantly you will have access to mega points!
Here's what you do:
Start up some 8p escalating games, either public or private, it matters not. If they are public though, make sure two or three of your clan buddies are ready to join right away. If they are private, advertise them after your mates join the game.
Once that is done, advertise your games and get them filled.
Now comes the fun part!
Make sure you have some convenient 1's between you and you clan buddies so you can trade cards. Plus you get the added benefit of the gamelog showing that you are attacking your clan buddies frequently.
Make sure you are nibbling away at your non-clan table mates. You want to attack their 5's and 6's. If it's a key position, then you want to take the territory. If it's not a key positions then you just want to reduce them without taking the territory. The beauty of that move is the log won't show the attack, your opponents will have to count back through deployments to see what's going on, which is a difficult task that most won't bother with.
It's important to be doing this in the first four rounds, because after all, the first rounds are where escalating games are won or lost! Remember it's all about blocking, position, and strength. If you reduce your opponents army strength by 30% the first few rounds, their chances of winning diminish greatly. They will still win some, but over the long haul, your team will come away with more wins and more points!
So team up! Join a clan today and climb that ladder!
{edit: if you've read this far and are seriously contemplating behaviors as described above, or if you have been actively employing behaviors above, then GFY.}
Sounds good to me. When do we get to start banning clans based on this startling revelation?
