Clan Capital Base Layouts (September 2026 Update)

Right at the start you don't have many options to arrange the buildings in the Capital Peak, so the best option is to use the walls on defenses around the Capital Hall and spread around the other buildings.

With more options you should now start gathering the buildings around the core to slow down attacking troops and keep the defenses protected by the walls, this gives the maximum protection in most scenarios tested so far.

At Capital Peak Level 3, you have the option to finally build some more complex compartments with the walls and get your defenses into more strategic spots. The best approach right now is using the walls to form bigger compartments and put the defenses there and use the other buildings around as perimeter structures to keep the troops away from your defenses as long as possible.

I found that creating these even-spaced compartments for the defenses worked the best and you can have a second line of walls for approaching troops with the perimeter structure as you would use it in Capital Peak Level 3 setups.

With the additional elements you can now start transforming into a real ring base and split the compartments for better defensive power.

Latest meta has shown that starting Level 6, Capital Peak performs better when you align everything in the upper corner and build layers of walls in front of it. This strategy continues with higher Capital Pea levels.

The layout is the logical evolution of the Capital Peak Level 6, fitting the new structures - placing it in the corner is just the most effective way to defend these days.

At Level 8 you really want to switch up to a cornered layout which gives less entry points for attacking troops and maximizes the value of your defenses and structures a lot.

Maze entry base to make many common approaches here tricky to start and high DPS areas in the base are still not giving away a lot of Frost Spell value. The backside is covered by a huge trash hut zone that is sprinkled with traps so no value to gain for the attacker there but high price to pay due to the traps.

Placed multiple traps at the entry points to deal with Miners as they approach, it is just a clean and easy way to effectively deal with them. The Capital Hall is positioned in the center as a tank, forcing troops to take heavy damage while trying to destroy it. The whole layout is designed around restricting access, funneling attackers through a single entry zone, this is what works best in the current meta.

Don't get overly complicated here and use the walls to block the pathways and the defenses behind it. I mean, there's not many options you have for Barbarian Camp Level 1 setups so this is the one that makes the best out of it right now.

At Barbarian Camp Level 2 you can start getting more creative but your main objective should be blocking the pathways as effectively as possible as those are the bottlenecks the attacker needs to go through and you want to prevent that as long as possible.

This layout deals with mass Battle Ram approaches effortlessly with trash walls in the entrance area. Due to the fact that everything is so compact and has hight DPS areas, Hog Riders and Graveyard attacks won’t gain much value and and the Giant Posts and spalsh defenses actually deal easily with all Graveyard approaches.

With the District Hall placed directly at the center with a lot of DPS around, troops stall and get target massively which makes it really expensive for the attacker at this point. With blocked access to the sides the attacker is forced to get into the front.

In my opinion, the 1st level of Wizard Valley is all about creating an island and blocking the access paths, with the large 9 o'clock section being the most difficult one. Double-wall setup here is the best approach as this will also be the section where the attacks will come in first.

As you can see, with the additional structures you're now able to close the bridge entry point at 2 o'clock way better and add more inner layers inside the island that will slow down attacking troops a lot better. I updated the layout with some more inner sections that make it defend a lot more reliable.

Not the biggest changes are needed compared to Level 3, only the sections should get strengthened with the additional options you have. I updated the design with some minor compartments to strengthen the total performance compared to the previous version.

This layout has various effective features to defense well against the current meta – it has multiple “trash” walls that will distract the Battle Rams and effective trap placements against Hogs and Miners and specific areas that will deal a ton of damage where they will cloak up. Of course all key defenses are hard to reach and also the area covered by defenses has no blind spots or weak spots that the attacker can exploit.

The layout blocks entrance deployment spots to stop troops from spreading out and keep them nicely together to give your defenses more leverage against them. With ground and air DPS evenly distributed among the base and Raid Car Posts in high DPS sections, taking down even high-hitpoint troops quickly is a piece of cake for the defenses.

Your primary objective at the 1st level of Balloon Lagoon is to strategically close the area and split it into compartments as effectively as possible and I believe this layout does the best with the structures available.

At level 2 of Balloon Lagoon you can start switching your defensive technique and instead of breaking the area into compartments rather create a very tough corner area that is hard to crack and spread the rest of the buildings around - results have shown this makes it a lot better to defend.

You might have seen this layout a lot, and it's (hands down) the most efficient one for Balloon Lagoon Level 3. Simply ramp up everything in the corner with intersections and attacks need to go through all the layers, which is not a lot fo fun.

With multiple “trash” walls, this base has some distraction for Battle Rams in place and inside the base you will find some setups that will work well against Carts and also some bait area for Miners that will make them suffer a lot in the core. Against Golems there are multiple areas with high DPS that will make sure they are dealt with appropriately.

Let's start off with the Miner bait at the entry to ideally take them all out in one go. You will feel the pain of the attacker watching the replay when that happens. The Rocket Artilleries cover the entire base and deal splash damage literally everywhere which gives them constant pressure on enemy troops and with the Crushers on the choke points you will get massive value once the attacking troops actually attempt to enter the base.

The initial options you have at the Builder's Workshop aren't that many, so here's what I think makes most sense once you onlock it.

From here you can take it further by extending the compartments more and block more crucial paths.

The whole design revolves around open compartments to avoid Battle Rams being predictable in pathing for the attacker so normally the risk of leaving a lot on the table here is high for them. The splash defenses are in locatinons where the strategically deal with Graveyard Spells effectively and there are several high-DPS spots in the base to deal with Hog Riders well. OUTDATED! This layout is outdated, please use the most recent one here.

This district layout defends well against Hogs, Miners, Carts and Golems with various different defensive features – There are particular spots with high DPS that Golems and Miners can’t really avoid due to their pathing and the traps are particularly well placed in spots that Miners and Hogs will hit them no matter what. Some of the walls are set up to mess with the cart pathing as well to give them a hard time

Blocked access to the side of the base force the attacker to attack from the front or, even better, use and waste Jump Spells to deal with the walls to get around. Either way, your advantage. The whole base is a little off-meta in terms of general setup to make the attacker attack outside their comfort zone since most bases are the same right now for Builders Workshop which leads to a certain automatism in most attacks this base will easily wipe up.

Not too many options upon the start so spread everything to gain advantage.

You still use the same basic technique at Dragon Cliff Level 2, you spread as much as possible to prevent that splash gains extra value and also benefit from the time in between. There's no use in starting to make fancy setups, this will work best so far.

This layout will annoy the attacker so much with the maze entry and Dragon Posts in the backend against Inferno Dragon approaches. Also Hog Riders have to deal with the centralized Blast Bow and the splash defenses that are in effective strategic positions.

This layout has a couple of effective defensive surprises for the attacker in place to defend as its best capabilities – the open walls will trick the Battle Ram pathing while the high-DPS areas work effectively against Golems. The Miners and Hogs are being dealt with through effective trap placements and there is not much Graveyard value thanks to the placement of the splash defenses.

The wall setups are preventing jumping in easily or using Battle Rams to the attackers' advantage to force entry through a single angle. The Super Dragon Posts near the entrance will just annihilate Miners if the attacker really should think about using them and the key defenses in general are well-protected to deal as much DPS as possible to turn into your favor. No funky hidden spots, this is all it takes for Dragon Cliffs in 2026.

There's not much you can do at this point then just group up everything so the defenses will protect each other as much as possible.

Works better now when you spread up the structures as you can finally create some intersections with the walls.

This layout focus on using trash walls and a engineered wall setup to make it really expensive for the attacker to actually break into the walls. The Multi Mortals are also set up in a way to deal with all ground attacks effortlessly.

THis layout gives attackers very little Graveyard value due to the Mortal placements and has bait traps against Miners and Hogs in place that will hurt them no matter what. There are several wall sections that will mess with Cart pathing and several anti-Sparky placements.

To make this layout work well and effective, the splash defenses are spread evenly around the base to prevent any hotspots that are easy to neutralize by the attacker - the attacker has to deal with the constant splash damage the whole time which is pressuring. The buildings with high hitpoints are placed in the front of the defenses with high damage output. Sounds so easy, and actually that works best here in this district in 2026.

Pretty much ignore the vine areas at the first level and build the structures in the center area of the map.

The right side entry has a maze entry and overall a lot of trap placements focused to denfend Hog Rider and Graveyard. Also the defenses are positioned very effective against Graveyard.

This layout has a couple of effective defensive surprises for the attacker in place to defend as its best capabilities – the open walls will trick the Battle Ram pathing while the high-DPS areas work effectively against Golems. The Miners and Higs are being dealt with through effective trap placements and there is not much Graveyard value thanks to the placement of the splash defenses.

The Reflectors on the entrances prevent easy access to the major compartments of the base. Also, the Wizard Towers and Bomb Towers are close to the major defenses to defend against Graveyard Spells and a lot of early traps make the attacker lose substantial troops going into the base. A Tesla Farm on the outside messes up clean-up troops and potentially pathing of the main army as well. With major defenses nicely spread around the base and hard to reach it will be hard for the attacker to gain massive value with any special setup.

This new wall-heavy Skeleton Park Level 3 layout I just finished after a long time testing and finetuning has several great features. Wall designs to make attackers rams targets only through deeper walls in the base which then leads to having only two ways of entrances that are covered by giant canon and Rocket artillery. This way the troops will not reach the Minion hives too and having them covering both entrances help to defend against any type of attack nicely. Rapid rockets and Air bombs to defend Minion hives from rocket loon. Wizard towers near major defenses to kill graveyards as soon as possible. Zap traps for rams. Giant bombs and log traps for archer, Hogs and wizards and barbarians from the ram. District Hall to waste enemy time early on and giant Canon protected behind it. Far corner buildings for time fails make this layout a really strong one.

Rocket Artilleries covering the areas that have buildings with high hitpoints that potentially group up enemy troops for more value from the smaller splash defenses like Bomb Towers, Multi Mortars and Super Wizard Towers that are placed well to not give any Graveyard Spell value.

I normally take some time here to describe the defensive mechanisms of the layout, but in this case with the Goblin Mines Level 1, I can’t comment much as you want to keep it very simple here as there’s not much unlocked that you can use. The best bet here for you with this base is to try the Goblin Throwers being protected well and close down the bridges and entrances as well as possible.

The Goblin Throwers here are designed to keep the troops inside the area that deals a lot of damage to them while the Giant Cannon is well-protected. There is literally no Sparky value here and the Battle Rams will path through the closest walls without tanking much for the other troops which breaks a lot of attack attempts effectively.

The base layout is divided into three main compartments and with the Mortars as their major defense covering all other big defenses like Goblin Thrower in case the attacker want to drop the Graveyard Spell. With Air Defenses spread out evenly against Super Dragon approach that a lot of attackers choose in this district. There is literally no Super Dragon chain value with defenses having gaps between them and the ones connected to each other are connected in a way that Super Dragons can’t chain through them. The Spear Traps works effortlessly on Sneaky Archers and Zap Traps around closed walls bait Battle Rams. A lot of double-tile gaps between walls and major defenses to defend against Super Wizards and Sneaky Archer value. Finally Log Traps and Giant Bombs and small Bombs against Hog Riders and Miners.

In this base, Goblin Throwers in high damage areas do distract the troops there which works like a charm while the attacking troops are literally under fire. The key defenses are well-protected, not exploitable and in positions where they get most value.