It's been a long time since I've actively played Boom Beach, which is what this blog was originally about. Instead, I am spending most of my free time playing Clash Royale. Checking the blog, it's been at least two years. It's a great game!

I'm also playing Minecraft more than usual, especially now that they unified most of the different platforms. It makes it much easier to play with friends, and I try to meet up on several different Minecraft servers to play.

My favorite two servers to play on are Hypixel and PrimeMC. Hypixel in particular does a great job with incredible maps and storylines. There are lots of mini-games, leaderboards, and forums for the community. It's worth taking a look!

If Suz Tzu, the legendary military strategist and tactician, played Clash Royale, here's what he'd do. Some tips and advice for Clash Royale from Supercell, the makers of Boom Beach.

Be Patient With Your Attacking Approach

Clash Royale takes the Clash of Clans formula and mashes it up with card fighting mechanics. Lots of magic attacks and exactly the same troops you’re comfortable with are included here in trading card form. On the battleground, it might seem like a great idea to rush the strike as quickly as possible and take your opponent down. But during the opening moments of a match, start out slow with your offensive strategy. Don’t freak out too much when you discover your towers are getting assaulted; remain serene and send out your troops according to your strategic plans and the flow of the Clash Royale deck you created.. When you do take down a minimum of one Rival Tower, that’s the time where you catch the win as quickly as possible and should ramp up your strike. As the time winds down to seconds and its last minute, the speed where your Elixir refills will double. This provides you with an opportunity to put even more troops on the field than before.

Smash it With Fireballs and Arrows when You’re Ready to Place Waste to the King’s Tower

Here’s an important suggestion that you’ll must take heed of – once one of your adversaries’ Competition Towers drop, its King’s Tower begins assaulting you. That super significant tower will also start attacking you once you hit them first. If you think the King’s Towers’ strikes are starting to rev up or you’re prepared to beat ’ em, throw some fireballs and arrows its manner. The King’s Tower is a foe that is powerful, but a mixture of those strikes plus the aids of troops which are already on the field should whittle down its health in no time. Your set of fireballs and arrows should just be used on the King’s Tower to be quite honest. Using those strike cards in any way that is other works just as well.

Don't be a Moron - Use Your Elixir Intelligently

Although I don't imagine Sun Tzu using the word, "moron" I think it applies here when you work with Elixir in Clash Royale. It's critically important to the flow of battle, so don't be stupid with how you manage it.

Pay close attention to your Elixir meter as you pull out new cards and drop them in the battle. Fight the impulse to put a powerful troop out on day one of a match; play with the type of cards who’s value reaches up to a max level of four. Use smaller units in order to flood the battleground and whittle down your foe’s tower health. It to let your towers wipe out the smaller troops assaulting them instead of spending a card to be spawned by Elixir in order to overcome them. You should just spend some Elixir to spawn a powerful troop when you realize you’ll have enough to spend on another troop right after. Do’t be the sort of player who has little to none to work with against an overwhelming force and overspends Elixir.

The Greatest Troop Cards You’ll Have To Use

When it comes to the troop cards you’ll want to unquestionably carry into battle, we now have a few favorites. Goblins and Super Goblins are affordable when it comes to spending Elixir, so it’s not difficult to throw a bunch of ’em on the battleground. Archers are great long-range troops who you should set up near your towers. Baby Dragons can avoid the strikes of some troops, plus its fireball strikes have the ability to wipe out more than one troop at once. Barbarians pack a lot of HP, making them excellent “Tank” type characters who continue a superb while and can tear up enemy troops fast. Golems are the strongest troop type there is throw one out near the termination moments of a match to nab the triumph ASAP. Giant Skeleton, Minion Horde, Wizard and Prince cards come in handy also, thus adopt a strategy for them that works for you.

Getting New Cards Takes Some Time, So Here’s How Long You’ll Need Certainly To Wait for Those New Chests to Open

If you’re pressed for time, chances are high that you’re gonna spend a number of jewels to open newly got chests up promptly. You’ll be allowed access to cards that are new simply by cracking open any chests that come into your possession. You ’ll be fortunate enough to get a Rare or Epic type card. Then you definitely should’t if you’re patient have much of an issue waiting the allotted time needed for a torso to reveal it’s goods. Free Chests open up when you get ’em (you’ll get a brand new one every four hours), plus Silver Chests take three hours to open. Gold Chests take eight hours, Magic Chests take 12 hours and Crown Chests open up immediately (you’ll get a brand new one every 24 hours). For the last two torso kinds in the game, Giant Chests take Super Magic Chests and 12 hours take 24 hours to open.

The Greatest Time to Break Out Your Poison Spell

When you finally add the Poison enchantment card to your deck, make sure that you put it to use during one specific situation that occurs during every match. It’s best to hit this gaseous cloud of departure against them, when you find your towers becoming a bit flooded by enemy troops. This way you’ll have the ability to slow the march on incoming enemies and open them up for more assaults out of your towers. The Poison enchantment card also helps give your troops an advantage since they’ll have a less difficult time wiping out troops that are poisoned. The Poison enchantment card costs four points of Elixir, so when the time it should be simple to break it out.

Understand Your Building Cards!

Clash Royale’s cards depending on buildings comprises the Barbarian Hut, Tesla, Goblin Hut, Blast Tower, Tombstone, Inferno Tower, Cannon, X Bow and Elixir Collector. You should already have a hint about the advantages and capabilities behind these cards, if you’re a hardcore Battle of Families player. Our favored Building cards are the Barbarian Hut, Tesla and Elixir Collector. The Barbarian Hut helps periodically add more troops the Tesla is a great defensive building that just costs four points of Elixir to spawn and the Elixir Collector does an amazing job of giving your more Elixir than customary.

Be Smart About Your Gold Spending
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It’s far more efficient to be choosy about your upgrades, although it’s really tempting in the beginning to update every card you possibly can. Typically, I’d stick to updating cards that are mostly common since they are more economical. Also, only use your gold to update cards you know you use frequently and like. Free chests get to you personally at regular intervals and you get a torso when you win a battle so you will be capable of update other cards along the way in the goodies you get in those chests. Gold is truly tough to come by in the game, so being careful about how you spend it will make a difference for your deck and the variety of conflicts you win. 

After taking a break from Boom Beach for a while, I installed Supercell's latest game, Clash Royale. It's a fantastic card battle game with a great mix of real-time strategy. I love how instead of being turn-based, the game is played out in a series of 3:00 battles.

This, as it turns out, is the perfect amount of time for a quick match. Sometimes it runs an extra minute if the game is tied after the regular time runs out.

It's fun! Sometimes it's a little frustrating, like when you have a crappy Internet connection and you get temporarily kicked out of the game or are unable to respond to your opponent's moves in time.

Check out some Clash Royale cheats to learn the basics on strategy, tips, etc.

What do you think of the game?

New game coming from Supercell. It's called Smash Land and it looks a lot different than Clash of Clans and Boom Beach. It's bright and colorful with lots of friendly-looking characters that, um, smash things. Right now the game is only available in Canada and Australia. Looks like you have to be either way up North or Down Under to enjoy it for now.

Image courtesy of CheatsPulse.

Oh don't get me wrong. There are lots of different ways to attack in Boom Beach, including some fancy new variants like Scorchers + Tanks (skanks?) and the on-again/off-again RzM (Riflemen, Zooka, Medic), but the attack group I keep coming back is the always dependable TMed -- the nearly unstoppable combination of Tanks and Medics.
Here's why I like them:

• High survivability. The likelihood of losing troops in this attack is low, meaning that you can quickly move onto the next attack. Try that with riflemen or warriors. Spend less time waiting and more time dominating.
  
• Invulnerable to nearly everything. Yes, you have to take out the Boom Cannons, and that might be a strain on your Gunboat energy. But with constant heals coming in from the medics, your tanks are pretty much unstoppable.
• Pew! Pew! Pew!

 Effective Boom Beach Offensive Strategy Guide
You will find two chief elements to having an effective offensive strategy: the deciding of your army makeup and arrangement of deployment, and the use of the special capabilities of the Gunboat.

Gunboat

The Gunboat has special capabilities that can aid and support your troops. It must be noted, however, that all dangerous skills and the stun capability allow for friendly fire.

The most often used are Artillery and Barrage. Both these deal damage to the opponent 's buildings. It is wise to ruin essential defenses like Boom Cannons and Cannons before deploying troops. Nevertheless, this order may change according to the kinds of troops you intend to deploy. It must be noted that shells from both of these bargain splash damage to enemy buildings; two or more buildings that touch can be damaged by one shell.

For militaries consisting of lower-health units, for example Riflemen and Zookas, defensive buildings should be targeted in this arrangement (with Artillery and/or Barrages), with number one taking the greatest precedence:

Rocket Launchers, due to splash damage and high range. Just one series of shots may be able to wipe out most of a military that contains low health units.

Ability to one, and mortars, because of splash damage hit Zookas with rocketlaunchers range.

Flamethrowers, because of their ability to inflict high damage to multiple units as well as their damage over time effect.

Sniper Towers, because of ability -shot lower- comparatively quick shooting speed and health units. Not as dangerous -health units as another defensive buildings, nevertheless.

Cannons are basically smaller Boom Cannons with a marginally higher rate of fire, and are consequently destroyed for precisely the same reasoning. If the Cannon in question can one-shot the troop(s) you plan to deploy, it might be advisable to prioritize the Cannon over a Boom Cannon, as they've similar health and the Cannon fires faster (and will thus kill more of your troops).

Machine Guns are able to make short work of low health units, particularly at close range, but the problem will be easily solved by a Heavy or multiple Heavies.

Boom Cannons can easily one-hit kill a health unit that is low, but swarming this defensive structure with enough units will easily make waste.

In this arrangement (with Artillery and/or Barrages), with number one taking the greatest precedence:, defensive buildings should be targeted for armies that rely on high health units, for example Tanks and Heavies

Boom Cannons' damage that is high and long range allow them to pick of your health units that are high seriously crippling your army.
Cannons can eat away at your heavies quite nicely and additionally deal high damage to high health units, but their shorter range prevents them from getting as numerous shots off before being destroyed, so that they should be prioritized after Boom Cannons.

Rocket Launchers have exceptionally long range and decent DPS splash damage allowing them to pummel all your Troops for quite a while. Also, if your Heavies get in DPS's spot, it'll start killing your fragile Zookas which have a range longer in relation to the Rocket Launcher's blind spot.

Sniper Towers deal decent, long range damage to your own Troops. Given enough time, troops can seriously damage your health Troops that are high, but their health that is higher than regular makes them advantageous to take out with Gunboat Weaponry.
Mortars have shots that drop slowly which may cause troops to fire over your Heavies as they move up which may result in a chunk of your Zookas.

Flamethrowers can deal high damage to chunks of Troops if they have been permitted to, but their ability to fire your Troops long enough to make a major difference is hindered by their short range. Tanks may even ruin it without it hitting any of them because Tanks have an extended strike range in relation to the Flamethrower.
Machine Guns do such damage that is, inaccurate that is low, they're an extremely low threat to health units that are high.

Another exceptionally significant ability is the Flare, previously called the signal smoke. This ability is utilized to guide troops towards a designated place or to attack a specific building. The careful utilisation of the Flare is a good way to ruin the adversary's defensive buildings like the Sniper Tower and the Cannon that can just fire one target simultaneously. It must be noted, nonetheless, that the Flare may be used in conjunction with the Shock Bomb to ease a Warrior rush at the HQ.

The Shock Bomb and the Smoke Screen allow troops a chance at not being hit by defenses. The chief difference, nevertheless, is that troops are protected by the Smoke Screen from enemy fire within its area of effect (allowing troops to move through it but not shoot), while the Shock Bomb disables defenses within its area of effect. It is recommended to use these to disable and/or avoid the effect of high damage or splash damage units, depending on which army makeup can be used.

Troops can be cured with use of the Medkit. It must be noted that although it can be used to counteract the damage of splash damage defenses like Flamethrower, Machine Gun and the Mortar, it does not do much to counteract the damage -target defenses, particularly at higher degrees. They may be particularly useful when working with Flamethrowers, even after it's stopped shooting flames at troops as it deals damage to them.

Common Offensive Plays

Meatshielding
A meat shield is when you use health troops that are high in your front line of attack to defend your back line. Meatshield army's most common kind is the Heavy- Hooka or Zooka army. This is really useful against medium-degree bases with few high-dps single-shot defenses.

Racing
Usually used with Riflemen, attackers overwhelm opposing defenses with the sheer number of troops. Singleshot defenses are often no match for this army, but Flamethrowers, Mortars, and Rocket Launchers can damage and take out many troops simultaneously.

Sniping
A base that's laid out with the map's HQ at the back is vulnerable to being sniped. By sending around enemy defenses with Flares or Riflemen, a HQ with few defenses behind it is vulnerable to attack from your tree-covered areas behind the foundation. Use this to your benefit.

HQ Racing
Usually used with Warriors, supporting them with Shock Bombs and Smoke Screens and Flaring the HQ, the Warriors fast destroy the HQ as a result of their high damage. AOE (area of effect) and splash damage is generally cured back by the Warriors, but Cannons, high level Boom Cannons and Sniper Towers can 1 shot or 2 shot them remember to Shock Bomb these defenses. 

Each Wednesday at midnight GMT (8 pm ET, 5 pm PT) Dr. Terror arrives as part of a weekly event. To see his island, you need to have beaten Lt. Hammerman's Level 10 base. The weekly Dr. Terror event is a great way to get lots of resources, like Gold, Wood, Stone and Iron. It's also the only way (other than the Saturday Dr. Terror event) to get Dark Crystals, which you use to make really amazing statues. Dr. Terror kicks off at midnight tonight, so get ready!
P.S. I think the easiest way to beat the early Dr. Terror levels is with an all-warrior attack. Assuming you've got a high enough level HQ, Warriors are definitely the way to go. What say you?

The HQ is the hub of your island base. If your Headquarters gets destroyed, the attacking enemy wins the fight and can steal your resources. The Headquarters also is damaged whenever one of your base buildings is destroyed.

Headquarters Tips

• The enemy wins by destroying your Headquarters.
• By upgrading your Headquarters you unlock new features in Boom Beach.
• Your Headquarters receives damage everytime one of your buildings gets destroyed.

Boom Beach is an entertaining RTS fashion game for I pad and the iPhone which is from the exact same firm which makes the popular Clash of Clans game. This really is not exactly the same sort of technique game as order and defeat, but it really is an enjoyable fix for mobile gamers that desire to control a military in isle established war.

Boom Beach happens within an island environment with in-game money like diamonds, gold and jewels which perform a fundamental part in updating capacities, mounting an offense and assembling your protection. This can be nothing new for method games, but Boom Beach is greatly tipped to make the ball player pace the sport up and spend real world cash on in-program purchases to get more jewels, which could purchase additional resources.
If you unlock new structures, arms and troops without investing actual cash and desire to advance quicker you will need certainly to use these Boom Beach tips as well as tricks to have more pleasure and improvement quicker.

There aren't any Boom Beach cheats accessible at this time, and setting the clock forward will activate a telling a building is entire, but when time for the match it's going to be in procedure. No mixture of starting or shutting the game and altering the time operates as a Boom Beach cheat to construct quicker.


Since Boom Beach cheats are unthinkable, you will need certainly to work in your Boom Seaside strategy with these tricks to have improvement and more entertaining.

Assault While Building
As you development it can consider around two hours to update or include a creating, therefore it is crucial that you keep assaulting and researching while you're assembling. You may make new troops while updating and constructing in Boom Beach, but maybe not new boats so keep that at heart.

Undertaking while enjoying Boom Beach.

Besides multitasking, be sure the last activity you consider before placing the sport down is always to begin a develop or an update that'll take a little while. You are getting alarms when you're able to jump in and begin another constructing or update if you use telling.

In the early phases of Boom Beach gold is rich but wood is a popular commodity. If you strive to assemble a thing that you do not have enough wood for the sport will provide to market Diamonds being the materials used by you, but recall that diamonds are some thing you will require to purchase with actual cash down the street.

This can be a quite reasonable trade off in the early elements of the sport, notably if you assemble free hamlets and more homes to keep the gold flowing.

Update When Possible

You will get use of better battling ability, new crew members and quicker yields on gold and wood creation if you update your central offices, market, sniper towers and landing ships.

Updating the central offices is a wonderful spot to begin as it'll unlock each of the buildings. It is possible to get as much as a stage 5, where matters begin to open more if you begin doing this early.

Use Boom Beach Diamonds Sensibly

We'll clarify the best way to acquire some more Diamonds, but anticipate them to maintain low provide to persuade gamers to invest cash on a the free Growth Beach sport.

It might not sound right to use 7 Diamonds to make a creating finish forthwith, but you are able to regularly trade in 1-2 diamonds afterwards in the build procedure for an immediate gratification if you have to begin on something else. That's a substantially better spending choice.

Investigate and Construct a Radar

Just as you could assemble a radio detection and ranging. You'll be able to assault and unlock medallions, wood and gold after you are able to investigate. It charges gold to unlock components of the map, but there is certainly constantly more gold in these places.

Search for a chance to update the radio detection and ranging to enlarge your investigation. Be wise and discover a method to do this after you have unlocked about half the map with amount one Radar therefore you aren't adhered waiting around afterwards. Exploit on a creating to see cost and the update choices.

Scout Before a Strike

It really is tempting to dash into an assault, but if you do not understand what it seems like you might end up squandering sources and time and dropping troops. Use the free scout choice to see if you're able to take an isle before squandering gold having an assault that neglects or that you just should withdraw from.

Constructing new riflemen is inexpensive, fast and simple, but the significant gunners simply take more time, use them sensibly.

Assault the Base and Prevent Firearms

After you'll be able to direct your troops assault smartly to conserve lives time and assets. You will find many times when you're able to direct the troops remove the central offices to win the conflict, go-around the enemy and from the array of other weapons and to undertake one firearm.

Get Free Boom Beach Diamonds

There are two methods to get free Boom Beach diamonds. They equally take time and in-sport resources, but they're better than investing in them with actual cash.

Exploit on the three-star icon in the upper-left to see accomplishments. Unlocking these will make free Boom Beach diamonds.

Another means would be to research the map. Eventually you are going to encounter a torso of free Boom Beach diamonds that'll assist you to get to the enjoyable parts quicker.

Assemble a Great Shield

You do not require to worry about assaults when you begin playing Boom Beach, but ultimately gamers and other pc characters will assault you.

Take a look at the isles you discover and overcome from their weaknesses. Gamers will be served by multiple levels of shield with various kinds of weapons systems best.

You'll Be Able To Go Buildings After

Unlike conventional strategy games it's potential to proceed buildings afterwards.

Harness on a building and trail to move it about on the map.

Update Attackers

When potential update landing crafts and the gunboats. Carrying this out will enable them to take more troops or fireplace quicker or more commonly. This makes assaulting rougher isles simpler and you will shed fewer troops.

Updating the gunboat removes from assembling a brand new construction, but it truly is worth every penny.

Strike Ammo Regenerates therefore Use it

When you assault an isle blowing up some structures will provide you with more ammo for the gunboat.

Utilize it, if you get it. The new ammo doesn't carry over to the following strike. Simply be sure to utilize it sensibly or you are going to run out too quickly.

Raise Your Vault

At first a vault appears like an unneeded expense, but you will repent not constructing a vault once your foundation comes under-attack.

And you will require it to reconstruct and get ready for other assaults.