Introduction

I've decided to create a blog for Castle Clash, since I have been writing a bit about it.  Often I go looking for CC information on the web, and can't find what I want.  Some info is out there -- the CC wiki is decent, but by no means great.  And reddit often has useful info.  But I have noticed not much blogging about it, meaning very little information outside of those two places.  Indeed, I found my current guild, Acadian Clashers, via google searching for info about the game.  Our leader has webbed some useful information.  It boggles my mind that there are not other guilds out there with such information posted, but there don't seem to be.

A bit about me, then.

I am an old strategy gamer from way back.  Other games I have enjoyed recently are EVE (I blogged about that too), and Clash of Clans, though I never blogged about that.  CoC is a great game, by the way, in its clan wars.  The problem is that my clan got old and ceased to have enough people interested in wars... and the raiding game in CoC is not much fun.  I could get a new clan, I guess, but I have not done so.  In fact CoC is not even on my phone right now.

I am playing CC mainly because it offers me interesting tactical puzzles in small chunks.  This is what raids, expeditions, and guild wars are.  It also offers a strategic level of planning for some subgames, as for example attempting to optimize your team for Boss 5 (the Centaur boss and Rage Goblin team).  I enjoy thinking about this kind of stuff.

In CC, I am a free to play (FtP) player.  I have never bought a gem, although I did scrounge a few free gems by watching stupid videos and suchlike when I was first playing.  I have not even bought the $0.99 Phantom King pack, which seems like a pretty great deal.

As a FtP, I don't have maxxed out heroes and I don't have anywhere near a full collection.  However, I started playing Clash about a year and a half ago, and have been playing steadily since.  So I do have fairly strong heroes, and I do have a decent set of them.  Of the more common top level heroes, I lack a Skull Knight, a Dread Drake, and Vlad.