We are currently trying out a new strategy in war.
Now that our clan has evolved into a higher level clan with mostly TH8's and more TH9's, we have noticed a large portion of our opponents using this method. A few months ago, Shaun1467 had mentioned us trying this, and we considered it but did not implement it, partly because I believe we did not have a firm grasp of the theory behind it.
The theory on this method is that at our level it becomes necessary to harvest stars from the TH9 opponents on the war map. This is very difficult to accomplish by attacking your equal. So here is the theory:
We use our top players to 3-star the opponents' TH9 bases. Then each player's target in essecnce drops by that number of spots. ie, however many TH10's we have, will be the number of spots we drop down to attack.
Lately, it has been 3. So we have 3 TH10's: Kimber, Crom, and Josh. Kimber would take the highest TH9, Crom the 2nd highest, and Josh the 3rd.
After that, our TH9's would go in succession, taking the opponents 3 spots below their's. This will also allow (usually) for a Th9 to 3-star the opponent's highest TH8's, which is normally a very difficult task for a TH8. We have had much success recently with getting 3 stars on MOST TH8 bases, but the maxed TH8's continue to be tougher for a Th8 to 3-star.
Under our previous war map management with attacking our equal, we would usually have several TH8 bases with 2 stars, and several TH9 bases with 1 star. Toward the end of the war, we would have the TH9's left to clean up the TH8's and the TH10's trying to clean up the Th9's. This theory reduces the number of cleanup attacks. And as noted, we have seen more and more opponents using this strategy effectively.
So let's give it a try and see how it works. We are open for feedback on this if anyone has any ideas.