Passing Trials:

• All trial screenshots, unless specified otherwise, should be posed to the Gladius Trials Board on BAND. 

• When posting trial screenshots to BAND, mention which trial you passed in the title.

• When posting multiple screenshots related to the same trial at different times, add the additional screenshots as comments to the original post. 

• If you do not receive a response after 24 hours, please consult an Elder in-game.

 

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Reading the Rules:

• Before participating in war, click here to read the  Gladius War Rules and become familiar with our tactics. 

 

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Here in Gladius we have 4 different types of trials: "Introduction", "Farming", "War" and "Improvement"

"INTRODUCTION" Trials

 

 Challenge G1: Gladius Welcome
 

 

Challenge G1(a) - Tell Us You're Starting! 

• Within 24 hours of joining take screenshots of your player profile showing your Gold Grab and War Hero achievements.

• Post these screenshots to the Gladius Trials Board with the comment: "I'm starting my trials!"

Challenge G1(b) - Introducing Yourself

 On the Gladius Members Board* post a brief introduction including:

• Your Name

• Age

• Location

• Something about yourself

• A clash phobia (so we can fix it!)

• If you could be any troop, what would you be and why?

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*Please Note: this is the only trial post that should be made on the Gladius Members Board, all other trial posts should be made on the Gladius Trials Board.

 

Challenge G2: Prepare Yourself

 

Challenge G2(a) - War Base

• During your first Preparation Day as a Gladius member, edit your War Base to include:

  • A centralized and unlureable clan castle

  • Centralized heroes

• It is also strong suggested you take the placement of certain traps and defenses into account:

  • Giant Bomb: These should be placed in pairs with lots of possible locations for them around the base as to not allow the enemy to pick out their exact location. In pairs these traps kill Hogs within their range immediately when they both go off at the same time.

  • Air Defenses: These defenses should be places at least within the second layer of the base as to keep the attacker from quickly disposing of them and leaving your base vulnerable to a full air raid.

  • Hidden Teslas: Well placed hidden teslas can ruin a GoWiPe raid by either distracting the golems and leading them astray, or by killing the pekka quickly before it reaches the town hall.

• To receive advice, post your base on the Gladius War Board with the clan castle selected.

• After the base has been edited to meet the above requirements, post a screenshot of the saved base with the clan castle selected and its range visible to the Gladius Trials Board. 

 

Challenge G2(b) - War Base Request

• During your first Preparation Day as a Gladius member, edit your War Base Request to best protect your base.  You may look around at other requests of long time members and graduates to see what is the best troop composition at that time and decide for yourself what troops you want in your clan castle. It is best to include at least one high HP troop with the introduction of the poison spell.

• Troop Descriptions:

  • Dragons: High health means it can't be taken out by a lightning or poison spell, and does splash damage to both air and ground targets.

  • Balloons: High damage per shot and flying makes this troop effective against GoWiPe raids, but not recommended for bases attacked frequently by dragons.

  • Lava Hound: Has very high HP that becomes a great distraction for the enemy's Archer Queen and does significant damage and distraction when it pops and the Pups are released. Not reccomended for high TH9s as raiders can completely ignore it as the Hound has extremely low DPS.

  • Once you have completed the trial, post a screenshot of the War Map with your base selected and request text visible to the Gladius Trials Board.

 

Challenge G2(c) - Using ClashTrack

• Soon after war has been declared, ClashTrack will be set-up and clan mail sent out to notify everyone. 

• Please be familiar with the war rules by reading through them on the "War Headquarters" page.

• All war attacks must be approved before attacking by an Elder or Co. Any attack without approval will not count towards the war trials.

• Post your target on War Band for advice and approval.

• For this trial you will need to call/update your targets on ClashTrack. 

• To call a base, find an available base within your range and click "Call" to  reserve it.

• Once your attack has been completed you can click on the assignment and choose the stars won & key in the percentage achieved.

• Once you have updated ClashTrack for your second attack, take a screenshot of both of your attacks.

• Post the screenshot to the Gladius Trials Board once this trial has been completed.

 

Challenge G2(d) - War Weights

• Your war weight determines your position on the war map, and help determine clan matchups in clan wars.  War weight is based on gold-based upgrades and hero levels.  

• War weights range from 0 for TH1 to slightly over 100K for max TH11.  Typical war weights for Gladius are 53K - 80K.  

• Each defensive building level adds a different amount to your war weight.

• Because your war weight determines your position on the war map, war-focused players should undertake defensive upgrades very cautiously, as they both move you up the war map and increase the level of opponent the clan faces.

• As a result, Gladius strongly encourages the TH8.5 / TH9.5 strategy - where offensive upgrades are undertaken before the majority of defensive upgrades.

• It should be noted that X-Bows and Inferno Towers have the largest impact of any defensive buildings on war weights, so they should be built only once you are certain you are ready to move up the war map.

• There are two methods to determine war weight:

1. Gold Storages - During war day, your gold storages and town hall will contain a certain amount of gold. The sum of these is your war weight.  If all of your gold storages are Lv11, you may look at the level of gold in one storage and multiply by 5 (4 storages + TH).  If any storage is a lower level, you will need to calculate your war weight by adding up the gold in each storage and your town hall individually.

2. Replays - When attacked by an opponent of the same town hall level as you, the gold available at the start of the replay is your war weight.

• During war day or after war ends, determine your war weight.

• Post your war weight to the Gladius Trials Board with a screenshot of the method you used to calculate your war weight (a screenshot of the info screen of a gold storage, or a screenshot of the start of a defensive replay). In addition to the screenshot, be sure to include in the text of the post (or in a comment) "My war weight is X"
   

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"FARMING" Trials

 

Challenge G3: Magic Potion
 

• Collect 1,000,000 Elixir within ONE HOUR, including troop training costs.

• Gem usage, in any form, is prohibited for this challenge.

• Boosted Barracks, Spell Factory, Heroes or Mines are prohibited for this challenge.

• The one hour will be based on upgrades within the game.

• Going over one hour will result in a fail.

• To begin this trial:

1. Empty your Elixir Pumps and Clan Castle War Loot.

2. Take a screenshot of the ENTIRE base that shows both your gem and elixir count.

3. IMMEDIATELY take a second screenshot of the timer inside the lab, or a closeup of an upgrade that is under 24 hours remaining. (If nothing is available under 24 hours and your lab is not in use, consider upgrading a trap to begin.)

• Before ONE HOUR is up, take two more screenshots as in steps 2 and 3 above.

• Once all four screenshots have been taken and you have completed the trial, post them to the Gladius Trials Board.

• If your elixir storages are full or you don't have any upgrades left with a timer, please discuss with an Elder before beginning this trial.  Using any method of counting elixir other than the screenshots listed above requires prior approval from an Elder or above.

• If you do not have any lab upgrades that can be done, and there are no upgrades under 24 hours, and there are no traps to upgrade, please discuss with an Elder before beginning this trial.  Using any method of counting time other than the screenshots listed above requires prior approval from an Elder or above.

 

Challenge G4: Golden Child

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• Must attack a th7+

• Gain 200k+ gold on each of the three raids.

• There will need to be three separate raids to pass this trial and each raid will require a different troop composition.

• Choose 3 of the 4 below compositions to use in this trial:

1. BAM - Barbarians, Archers & Minions

   • Your army must consist of at least 20 Barbarians, 20 Archers and 10 Minions including Clan Castle troops.

2. BAG - Barbarians, Archers & Goblins, optional: Wallbreakers

   • Your army must consist of at least 20 Barbarians, 20 Archers and 20 Goblins including Clan Castle troop.

3. Giant/WB - Giants, Wallbreakers & Goblins, optional: Healer, Archers

   • Your army must consist of at least 5 Giants, 2 Wallbreakers and 10 Goblins including Clan Castle troops.

4. Balloonion - Balloons & Minions 

   • Your army must consist of at least 10 Balloons and 10 Minions including Clan Castle troops.

• To pass for a raid you must use all of the mentioned type and cannot use any addition troop types that are not mentioned above.

• You may not use your Heroes during these raids. 

• You may use only ONE spell per raid.

• If you would like to use your Clan Castle ensure it only holds the correct types of troops for the raid you're doing.

• Take screen shots of the end battle screen or the end of the replay once the raid is completed. 

• Post all 3 screen shots to the Gladius Trials Board once the trial is completed.

 

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Challenge G5: Dark Ninja

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• Raid 5 separate villages for Dark Elixir.  TH8s must raid for 1500 each raid, TH9+ must raid for 2000 each raid.

• For two of the five raids, you may not use any heroes.

• Use of the Rage Spell is encouraged but not necessary.

• Take a screenshot of the end battle screen (directly after the raid or at the end of a replay) once the raid is completed.

• You should have a total of 5 screenshots.

• Post the screenshots to the Gladius Trials Board once this trial is completed.

 

 

"WAR" Trials

Any missed war attacks during the trial period will result in a kick from the clan.

 

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Challenge G6: Stride Forth 

• In 3 separate Clan Wars, you must achieve a successful attack using 3 different strategies, and must achieve at least one 3-star attack.

  
  Only attacks approved by an elder in advance may count toward this trial.
  
  A successful attack is defined as:

  • 3-star on a Town Hall 8 base

  • 2-star on a Town Hall 9 base

  • 2-star on a Town Hall 10 or higher base

   

  Strategies for the trial includes:

  Ground Strategies

  • GoWi – Your army must consist of at least 2 Golems, and 10 Wizards

  • GoWiVa – Your army must consist of at least 1 Golems, 10 Wizards and 10 Valks

  • GoHoWi – Your army must consist of at least 1 Golem, 10 Hogs and 10 Wizards.

  • GoHoVa - Your army must consist of at least 1 Golem, 5 Hogs and 5 Valks.

  • GoWiWi - Your army must consist of at least 1 Golem, 2 Witches, and 10 Wizards. Useful tips can be found HERE.

  • GoVaPe - Your army must consist of at least 1 Golem, 6 Valkyries, 2 Pekkas,

  • GoWiPe - Your army must consist of at least 1 Golem, 2 PEKKA's, and 10 Wizards. Useful tips can be found HERE.

  • GoWiWiVa - Your army must consist of at least 1 Golem , 2 Witches, 6 Valkyries, and 10 Wizards

  • GiHeHo – Your army must consist of at least 3 Healers, 5 Giants, 10 Hogs

  • Mass Valks - Your army must consist of at least 12 Valks

  • Bowlers - Your army must consist of at least 4 Bowlers (TH8) or 5 Bowlers (TH9+), plus support troops.

   

  * Can be used in conjunction with Healer Queen (Queen Walk or Queen Charge)

  * Minions are permissible as troops for funnelling and clean up.

   

  Air Attack / Hybrid Air Attack

  • Max Attack (GoLavaLoon) – Your army must consist of a least 1 Golem, 2 Lava Hounds

  • Quad/PentaLavaLoon - Your army must consist of 4 or 5 Lava Hounds.

  • GoVaLoon - Your army must consist of at least 1 Golem, 5 Valks, 10 Loons

  • DragLoon - Your army must consist of at least 6 dragons, 5 Loons

  • Hybrid Air Attack  - Air troops takes up 30% of your army composition (not inclusive of healers)

  * Can be used in conjunction with Healer Queen (Queen Walk or Queen Charge)

  Other troop compositions may be allowed, with prior approval of a Co-Leader.
   

  Passing & Posting Requirement:

  • The three attacks of this trial must be completed in three separate active Gladius' Clan Wars within the trial period.

  • The 3 attacks must be a successful attack (as defined above), and one of the attacks must attain a 3 star.

  • Your troop composition and plan must be approved by an Elder before any War Attack.

  • A total of six screenshots are required to pass this trial. For each attack, take one screenshot of the intact base to verify the Town Hall level and the other of the end battle screen to show the result of the attack.

  • Post all six screenshots to the Gladius Trials Board once this trial is completed.

   

  NOTE: You may begin G6 at any time (in fact, you should start it immediately!), but trial G2a, G2b, and G2c must be completed and passed before G6 will be passed.  Please double-check the control sheet here to confirm G2 has been passed.

   

• If you are a Town Hall 10, you do not need to worry about using three different strategies. Your only concern would be getting the amount of stars on a war attack for it to pass.

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Challenge G7: Family Honour

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• Support your clan's war efforts by participating in at least two wars during your 10 day trial period and attacking twice in both 

• Before any war attack, confirm your target and troop composition with an elder. 

• After completing both attacks in each war, take a screenshot from War Log => Details => Blue Star => My Clan Tab to clearly show both attacks and targets.

• You should have a total of 2 screenshots (1 from each war) to pass this trial.

• Post both screen shots on the Gladius Trials Board once completed.

 

 

 

"IMPROVEMENT" Trials

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 Challenge G8: Gold Star

Challenge G8a - Gold Looter!

• Improve your Gold Grab achievement by 12 Million Gold in 10 Days.

• After this trial is completed, take a screenshot of your profile showing your Gold Grab and post it to the Gladius Trials Board.

 
 

Challenge G8b - Star Player!

• Gain stars for your War Hero achievement in 10 days:

  • Town Hall 10: 6 Stars

  • Town Hall 9:   7 Stars

  • Town Hall 8:   8 Stars 

 

• After this trial is completed, take a screenshot of your profile showing your War Hero achievement and post it to the Gladius Trials Board. 

 

 

Challenge G9 - Community Fellow

 

• Donate a minimum of 1200 troops and request a minimum of 1200 troops during your 10 trial days.

• Once you have the above requirements completed, post a screenshot of your player profile to the Gladius Trials Board. If a season has reset during your trial period you may post two screenshots of the two separate season totals.

 

 

Challenge G10 - Stand Proud

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• After completing all of the above trials, please join the Centum Reviews Board and post your review of your trials experience. Include the signature image at the bottom of this page in your post.

• Copy the review of your experience onto the Gladius Trials Board for approval and Graduation!

• NOTE: You must wait for Elder approval to proceed to this trial.

        To Join the Gladius Review Board,   Click here

 

  

Congratulations, you have mastered GLADIUS, home of the brave! 

 

As a Gladius Graduate you are now ready to take on the coaching of Centum Arena. To prepare for the next step in your ''TH Experience'' to Arena contact andrew via a Private Message on BAND to be guided through your options!
 

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