What is the best TH13 base layout?

The strongest Town Hall 13 layout depends on your goal: an anti-3-star war base keeps the Town Hall and key defenses in separate walled compartments; a farming base buries storages instead; a hybrid base balances both. Explore each TH13 layout interactively above to see what it's weak to.

What do you unlock at Town Hall 13?

Town Hall 13 unlocks Scattershot, plus extra copies of existing buildings and new upgrade levels — the full list is in the "What changes at Town Hall 13" table.

What armies attack TH13 in the current meta?

The most common TH13 attacks right now are Pekka Smash (BoBat), RC Charge Dragons, Sui Lalo. Build your base against these — full compositions are on the TH13 attack strategies page.

All base layouts

Base layouts

Best Town Hall 13 base layouts

6 fully interactive TH13 layouts — inspect every building, toggle defense ranges, see what each base is weak to, then customize it in the builder.

TH13 unlocks & max levels TH13 attack strategies

13 bases — interactive layouts open in the viewer, copy links open in your game

“Aegis 13”

Waranti-3-starwarcwl

An anti-3-star war layout for Town Hall 13: the Town Hall and Clan Castle sit in the walled core, key defenses are split across compartments so one spell package can't clear them, and Air Defenses are spread into separate quadrants against zap-quake.

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Customize in base builder Hover to identify · click to inspect

Design score 90/100

16 compartments · Town Hall walled in · 52/52 defenses placed

Ground coverage100%

Air coverage100%

Near-total air coverage over the base footprint.
Splash damage is distributed across the layout.
16 walled compartments break up ground pathing.
Deep, central Town Hall — expensive to reach.

Watch out for

Zap-quake (Lightning + Earthquake). Two Air Defenses sit 7 tiles apart — close enough for one spell package to take both.
Spell value (Freeze / Lightning stacks). 2 pairs of key defenses sit inside a single spell radius.

Scored by the Clashest base analyzer — geometry heuristics (coverage, spacing, compartments) computed from official building data, not battle statistics.

TH13 farming base #1

TH13 trophy base #2

TH13 trophy base #3

TH13 trophy base #4

TH13 war base #5

TH13 war base #6

TH13 war base #7

Copy links open Clash of Clans on your device with the layout ready to place — they're created and shared by their designers in game, so there's no preview here until you open them.

What changes at Town Hall 13

Straight from the game data — the buildings you unlock, the extra copies you get, and where your level caps move when you reach TH13.

New unlocks

Scattershot×2

Extra copies

Bomb+1 → 7

Seeking Air Mine+1 → 7

Spring Trap+1 → 9

Walls300

TH13 max building levels

Building	Count	Max level at TH13	Change
Army Camp	×4	11	10 → 11
Barracks	×1	15	14 → 15
Blacksmith	×1	6	5 → 6
Clan Castle	×1	9	8 → 9
Dark Barracks	×1	10	9 → 10
Dark Spell Factory	×1	6	—
Helper Hut	×1	1	—
Hero Hall	×1	7	6 → 7
Laboratory	×1	11	10 → 11
Spell Factory	×1	7	6 → 7
Workshop	×1	5	3 → 5
Air Defense	×4	11	10 → 11
Air Sweeper	×2	7	—
Archer Tower	×8	19	17 → 19
Bomb Tower	×2	8	7 → 8
Builder's Hut	×5	1	—
Cannon	×7	19	17 → 19
Eagle Artillery	×1	4	3 → 4
Hidden Tesla	×5	12	10 → 12
Inferno Tower	×3	7	6 → 7
Mortar	×4	13	12 → 13
Scattershot	×2	2	new
Wizard Tower	×5	13	11 → 13
X-Bow	×4	8	6 → 8
Dark Elixir Drill	×3	9	—
Dark Elixir Storage	×1	8	7 → 8
Elixir Collector	×7	15	—
Elixir Storage	×4	14	13 → 14
Gold Mine	×7	15	—
Gold Storage	×4	14	13 → 14
Air Bomb	×6	8	6 → 8
Bomb	×7	9	8 → 9
Giant Bomb	×6	7	5 → 7
Seeking Air Mine	×7	4	3 → 4
Skeleton Trap	×3	4	—
Spring Trap	×9	8	7 → 8
Tornado Trap	×1	3	—

28 buildings gain new levels at TH13. Source: official game data (footprints, counts and level caps), regenerated each game update.

Base design at TH13: what matters

War Base

War

Deny the enemy all three stars.

Centralise the Town Hall — a core TH forces the attacker to break every ring of walls to reach it.
Spread your splash defenses (Wizard Towers, Bomb Towers, Multi-Archer) so one Freeze or Rage can't neutralise the whole core.
Compartmentalise walls into many small cells to slow Wall Breakers and stop Root Riders / Hog Rider pathing.

Farming Base

Farming

Protect your storages and Dark Elixir.

Centre the Dark Elixir storage — it's the slowest resource to farm and the one raiders want most.
Distribute Gold and Elixir storages into separate compartments so a single push can't reach them all.
An exposed or edge Town Hall can trade a shield-granting star for saved loot while you're offline.

Hybrid / Trophy Base

Hybrid

Balance loot protection with trophy defense.

Keep the Town Hall central-ish so defenders lose trophies to give it up.
Ring key defenses around a protected storage + TH core.
Balance compartments so neither loot nor the TH is trivially exposed.

Armies that attack TH13

The current meta attack strategies at Town Hall 13 — build your base against these, or take them to war yourself.

Pekka Smash (BoBat)

Medium

War / 3-star · #1 at TH13

A two-pronged attack: the Pekka-Bowler front is strong enough to be a real threat, so the bat wave arrives unopposed. Blueprint's top TH13 pick because both halves independently do two-star damage.

RC Charge Dragons

Hard

War / 3-star · #2 at TH13

The Royal Champion is the cheapest way to kill Air Defenses at TH13, and every one she takes makes the Dragon phase exponentially safer. High skill, but it beats the anti-air rings that stop plain mass Dragons.

Sui Lalo

Hard

War / 3-star · #3 at TH13

Trading the ground heroes for the Eagle and core anti-air leaves TH13's skies wide open for the Loon ring. The classic pro-style attack at this hall — unforgiving of timing errors, devastating when clean.

Yeti Super Wizard Smash

Medium

War / 3-star · #4 at TH13

Yetis soak while their Yetimites and the Super Wizard chains vaporize everything in the lane — it's a bulldozer with almost no routing decisions. The easiest of TH13's top-tier war armies to actually execute.

All base layouts

Base layouts

Best Town Hall 13 base layouts

6 fully interactive TH13 layouts — inspect every building, toggle defense ranges, see what each base is weak to, then customize it in the builder.

TH13 unlocks & max levels TH13 attack strategies

13 bases — interactive layouts open in the viewer, copy links open in your game

“Aegis 13”

Waranti-3-starwarcwl

100%

Customize in base builder Hover to identify · click to inspect

Design score 90/100

16 compartments · Town Hall walled in · 52/52 defenses placed

Ground coverage100%

Air coverage100%

Near-total air coverage over the base footprint.
Splash damage is distributed across the layout.
16 walled compartments break up ground pathing.
Deep, central Town Hall — expensive to reach.

Watch out for

Zap-quake (Lightning + Earthquake). Two Air Defenses sit 7 tiles apart — close enough for one spell package to take both.
Spell value (Freeze / Lightning stacks). 2 pairs of key defenses sit inside a single spell radius.

Scored by the Clashest base analyzer — geometry heuristics (coverage, spacing, compartments) computed from official building data, not battle statistics.

TH13 farming base #1

TH13 trophy base #2

TH13 trophy base #3

TH13 trophy base #4

TH13 war base #5

TH13 war base #6

TH13 war base #7

Copy links open Clash of Clans on your device with the layout ready to place — they're created and shared by their designers in game, so there's no preview here until you open them.

What changes at Town Hall 13

Straight from the game data — the buildings you unlock, the extra copies you get, and where your level caps move when you reach TH13.

New unlocks

Scattershot×2

Extra copies

Bomb+1 → 7

Seeking Air Mine+1 → 7

Spring Trap+1 → 9

Walls300

TH13 max building levels

Building	Count	Max level at TH13	Change
Army Camp	×4	11	10 → 11
Barracks	×1	15	14 → 15
Blacksmith	×1	6	5 → 6
Clan Castle	×1	9	8 → 9
Dark Barracks	×1	10	9 → 10
Dark Spell Factory	×1	6	—
Helper Hut	×1	1	—
Hero Hall	×1	7	6 → 7
Laboratory	×1	11	10 → 11
Spell Factory	×1	7	6 → 7
Workshop	×1	5	3 → 5
Air Defense	×4	11	10 → 11
Air Sweeper	×2	7	—
Archer Tower	×8	19	17 → 19
Bomb Tower	×2	8	7 → 8
Builder's Hut	×5	1	—
Cannon	×7	19	17 → 19
Eagle Artillery	×1	4	3 → 4
Hidden Tesla	×5	12	10 → 12
Inferno Tower	×3	7	6 → 7
Mortar	×4	13	12 → 13
Scattershot	×2	2	new
Wizard Tower	×5	13	11 → 13
X-Bow	×4	8	6 → 8
Dark Elixir Drill	×3	9	—
Dark Elixir Storage	×1	8	7 → 8
Elixir Collector	×7	15	—
Elixir Storage	×4	14	13 → 14
Gold Mine	×7	15	—
Gold Storage	×4	14	13 → 14
Air Bomb	×6	8	6 → 8
Bomb	×7	9	8 → 9
Giant Bomb	×6	7	5 → 7
Seeking Air Mine	×7	4	3 → 4
Skeleton Trap	×3	4	—
Spring Trap	×9	8	7 → 8
Tornado Trap	×1	3	—

28 buildings gain new levels at TH13. Source: official game data (footprints, counts and level caps), regenerated each game update.

Base design at TH13: what matters

War Base

War

Deny the enemy all three stars.

Centralise the Town Hall — a core TH forces the attacker to break every ring of walls to reach it.
Spread your splash defenses (Wizard Towers, Bomb Towers, Multi-Archer) so one Freeze or Rage can't neutralise the whole core.
Compartmentalise walls into many small cells to slow Wall Breakers and stop Root Riders / Hog Rider pathing.

Farming Base

Farming

Protect your storages and Dark Elixir.

Centre the Dark Elixir storage — it's the slowest resource to farm and the one raiders want most.
Distribute Gold and Elixir storages into separate compartments so a single push can't reach them all.
An exposed or edge Town Hall can trade a shield-granting star for saved loot while you're offline.

Hybrid / Trophy Base

Hybrid

Balance loot protection with trophy defense.

Keep the Town Hall central-ish so defenders lose trophies to give it up.
Ring key defenses around a protected storage + TH core.
Balance compartments so neither loot nor the TH is trivially exposed.

Armies that attack TH13

The current meta attack strategies at Town Hall 13 — build your base against these, or take them to war yourself.

Pekka Smash (BoBat)

Medium

War / 3-star · #1 at TH13

A two-pronged attack: the Pekka-Bowler front is strong enough to be a real threat, so the bat wave arrives unopposed. Blueprint's top TH13 pick because both halves independently do two-star damage.

RC Charge Dragons

Hard

War / 3-star · #2 at TH13

Sui Lalo

Hard

War / 3-star · #3 at TH13

Yeti Super Wizard Smash

Medium

War / 3-star · #4 at TH13