What is FWA?

The Farm War Alliance is a group of over 600+ (and climbing higher every day) clans whose primary goal is to match against each other in arranged wars. Our focus is to be able to harvest the free loot generated by the Clash system, easy stars and generous clan XP. Provided your clan’s weight, composition and start is done correctly, 96% of the time your clan will be matched with another FWA clan.

FWA (Farm War Alliance) consists of clans that range in weight from 3.9M to 7.2M

How do I recognize another FWA Clan?

All FWA clans MUST have their locations set to Lesotho and ‘💎’ included in their descriptions. The 💎 emoji is the official emoji of the Farm War Alliance. Also, to confirm your opponent is a valid FWA clan: 

- You can check the official Proud Clans of FWA list at http://www.farmwaralliance.org/FWAProud

- You can check the clan's association in Chocolate Clash by searching its clan tag at https://fwa.chocolateclash.com/cc_n/

- You can check the Members list of the FWA Leaders Band

All FWA clans must also have their War Log set to public. 

Responsibilities in FWA clans

As a Clan Member:

All clan members should set up and maintain an FWA Approved war base, attack properly in all wars, and NOT donate to war Clan Castles. You should also monitor your CC for any random troops, and delete immediately if found. If Battle Day begins and troops are still present in the war clan castle please inform your clan representative(s) in order to pass on the message to the opposing clan. Failure to follow FWA rules can result in you being kicked out of your clan (or if your clan leadership refuses to do so, the clan itself will be kicked), and possibly blacklisted across all the 600+ Farm War Alliance farming clans.

As a Leader of an FWA Clan:

The clan leader should appoint up to 3 more clan representatives who are active and able to enforce FWA rules within their clan for its members. They may also choose to not be a representative and appoint up to 4 more clan representatives instead. 

Clan leader responsibilities include;

• Checking to make sure everybody has an FWA approved farm base set as their active war base. Please Note; Any clan found to have multiple offending bases in a war will face sanctions set by the FWA Administration. Please refer to the Sanction section below.

• Making sure that clan members do not overstar. (80 stars in a 40 player war, 100 for 50 man war if losing/as agreed by both side if they are allowed to get extra)

• If you are a Rep- Communicating with your opponent clan regarding war matches via Band, confirming whether your clan wins or loses based on the FWA point system (see below) and if there are any base issues seen when you visit their clan or your own clans bases that you know have faults! This communication is highly important! Please make this communication an active part of each war.

• Making sure your clan members know whether your clan wins or loses on each match.

• Nominate a person with access to a translator or have basic english skills who will be able to assist with communications in english if is not the main language of the leadership team or clan members.

As a Clan Representative:

Being clan representative means you represent your clan to the Farm War Alliance as part of your clans team of 4 reps. This means that any violations, misconduct, or inactivity that you exhibit will cause consequences that would be applied to your clan as a whole.

One person may be a representative for up to two clans on Band, but each representative must have at least one Clash account as a co-leader/leader in each clan they represent. Each clan may have up to a maximum of four representatives not including admins and a minimum of two representatives at all times.

As a representative:

• You will need to download the app Band. This application is used for communicating with the FWA Clan Leaders and Administration.

• You are responsible for contacting your opponent regarding your war match to confirm which clan is to win or lose, inform them if you would like to visit to review their bases and pass on any concerns and issues with those bases. You are also responsible for checking and informing your own clan members of any bases that they want you to correct. Clans are responsible for reporting opponent base offenses to the opponent before 12 hours of preparation day have elapsed, and to the admins at the start of battle day if the offenses are not fixed. This communication is highly important! Please make this communication an active part of each war.

• You are also responsible for telling your clan if they win or lose.

• Checking to see if the other clan is blacklisted or has sanctions in effect using the lists provided to you in FWA Sync Band at the start of each scheduled search.

Once you have been a member of FWA Leader Band for at least 3 months you can apply to be a member of the OFH Team. For more information, see band.us/band/57374271/post/665.

The Band App:

The band app is where most of our operations are based off and the main communication platform within FWA. Available on ios and android and via http://band.us/#!/. It's a free to download and use app. It can also be accessed on the internet through any PC.

FWA uses different chats in the FWA Leaders Band for the different departments. To access these please use the !addme auto bot option to join these chats when you need them.

‼️ FWA Staff (ADMN & OFH) will never request for any form of leadership or promotion (Elder, Co-Leader or Leader). We NEVER ask for promotions! We don't need a promotion at all. Never trust anyone who joins your clan that claims he's a FWA Staff (ADMN/OFH), we will always inform you in band before requesting to join. If someone does the above, please contact us directly for clarification. 

There are chats for

General Chat - All chat relating to FWA issues for all members.

Chit Chat - A social chat room to meet others from our Alliance and swap experiences and have a laugh and joke. (We do not discuss religion or politics)

War Conflicts - The team that will help solve any clan to clan issues and work with both clans to resolve base issues. They also track any clans with sanctions until they are completed.

Add/Remove Reps - If you wish to add or remove any reps then this team need to know, please post a screenshot of their profile and await to be told the link.

Help Desk - The Help Desk is for anyone to join and ask any FWA related question, staffed by Admins and OFHs (Official FWA Helpers) they come from all departments across FWA

Sync Band is by invite only and you must inform Admin of any reps you wish to add or remove from there, and has the following rooms available.

Sync Time Fillers - The place to find your last minutes accounts to sync your desired clan war size. Help each other out! Work Smarter, not harder!

Searching - Use Matchbot to Open a Chat with Your War Opponent, more details below in Did I match Section.

How to add yourself to chats:

Commands you can use to add yourself into the rooms in any searching/chitchat rooms.

Syntax: !addme [room]

Rooms: general, chitchat, chitchat2, addremovereps, warconflicts, helpdesk, spares

Repping in bands:

FWA Leaders and FWA Sync:

You are allowed 4 reps per clan. Dual Reps count as rep as for both clans.

TH7s and below are not allowed to be a rep.

You will have to have been in a clan for a week before becoming a rep.

Leaders do NOT need to be a rep.

FWA Reports:

You are allowed 2 reps per clan. No Dual Repping. Pick a clan.

Flagged and Banned Players

A Useful link:

https://fwa.chocolateclash.com/cc_n/

This link provides amazing details about players, and will help keep unwanted guests out of your clan.  

Help our alliance, and your clan by checking players wanting to enter.

• Players flagged for bad behavior are not banned, but accept at your own risk

• Banned and Sync stalking players are not allowed in FWA

Reporting Troublesome Players:

FWA Reports: http://band.us/@fwareports

This band will be for ACTIVE FWA Clan Representatives ONLY. This will be where YOU may report a troublesome player directly within that band and it will submit the information directly to the Chocolate Clash tracking system.

Reminder,  your clan should have no more than 2 reps per clan in FWA Reports.

If your clan exceeds that 2 reps per clan maximum,  you will be asked to remove reps or we will select reps to remove for you 

Do you have a flagged player in your clan? 

Have they shown good behavior for the past 2+ months?

Have them join the band listed below.

http://band.us/@appeals or http://tiny.cc/appeals

What happens if I keep a banned player in my clan?

⚠BEWARE of the AFW/FCH!!! ⚠

‼️AFW ~ Anti Farm Wars‼️

!!FCH ~ Farm War Hunters!!

We are FWA, not AFW/FCH.

They lie and cheat and they are despicable. 

If your clan keeps a banned player in your clan for over 6 hour your clan will be removed from sync band until the player is removed!

No excuses - Teach your clan leaders to use the tools we provide you‼️

⚠If it’s close to sync time and the banned player has only been in clan for a short time we will remove your clan from sync band!⚠

See: https://band.us/band/57374271/post/552

Successful Match:

You MUST Start or respond to a private chat, on Band, with your FWA Opponent within the first 12 hours of the preparation day, and follow the rules below. 

Rules of etiquette for war DM chat

1.) Start a chat with your opponent including all reps from their clan and from your clan. Remember there is no tone in text

2.) Send a general greeting and confirm who has the win.

3.) Offer to allow your opponent to visit your clan to scout bases. THIS IS A REQUIREMENT Please make sure your clan is not closed and cups are set to a reasonable level!

Please have common courtesy and make your visit quick. Please don't stay well over an hour looking at bases.

4.) If your opponent scouts your bases and finds base issues do not argue or take offence. Make your best effort to fix them. If you want to dispute the base, contact a Conflict Admin.

5.) If the identified base issues are not resolved contact the Conflict Admin Team to help, following the process set in place. You can contact the Conflict Admin Team via War Conflict chat or use- !addme warconflict auto bot in FWA Leaders chat/chitchat

6.) It is a requirement to respond to your opponent! No response to your war opponent will result in admin involvement and potential sanctions. Details below.

• Please be respectful to everyone, we are an international alliance, your opponent may be from a different timezone so have some patience. Remember different cultures and backgrounds create different perceptions of text...

• If a DM with opponent goes 24 hours without any response, the unresponsive clan's reps will be removed from sync band until they reply.

• Please do not leave your match chat until the war day is over.

Mismatch:

You now have two choices. Attempt a deal or fight with them. 

a. Reach out to the opponent clan.

There are many ways to do this:

• Type a message on clan wall (please use the command !mismatch (insert language here) to find the appropriate texts in different languages)

  • Please refer to the !mismatch command for the available languages.

• Go visit the clan 

• Send a friend request to leaders and invite to your clan. 

If they respond and you have a deal, congratulations! 

If you made a deal you MUST honor it!!

b) IF you were unable to make a deal, you may now switch your bases to war

If you are found with multiple war bases during next prep day, the conflict team will have no forgiveness for you.

*There is NO grace period for swapping your bases back to FWA if you mismatch, this only applies to Blacklist Clan matches 

We only go to war if a deal isn't made.

Why did I mismatch?

There are multiple reasons to cause a mismatch. Here are a checklist for you to go through.

1. Did you start at the right time?

2. Did you forget to stop searching when search window closed?

3. Are you syncing with a proper composition to match FWA clans?

4. Sometimes, it is just a coincidence that someone is searching during the same time as us with a similar composition.

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Blacklist:

A blacklist clan is a clan that purposely matches up with the FWA consecutively.  

You are not allowed to negotiate with a blacklisted clan under any circumstances. See https://band.us/band/57374271/post/566 

To determine if your opponent is a blacklist clan:

A) Proceed to FWA© Sync Band and to your searching chat and use the following blue commands to set up a chat with you and your opponent

!match #opponentclantag if you only represent one clan.

!match_spec #yourclantag #opponentclantag if you are a dual rep

B) https://fwa.chocolateclash.com/cc_n/

The association will be blacklisted

C) We will inform you in your leader room

D) You will be added to Blacklist Match Room 

To reward the clans, we have give out Rewards Points to clans who fight. 

30+ war bases: +1 points

60+% destruction: +1 points

War win: +1 points

*Clans are required to join the "War Camp" band to acquire reward points.

*Clans with close to 60% destruction that have displayed a significant effort(as determined by Admins) will be rounded to 60%

**Admn discretion applies 

For more details, see: https://band.us/band/57374271/post/728

Grace Period: 

You are given one war of grace period to fix your bases after a blacklist match under the circumstances that you let your opponents know, for more details, see https://band.us/band/57374271/post/727

Basic outline of the FWA Base:

The base is split into FOUR SECTIONS.

1) Townhall Section

The Townhall section consists of all non-defensive structures, air defenses and air sweepers. For TH11s and below, Town Hall should be in the corner with the Eagle underneath it on the edge. For TH12 and above, Eagle and the Town Hall must be placed at opposite corners, refer to the images for more details.

For TH14s and above, the weaponized builder huts, regardless of level, must be separated with a 6 tile gap from the rest of the Free area and be accessible (as a group) from at least 3 sides. The Master Builder is excluded.

For TH15s, Spell Towers must be set to Rage mode and placed on the edge next to the Eagle.

2) Trap Section

All traps must be ENCLOSED in walls. The walls cannot surround the TH or queen section. Walls must not form an offensive image, word or symbol. AIR traps cannot overlap the king section and GROUND traps cannot overlap the queen or TH section.

3) Queen Section

The queen section must contain the‘all defenses that can target both ground and air, and all heroes excluding the barb king. Infernos must be set to single. The infernos and queen must have ONE COMPLETE SIDE exposed. Scattershots must be side by side on the edge of the map. The monolith must be on the edge of the map,  preferably in the corner. Teslas cannot be placed in front of the exposed side. A building directly next to an inferno or queen cannot be more than one square ahead of the queen or inferno. Walls must be away from the queen section allowing for troop deployment around the whole section. There must not be more than three buildings covered by walls.

4) King Section

The king section consists of all defenses targeting only ground units. Xbows must be set to ground.

⚠⚠The range of all defense buildings (except the TH and cc) cannot overlap any other section⚠⚠

⚠NO GAPS allowed in any section (except the TH section for TH12+) ⚠

War Weights:

Submission of War Weights is a requirement for all FWA clans.

You will need to use the War Weights Form and log in your clan’s war weight. This needs to be done at least once every 4 weeks or your clan will be added to the Yellow Zone by an FWA Admin. You will then have a period of up to 2 weeks in the Yellow Zone to submit your weight before you enter the Red Zone. If your clan reaches the Red Zone then you MUST submit your weight before the next war sync or you will forfeit any potential win in the following war. Your clan will continue to forfeit all war wins until you have submitted your clans war weights, once they have been submitted you will be removed from the Red Zone. 

You will be added to the “Yellow Weight Zone” or “Red Weight Zone” chat rooms in band when your clan reaches that zone. The war weights are used to help guide FWA member clans to stay within the prime matching weight point.

How to Calculate Weights:

To calculate war weight, you have to follow these steps :-

▪During BATTLE DAY (this is important), visit each base and click on TH.

▪Now tap on info and note the total amount of Gold OR Elixir, it has in it.

▪Then multiply the amount with these figures.

TH 9 and above - 5

TH 8 - 4

Suppose You have 14000 Gold Or Elixir in TH and TH level is 10.

Then war weight would be :

14000 × 5 = 70000

In case, if you have low level storage. Follow the method below:

Sum of amount of Gold OR Elixir in all storages (Gold OR Elixir) + Amount of Gold OR Elixir in TH = War Weight

⚠All values must end with 000. If they don't, you're doing it wrong.⚠

(Also see youtu.be/FMyagEZxX0I)

Submission Methods:

• FWA Stats:

fwastats.com/clans

• Simple Weight (Spreadsheet)

tiny.cc/SimpleWeight

tiny.cc/SimpleWeight50

Submission Confirmation:

tiny.cc/WeightsSummary

Other information about Weights:

tiny.cc/WeightsHelp

Extra Service - War Weight Checks:

Has your clan had trouble matching lately? Is your clan matching well and you would like someone to make sure your clan is healthy?

Signup at https://band.us/band/57374271/post/635 for a war weight check!

**This is only for clans that have submitted war weight in the last TWO weeks**

Extra Service - Clan Check Up Service:

Confused about a few of the base guidelines?

Not sure if all of your bases are correct?

Just want someone to double check your bases?

The service will provide clans the opportunity to have their bases checked by one of the conflicts team ONCE a week. 

During the check up, if your clan has base errors, there will be NO consequences; it is purely educational. This provides clans with the opportunity to learn and understand more about the base guidelines and to have a fresh set of eyes look over their bases. 

If your clan would like to make use of this service, please join the War Conflicts Lobby in leaders band and type !auditme or !auditme #clantag for dual reps. Your request will be completed as soon as a member of staff is available