[header] How to play clash of clans [title] Get your base up and running. [step] First priority is to make your base more defensive so no one takes away your treasured resourses. Focus on trying to put your town hall in the center of your base so that it is hard to take more trophies from you that come with taking down the town hall. 
[title] Go to the shop, the items to protect your base are under " defense. [step] " good initial defenses are walls and the mortar.