What to upgrade? Town Hall

One rule: Town Hall first. Everything else waits for its ceiling.

Your City Hall level caps almost every other building. If you “beautify” the city evenly, you stall.

The KitKiller trap — don’t “max the city” first

If you first push all buildings up to your current Town Hall level and only then raise the Hall again — you slow yourself down hard. You lag the whole development tempo.

Why: Town Hall level = Academy level and Alliance Center level. Keep those two capped with TH (details: Buildings & research). That is not a green light to max farms, barracks, and every shed before the next Hall.

VIP / second builder still matter for queue tempo — this rule is about what you queue, not spending gems wrong.

How to play it

1. Queue Town Hall whenever you can.
2. Upgrade only what the next Town Hall level requires (Wall, Academy, Hospital…).
3. Keep Academy and Alliance Center at the Hall cap.
4. Skip vanity levels on farms and barracks until the Hall moves.

Checkpoints (remember these)

Hall	Why it matters
16	Path to stronger mid-game troops
17	Extra march queue — farming & fighting breathe
21	Next troop tier unlocked on the tech path
25	Endgame Hall — T5 path, full city ceiling

Alliance tip

Before a big spend of speedups — ask in chat which checkpoint the kingdom wants this week. Rushing blind wastes gems.