Clash of Clans

I'm beginning to actually get into this game, determined to spend any money at all. I'm in a clan with my brother and his IRL friends and it's actually pretty fun with higher level strategies that aren't just barb/archer spam.

Anyone have ideas/tactics/setups they use?

Been hiding in the lower end trophy range to farm. Recently upgraded to TH8 and need the gold to upgrade my turrets and troops. As for tactics, Ive found that using around 15-20 hogs with all healing spells and 10-12 wizards to deal with castle troops to be effective, although using hogs is risky as 1 giant bomb can kill the whole mob.

Clan im in right now is Uranium-238 (greenish shield).

all I know about clash of clans is that it is the thing that advertised most heavily on flappy bird...

what is it?

It's a mobile MMORTS sort of game. It's fun, but the late game is engineered so that you practically need to spend money for it to be worth it.