Right im on sever 44 (just so u know as on other severs this my not work) i started off reading so much hype about medals and how to find them and all the lovely ways that guess what ?? just dont work!!!!! (is this u as well) well ive used my own common knowledge and went about finding away that works now after attacking the same valley 200 times and finding nothing i have spent 3 weeks attacking different vallys with scouts as u can attack up to 30 miles away in 7 minutes (never the same vally over and over) but only lvl 1 vellys and i found that it took anywhere from 2 to 40 attacks to get a medal and i was getting only lion medals. But i asked a member in my alliance to try the same metherd but he is 80 miles away in the area he said it works but all he can find is rose medals...weird so we carred on for anther 3 days him only find rose me only finding lion medals but using the same amount of troops on the same lvl valleys. but on the 4th day i woke up just after the 15 min maintenance and service i started finding rose medals on my 7th att on a lvl 1 valleys in the same area i was finding lion medals the day before so all the hype about u have to attack the same valley over and over (i think nope) attacking it with "so meany troops" to find this medal or this medal (i think nope)

Right so what is it i do:
I build 1k of scouts and attack lvl 1 valleys i lose any where from 10/30 scouts on the attack so u could us more the amount doesn't matter u can attack lvls 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 just the more scouts u need u dont even have to use scouts i us them because there (Quick thats the only reason) and as for lvl drops on servers i think thats a lie too as the game goes on there is less players so less people owning valleys and flats just more spaces in flats and valleys for medals to hide in (could be wronge)

So i hope this helps on every server not just server 44 and i wish every player the best of luck frinding medals this way: Thanks Sir Outlawdex