Don't get me wrong, I know SelbyTweaker is no slouch, we've had some vicious recap battles, exchanging the same village 4-5 times, but I've managed to come out on top almost every time and everyone of of their caps against me is a recap of their own villages, most of which are mine now. The other players on that front seem skilled as well. They seem to be great defensive players but I haven't anything out of them offensively.
I will say that I do not expect to have the same rate of success that I was having. I started with no villages in K 47 and within two months I had 60 or so.
I've seen a lot of loud mouthed players put in there place as well but I have confidence in myself and my tribe and I know we've got what it takes to be successful in our goal to defeat all our opposition.
I've seen on the forums people saying RAM will run out of D, we're strapped for D, etc, but I'd like to point out that I'm going to have a bunch of shiny new villages in K78 that I can use to build tons of D for the front line. Escape is nothing more than a bump in the road, albeit a aggravating one, and the worst of their damage to RAM is behind them. Their days are numbered.
Look at it this way, if we're strapped for D, think about how much success your ops will have when we're not. LD gained 50 mil ODD in two days and how many villages did you you gain? What kind of success would he have had if he wasn't strapped for D?