I'm fairly sure, that neither tribe has 1000+ noble trains ready to go.
I dont think any tribe has ever taken 1000 villages in 1 day... ever. on any world. Its more down to the point that most players have at least 10 trains ready, or at the least, enough nobles to make 10 trains. Even if a tribe with a small member count like ODA (and i know for a fact that the guys in ODA have more than 40 nobles, but lets just go with that number) did this, thats still 170 villages in 1 day.
The thing is, im sure W.Anker could snipe/stack deal with that, but the point i always try and make is if i screw up. If my gf comes around - those who know me by now, know i hardly log into tw when my gf is here (im not going to put tw before her no mater how many incomings, and the same goes for my friends if im honest).
What if my co isnt on, for whatever reason
What if my net goes down for tw like it has been doing the last few days with the problems tw have been having connecting the the vrigin media (my ISP) servers.
What if i cant get a good sitter?
There are so many variables. Its not a question of what he can do, its a question of how often he can do it. If he can guarantee that someone is going to be on his account do dodge, snipe and stack every hour of every day, then clustering like he is doing is the best way to do it. But while i know for a fact that i simply can not be on all day every day, im going to try making lots of smaller clusters, because they are 1) less time consuming to defend, as you can only get so many noble trains at 1 of them and 2) if i do screw up, its not a dent into my main cluster.
I didn't say don't stack frontlines, I'm just saying it's not necessary, especially when playing against noobs.
See above statement. there are always times.
It is the point, because you were:
A) Talking about the William Anker account and;
B) Talking about if they were to get OP'ed by Hermit.
Its hypothetical, its a debate. its all if's and maybes. Im using W.Ankers acc as an example because it is just 1 huge cluster
3 or 4 members... maybe pretty good compared to the rest of the tribe, but I'm pretty sure no one in that tribe is what I'd consider a "good" player.
Define good then
With the way tw is going, anyone who actually follows orders is good imho. Now we get too many players who think playing only for themselves is the way to go, and tribes collapse.
An earlier argument you pulled up was about how HUG never made any real amount of caps on Hermit because they arent a real threat, so people dont bother. 1 thing im trying to point out with this statement is that you can pick and choose who you attack, but, if people arent even going to pull together to op Hermit, what was going to happen when a tribe like ODA attacked
They won't be able to take 10 villages in the middle of your cluster, considering they'd have to travel 48+ hours, that's plenty of time to defend those villages.
Read my first argument. There are too many variables.
Or... you know... prenoble and recap? They lose 5 nukes, and all you lose is whatever troops you had built in that village.
Why the hell would you have enough nobles to do that in the middle of your cluster? yes this is a coin world so you can just educate them wherever the hell you want, but... really.. shouldnt they be on the frontline where the majority of the trains are hitting you?
If you know what you are doing, it will not take very long, regardless of how much defense you have to shift around.
To me... having to spend any extra time shifting D around, sitting at your computer to snipe a train(s)... is well... laborious. Its time i could be spending doing other things. The less of it i have to do, the better. You can argue that to any decent defender, it takes as little time as they like, but when you have a lot of noble trains inbound, you cant have it all tagged, dodged stacked, sniped and prenobled in half an hours work.
And silva, seriously, if you can defend 150 trains in half an hours work, not lose any villages, and lose very minimal amounts of troops, explain how. Really. I know i cant, not with the methods i know. Truth be told i would actually love to be told how to successfully defend like that.