BTW at this time he was actually being sat by Raven who didn't use them for snipes. There are many more like these:
Defender: dwinpenny
Destination: Black Dawn (584|655) K65
Quantity: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 0
Losses: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 0
Defender's troops, that were in transit
0 0 4611 0 100 3232 206 0 219 110 0 0
Haul: 0/59260
Loyalty: Dropped from 13 to -20
Aw, sugar.. you know I like to clear villas for you, 'cuz I'm kinda sweet on ya :*
But no, seriously... I make a lot of judgement calls when I am sitting. If I see incoming nobles to a villa with low/no wall, and I know I can't defend it because the account owner hasn't run any recruits in the past week and there's absolutely nothing in a 5-hour radius to snipe with.. then sometimes I give up the villa as a lost cause, and send the nuke out to attack some other (recently capped) village in the area, where at least I know it'll do some good before it disappears. Yeah, I could use the troops to snipe with.. but given the choice between losing 6000axe/2500LC to kill your 2000axe/1000LC/1noble split nuke nobletrains, or using that same nuke to take out the
full nuke some noob forgot to withdraw from a recently nobled village... sometimes I just go for the kill.
If I am defending a strategic village which has support incoming to it, and a live player behind the scenes, I am more than willing to use LC to snipe with. In fact, when BD was attacking TARDIS, I did so on more than one occasion. And yet, they still invited me into their tribe. Go figure.
What is much more amusing to talk about though, if you wanna mock people for n00bish stunts, is the time I stacked a wall-less villa entirely with O troops (10+ offensive villas all supporting 1 villa, with no other D troops) just so I could watch the enemy's incoming nukes cut thru it like butter.
...I think someone on w14 still has my "offensive troop recycling center" reports kicking around.
...I also think that 3 days with minimal sleep does some pretty twisted things to my sense of humour : )