Meh sorry for misunderstanding than you previously
To your point about 'leaders aiming to exist in easy growing areas', pretty sure you're attributing that to ULTRA. If you look at his conquers, you'll see ULTRA nobled to K65 before the entire Kunis situation arose, getting ready to cover for cowboy if needed.
But again, I'm not sure why you're still siding on cowboy's side when he did everything that was possibly wrong.
1. Initiating a fight with a tribe before ULTRA could even establish his cluster
2. Not telling anyone about him fighting Kunis until it broke out into current situtation
3. After starting said fight, proceeding to become inactive
4. Refusing account sit offers from the tribe on the first day that the entire situation arose, resulting in massive loss of DV due to him being asleep
5. 5 days after Kunis incident started, we asked him if he could give us his frontline villages, and he support from his backline cluster since he only logged on for 12 hours total in that 5 day period (the rest was all account sits). He told us he think about it, and went MIA again.
I understand your viewpoint and I think you are around 100% correct in your philosophy, but you can see that we do have more experienced players on the majority of our fronts. I have always extended this offer to frontline players that if they were less experienced/unable to have 24/7 activity on the account that they could noble villages from my backline in exchange for me taking their frontline villages, allowing them to grow and learn there. Unfortunately not many people have taken me up on that offer, so that's why you do see some unexperienced players on our fronts.
And I don't appreciate being called a coward. Ask any of the new DIA recruits that we brought into BIO. I have been giving them tips on the front, helping them out with recaps, sending snipes, fulfilling loads of support, and nuking/faking/fanging for them. All that while I'm also like you, slowly forming an umbrella around my tribe in K55 to protect them. From an outside view, it might look like we don't properly protect them, but internally we definitely are. Maybe we could be doing a better job, but considering that we're fighting the majority of the world at this point, I think we're doing a decent job.