Though we can't compare a new world with an old. Many times it's the amount of defense you can muster. lets say you got two 5 million points guys. with the nubmer of vilages you try to stack what you can and when you attack then you try to overwhelm the enemy. If you're an active attacker then you got a lot to rebuild and good timing ends up taking your whole day.
What I prefer is to overwhelm, this far in the game dodging, sniping and quite much else isn't enough. Now it's numbers and if you got time to make perfect and good attacks it's another thing and it'll help you out a great deal. We all chose times to be very active then we all wants a few days off, some got time to play this game endlessly and will have more time.
However, how many of those players is it that do? If you're big then you can easily stack yourself or launch enough much to overwhelm an enemy, time isn't needed that much. Before at early stage in a game timing could be very important since you often didn't have enough troops.
To have time is important but not always what makes you a good player. The good player is the one who keeps growing and succeds. When everything is lost then it's often easy to defend since you do not priorize locations. You do what you can to piss the enemy off.
I wouldn't have picked thana, though people with time that knows what they're doing will always help out in a tribe.