50+ mill ODD would hurt any player i would bet 3/4 of farms troops have been destroyed as depicted in there own forums trying to rally behind him with additional support. and no one from our side is going to stop so its only a matter of time before the gains come in much larger amounts.
It was a good Op and I was not expecting to receive as many nukes as were sent based on previous attempts so respect for that. They cleared several of my stacks that were obviously not quite large enough and sent some short range nobles (some of which we managed to kill). It also did coincide where I was working away (turtle's even have spies at my work - sigh), which is no excuse but is a reason. I will certainly be wiser for the next round.
I have also fired my nobles for being lazy as I missed at least 2 recaps because they didn't do their job.
Not sure what is wrong with asking backline players to provide support to a frontline player that is being op'ed. Are you telling me all turtle players are self-supporting?
And for the record, I have much more than 1/4 of my troops left, which is the benefit of a spider defence.
I will continue to noble any village I choose, whether that be an inactive, a large or small barb, internal or enemy. For a long time, I was the biggest supporter of a non-barb policy in our tribe, even when others wanted us to drop it, but the situation has changed now that our long time allies stabbed us in the back. I don't really care what anyone thinks about that because I got to number one with only a limited amount of barbs and have the best war stats in our tribe so am more than happy with my own performance/contribution, but the situation now is somewhat different. If nothing else, it will make turtle have to work even harder to get rid of me and I promise that for every village I lose that I will take 10 new ones (I have plenty of packets).
And before any turtles criticise my barb nobling, they should really look at their own players in that regard before pointing the finger.
Maybe we can't win now that turtle and cruel have decided to hug their way to the win, but we can be bloody annoying for a while longer yet.
So, keep it up. I have a good co, like this game a lot and have plenty of time to play it. I don't mind being the focus of turtle's rage as it will allow my friends to grow nicely.