I can think of a few tribes that had great success without the use of spies. At the end of the day you only need spies if you're not confident your tribe is strong enough to win without it.
that makes me giggle along with the post of underhand tactics. if your player is such a coward that he comes to US (in this case wonka or anyone else who has or is using "spies") giving up valuable information KNOWING that the end result will be the same (lol i mean seriously...all they ever do is postpone the inevitable),then why should a good leader not use these "underhand" tactics? you call it achieving spies,i call it taking advantage of an enemie's weakness. and in war,you win by exposing those weaknesses.
at the end of the day,a good leader will use w/e tactics,weapons and information we have available to make sure OUR own guys stay as safe as possible,not because we are "afraid" or "not confident" of our victory,but because we care enough of the friends and followers we have to want to cause as little dmg as possible to any of them. victory just comes as an added extra.
and on a side note,as a personal view,if you still honestly believe there is such a thing as the "better" tribe solely because they "refuse" to use spies,then you are delusional. yes,many worlds have had the extreme rare combination of great and honorable leaders AND players,that achieve a victory without using MUCH spying (i can honestly say not 1 tribe in tw history has NEVER even had a SINGLE piece of information from SOME sort of enemy [big or small] ) but if you speak with world winners across the board...your actually talking about 1 winning tribe out of every 10+. considering w61 is filled with so many spineless players (i am honestly surprised as what i have seen players say and do to save their asses,and even worse,the ammount of it going on this early on) i don't see how you can be surprised that your tribe has them,and your enemy is making good use of them.
anyways,long rant,though i think theres plenty to be worked out and discussed over this "east joining unwantedly" issue,i think wonka is making good progress in the war. inactive accounts or not,a cap IS a cap no matter what. just proves the originating tribe was not smart enough to realise the liability of such an inactive account and have it stacked or kicked before 5h1t hit the fan
