Actually, BANG!? haven't had spies in Ad Inf for months. We've had Ad Inf spies since a day before the war, when one person who didn't want to war us came to us with telling us you wanted to war us. We had no targets, no plans, nothing to defend against but a blind threat.
I've fought plenty of big tribes. I'm fighting them in W24 as well. How many big tribes have you fought? Plight? That makes one. Fight a few, and then you'd realize your skills aren't diminished by the size of who you're fighting. You have the same amount of skill, it's the extent that the skill can keep you alive that varies with who you're fighting.
But I never knew anyone to send a train slower because they're fighting a bigger opponent. Which is a skill (sending a fast train) jakeeboy has, and monsterbro doesn't.
Jakeeboy has more efficient, power, and fast-building troop and village builds. Monsterbro doesn't.
Who is better looking at the information we have? Jakeeboy.