Rest Assured, sapphire has more troops than all of TNL...probably x3.
But I find it kind of bad that all the major players automatically go to the top tribe. Good for them, bad for others. Also sad because you don't get the major player slug matches like in W1. Hell, when I was a top 150 player, I went tribeless for a while and looked for a tribe for a day. I was invited to FTR 3 times...a very rude recruiting experience.
Before I got caught up with Tuma, I was building my army to take out the main K45 group. They didn't have as good as external forum privacy as they thought, and they had troops levels that were...pretty weak at the time (I'm sure it has gotten better). Although now that I look at the top 20, Aardvarki is top 20? If his troop level was weak then, along with his buildings, I can't assume he has gotten much better.
But still FTR has a strangle-hold on W2 and I await to see what they do from here on out!