Sure new strat has come out, things have been worked out better than they ever were before. But what you are forgetting is that the stuff the newer members are learning, generally comes from the small community of old school players who are still playing seriously. There is no doubting though, that tribal wars has as a whole become easier to learn, with all the guides floating about and teaching tribes ect... I hate to say it, but back in my day we had none of that, rather cliche, but true. You had to find the forums on your own, get on there, get flamed over and over again and eventually if you showed enough intelligence and had the basics down on your own, someone might take you under their wing, it was either that or progressively playing in better and better tribes and learning everything they had to offer.
To put it short, it used to be hard, now it's easy.
But that is not to say the knowledge of old tactics, does not come in useful. Plus despite being able to teach two protegees of mine how to play just as well as me in theory, they had all the tactics, could do everything that needed to be done and could gain top 20 in a world and hold it for a month within around 6 months and 2 worlds of me teaching them, in a real war situation, they were helpless, it's like learning to drive a car, sure a new driver can do it perfectly under good conditions, but they have to think and concentrate really hard while doing it, so when it get's dificult they simply don't have the time and fall to pieces. Whereas an experienced driver doesn't think any more about controlling the car, than he would walking. That is what seperates a new player and an old player and most the time that is all that needs to be present to tip the balance. Anyone can learn the facts and figures, practice the strat. But to think under pressure, to know which strat to deploy on a whim and to react. That takes time, it takes experience and there's only one way to do it.
Aside from that, tribalwars at the highest level is about discipline and adaption in equal measures at different times, to recognise the difference at the correct time, comes with experience. Pure strat isn't enough, the same thing will never bring the same results. It is the human element that makes a game that is so rigidly mathematical, so random and most of all playable.
So no, I would not agree that new players are better than old school players >.>
