Hello Merkaba, thanks for stopping by our humble thread. I just wanted to share a quick, direct response to your points.
1. Donations. We have 3 Gunpowder members who should be Enlightenment this month. We really don't expect them to donate anything. Since the rest of our ally is either Enlightenment or above, we ask only Enlightenment or above troops are donated, except as Hugh noted, in war we want nothing but the best.
2. With respect to war, I want to ensure we, as a team, do our absolute best each and every war. We haven't lost a war in months, but we will at some point. We have overcome incredible obstacles including being far outmatched (i.e. max bases with lvl 30/30 generals, whereas our highest general in ally is 15) along with a slew of bugs, especially from the latest updates where we have video of scoring 5 stars but the system didn't record it. At some point, our streak will end and that is ok! We have no problem losing, but we want to be beaten rather than lose due to game issues or lack of effort on our part (i.e. players missing attacks, wrong target, wrong troops, etc)
3. With respect to Tactics, we ask members to record their war attacks since replays aren't available. We share numerous replays each and every war of attacks, good and bad, and have discussions about them. Also, members take screenshots of their war bases and ask for feedback. There is no shortage of tactical discussion.
We are a group of gamers from all over the world (US, Canada, India, South Africa, UK, and other countries). We play for the challenge the game offers and hope to make friends along the way, of those both in our ally and outside of it. We welcome all players who agree to the ally rules (listed at the beginning of this thread). We use Skype for text communication and sharing videos / links.
Kind Regards,
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