Major War going on. . .

My Tribe in Tribal Wars is involved in a large scale war. Currently, the sides are my family of tribes which include 3 of the top 20 tribes against a top 5 tribe and needless to say we do not have the involvement needed to really sustain a good front.

I think we have lost about 40+ villages to the enemy and have gained around 5. Not a good balance there. Being in the second level of the family tribes a lot of the members of this 90+ person tribe seem to just be coasting along and not supporting the front line players.

I have 37(increasing all of the time) villages and points in the 290,000 range. Not huge but not small either. I am supporting 6 or so of the front line villages with anywhere from 16,000 troops up to 50,000 troops in each of those villages.

Now that to me sounds impressive, but it starts to pale in comparison when the attacking player has 1.2 million points and who knows how many troops at his disposal.

The good thing about the game is that the attackers are limited by the size of the village farms. The farm maxes out at level 30 giving that village a maximum number of troops and building points of 24,000. Technically, you could have 20,000 axemen in one village but the majority of villages that I have seen have 10,000 - 12,000 points and that limits the amount of axes or other attacking troops to around 12,000 to 16,000 if they have any type of token defense for the village.

This means that each attack can only have that many attackers and you can stack villages with as many defending troops as you would like. It all boils down to how active the defending tribes are. If they all support each other and beef up the attacked villages they loose very little troops while they wipe out the attacking armies no matter how large the attacker is.

Also playing into this equation is the Morale calculation. A member of our tribe wrote the following in our forum:

What is morale?
Morale is basically how much your troops want to fight a smaller target, they may feel sorry for them or whatever. If your attacking a larger target, your morale is always 100%. Morale is not like luck which is random but it is a definite calculable figure which your simulator will happily calculate for you.
Morale Figures
Enemy 20% of your points, you have 90% morale
Enemy 17.5% of your points, you have 82% morale
Enemy 15% of your points, you have 75% morale
Enemy 10% of your points, you have 60% morale
Enemy 5% of your points, you have 45% morale
Enemy 2.5% of your points, you have 38% morale

And what does this mean in practice?
If morale was 100%, your losses are at 100%

Morale is 90% => you lose 133% troops
With morale at 90%, you lose 1/3 more. If this tips the balance of the battle it of course gets a lot worse-

Morale is 80% => you lose 150% troops
Morale is 67% => you lose 200% troops
Morale is 50% => you lose 300% troops
Morale is 32% => you lose 600% troops (32% is lowest morale you can ever have)

And for the record. Morale is calculated on your total player points vs. total points of your target.

So, if our smaller players get their act in gear we can decimate the attacking forces due to our smaller sizes and then retaliate.

All in all this is going to be a very drawn out war and I hope that we start to turn it around or get a bit more active.

You have to support your Tribemates as if they were you since it will be you someday.