Originally Posted by
rotunjere
You guys are too obsessed with the numbering/mirror. Aspex is giving good advice here and it is just ignored. Yeah on my last war my #15 was a TH3, highest troop - lvl 1 barbs and enemy mirror #15 was a TH10 with lvl 4 drags with BK and AQ. Guess what? We kicked their butts hard. And the war before that too. Engineered/defenseless are overrated. I'm not saying they are useless, but they not the ultimate win strat that you guys are making it out to be. If it were literally everyone would be doing it, including you fellas.
First of all, a strict "mirror" attack is stupid. Clans that do that to us lose 90% of the time. Why? Ideal scenario - our #1 will attack 1&2, our #2 will attack #3&4, #3 vs 5&6, #4 vs 7&8... in theory you only need 10 players to wage a 20 man war. Now unless your clan has everyone on the same TH, mirror attacks will end up in trouble. It is easier for a #10 to attack #20, than to attack the enemy #10. In a 20v20 war, if your top 10 players are elite, you can win the war already. When you do a mirror hit in this scenario, you "waste" attacks. Why am I explaining this? To show that your "number" or "place" is insignificant. Nobody gives a rat's. Especially at the bottom because they are negligible.
The only thing engineering does is "buy" you one extra attack. I say one because you are supposed to 3 star at least once anyway, and you trade that in with a definite loss of 3 stars too. So yeah really it's just to buy ONE extra high level attack. Taking my last few wars as example, me and my mate are maxed out TH10s sitting at the top. We only have two TH10s. Enemy had 5x TH10s. Their top two, and three at the very bottom. We three starred all of them except the top two - two starred. Enemy 3 starred all of us too, except me and my mate - one star each. Why? their combined offense is diluted, they have 5x TH10s that are mid level, with lvl 10-20 heroes vs. my mate and I who are completely maxed, including lvl 40 heroes. Best they can do is one star. Sure they have 2-3x more attacks than us at the top, and they bulldoze our TH9s etc, but it didn't matter. We were more efficient in our attack.
Which brings back what Aspex tried to explain. Screw the numbering. You guys need to assess the enemy in its entirety. Get obsessed and hung over your number/placing/mirror/loot and you lose the war. I'm on a 12 win streak now - I know how it is.