They're still around, 183 wins (that really should be well over 200 if they kept their win rate up), lv 7 clan, with only 40 people though. Only 4 of the people are the same from when I was there.
Yes, exactly. Just so you can point to the fact you used a strong army. Sure, you can 3 star with giants, but what about when the other members decide they don't need to spend a lot on an army either?
Occasionally, I send one of my alts to another war clan to see what others are doing, and sometimes I pick up handy tricks and tips, and sometimes I see disasters to be avoided. One such clan was a Malaysian clan, and I don't speak the language, but quite a few of them knew English and were kind enough to translate for me. These guys took war barch to a whole new level, if you can believe that. They 3 starred with it, and quickly that's what everyone was doing. And that's all well and good while it works, but as they grew in level, they attracted higher level people, and unsurprisingly, those people stopped spending big bucks on armies and started "war barching" themselves.
Needless to say, it didn't turn out well. There was more to the attacks than stars, they taught others, set the bar.
Had a similar issue with allowing sniping when there wasn't anybody left a person could pick up stars on. It may not seem to make sense to require a legitimate war attack on a 3 starred base, but it's practice, it shows me that people will show up for both attacks when it is needed, and when sniping was allowed people started waiting to attack just to go for the easy loot and it eventually grows into a problem. Everything is all well and good until 10 people in your clan are waiting until the last minute for some easy war loot instead of working to win the war. Guess how many players that ended up costing me
I will always work to explain the rules, and why they exist, because I find that's easier for people to accept typically, but the bottom line is that the rules are there and it doesn't matter whether a member agrees with them or not. Just like what got me kicked, the authority of the leadership has to be respected. The leader can't get anything done otherwise.