It’s actually not a super effective strategy, since the total value of all of the teams is the same, and a substantial portion of the points are distributed across teams regardless of strength.
This thread from a few days ago has a lot of discussion of a similar issue of mixed strong/weak teams, albeit with the premise being that it’s based on alliance members jumping between alliances (which proved irrelevant to the point at hand, namely how to beat alliances with wildly varied team strength):
Please do something with alliances allied “just for wars”. In fact, strong players have two alliances between which they will switch, and their “war alliance” has no titan history which undermines their war score. There are also situations that a group of strong players joins just before the war to weak alliances (fighting with weak titans). In both cases there is no chance of winning.
This can be reduced very simply, in wars should be able to participate players only after 2 weeks of joining t…
Along with some excellent recommendations on strategy from @Garanwyn :
SG actually added in something to the points to reduce the benefit of such a strategy, though.
In the war itself, all teams together are worth 1500 points total, with 500 points being divided between all members equally, and the other 1000 points divided proportional to the total health of each team.
So if an alliance has some teams much weaker than average, and some teams much stronger, you will do best by just repeatedly killing the weak teams,
If you want to beat swinger teams, here’s what to do:
War start: kill all the weakest teams. Wait 6 hours for them to resetWar start +6 hours: kill all the weakest teams again. Wait 8 hours for them to resetWar start +14 hours: kill all the enemy teams. This will instantly reset the whole board. You will have to use multiple flags and color stacking on the strong enemies.After the reset: kill all the weak enemy teams one more time
You will get more points than they do if you follow this strategy.
EDIT: This link looks like it provides an alternative that may work too. I’m worried about the early resets being too hard, though.
Alliance War Strategy Guide
Even if you don’t get the board clear, that’s a good approach. And with good coordination you can take out the huge teams. It helps to have some people plan to bust the tanks so other follow-up hits can chip away. It may take several flags, but it’s worth it once you’ve killed the weaker teams repeatedly.
For what it’s worth, my alliance has won Wars with similar matchups to what you’re describing by following that approach.
The War we just won today was somewhat similar to that. They had a huge gap between their strongest players and the rest of the alliance. And their strongest players were all stronger than anyone in our alliance.
(@Kerridoc @Rook @Coppersky Possible Merge of Topic)
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