Oh yes this might also be quite relevant: During the war I usually end up being chainbait because the other hybrids in my kd have an average of maybe 65 opa, and quite high dpa when their armies out.

Hence no watchtowers for me--the enemy kd usually just waves me over and over with many of their provinces, and doens't bother with NS, simply because I only run around 37-40 dpa with my elites out and I guess kds just don't think i'm worth the stealth :P.

Meanwhile I'm retalling them hard (particularly those with low dpa, who I can potentially hit 5 times over), trying to average about 3 uniques per day at least, which in turn makes them only want to hit me harder.

I'm also open to suggestions as to what to put my acres in when I get them--though, my acres are being gained and lost so fast that sometimes it usually doesn't matter too much in the end. Last time I put a lot of them into rax so I could just hit them faster and harder, but obviously that's probably not the optimal choice in all cases....