it's unfortunate for Simians that they no longer maintain army-in/army-out waves. I would assume the avians have the same rax at the start of the war, but through growth and BE the times have drifted apart?

I don't blame them for trying to get them back inline, but like you said jdorje, i'm not sure it's worth keeping troops at home waiting for time to attack! perhaps after the attack times fall out of sync it's time to start switching to mini-chains, and eventually max gains? The whole point of avian is their lightning attack times and keeping their armies at home to line waves back up is taking away from one of Avian's biggest advantages!