Spartans Vs Nonpandas

[Zauper]

I don't see it that way. What's so special about pumping in whoring tier against pumping in warring tier? If anything while I was playing in FS I pumped way deeper because when an even war is arranged the only edge over your opponent you can personally achieve is pumping out the most out of the piece of land you have. Whoring is more about oow play as in finding the right targets and things like that while the LS has to monitor the intricate CF deals - their terms and expiration dates. Sure a bit more strategy is involved in whoring conflicts simply because the competition is stiffer but that changes nothing for the regular grunt. My point is a good active warring tier grunt, after learning the basics of what constitutes a good whoring target, will outperform a "pro slacker" any day. Reasons for failure should be found in the competence of the LS, KD structure, overall discipline and similar. That is not to say that someone is incompetent but that there will always be someone who holds a slight edge.

For what it's worth, you have not yet experienced a true whoring tier war. I don't think BB has had one since before the GB age. (maybe the Emeriti fight the age after would qualify? but that didn't escalate and you weren't there)

It's possible that FS is the exception to the trend of how war tier kds play -- I can certainly tell you that ED, which stomped over the majority of war tier kds -- certainly never homes pumped. And in our giraffes age, with similar results, we may have used homes but never went deeper than maybe 3-5 PPA.

A good active warring tier grunt is great -- but I'd still take a "pro slacker" like mango, godly, myself, flogger, etc -- over them. Many of our best recruits have come from warring kds. However, it has often taken 1-2 ages before they were really performing well, because there are significant adjustments to make. And one of those is learning how to micro your prov through a pump/prep phase.