Is the Discussion About AW Defense Tactics Over?

We’ve now played a (partial) AW season and 1 week of the offseason with the Stubborn defense tactic, and I have not seen much if any discussion about Stubborn or defense tactics in general. I don’t know if Kabam has simply beat Tier 5 and above alliances into submission and we’ve reached the acceptance stage, or if we’re just apathetic, or if we think everything with AW is perfect. I tend to fall somewhere between forced acceptance and apathy.

My personal opinion about defense tactics is that the system is still broken. Has any alliance seen any tactic other than Flow or Stubborn during the most recent season or the offseason? What are the other tactics... let me look those up... oh yeah... Bulwark, Siphon, and Protect. I strongly suspect the answer is “no.” What is the point of having 5 tactics if only 2 are used? Does that not prove that those 2 tactics are overpowered? And how does that meet any of Kabam’s stated objectives about the purpose of defense tactics?

I know Kabam has the data about tactics usage. If some sort of additional nerf of Stubborn and Flow were forthcoming, I think it would have been announced by now. I think our silence has sent the message that all is well in AW and I don’t really think that’s the case.

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Unawakened2

Yep, I completely agree.

Thedancingkid

At the end of the day the new war map even with stubborn is nowhere near as hard as people worried it would be (the few nerfs helped a lot admittedly).
There are some horrible fights but there had always been some horrible fights (KM node 29 rings a bell for a lot of people i’m sure).

We’re in tier 3 and give about 20 deaths a bg, give or take 5. At the top there are apparently wars where alliance die in the low double digits if that across the entire alliance.

It does look harder than it used to be tiers 6 and below, the nodes being roughly the same as higher tiers when they used to be significantly easier. But these don’t have tactics so they can’t be what you’re complaining about.