1. WOW, the ressurection! WOw have reclaimed the top spot with two new members this week, and for the first time gaining a fair bit of a lead on Darkness in Offensive bash per member.
It seems they have had a lot of growth through and around POT in the southwest. most conquers came from this region, primarily from POT, with a few from former top10 tribe DPR.
This tribe still in the running, to my surprise.
As to losses, 2 lost to -X-, 1 to -D- I am fairly sure these were amicable village trades. Two more villages lost to NOH, but from the location it was from an isolated player, so not overly surprising.
2. -D-, down a slot this week, very little offensive bash increase (10k per member - only tco and SIN did worse! In their defense their offensive bash dropped nearly 500k in one day, someone jumping ship? this could account for the low overall bash increase.) and very little new territory. Their war with OTS seems to have balanced out after last weeks surprise attack.
(Authors Note: please dont flame me guys, im not saying OTS is winning, Darkness has made very little progress in the last week against OTS, other tribes may have, but Darkness has not. Deal with it)
32 Barbs taken this weeks as well, which is rather disappointing. there were several conquers in tw2analytics from OTS, however very few of them show on the map. Either OTS retrieved them (most that i checked this was the case) since the stats were updated, or the map hasnt been updated in a day or two.
Interestingly there were 3 villages lost to Froshie from -X-, wonder if that is a smash and grab now that the OTS that -x- can reach are gone, or an amicable trading of villages.
3. -X-, changing it up this week, "the war council" has been renamed to "Honesty and Integrity", thats a high title to claim in this game, Ill let you decide how fitting it is as thats not my area of expertise.
This tribe has almost doubled in size this week, and shot up in offensive bash as well. It seems they have effectively finished off OTS's southwestern cluster, and consumed H_J, at least partially through recruitment, but also through conquest. I guess I finally get to stop talking about that tribe this week!
They have taken villages from a range of other tribes as well, some in the top 10 (e.g. tco) others ive never heard of, and some from unaligned players as well. No losses this week. Tribe of the week this week I think.
4. NOH, fair increase in both points and bash this week. Im sure they want me to tell you how they are beating OTS after last weeks "OTS is winning" fiasco, they have after all taken 8 villages off of OTS this week while OTS has taken none. Because there are players looking at this statement looking for any possible inaccuracy to flame me with again, i have decided to do more research into where these villages are. Ill go into that in OTS's block. To sum it up, yes NOH are taking villages off OTS, congratulations, it seems that they have successfully taken advantage of the distraction -D- have given to snap up some villages - that does not take away from the villages taken, in Tribal Wars what matters is how many villages you can take, not how you take them.
The majority of villages have been coming from DPR, gum and CON (this last has never been in top 10, so i dont know much about them).
The losses have been mostly to gum, however in the war between gum and NOH, NOH seem to be winning.
5. tco, suprisingly still active, up one slot this week, however i think their rank climbing is due to the fall of other tribes not their own prowess. They are taking villages, they are losing villages, but i dont think this tribe is worth my time going into detail. Sorry if thats insulting.
6. gum, up one rank this week, i think they are doing well for their size, most of them being new starts on the rim, however they just arent a match for NOH, especially with OTS shrinking.
7. OTS, down 2 slots this week. they are doing well considering the numbers arrayed against them, however not good enough.
Before I go into detail here, I first would like to point out something that has contributed to their fall, that I should have noticed several weeks ago, but did not register. This tribe has three clusters, i shall refer to them south-east cluster, central cluster, west cluster. Im sure you can figure out what each refers to. Therefore we should have been looking at this tribe more like 3 allied tribes, none of which would have been high on this list, if there at all, in their own right. Sorry for not picking up on this and pointing it out sooner, If i do this on another world, I will make sure to look for this.
Now that that has been pointed out, it is clear that in the last 2 weeks the south-east cluster has been wiped out virtually in its entirety. A sustained assault from -X-, -D- and, surprisingly, catnukes from H_J eventually broke them.
The central cluster is the group that was hit by -D-'s surprise assault last week, losing the isolated villages throughout WOW territory. It is still being hit by Darkness, and the southern edge is getting frayed, it looks like NOH jumped into the fray in after Darkness managed to break in and OTS probably couldnt handle the extra players after already being foiled by Darkness, Im sure ill be corrected on this. This is where NOH got 6 of their 8 OTS conquers this week. As for darknesses conquers, Im going to refer to the map, rather than to tw2analytics, as it is clear that OTS are using the renobling tactic a fair bit so we need the most up to date info for this. On the map I am seeing only 1 new orange -D- dot in OTS's territory compared to last week.
For their size central-cluster OTS is still putting up a damn good fight, and their losses arent nearly so bad as the overall stats show.
The western cluster is made up of the restarts or new players, though I am seeing a few central cluster players grabbing backup villages on the rim - i guess it means if they get rimmed they keep their minted coins which is a bonus. This cluster suffered the remaining 2 NOH conquers this week. So its fair to say NOH is making progress here in their own right, though last week I was accused of being bias for saying this based off 3 villages, so ill let you decide that one.
(Authors Note: Sorry if people think that comparing cluster stats as opposed to the whole tribes stats is being biased, however no other tribe has such clear cut cluster boundaries. I do say that tribes are growing in one area, or that they are losing villages in another area when they are large enough to not be interdependant. This is just one more thing you will have to deal with, as I do not believe it to be biased but more accurate, if you are unable to accept that, write your own analysis.)
8. SIN, up two slots this week, however despite remaining steady in members, they have gone down in Offensive bash per member, so theres obviously some turnover. Their bash was not impressive at all in the first place.
MOstly taking barbs and unaligned, and lost 11 villages to -X-. You cant expect them to hold against a top 3 tribe, but i was hoping for a little more than this. Sadly I dont think these guys will survive much longer.
9. YSH, a new tribe on the top 10 this week, situated on the south-south-east rim, I think these guys will probably go the same way as SIN however their offensive bash is already much more impressive. Im rooting for you guys, I love an underdog, unfortunately I dont think you really have a chance.
10. POT, dropping another 2 slots this week. they talked a big game, got alot of bash, and crashed and burned. This is the poster boy for "Numbers dont tell the whole story". Surprisingly there are still a couple of actives here based off the conquers, but I think the majority of this tribe is gone. From here on out i expect to only see these guys due to no other tribes growing past them, not because of anything POT does. Fare thee well.
A fair bit of movement here. Honesty & Integrity (-X-) have a strong presence this week, from 3 last week to 5.
tenmen pushing past the orical for #2.
Farewell Floki77 and suyi, welcome to rare pupper xoxo and j u c k f h i n
I might stop doing this for a bit. It is clear that 5 of these players no longer play, or barely play, and it can be hard to tell between a good up-and-comer and yesterdays news. These numbers never tell much of the story in the first place, its basically just bragging rights. let me know if you want me to keep posting the screenshot, but unless there is some interesting developments i probably wont say anything about it.
