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Wanderer2020 ask, some time back, if any guild has been facing a guild in the top 50. And if so what the Marauder's strength was.

Answer: Our guild has been top 50 for seasons 3, 4, 5, and 6. And are now in the low 60's but ~25K points behind 50th place here, near the end of War 6 and will almost certainly dropout of the top 50. Last season we ended up 24th, I purchased the Medals with Gems in the last hour of the season, that would have gotten us up to 18th spot. But like yourself, found out that the Medals could not be spent in the last 20+ minutes before the end of the season. that is some 5K gems up in smoke.... Our marauder strength starts off in War 2 as a little over 40K. (I do not count War 1 since it uses the Troop strengths from the end of the Previous season.) In season's 5, 6, and 7 we have not faced another team in the top 100. Typically our opposing Guilds are in the mid 200's up to 400. Occasionally we get one in the low 100's, but more typically we occasionally get a straggler rated 600+ up to over 1000. These Guilds typically do not actively participate, but will occasionally throw massive troops onto the board.

The only really top notch team that we have faced was "gy" in Season 3 - War 1 and we were crushed. "gy" won that season with 1505598 points. It took me more than a season to figure out what went wrong and how they were able to run rough shod over us so easily. I thought that it was some sort of cheat because they seemed to have massively more troops than we did. Later, I decided that it was a case where they spent massive medals after the peace phase ended and before the Prep Phase started in Round 1. Even though we may have started out fairly even in Raw troop strengths when the Guild matching occurred, since they had spend a massive amount of medals before sending any troops out, they probably actually started the War against us with 50% more Raw troop strength than we may have had. Also they may have a higher percentage of their Raw Troop strength in 7-card sets. This also creates a huge advantage for a team.