[booji]

While I agree with your general point BB that it will not take some more fleets to get through alliances I disagree with the extent to which this is the case. Certainly p3n has this round had plenty of incs get past us despite much improved defence. But while there are obvious defence benefits to the ally def feature there are also potentially attack benefits too. I have not personally seen alliances launch a big wave early in the night to draw in all the ally def then recall it only to relaunch but it would be perfectly possible. Any ally that in the past would fail to get ppl up to send def would now surely fail to get ppl up to recall their def!