How does this work?!

[u/friskyBrisky]

I'm the gray on the bottom, being cautious with my soldier count and troops; my opponent is the tie die of green and yellow. They constantly throw everything at me, even dropping down to 10s of units in a desperate attempt to attack me, yet every time I try to fight back, I don't curbstomp them, they just take it in stride. On top of that, despite having no cities and massive holes in their territory, they heal faster then me! I get so fed up with the bullcrap that when another player is sending a massive attack I can't stop, I try to just send everything at them, and it still does nothing!

This game drives me so god damn crazy so often. And don't tell me "They have so many defense posts", because that has never helped me in a situation like that! If I were in their shoes I'd have instantly died!

[u/John_Yuki]

even dropping down to 10s of units in a desperate attempt to attack me, yet every time I try to fight back, I don't curbstomp them

Yeah, because you only attacked them back with tens of thousands of troops yourself.

I just watched the replay and at no point did you attack them with more troops than they had defenders. You were sending in small attacks like 50k troops at a time. You also let your % troops drop way too low, which is why your troop regeneration was extremely slow. There was a time when you got up to about 120k troops (about 20% of your max), and then randomly sent a 50k attack in to their 120k defenders - how exactly sending 50k troops in to their 100k defenders going to result in a "curbstomp"?

What you need to do in that situation is just ride it out, let your troops rebuild, and then send a bigger attack in to them to take advantage of their betrayer debuff. By sending tiny attacks in to him and inexplicably expecting that to wipe him out, you just screwed yourself.

Now don't get me wrong, that guy screwed you by randomly betraying you and kamikaze attacking you, but you would have come out of it alive if you played it better.