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[icy saddle]

You want to spend troops and gems on Wednesday for the main battle, then gems for TC or troops and gems for svs and then troops and gems for the neutral city. You will never build your base back up and run out gems extremely fast...

[dusky whale]

not really he can just decide to play event he want like only svs and shield for ed

[lavish jetty]

Yes. I work and the poor event timing with whales prevents a lot of us to participate. Life is full of choices, topwar is allowed to include some choices too

[real plover]

The main battle is not at an acceptable time for many players. Shielding during wednesday and neutral city is a viable strategy...
I also disagree with your assumption that gems are required, I personally have a lot of speedups

[icy saddle]

Speedups only get you so far over 3 months