Originally Posted by
EduLeics I
Of course you haven't got a clue if this person is online or offline when you are doing your scouting.
If he's online, he sees your scouting coming, he closes his gates and all you get is the 1100 AT's, I'm not sure why you don't see anything else, but that could be because of your beacon tower.
Then you send in some waves, remember he's still online, about 10 seconds before the first wave hits, he opens his gate and all of a sudden his army pops up, fighting off yours, killing them.
He also could have had his troops in a valley nearby, he loses a lot of food there, but with 22mio he can hack that, attack wave comes in, just before you hit, his army is back at base.
Third option, he has got a lot of defending troops in his embassy, from his alliance. I'm not sure if they show up, but they defend nevertheless.