Nah, Natit's still crushing on your members. Or rather, just crushing them.

And Birschman, playing with his head, yes, but here's a timeline of recent history for you:

After the server merge, WotF (top S29 alliance) locked horns in mortal combat with OTB/WARK (top S28 alliances), and if you believe something in between the hype they were all spouting, it was a pretty even match. OTB/WARK were attack spe******ts, with an uncanny grasp of battle mechanics. This leads me to believe WotF has a pretty good grasp of them, too. Both sides were packing absolutely huge armies, to the point where you had to wonder whether they ever logged off.

A couple weeks ago, word of the glitch starts to spread on the forums, and Evony does two things - bans a bunch of botters in a sweep and patches the transport glitch. Good job on both accounts. OTB/WARK (reformed for SS2 as MDK) apparently had a lot of botters, because a whole lot of them were banned.

Very shortly thereafter, WotF cities start porting into hostile territory, and these guys have been tossing phractsmacks at cities with abatis, layers and a couple hundred thousand archers, AFTER having gotten a scout report, and seem to think nothing of it.

I'm going to assume these folks know how wasteful that move is, which means the only reasonable explanation is that they've got a whole lot of troops that they want to get rid of (read: can't feed anymore). It's Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation for this odd sequence of events is that they can suddenly no longer maintain their armies. The simplest explanation for why that would happen, given the timing, is that they previously relied on the glitch.