With or without BFA and/or equipment doesn't test your skills and determination. FYI: my zero BFA zero equipment 900 stats stole 3m stats with pots and mith. You can win wars without BFA nor equipment and being low stats versus a roster of HLBC with mith pots bfa equipment and what not. Skills and determination based on your post? LMAO
Check Mercenary Inc 2nd round, against Reunion and find the player 2 actions 1 mith lol
As for turtle war, with all due respect to the new noobs to war, do you even know what a turtle war is or just using a term having its description changed and adopted by noobs?
Originally, a turtle war term was used to describe what people now describe a "turtle war" with closed pure spies targets, known as a "turtle" spy war.
The term "turtle war" is not being used by noobs trying to mean there are no/not enough opens in enemy roster. In a war: if you are open, unless there are better targets, who wouldn't pin you? Similarly: if you regen and opposition can hit you, why wouldn't they?
The above just illustrates the basic essence of sw. Hit all opens. Advanced/basic war mechs that follows is the term ffp, fighting from pin, so as not to leak plunder. Again: if active and whereby the opposite enemy roster can pin/get plunder from you, why wouldn't anyone be ffp?
Get your war terms and strategies correct, there's been no turtle war so far this tournament else MnB would have won all their wars - probably.
Cheers, have fun and good luck to all participants and clans!