No castles gained when hitting below 75% your own strength. Especially if CLI goes through you wouldn't be able to get a friend to help break them. I would bet in well over half my defenses, I was 50-70% the attackers size. Even after the penalty was put in. I like the % penalty. It helps. But in the end you still lose a big chuck of your kingdom and they'll rebuild any lost troops faster cause they're (up to) 2x your size.. Plus several people have shamelessly stated that since there's still a penalty, might as well max it out. Cause "stra-tuh-jee" .. Well then, lets change the stakes.
This isn't my idea but I'm too lazy to go back through posts and find out who said it. I just really agree