# Single Troop Defenses **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [May 29, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/single-troop-defenses/24808 "2017-05-29T02:15:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 533
**Author:** ![Stan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/stan/32/29888_2.png) [@Stan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/single-troop-defenses/24808/533 "2017-06-13T23:01:29Z")
> [@Stan](#): > > I believe Sirrian himself said that the player’s defence team wasn’t supposed to have any effect on their PVP matchups. And found it: > [@The New Defend Meta](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/the-new-defend-meta/15349/106): > > For all those nonbelievers: And you are free to think what ever you want, I don’t really care, so I won’t try to defend or comment on this anymore. I showed why I said what I said, and if someone thinks Sirrian doesn’t know what he is talking about, well you make up your own rules and play by them. Also in that thread, a very prescient post from November 2016: > [@The New Defend Meta](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/the-new-defend-meta/15349/59): > > Has anybody seen what I’m sure will become the new NEW defend meta? Kerberos / Kerberos / Giant Spider / Forest Guardian --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/single-troop-defenses/24808)._