Travian.com – WTF is a “hammer”

Travian.com is a fun webgame that I have been playing to fill my time.  One of the annoying things though, is when you are in a large alliance, they use weird terminology and never explain wtf it means.  For example, lets use the term “Hammer”

Since my alliance is going to war, they have been saying, everyone post your hammer and let us know the size of it.  Well it would be nice if SOMEONE had a termonology page or something… regardless, after much reading, here is what a hammer is:

A 15C that has enough troops on it to destory the opposing force.  More importantly, the hammer should consist of the most powerful force that your race offers and the ability to level a city wall and have enough catas to level the city.

In essance, without reinforcement, your “hammer” should be able to defeat any village that is not another 15c.  Doesn’t that sound much simplier?   I thought so!