The coalitions  were around before Plarium supplied them with Name tags. So they didn't actually "Create them" 

And as far as Destroying the Wall of Top Leagues by the small leagues while it's an aspirational Goal .  

The truth is you will need to become that which you desire to destroy.

When you stare too long into the Abyss you will find it is Staring Back at you.

Good luck on your Endeavors Jules 

Well this is an interesting topic.

I have faced this from both sides in many different games. Both being in the most powerful block and being outside of the most powerful block.

The honest answer is that most MMO's and RTS MMO's give some degree of reward for achievements. In Stormfall's case think of fortresses and beacons. So the games will always make the powerful more powerful. I think this is inescapable because if you don't have a decent reward for achieving something, then why would people engage with the content? But by having decent rewards the strongest will get more reward and become stronger.

So often when you are on the outside, what you face in the opposition often feels insurmountable and hopeless.

But if you can take a long term view, every regime can be toppled. 

You aren't going to achieve it in a straight out fight. They are more powerful than you (atm). You need to be smart. You need small victories to create momentum. You need to pull other people together - the enemy of my enemy is my friend - and the most powerful always collect lots of enemies. Tbh I think you are unlikely to success without spies. You need to work out all your enemies strengths and weaknesses. You aren't going to beat a stronger foe by playing as smart as them you are going to have to player smarter to offset their advantages.

When all else fails don't forget even the strongest empires fall. And they fall due to infighting, stagnation and complacency. They get used to be the strongest. They take it for granted they are the strongest. They forget what makes them the strongest and they fall apart due to infighting with eachother. Look at the Roman Empire. Nothing could stand anything close to the organisation, technology, fighting strategies and yet it fell because it became rotten from the inside with individuals looking to exploit the most gain for themselves, pushing their careers ahead of the greater good.

I have seen that time and again. The people that seems impossible to beat are no longer in control a year or two or three later. Unfortunately for you it just doesn't happen over night (well weirdly, the actual fall from grace normally does but you can't trigger it overnight).

So if I were you I would create spy accounts. Learn everything you can about the enemy. Begin to sow the seeds of discontent. Find the fault lines to pitch ally against ally. Fan the flames. It might be a game of espionage and strategising that you didn't expect from a war game but you might just topple an impossible enemy without every using a troop.

In my server:

- a person managed to rise to marshal ship of the sub league of the strongest league (as a spy alt account). 

- One of the biggest sets of coiners fell because they account shared on an industrial scale and share shared their marshal account to loads of people outside of the game. 

The way you might come to beat your enemy isn't actually that likely to be at the end of a spear or at least the crucial element that shifts the balance of power need not be.

And when you do eventually win, your journey will only have just begun. That grand colaition that you built, unified by their common hatred of the original oppressors, how will you keep that together, when the very act of victory removes the glue that bound you together.

Of course this is Stormfall, so you could just find and recruit bigger uber coiners than their uber coiners. Hey this is MMO, there is always more than 1 successful strategy.