User blog comment:Tachikaze Master/Waifu War Log:/@comment-132.170.212.51-20160301193336/@comment-27565452-20160302084524

A player does not need to declare war on the start date, he can just choose to do so before the end date and let others help him eliminate most of the other players. In the case where you mean that a player must declare war on the start date, then there is no difference between the war battles as compared to a tournament setting, which defeats the whole purpose of this being a war game.