You ask WHY we would pull this sort of tactic???
Ok, we were stealing a V-base, and what we did was we de-acked the whole field and came back later with troops... Now coming back with troops with no protection is stupid right? But what we do is we drop troops and bail with them in order to make the base stop flashing, and yes, your troops do keep running as long as you don't re-up, but we have no worry about that since we are still there WITH the troops...
It was just odd in all that the troops would die when the base we have originated from got captured O_o