Strategies for tyrant

So I am arguing with my alliance on how to do rally’s for tyrant and looking to see how other alliances do things. Season 1 if it matters.

Our alliance wants only players close to the tyrant with rally size 8 or more to create rally’s. This usually results in 1-4 rally’s available for my teams to join when they return from last attack. These rally’s will usually fill up pretty quick. We have been maxing the tyrant doing this method so alliance sees no need to change.

My thought is we need more rally’s. This is because offline members will then be able to participate as a rally needs to be open for over 1 minute for an offline member to auto join. I think with more rally’s available, online people will fill the rally’s that are at the top of the list, while the open rally’s that are off screen will be filled by offline members. My thinking is player should start rally with their third march and join the other rally’s with the stronger 2 marches.

Thoughts?