One mil in one week? Holy fuck your good. At that rate a 60 man faction can take over the map in a month.
One mil in one week for an organized strat faction seems about right, when you have a buy fief and a sell fief you should be able to make a good amount of money like they were, especially so close to the NA/EU border. If that seems like a lot to you then you guys were doing something wrong.
The armies LL was using to attack the castle weren't all that "shiny" either, the first wave rarely had any mw armor. The second wave had mostly +3 Heraldic mail with tunic, which isn't that expensive. The last wave had some of their best gear, which you can get with time. Considering they only had 1 fief to worry about defending, and still do.. the armies they were taking out seem to fit the bill.
If we would have wanted LL as a "proxy" we wouldn't have told them to go after Teutonics.. but rather NH, or FCC who we are currently at war with... but that's not the case, never was.
I don't understand why people seem to want to associate clans like LL and Astralis as our "vessels" or "proxies" whenever they attack something they want to attack just because they are close to us and friendly with us.