Rhyagelle Responds To Absaroke Aggression

 

just a humourous thought.

Agreed, the Devs have stated any number of times that they want to see more "friction" in the game.  It amazes me how people have bent over backward to define friction as everything but conflict.

Since H? is a self-identified military alliance staffed by a number of very large players, let us assume (quite reasonably) that their military strength is very high in relation to total population.

Consone is a cluster of alliances, some larger and some smaller, some militant and some peaceful, with players ranging from very tiny to quite large, who have already consumed quite a few of their troops in the tournament and in many cases may not have bothered with huge armies in the first place.  After all, Illy is a peaceful game where no one attacks anyone else, who needs troops?  So let's say their military strength is "average" for their size, maybe a bit low since so many troops died in the tourney.

South Korea is an industrialized trading country with a population of 50 million and an active military of 650,000.  Their neighbor North Korea has a population of only 25 million, half as large, but they also have the 4th largest army in the world with 1.1 million on active duty and close to 8 million in reserves.  If a war comes and no one else intervenes, who wins?  Big South Korea?  I don't think so.

And before someone jumps on this, I'm not comparing H? to North Korea politically or socially.  They have much better leadership, their members are clearly thrilled to be in H? and the limited interactions I have had with H? members have been peaceful and pleasant.  Maybe it's because I am too small to be a threat, or maybe those guys are just decent people, but either way I've found these H? members to be more understanding and easier to deal with than some of my neighbors.  I'm just making the point the biggest population isn't necessarily the strongest military.  The largest population CAN become an unbeatable military power if they also decide to focus intensively on their military -- and if they are left in peace to do so.  I wouldn't expect the leaders of a top-rank military alliance to overlook that either.

Let this be a lesson to us all:  keep your military confeds a secret.  It can be done, it saves a lot of negative attention, and you can always reveal them when someone you don't like foolishly declares war on someone else.

You may not know the history the 2 have shared.  Certainly, I know of a great many friendships between the 2.  If someone slaps your friend about, and you are a good friend, you have a baseball bat ready to wallop them.