Consular wrote:Basically, you pre-emptively admitted defeat and withdrew so you could claim a sort of win before you were forcibly removed.
A defeat is when you fail to win a battle or a contest. TNI never fought to hold TRR. You cannot be defeated in something you never try to do.
It was legitimate for TNI to set invading TRR as its final victory objective for the Belgium mission. Invading a region is not "a sort of win". It's simply a win.
Consular wrote:I never said it was insignificant so not sure why you're ranting to me about that.
If you accept that invading The Rejected Realms is significant on its own, then why are you claiming that invading TRR is just "a sort of win"? Staying longer was unnecessary. TNI could have aimed to stay for longer against the odds, when our piling strength using military units was already maximised and the Defender world had scope to add all their military pilers to TRR native endorsements to create an a larger total. We wisely never aimed for that. There are many things that any region could try and do that are practically unobtainable. There is no shame in rationally rejecting unobtainable targets.
My point is that the existence of greater impossible feats does not detract from the difficult things that regions actually manage to accomplish.