Aelex wrote:FelrikTheDeleted wrote:That is how it works actually, you would be the aggressor because you'd be instigating a war. I never said I wouldn't attempt at diplomacy, however I doubt you would agree to any diplomatic actions anyway.
Are you referring to my military or UMN, because if you're referring to UMN, in this case it does matter, because he, Ashkera and Void are the strongest nations in game; army wise no it doesn't always matter, also are you sure you didn't just upgrade your amount of men for your own convenience.
Also being next to UMN has the advantage of giving me recent knowledge and equipment concerning military technology, we're either equal in technological equipment, slightly ahead of you, or you're slightly ahead of me, I'm also a friend of Minzerland of which is extremely militaristic too.
You definitely don't out-tech me by a long stretch.
Except any government with a brain probably realises that the name is extremely misleading, nonetheless, as much as I like Mattopolis, I'm not going to risk a Great War over him.
What is happening is basically Irak. Declaring war over a peace-keeping operation (or at least something that is turned as so) while automatically make you look like the baddie even if you would technically be right to oppose said war.
Ashkera? The strongest nation in the game? I mean sure, they're a force to be reckoned with but they're by no mean a world power.
Also, don't underestimate Britannia and me. We are basically the second and third biggest Empire after Russia and have a little more than half a billion population each in top of controlling a shit load of the raw precious ressources. And it's for that very reason I upgraded my amount of men. I had less than 0.2% of my population in the military which made litteraly no sense. Now I've 1.2% which makes way more given that I'm supposed to be a militaristic and imperialist power.
And knowledge of recent military technology don't actually mean owning recent military technology. It cost a lot of money to actually equip your men with them and what is already putting a big strain on the budget of rich nations should put an even bigger on smaller and less rich ones like your. Thinking that you only have a "slight" disadvantage sound honestly like you're trying to cheat your way here.
I mean, I'm by no way an all mighty power and am matched and even bested by a lot of other countries but there is no realistic denying that my army is stronger than your and not "by a small edge".
It's not peace keeping operations, it's an excuse to expand your interests and expand your territory, an excuse to bring order to a country that doesn't require order, which IIRC, comes under imperialism.
Ashkera is the most technologically advanced nation from my knowledge, especially in military areas of research, she's arguably one of the strongest nations in game.
I will concur that's a reasonable reason to increase the size.
Knowledge of a technology helps me build that technology (One of the reasons I'm protecting him is because he supplies the metals needed, I could use mine, however it's cheaper to buy from him), knowledge referring to more than simply being aware of its existence, I do more than build these thing my self, to be honest I exploit others to achieve this, Minzerland also provides me with some technologies should he discover them.
I could just as easily accuse you of cheating, after raising your military population, after all you've been committing the act of ethnic cleansing, it would take a lot longer than a couple hundred years to recover the population of your colonies. (Assuming you started colonising at the same time as everyone else, which you would have, otherwise that could be considered cheating)
Technologically wise, I'm not behind you, military population wise, yes I am.



