In regard to BAF and Bretonia

[Silver]

Well, conquering some space for limited time and taking permanent full control are two entirely different things when it comes to resources. To gain full control, you need to establish loyal forces which can keep control over space and mainly over original population which don´t like you. That´s difficult task even for those few systems Gallia already conquered, not to mention gaining control over whole planet Leeds full of resistance movement. And the more you are stretching, the weaker you are and the more resources you need.

In my opinion Gallia does not have reason to conquer whole Bretonia, because it brings more troubles than gains. Only useful assets for them is Leeds as industrial system, and Dublin for the gold mining fields (but there they would have to fight not only with BAF but also with Mollys). The rest is either unneeded or isn´t worth to spend resources on conquering it (maybe Omega-3 is interesting for local mining fields, but you need to conquer New London and Cambridge to get there so again, it is question if this is worth it) . Also, the smaller defended space is, the easier for defenders is to defend it thus last strongholds usually cost lots of resources to conquer.

Actually I would expect Gallia to try establish peace negotiations with Bretonia right now, because it is about time for that. Liberty is no longer weakened by war with Rheinland - even more than that, they now has again access to resources from Rheinland as the trading is restored. So if Gallia wants to be ready for Liberty´s full military power, they should reduce amount of their enemies too so they can focus on Liberty front and also fortifying conquered space including gaining full control over them.

Though of course there is ooRP factor of gameplay. If above mentioned scenario would happen, it would likely turn Bretonia into dead space where there is not much to do (and it has activity problems already even now). Would be nice to revive fight over Dublin and with Corsairs of course, but I have my doubts this would happen in scale big enough to create sustainable strong enough source of activity.

Wow.
Right on the money. Great analysis, Laura C.
I wholeheartedly agree with this.

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