Most "powerful" house (within RP)

[McNeo]

The rumour that Liberty has enough firepower to take on two houses and win is based upon the fact that there is an ingame (vanilla) rumour that the Liberty Navy recieves funding for the scenario that it does find itself fighting two of the other houses at the same time.

I'd also like to take this time to say that the reason you saw Rheinland battlegroups going around in Rheinland is because, if you read the progressive news articles during the singleplayer missions, you find that Rheinland called up all its reserves and was running at a pace so fast that it would run out of resources in only a few months. Liberty, on the other hand, can probably sustain that pace indefinately.

About this business of who started the Rheinland-Liberty war.

InRP, Rheinland can't prove that they didn't start it whereas Liberty can prove that they did.
Out of RP, the story is slightly different.

But I dislike how people say YOU STARTED IT when it's plainly more complicated than that, and also that no one would believe Rheinland when it said that its evidence is conveniently not there. Sure, maybe Rheinland citizens would, but I do believe that in legal terms, evidence is worth more than bias testimony.

EDIT: This business about combined hispania having any sort of chance in an offensive war is bollocks. Sure, on the defensive, both the Corsairs and the Outcasts would probably be able to repel all but the most committed of attackers, but neither side is experienced in fighting pitched battles or offensive wars. Both only fight guerilla wars, and cannot hope to take large swathes of territory from the houses if the houses were as prepared as the hispanics are for a defensive war.

The only reason the Corsairs are making real gains in Bretonia is because Kusari is the far bigger threat, even after such a grinding war.

EDIT2: Sprolf, I said real gains, not great gains. This means gains that they can hold on to. A great gain would be the change of rule of a planet or station from Bretonian to Corsair, which hasn't happened.