Most "powerful" house (within RP)

[Marcus Lindberg]

You know one of the things I'm worried about is that a lot of people are mentioning stuff like experience, loyalty, firepower, tactics...

But no one has thought of Logistics.

Logistics is key to war, sure you may have the biggest baddest ship with the baddest looking guns and the almost unbelievably imposible high turn rate for a ship that size,

But what if its power core runs out of energy? Or becomes to old and needs replacing? What if it needs new or more missiles? What if the crew have no food? What if you supply lines are stretched too long and your defense stretched too thin?

That being said, is actually one of the reasons Germany could'nt invade Russia, even if they weren't at war with the West. Sure they would've gotten most of Russia, but the Russians managed to, literally, move their factories towards the East in the Ural mountains, 6 weeks ahead of schedule. This, by the way, comes from Stalingrad, written by Anthony Beever, an expert on the Eastern Front in World War 2. (I think I might've selled his name wrong).

Now I know some of you may play the 'oh, earth isn't sirius' and what not, but Logistics is still required in RP. The Gallians would never, at their current state be able to reach Hispania even if they conquered the other houses, because their supply lines would be stretched too thin, and we all know pirates knows the jumpholes and use guerilla tactics. The Gallians would literally have to develop atleast Rheinland so that they can begin creating their supplies there and support the war effort from there on, which would take at least 25 years considering they'd have to deal with the Nationalist Rheinlanders as well, who will most likely create an insurgency of their own.