Note: All of the below is a best-case scenario for Gallia. As should be obvious.
' Wrote:Incorrect assumption, they still need to occupy them.
Destroy the shipyards, the battleships, the cruisers and bomber wings. While they won't get everything, they'll get enough that any resistance can be easily suppressed with one battleship per system and a moderate fighter presence. This is a place with, so the story goes, over a hundred battleships, so that's really not a problem. Hold Bretonia, rebuild, attack the next House, repeat. By the fourth, they're behind maybe 20 battleships tops to hold their captured territory - which would be a minor problem if this wasn't, you know, Gallia.
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Now, if the devs are smart, they're not going to go that way. Gallia's probably not going to make it past Bretonia. But the underlying strategy based on their resources isn't that farfetched. It's not perfect... but humans aren't perfect, and Gallia seems to be run by greedy, arrogant bastards.