Aisha Greyjoy

We actually kick and raid our inactives. And our tax is too low for that to work for us anyway. But a big alliance that likes having the most members...it makes sense there.

I'd say 5 or maybe 8 seem like good thresholds.

Make it even weaker and let it give you 7AP when war begins instead of 6.

Welcome Mr. Vice President.

Iron Maiden, of course!

When people refer to a one state solution, they mean one state in the area, with jews and muslims as its citizens. A two-state solution refers to Palestine and Israel as separate states. I only mention this(semi-obvious) because I think some people don't quite get that from the comments above.

What would Rome do? I think Rome would go in with 8-12 legions, take all Iraqi's as slaves and settle their retiring Legionaires in the province of Mesopatamia. What wound Imperial Great Britian do? Go in with a small, highly technical army, kill the enemy leaders, and convince his 2nd in command to rule the whole country as a British client. What would Alexander the Great do? Alexander would go in and marry a few muslim girls and force some of his greek soldiers to take muslim wives and promise that the children, a greco-iraqi mix would one day rule the world as conquerors. Then he'd get assassinated and all his plans would be undone. And what does America do? We send a few advisors and drop a few bombs. Half-measures don't win wars. You want to pacify Iraq you need a draft and 200,000 american soldiers on the ground, and a willingness to see 2-3k dead every year. When you wage war, fight to win. If you can't afford to win, don't fight. Those who thing my 200k idea is a good one should read Paul Kennedy's "Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" and learn what "Imperial Overextension" is. Then decide, is Iraq worth taking on more of that for the USA? Our Empire has some lifespan left in it. But it can't afford endless wars for little gain.

I just added a buy order. Munitions are cheap, and I want to buy them. If enough people see that and want to buy too, the price will go up until they aren't cheap, and less people will buy. Its awfully hard to manipulate the market forces.

Congratz on your battleship. That is the only way to break the power of a market player.

Be wary of anyone who cites "Greater Good" as a reason for doing something. Its rarely as it is portrayed.

Tax all members moderately, pay active members their taxes back. Let the inactives bankroll your alliance bank.

You should expand your war to anyone buying and selling from Aamir! He dumped his food on me, likely in fear of a crashing food market. You would have to hit me too then, but that's ok. I can take it. Its for a good cause.

The past is NO guarentee of the future...but food spikes between 110 and 210 usually. If yuo're brave, buy the 7000 low food and hold it. Could always backfire, obviously.

Stop evading. You told your members they "should" do something and they did. Then you said "stop it", and they did. That makes you an effective leader. No need to spin further. Leaders can lead without giving orders. The best ones do.

You've got a long way to go. Guardian and DEIC are both rather under-militarized. Its clear this wasn't escalating soon.

And the more Islamophobia, the more young Islamic men will consider radicalism. That is the plan of terrorists, to make you murder their children to enrage their side to increase their numbers. They want you to shoot them. And hopefully miss and hit a daycare center instead.

Good luck Scotland! Go find some brits to fight!

It would be unintelligent (notice how I didn't use the "R" word) of him to stop playing the market. he needs those profits to rebuild his nation. Perhaps he will stop undercutting you personally, but I wouldn't expect him to stop buying low and selling high.

A major factor increasing gasoline prices in wartime is the low production of 6 per refinery. You can add 5 steel factories for 90steel a day, or 5 gasoline factories for 30 gas a day. On the flipside, the beatdown side usually stops buying steel (and oil to fuel their tanks) as they can't afford tanks and/or are blockaded.

The Iron Isles will never be one of "those" nations.... We believe strength comes from strength, not from potential strength.

Welcome as Moderator! Use your powers for good, not evil.

Warring him without blockading him is pointless.

Imagining a real life scenario for a nation losing its air and ground attacks but launching missiles.....brings to mind 1990 Iraq launching its SCUDS all over the place as the US systematically destroyed the Iraqi army for the first(but not the last) time.

Is it April 1st in some part of the world?

Victoria 2.