Originally posted by SolidSnake:
drow he hit a guy that was over 19m raw break, your saying 2-3m is not unreasonable to avoid suicides he had fluffing 19m and still got absolutely raped.... you can only go so far to avoid suicides, if somoene grows in an alliance and then hits, you cant stop it without cooperation from the other alliances, your guy is spewing fluff when he says he hit people because they had too little d.
Multiple targets with severely inadequate defense was a large part the reason I chose LaF as my target, I didn't need 20+million jets to do it, and I didn't need PDM's tag protection for the majority of the set in order to get the amount of military I had to do it, I could easily have run untagged and accumulated enough resources to buy just a few million jets and had almost the same effect. I made the decision to suicide on a whim more or less, it wasn't something I planned out, certainly not something I'd been thinking about all set, I intended to fight a long drawn out war with NA, stonewalling, and restarting and having as big an impact on the war as I could until the end of the set. However with the introduction of new alliances to our side NA was quickly destroyed and it seemed that the remainder of the set would be quite boring. So literally overnight I selfishly decided to make it more fun by selfishly waging a one man war with LaF.
It's a testament to both my impatience and lack of planning that I didn't take even more from LaF. I'd FA'd away and lost through breaking most of my stockpile during the war, so I could have been a LOT bigger. I also didn't bother to either store turns to make more hits, or sell off what was left of my stockpile properly (I removed everything from the market and sold on the PM). Had I done this I could conceivably taken the land (more land), jumped, and help it all set. This is actually what I wanted to do but I got carried away and decided I wanted to hit sooner and less effectively rather than later. After the conversion to dictatorship and losing more resources than I anticipated I decided to drop the land to compensate for what I lost in military with regaining my old tech levels. Thankfully LaF allowed me to compensate for my impatience by failing to launch a coordinated attack on me until 5 minutes after I got my remaining 17 million jets back from PS, you can blame PDM for not killing me all you like, but the fact of the matter is they did put a lot of hits in, but I was ready to stonewall the whole 22 hours, and war-ravaged Paradigm simply didn't have enough countries in a position to break me to be able to kill me off in a single coordinated run. LaF did - but they didn't.
I included Goku's country as well simply because it was the largest country in the game, in hindsight maybe I shouldn't have - but I could and I did.