Melon approves of getting this war over with.

Anyways, so far it's mostly been a defensive war, with the Vanians on the attack losing a lot of crew. I think that if we kept RPing, Vania would have lost a lot of soldiers but gained some ground eventually. Though I think that once Vania starts running out of steam to fight on all of those fronts, he would eventually face a combined offensive from the larger concordant. That sound accurate?

True, but even then I still have a massive amount of troops left as well. Since you're fighting on multiple fronts as well, you've lost far more than me.

You forget a few things. First, you're only hitting my border systems, which only really exist to act as buffers. Even the mining locations are mostly mined out, with the actual sources of metal being deeper and further from the places you're actually attacking. And from reading your factbooks, your drones aren't very tough. They could ripped to shreads by faster firing weaponry, like those on my corvettes. You've probably lost in expenses for providing enough drones to actually do damage than I have in replacing some power packs for those weapons and the occasional damage to places we don't have a big investment in.

That second phase wasn't actually that far. In fact I probably would have gotten to it by now, but I'm drowning in work IRL (like I've said many times), so I don't really want to go starting things I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up with. And you aren't the only one with big stockpiles. I've mentioned many times before the war how Excave has plenty of materials in storage, mostly for bragging rights but also in case of war. You overestimate how much damage you've really done to us, as most of Iammelon is just business as usual with more defense fleets ready.

But I feel like we should try and get some other opinions in here before continuing. Not much point if it's just us two.

Wooo mah ULTI is live! Imma win everything! Eat my prediction software! I win this war with only one hand!

*Realizes I haven't installed it on anything yet ICly*

Uh..... back to my corner.....

well, that really wouldn't change the outcome of the war, just add to the damage. i'm vastly outnumbered even with all the mercs i hired.

isn't that what everyone else is doing, or would be doing, though?

here's how i think the war should be:

the Vania Republic goes back and forth with the alliance, however as they are not receiving the aid they were promised by their allies, the Concordat is able to hold against them. ven the Drone warfare, while causing damages, is not enough to overly hurt the war effort.

eventually, the Vanians are forced on the defensive, and the Concordat slowly pushes them back, albeit at a relatively high cost of life, and seizes everything outside the capital itself.

in the peace deal, the Republic is greatly reduced and has much of it's power in the galaxy taken away. suggested terms are
the reduction of the armed forced to 1/8 of their prewar levels, and the ban from increasing it's size.

massive reparations on the Vania Republic, paying for the whole war on the Concordat side.

imposement of trade sanctions, to further hurt the Vania republic and aiding the Concordat.

seizeion of a number of tech, such as Vanian industrial technology.

Well, the outcome of the war will likely be the same anyways, as I'm fighting largely on my own. I'd rather just end this war at this point, and use this idea for the next war.