[Dimaz]

But you only lost two of them

Well, not exactly half, but not exactly two.

I think I was just somewhat lucky on first rounds of war.

I think I had to prepare my SCs to fight Midgard, not Ermor. And I hadn't time to switch everything to new style. You can call it luck. I call it bad planning from my side.

Then you made a brilliant diplo move and signed a NAP with him

I made no brilliant moves, it was the only way for me to not being wiped out in 5 turns. And I lost non-negligible part of income in the process.

I think you're exaggerating my strength to make everyone scared witless of me

I see that everyone was scared way before I started to exxagerate your strength

Everyone has a huge research lead on me

That's partially true, but Gath is the last among them (not taking into account Midgard due to obvious reasons).

I did all in my power to stop this war after your NAP with Van and you know that

However you knew that Jomon will help you, with that knowledge I'd definitely cancel our war. So you didn't want to stop it, after all, all you had to do is to say that it won't be 1-on-1 war for me, without even mentioning who is your ally.