[SpaceViking21]

In addition, stagnation is death in these games (as I'm painfully learning as my role in my other MP game ends). In that one, I was a peacefulish, isolationist Niefelheim focused mostly on research than gaining land. I put off a war that should have happened so much earlier to get a little more research done, and when I finally started and ended that war, I was immediately consumed by the conquered nation's neighbor and have only a couple of provinces left (though he's been stalling on finishing me because of my other neighbor, who went to war with him once I got invaded).

Basically, we both needed to expand and eliminate some competition, and we both already had NAPs with our other neighbors, so you ended up with the short straw.