[Pax]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
I think that the score is over rated...

The best way to judge an empire is the planet /production ratio's

The rest is just icing on the cake.

If you out produce and own more real estate then you are most likely the stronger race...

In the long run yes.

But in teh short run, if a smaller-but-prepared-for-war empire attacks a theoretically-much-better empire that is UNprepared for war on that same scale ... it's possible the attacker could press their advantage and make some early gains. If those gains are large enough, the industrial capacities of the two empires might equalise enought o make retaking the lost worlds/systems difficult for the previously-larger empire.

IOW, lots of planets and resources and build capacity, but insufficient military might to keep those worlds and systems ... means you're a paper tiger.

Ditto if you have a huge military, and miantenance eats up most or all of yoru resource production; youw on't be readily able to replace combat losses, and are a paper tiger "of a different stripe", if you will pardon the pun.