[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Pax:
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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 your resource production; you won't be readily able to replace combat losses, and are a paper tiger "of a different stripe", if you will pardon the pun.

Be careful when talking about paper tigers - a certain 'tigga might leave his pub to make smart-alecky remarks on this thread...