Originally Posted by
RattleHead
Well, it removes a % of defence that is the same for everyone... if the only thing you are relying on in your province is defence, I am afraid you will be outmatched more often than not anyways.
If you put all your eggs in that basket, when that basket gets Plague it is definitely going to be a bad day for you. OOW you need offence to deter hits through fear of retaliation, in War you need offence so that when you do get Plague, or Ops etc., you still have a leg to stand on. If you can't hit and don't have much for TPA/WPA ... you will just be consumed and have almost 0 recourse.
In a Warring situation if you got Plague, you had to either get broken cleanly to begin with, or you hit someone who had Plague from an UB position (DANGER WILL ROBINSON!), if the former; more hits were likely inevitable already. If the latter than I guess you will have to sleep in the bed you have made for yourself.
Although I assumed you to be more like a 5k acre Human sitting on a pile of Homes and Forts, with mostly DSpecs or something along these lines. :P