Ced, a war starts from day 1 of the age.
If trough the age you don't have the right setup, the right buildings, you won't be able to do your task. In this case taking the unbreakables land. It's not like they are unvulnerable...
VT has a big mouth, but not much more. Not that Sully would have been much better startegically, but at least his KD did what they aimed for: made VTnub surrender.