From your statistics, I see that honor, size and war wins don't coincide at all and that my hypothesis of little warfare was pretty close to correct. I'll take it from you that kingdoms are ranked by size. Most of the single wars per age you've described were to determine the biggest kingdom by oea. It then seems like growth is the priority with a war strat for backup in case you need to war. You spend the majority of the age not warring. Therefore, it just seems odd to me that these kingdoms spend so much time arguing over war strats and planning on war builds.

VM is a tactical move to maintain #1 honor spot. #1 always shifts during the age. Princes get razed for no reason other than they're princes. However good you are, if you're #1, there's a good chance too many people are going to try wack you out of #1 if you're not in war or vacation, even when honor was a little more stable at the time. Enough of that if it doesn't mean anything to you.

So you rule out honor for honor whoring and war wins for ghetto bashing. Only thing left is size; only thing I don't understand about that is size doesn't mean best at warring either and is actually even less of an indicator of the ability to war than honor or war wins.