did we not prove to you that hostile acres meant nothing?

The bugged wave was not tactically much of an advantage; we were overpopping peasants at 7% rate until army returns regardless, at which point we would have been underpopped either way. its not like the extra was putting us on desertion overpops or that we can't deal with desertion overpops easily.

No one would ever turn down an advantage in size
ya I'm sure EQ had a huge advantage over us when we topfed vultured them in whatever age that was. wow they sure did make life hard for us with all those large underpumped provinces. :S

there are 18 million examples of smaller more pumped kingdoms farming the opposite.