I ended up in 2 separate wars with hyper aggressive countries this last set... tournament game a is no joke looks like wargain is the only way to play, or maybe play a skinny strat and try to avoid notice

Detah FTW

Nah you just need to mass explore and retaliate. No need to wargain, was able to finish over 20 million without a single aggression over 17k of lands.