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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 20, 2025

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Sulla's website chronicles a very interesting episode in which he and another player called Speaker found themselves invaded by five civilizations at the same time, from multiple directions. Speaker masterminded an absolutely brilliant defense and managed to save their team, then counterattacked and ended the war by crippling one of the aggressors. You can see how important tactical details were in deciding the outcome; Jowy had enough materiel and bodies to defend in theory, but he positioned them poorly and lost the battle.