Quote Originally Posted by Monsieur Alphonse View Post
Small states should be looking for help from major powers, not destroying them.
Remembers a small tribe of ~ 600 cavalrymen eventually conquering Byzantium, Serbia, Hungary, Bosnia, Albania, Mamluke Syria and Egypt, the Caucauses, and what is today Iraq and Iran, and sending fleets as far as Ireland and Burma.

Also remembers a small group of rebels turned revolutionaries, whose navy by 1945 was larger than all the rest of the world's navies combined - and most of those navies were ships built by said nation...

I don't have a problem with a minor power rising to a major power status. It should take time, and effort though.