A demo is not optimal, but if you leverage your tech advantage while you have it, then rebuild leveled acres as farms, its doable. I would not change govs unless I was planning on hitting first. This was not a great set for any techers to war.

This is an instance where both Celphi and Ford are both fundamentally correct, they are looking through the same window and seeing different things. Ford is a longtime clan warrior, experienced in orchestrating wars where optimal war builds are mandatory for success. A sof, sol, IX, etc full of Demo-Techers in a war would be a pinata. Celphi is not most players, he calculates all of the angles and makes trick shots look easy. He figures he is good enough that he can win with something oddball and make art.

Niether of them is as good as me, but hey, somebody has to tell the story.

(Assuming a defenseless country is a pretty big leap. Are we also assuming it is a perfect sphere with zero charge?)