Is the rumish army complete shit or are sordish generals tatical geniuses?

During both campaigns, we hear a lot about how Rumburg is the third wannabe superpower, only for them to get mid diffed by a fresh out of recession Sordland with only one expanded or modernized branch and a few friends. You can even solo them if you are willing to sacrifice a million soldiers, the economy, and half the country—which is also probably going to get bombed into oblivion, making WWI look like a vacation compared to the Sordish trenches. But you still can solo a wannabe superpower just by digging a hole in the ground.

Which leads me to my questions: Is the Rummish army overrated, or is the Sordish army made of tactical geniuses?

First, let's take a look at Rumburg's feats: beating Agnolia, beating Agnolia, and beating Agnolia. The Crown also avoided the Romanov treatment during the Century of Revolutions, so I guess that's a feat.

Now for Sordland's achievements: did not get annihilated by Rumburg in the Fifteen Day War, and that's about it. There's also the Sordish Civil War, but a civil war is very different from conventional warfare.

Now, to beat Rumburg, there are a couple of ways:

1-Blitz**:** Very self explanatory. Just keep conscription, modernize the air force or army, get some friends to use as cannon fodder, and rush to their capital before you run out of fuel, manpower, economy, and guns. This is insane since Rumburg is supposedly almost a superpower, it would be like if Ukraine marched to Moscow a year and a half after Russia declared war on them.

2-Pincer**:** Modernize whatever branch, get a shitload of friends, and trick the Rummies into invading Nabel (and Estord) before shelling the shithole into the ground with a lot of Rummies—and possibly some civilians—still in it. Honestly, we don't lose that much by turning Nabel into a wasteland, since it was already a wasteland before the war. It's also the strategy with the fewest deaths (only about 300k), which I think is because you destroy the Rummish army alongside Nabel and Estord with artillery instead of men.

3-Trench Warfare: The fun one. Send a lot of teens straight to the trenches the minute they turn 18, and make sure to keep 'em coming since Valken is a big fan of mass assault tactics (a.k.a., "more men than they have bullets"). Just take Dome and other economically important parts to starve Rumburg to death. It's the only way to win solo, but about a million Sordish teens die, and you have to keep conscription.

So, basically:

• Strategy 1 is the least damaging to Sordland, since you are taking the war to Rumburg.
• Strategy 2 involves turning two cities into rubble alongside the Rummish army (Nabel is a shithole, so I think a couple of shells won't make that much of a difference).
• Strategy 3 involves traumatizing all of Merkopa and the world with mass scale trench warfare.

We know that the Sordish army is one of the best in the region even after getting defunded to hell by le capitalist Alphonso, but Rumburg is a wannabe superpower with chemical weapons, so there's that.

So either rumburg has a ussr type situation where beatrice purged all of her competent general staff for some reason or valken and iosef are just built different.

I guess we will have to wait for The Wars of Suzerain to come out for us to learn more about the Rummish military situation.