Is that considered land trading using a couple of missiles as a poor disguise?

I doubt it but either way it wont work to their advantage doing it that way. Land trading is not easy to do if you wanna beat conventional grabbing, and that nuke that landed does not help.

Yeah, I looked at it and figured I'd wait til they both fatten up some more before moving in....

Feels like they didn’t create that much land.

#54 only net gain less than 1k land from all the exchanges.. #19 net gain about 4k+ land.. for all the losses that incur from rebuilding lands and military losses for such little gains, i dont think they are intentionally doing land trading

IF a pair or group of players are colluding to create land for themselves and/or to boost themselves in other ways I'd be far more worried about it if they finished 1 and 2 than if they are looking to finish 12 and 29. :)

Right- if they are intentionally land trading they are doing it wrong, makes sense.

can't do it right since then it'd be co-operation.