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[Smashness]

I detonated 5,000 nukes in North Korea. Of course, everyone hated me, but any attempts to condemn my actions fell flat.

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Shadow President

[SealyStar]

Got my political and civil freedoms bars up to "Excellent" again.

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Nationstates

[Akura]

Finally, after a long war, the Confederacy of Independant Systems is no more. After taking control of Thyferra and Fondor, I moved to take Endor, Bakura, and Rakkatak. These battles were easy, and for the first time ever, both the enemy's military and econimic ratings were lower than mine. Immediately after taking these last few worlds, the enemy tried in vain to break through the blockades on Muunilist and Mygeeto, pushing thousands of battle droids into orbit. Eventually, whittled these guys down as they rubberbanded between both worlds, which had fleets over them, until I could build up a large enough force to autobattle them both into submission.

Then, there was only one foe left, the Hutts on Nal Hutta. Too easy.

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Empire at War: Republic at War. Now, if I wasn't so burned out on it, to play it from the droids' side.

[10ebbor10]

I'm doing fairly well on my playthrough from the other side. For now, it appears to me that the balance is indeed a bit off. Though that can also be the result of the map I'm playing assuming that it's fair to give LVL 4 ships(Lucrehulks) for a tech level one start. Anyway, things seem a bit more balanced when I'm not using overwhelming numbers, and often the enemy manages to force me to retreat on ground battles. (24 droids squads is much, but they tend to whittle down quickly if you're not carefull). It's fun playing without manual, though I do need to put more work in my ground assaults. (That means more droids, of course).

As for the actual awesome. I moved my fleet in position above Polis Masa. I wait a bit for the fighters/bombers to unload from the Lucrehulks but then the computer sees the numbers, and flees before the first shots are even fired, giving up their Lvl 3 space station.

[spoiler]Empire at War: Republic at War.spoiler]

[itisnotlogical]

The mission was going badly. Every house and wheatfield meant another risky shootout in the darkness, because I'd forgotten to stock the new Skyranger-2 with electroflares. One last alien was taking their time picking us off, firing a shot or two at a time from some unknown position. Finally, with four troopers left, I was moving my soldiers back to the craft.

Alien turn. One shot misses Heavy Weapons Guy. Heavy Weapons Guy turns around and shoots a HC-HE shell back at him. BOOM. One shot, right through the window, instantly killing the last Sectoid that had been giving us so much grief.

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XCom: UFO Defense

[Rince Wind]

A precurser fleet that would have annihilated our fleet a couple of years ago. They had 12 ships all in all, at least that is what we have seen and destroyed so far, taking only a little bit of armor damage on one of our light carriers.

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Aurora 5.6

[Mr Space Cat]

In Nethack, my lvl 2 Orcish Ranger came across a wild kitten. Throwing a spare ration at it, the kitten gladly eats it and suddenly starts killing garter snakes that were apparently lying in ambush for me. The kitten and my little dog then proceeded to kill all the snakes in the room without any help whatsoever and gobble their corpses. There were ten or so in all.

I now have two pets following me. Go teamwork!

[hemmingjay]

I won $189 in a poker tournament. I bluffed bigtime despite only having a pair of 7's in my hand but had to go all in when my opponent raised my bet. I got lucky on the river and ended up with four 7's and my first top finish ever.

[Akura]

Had myself, Brother Pravin Lal, voted Supreme Leader of Planet. The only person besides myself who voted for me was the Spartan Leader, and she only had 8 votes. The Gaeans where the largest nay-voter, with 80-something votes. Everyone else, besides the Believers, had 30-50.

I had over 700 votes. Democracy is pretty effective if your votes count more than the others.

Oh, and for the Believers, they declared war on me for supporting the Spartans, and for being a democracy("Freedom of choice is sin! God, through me of course, is the only ruler!" and that sort of thing)... and I kinda started a drone riot in their only city. Of course, I then killed them, and took their leader, Sister Miriam, stripped her down, and strapped her to an electrified gyro-thing for "interrogation". I think the reason for the interrogation was the meaning behind her nightly "bible thumping" the other leaders were accusing her of.

The records of my deeds were published books titled "Rovers, Dangerous at Any Speed" and "'We must consent' - 100 Sure-Fire Pickup Lines by Brother Lal".

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Alpha Centauri

[Azated]

Sort of old, but still one of my most memorable wins.

Playing as the Shimazu, I had an army consisting primarily of yari and bow ashigaru, several units of Shimazu katana samurai, a light cavalry unit and my daimyo's bodyguard. The total unit count was about 1000.

I'd conquered several provinces with this army, so every unit was very well experienced. I thought I'd dealt with the army of whoever happened to be next to me at the time, but I wasn't so lucky.

I conquered another city with no losses, then moved on to the next. Between the two is an army of just over 2500 yari and bow ashigaru and two generals. Suffice to say, I thought I'd have my ass handed to me on a silver platter. When the map loaded, I started on a forested hill. A good defensive position for my archers to fire from; the only advantage I thought I had.


Fast forward to 20 minutes later and my cavalry are running down their retreating troops. I slaughtered their entire army at the cost of a mere 200 units.

It turns out that battle-hardened shimazu samurai with improved armour strike some pretty serious fear into the peasantry of Japan.

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Shogun 2

[Akura]

It turns out that battle-hardened shimazu samurai with improved armour strike some pretty serious fear into the peasantry of Japan.

Wasn't that kind of the point of the samurai warrior-class supremacy?

[Azated]

It turns out that battle-hardened shimazu samurai with improved armour strike some pretty serious fear into the peasantry of Japan.

Wasn't that kind of the point of the samurai warrior-class supremacy?

It was, but I had no idea how much of a difference there was between samurais and their less than useful brethren of the plains.

[thunderclan]

Assaulting the alien base (which ended up being almost right next door to XCOM HQ...) had left my entire A-Team in the infirmary, and then the aliens decide to launch a terror mission in Russia, which is already at level 3 panic. So I form up a squad of four squaddies and two corporal snipers and head out, only basic armor and weapons (wasn't going to risk the good stuff on people I figured were dead)

Touched down and as we moved forward 2 heavy floaters and 3 chryssalids are revealed, and in the process of grabbing better cover my assault soldier reveals 2 mutons and a berserker. Cue a frenzied battle that left my squad one man short and with the others in varying degrees of bad shape and 2 heavy floaters, 2 mutons, 1 berserker, 3 chryssalids and 2 zombies dead.

Not a bad showing though definitely have to recruit some more guys now since I have 1 soldier not currently in the infirmary.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Much earlier in the same game, was escorting a scientist to the Skyranger, have 2 of my 4 soldiers working to flank the aliens while my support and assault soldiers protect the scientist. They reach the final room before they have to go outside, I stick the scientist behind...something for cover, have my support heal the assault of a poisoning before putting the assault on Overwatch. Other soldiers finish off all the Thin Men we have seen.

Alien turn comes and the door to the room we're in bursts open and a lone Thin Man we hadn't seen comes through, maybe 3 squares from the VIP...and eats a shotgun blast from the assault soldier at almost point blank.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Loving this game

[Mini]

(wasn't going to risk the good stuff on people I figured were dead)

You get your guys' equipment back even if they all die.

[Darkening Kaos]

The battle for the Northern Weigh Station was getting intense with ownership swapping hands every ten minutes, then a TR infiltrator announced himself on the ridge to the north side of the road, taking me down to just a few bars of health, I ran and dodged for several minutes trying to avoid getting hit again.
Found a deep shadow and backtracked, he had changed targets and I returned the favour, my Heavy using his basic LMG with a 4x scope and getting a few lucky hits, then a kill.
Only a minute later, the infiltrator is back and drops me with one shot, I respawn in the Northern Weigh Station, but make my way up the ridge to the South, then we're trading shots from the tops of the ridges on opposite sides of the road, we hurt each other, then I score a good double hit, wiping him out again.  It's close to server shut down, so I /tell him and we strike up a conversation, finally friending his character when he respawns as NC.

My Heavy is 2 for 1 in a sniping contest against an Infiltrator.

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Planetside 2, as if you needed to be told.