I'm playing as Africa, with my only opponent being North America. I concentrate almost all my defenses on the west and north coast, with only a single silo and two radars on the eastern cost. I place my fleets so that I can immediately strike at the eastern coast, with only a single fleet to defend my shores against anything that gets through. DEFCON 3- I begin my attack. They have one mixed fleet of carriers and battleships and one fleet of subs defending their coast. Both are swiftly annihilated, and I only lose one battleship and aircraft carrier. DEFCON 2 starts moments after I send in my fighters to start scouting for targets, while my bombers from Africa start to begin their journey. I find two missile silos, a radar installation, and an airfield, but the fire is so thick that I can only speculate on the locations of the silos behind them. DEFCON 1 then starts. I start selecting my targets, and my bombers open fire, annihilating the airfield and both silos, and devastating the eastern coast. Then the heartland of the U.S lights up with missile launches. I launch bombers from my carriers offshore, silencing them permanently at the cost of only about 15 million of my civlilians. With the road into the U.S open, I get ready to convert my silos to ICBM mode, when I begin to wonder where the hell the rest of North America's fleet is at. Moments later I get alerts that missile launches have been detected on the eastern coast of Africa. I send my fleet over, and eventually take out most of their subs, but taking out their actual fleet proves much harder. Their missiles hit, and with only one silo I lost nearly 30 million civies, along with one of my radar installations. I am now running behind in points, so I take a gamble and trust my fleet to prevent any more bombers from taking off, and convert all my silos to launch mode, along with launching the rest of my remaining bombers in an all or nothing attack. The U.S is devasated, with only a couple million civilians alive. My fleet finishes moving into position, catching the remaining North American fleets in between them and my airbases, crushing them. When the radioactive dust clears, I'm left with 30 million civilians alive and the Americans a mere 2 million. With multiple bombers bearing on those few population centers remaining. Not bad for my first game, even thou I'm sure having a bunch of other players would make it a lot harder.
DEFCON. I know the true way to own is not to play, but Global Thermonuclear War is just so fun.
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