Introversion

Gentlemen, I present to you, the Race Track Setup:



The aim is to arrange your silos in a curved formation with the outermost silos of the trajectory to your enemy placed nearer, analogous to a race track with athletes with greater distance to travel being given a head-start to compensate. The result is an excellent sync, with the nukes converging nearer the target they get. You can launch all at once or offset them by a few seconds each. It's a dab hand at defense too due to its concave style.

Now go forth and unleash this tactic on the unsuspecting players of DEFCON!

I bow to the almighty racetrack setup.


worship it worship ittt!!!!!!!!!!!

/me stealing ideas...very nice stup!

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how did you do that? cheat???

Thank you all. No R3D not cheating haha, just place the silos in a sort of curve towards your opponent! I know the screenshot isn't very clear, I can post a better one.

It seems I need to post something in order to be able to send a PM. So... hello everyone and not a bad sync you've got there, Colytic.

Thanks and welcome to the forums.

And R3D, here's a better picture of the silos:


Note that one of them is there to pick off small cities because is was a n00b and failed to smash the American coastline properly.

although setups specifically designed for synch can be easy at first, I found this to be much better in terms of game play

I choose a defensive setup, like say an all purpose feud-style silo hexagon with a radar in the center, and then I calculate how long it takes for each nuke of each position in the setup to strike a target, and then from that I know the offset.

example, silo 1 takes 1m46s, silo 2 takes 1m56s, silo 3 takes 2m10s, so pace such that I launch silo 3, then 14 seconds later silo 2, then 10 seconds later silo 1.

It takes a lot more effort, to calculate the timing for each silo of each position to each approximate target location, but the end result is much better.

I got to the point where I could get all ten volleys of six silo nukes to all land on their targets within 3 second of each other, without using a placement scheme to maximise synchronization like how you've shown.

Thanks for sharing! I'm glad people are still coming up with new creative strategies for this game

Thanks for the input! With a Six Pack it's possible to sync as well as this too. I just thought it was an interest strategy and worth sharing. Glad you enjoyed reading.