There have been plenty of posts about geographical errors, but I was inspired by this front page article on Wikipedia this morning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belo_Horizonte I'd never heard of the city before playing Defcon, so wouldn't have known that it's southeast of the centre of Brazil. I bel...

Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Britain 1963, dir. Stanley Kubrick. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wyn, et al. A GREAT movie, hilarious and horrifying at the same time. Of the period too -- when you saw it you knew it could be happening....

On the scrolling lobby graphic entitled "Strategic World Targets" one of those listed is "Pearl Harbour". Pearl Harbor is a place name; the rules for those state that the spelling is not localised. Therefore, as Pearl Harbor is in the U.S., the American spelling should be used, e...

Never mind those 20; according to some, this is the closest we ever got to nuclear war, including the Cuban missle crisis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_archer

..when you see planes and subs when you close your eyes in bed at night.

Every night.

GeneFreak's got it right. This is especially true when attacking the large coastal cities in Brazil and India - there's almost nothing between you and them, so you can coordinate a good sub-bomber strike without fighting much of a naval battle. It's also easy to run the Beam Attack (see the other th...

All good advice, thanks.

More than once I've ended up fighting players who, from geography or alliances, can concentrate their whole navy in one ocean, when I can't do the same. What are good strategies for naval engagements when seriously outnumbered? This is especially true as NA - with SE Asia or S America to worry about...

Can't run the both together. Consistently reproducible. Could just be me, but thought it might be worth mentioning.

Kudos for your patient reply, Zarkow.

Still leaves one question, though: why does the game seem to have to run through a server if you're playing only against AI?

Is there an option to play offline, and I'm just missing it?

Worth looking into for alliances.

Example: North America is a good ally for South America against the Soviets because all the Soviets ICBMs pass over N. America (when they get shot down) on their way to S. America.

Add me to the list.

Is there no way to reconnect, or play against the AI without being online?