That would make the tag line "Would you like to play a game?" more foreboding. An interesting idea, and one that I thought about. I decided, however, that the line seemed more appropriate when used before the game even starts. The destructive power is deployed and in the field, and a push...

Putting right and wrong aside for a moment. If I was a dictator watching America invading Afghanistan and Iraq in close succession, I would want a nuke to stop that happening to me. It's crappy situation though, the less nukes all round the better. I just hope it stabilizes things now the threat of...

Interesting reactions here. Here's my take: I think this will destabalize the region, not because that Bush will invade (he will not after having spent all his political capital on Iraq), but because this will cause Japan to seriously consider obtaining nuclear arms themselves. They have been thinki...

This just in: North Korea has reportedly conducted a nuclear test: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/dprk/2006/dprk-061009-voa01.htm Boy, you have to hand it to the guys at Introversion---they even arranged for N. Korea to conduct a nuke test to promote DEFCON. :D Seriously, any opinion...

Here's a simple one I doctored up for myself: http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/82/defconwargamesxg5.th.jpg Actual link Wow! Some very clever work being done here! A big round of applause for all you guys. One suggestions: for the above wallpaper: I think it needs some missiles in the air and nava...

Office mode FTW! I just wish that I could find more humans to play office mode against... anyone want to create an office league? :? xander That sounds like a great idea! Even against the computer, my games last for over two hours (I love Big World and slow time controls). It is interesting to see ...

Could you point out some of this aggresiveness? As an American, I don't feel attacked. I think that our administration has made some rather large blunders (such as invading Iraq, especially under false pretenses), and I think that much of the international community objects to that. However, I thin...

Wow! I didn't realize this forum was the home to the Noam Chomsky Kool-aid Club! Some of you have clearly drank deeply from the cup of left-wing looniness. Shall me move this to the lounge then? See you there...if you dare! :P Just a note: name calling is not an appropriate way to debate. We would ...

I find it funny how many of the very same nations that so depended up the USA to safe guard them during the Cold War now find it en vogue to attack America. Hmm...strange how people talk tough when the threat is removed. What is even more interesting is how America is knocked by Europeans about prot...

Wow! I didn't realize this forum was the home to the Noam Chomsky Kool-aid Club! Some of you have clearly drank deeply from the cup of left-wing looniness.

Shall me move this to the lounge then? See you there...if you dare!

I would feel better if the film was based upon Pressfield's GATES OF FIRE, but it might be good anyway. The only thing that concerns me is the look: it resembles a cross between TROY, LotRs, ALEXANDER, and SIN CITY. This film, I fear, will either be a mess of mixed genres or an instant classic. :) I...

'Trinity's Child' by William Prochnau - one of the best novels I have ever read. It's a completely stark and unsentimental account of a nuclear war from the POV of various characters: bomber pilots, politicians, generals, civilians. What is does is take you right into the centre of the military dec...

Lionel Mandrake wrote:Sounds like just plain bad luck to me, really. A bit of a silly design choice, in a way... but also an understandable one. BigWorld is CPU-hogging enough as it is, after all.

Silly how?

That's a very clever idea! I think it might require a major overhaul to the code, though.

I would imagine that it wouldn't be that difficult for IV to start releasing mod & map packs for different eras of world history. There could be an alternate nuclear WWII pack, 1956 Cold War pack, a nuclear Iran pack, etc. Of course, it is just as likely that there will be unofficial mods that w...