vs. 5 allied CPUs - New Ongoing Tournament

[Kumiankka]

Finally got around to trying out the challenge as Russia. No debrief this time, just the required start and end pics.

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Russia     - Kumiankka        - 538 Pts.
N. America - Kumiankka        - 560 Pts.
Europe     - Kumiankka        - 519 Pts.
S. America - Kumiankka        - 442 Pts.
Asia       - Kumiankka        - 548 Pts.
Africa     - Mike the Wookiee - 405 Pts.


[Rogviler]

This isn't even remotely fair, I wish I had the time to reclaim my lead!

Nice job everyone.

-Rog

[Hyperion]

F**king new job i can't even attempt to break these records until next week now, it'll be on top of my defcon list of things to get done

[Kumiankka]

New record for Africa, the scoreboard is now mine (at least for now)
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Largest enemy city left was Bucharest at 2.3M, largest friendly city was Maputo at 0.5M.

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Russia     - Kumiankka        - 538 Pts.
N. America - Kumiankka        - 560 Pts.
Europe     - Kumiankka        - 519 Pts.
S. America - Kumiankka        - 442 Pts.
Asia       - Kumiankka        - 548 Pts.
Africa     - Kumiankka        - 553 Pts.


[shinygerbil]

This isn't even remotely fair, I wish I had the time to reclaim my lead!

Nice job Kumiankka.

-Rog

Fix'd

[rus|Mike]

My Ego asked for some improvement so I decided to go for this tournament (it isn't completely dead, is it?).

New entry for Africa (562 pts):

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Russia     - Kumiankka        - 538 Pts.
N. America - Kumiankka        - 560 Pts.
Europe     - Kumiankka        - 519 Pts.
S. America - Kumiankka        - 442 Pts.
Asia       - Kumiankka        - 548 Pts.
Africa     - rus|Mike         - 562 Pts.


[rus|Mike]

Hehe anoher one.
New entry for S. America (554 pts):

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Russia     - Kumiankka        - 538 Pts.
N. America - Kumiankka        - 560 Pts.
Europe     - Kumiankka        - 519 Pts.
S. America - rus|Mike         - 554 Pts.
Asia       - Kumiankka        - 548 Pts.
Africa     - rus|Mike         - 562 Pts.


EDIT:
Tried with SA again... 542->554

[Kumiankka]

Time to respond to rus|Mike's challenge... here's another debrief for South America:



A view of the starting situation and unit deployments. Fleets are heading for safety as usual, while two packs of submarines immediately make for the Bering Strait. Silo locations in Argentina should buy me enough time to launch all of the silo nukes.
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Defcon 1. Things get serious. I had split my bombers into two groups, one heading north for the United States, and another flying east across the South Atlantic. As you can see, there's not much left of those US-bound bombers: the combination of enemy fighter cover and silos on air defense shot down every single bomber and missile. Breaking rus|Mike's record just got a bit more difficult...
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Luckily the AI started launching all-out right away, so those ICBMs got through quite easily with no silos shooting them down. The bomber run on southern Africa was also successful - the bombers ran out of fuel soon afterwards, but the airfields were long gone anyway.
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Next, an all-out bomber run on southeast Asia. Fighters from the carriers scouted out the area in advance to make sure the bombers wouldn't be shot down early by enemy fleets.
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The attack was a success. Out of 24 bombers, only three were lost to enemy fighters. The enemy silos were still open, so none of the nukes were shot down either.
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After transiting the Bering Strait, the subs started heading west across the Arctic and attacking their designated targets.
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The next major operation took place in the Indian Ocean, with bombers mostly attacking coastal targets and submarines using the superior range of their MRMBs to hit Tehran and Delhi further inland.
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There were still plenty of good targets left in Europe and Russia even after the two submarine groups had exhausted their supplies of warheads... some reinforcements would be needed later on.
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A risky operation launched from a single carrier group in the South Atlantic targeted Western Africa. Even though the area, adjacent to my territory, would certainly be swarming with enemy forces, the targets there were simply too good to pass up.
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Enemy fighters scrambled from the African continent to intercept my bombers, but too late. The raid wasn't a complete success though... the West African silos had switched themselves back to air defense mode, and managed to save Bangui and Yaounde from destruction.
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A single carrier group navigates the Bering Strait, along with a submarine pack headed for Russia and then Europe. If it wasn't for this lightly guarded passage between the Arctic and the Pacific, the challenge would be much, much more difficult.
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By this time there were very few cities of more than 2 million remaining, and the cities in northern and western Africa weren't worth the trouble of running into heavy air defenses... so the bombers just took potshots at cities averaging around 1.5 million in size.
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The carrier group in the Arctic attempted to level Detroit and Indianapolis by attacking from the north... but North American air defenses thwarted this attack completely, and the three bombers were all shot down above Canada.
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Though the attack on North America failed miserably and the carrier group was forced to return south to pick up new bombers, the last two submarine packs had managed to pick up a few points (and set a new record) by further bombarding Europe and Russia from the Arctic.
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With only a couple of nukes remaining, I marked out the last targets on the whiteboard and watched the fireworks as the bombers made their last attack run on east Asia.
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Hitting the last few targets in Europe and Russia required a bit more care. Staying surfaced for too long would expose the submarines to aerial attack, and now that I was this close I really wanted to break the 600 point barrier...
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I breathe a sigh of relief as the last two missiles are underway to Lisbon and Barcelona.
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The final scores. The largest two cities remaining, Detroit (3.4 million people) and Yaounde (2.8 million) managed to remain intact thanks to nearby silos having switched to air defense mode.
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Russia     - Kumiankka        - 538 Pts.
N. America - Kumiankka        - 560 Pts.
Europe     - Kumiankka        - 519 Pts.
S. America - Kumiankka        - 607 Pts.
Asia       - Kumiankka        - 548 Pts.
Africa     - rus|Mike         - 562 Pts.


[Ace Rimmer]

Wow, this thing has really gone on for a while.

[Kumiankka]

It's alive and well, I think we just need a better name than "vs. 5 allied CPUs"...

I suggest "Rogviler's Rogue State Challenge" in honor of the challenge's originator

[tllotpfkamvpe]

[Rogviler]

Bump, I am the challenge originator.

Technically Ace was the first person to post anything about it. In fact, were you even born yet?

-Rog

[tllotpfkamvpe]

[Rogviler]

...there is no need to sign your post as if they are a piece of cubist artwork.

Oooh, now there's a joke right out of 1910. Ouch.

-Rog

[TBF01]

...there is no need to sign your post as if they are a piece of cubist artwork.

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.....................................................-.Rog....

Edit: By-the-way, why did my posts go down to one? I had a few posts over on the Uplink forums. No big deal, just curious.