With standard settings and random territories Ace held Africa while I camped out in Asia. Anticipating a naval battle similar to our last game I placed the bulk of my navy in the Indian, however I sent a mixed carrier/battleship group east across the pacific to intercept any sneak attacks, backed by a six sub group as an added surprise in case the water was clear.
I quickly found the Indian Ocean to be clear, and panicked thinking he had sent his whole fleet around SA, and would overrun my meager defenses. Quickly scouted Africa and found that he had hid his silos well from me (in western Africa), but in the process had left open his cities. Thinking his strategy was to bait me into hitting them, then pick apart my exposed silos and then have free reign over my people, I decided to take the bait and see what happened.
Figuring my best bet would be to get as many of my nukes away before he was setup to strike back, I quickly launched an all out bomber and silo attack on Africa, basically destroying everything except for the Ivory Coast. Ace shot down most of my bombers in the process, and took out two or three silos as well.
I then diverted a carrier group and some empty subs to defend Japan, while I swung my remaining Indian Ocean fleet south to reinforce my eastern bound carriers and subs. About this time my carrier group off the west coast of SA discovered a massive horde of passive sonar subs. The was much death that followed.
A battle then erupted of the West African coast, as I tried to plow the road for the last of my subs. Ace decimated my navy, but I managed to disrupt things enough that my subs got their entire barrage off before being struck back.
I was then out of nukes, and all I could do was play the waiting game. Ace quickly struck back by hitting Tokyo, luckily he surfaced near the carrier group I had diverted, and he only got two missiles off. He then commenced to pound me with bombers from North of Russia, and from his bases in Africa. By what can best be described as miraculous two of my silos and three airfields managed to survive the strike.
His silos then opened up, and he launched on my cities. Fortunitly my silos and fighters were there. The game ended in a solid victory for myself.
What I feel was the real key was that I could hide my silos in such a place that he HAD to go through them, but the only place he could effectively hide his silos left nearly his entire populace open. As a result, I could send almost all of my missiles after points with very few losses, while he was forced to try to break my defenses first. All in all it was an excellent game. Well played Ace!
I split them in two switched to active and targeted carriers. Only one sub survived. 
That lone sub was the one that went for Tokyo. In any event, it was a really great and challenging game. The more the challenge the better I enjoy it.
