Ok, here's a brief rundown of Round 2, Game 2:
I logged on expecting to see the end of the game only to find out it had been delayed and I would be able to see the whole thing. I end up hosting as none other wanted to (and Weps wasn't around). I wasn't sure how many specs I could handle so I set it to 4 and hoped for the best. The first of the game, a couple of players experienced intermittent lag but after a while it seemed to smooth out.
Bert was apparently concerned we'd think he was cheating so told me how to "prevent" it (I think
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Anyway, the game starts and everybody starts placing. Homeowner and Hank place "questionably" while everybody else places as you'd expect. Homeowners Silos are in the extreme southern part of S. America (?) and Hank puts his just on the cusp of Europe's Radar with a massive sub group in the Indian. I think (and told him afterwards) that he could have done better by not keeping them spread out so far.
Nonetheless, at Defcon 1, Hank surfaces his sub pack and opens his silos up on Europe and Russia. A bomber wave is directed at Homeowner as well from the north east. After unloading all those nukes, Hank pulled far ahead of everyone else and never lost his first place position the rest of the game! JESUS and Cooper could have taken advantage of his defenseless Africa if they'd wanted to, but left him pretty much alone.
Homeowner ran a wave of bombers at Africa and took a top position (3rd) even though his territory was almost 100% defenseless. He stagnated around 100 points after his main strike and eventually took second. He hit Hanks Atlantic navy hard and wiped it out and in the meantime was hitting N. America. Bert seemed to be holding back most and got left behind when he finally started to use his arsenal (there was nothing left)
Here you can see the early slaughter and Hanks navy is essentially gone.
Late in the game is when Bert finally decided to strike even though he could have benefited from Hanks early strike if he'd sent bombers into Russia/Europe when Hank was sending nukes, or by backstabbing Hank. He had declared he wouldn't backstab though.
Finally JESUS went after what few cities were still around and just when we were about to give up on Coopers backstab, Russia started targeting Europe, even though there was little there to hit other than installations. JESUS was not happy about it to say the least.
All in all it was a decent game with Hank dominating the score pretty much from the start of Defcon 1.
, you shouldnt have had minimal damage, after getting Rudehealth to open up on all yours and europes silos with his i only managed to get like 6 bombers out of 12 carriers or id have decimated your cities with those 6 subs and my silos launch also and id have turned my efforts to Radiant but my timing was off because of my game troubles and was left fighting for third place... 
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