Anyway, started off like any other game except I held my navy and bombers back until he came to me. I only launched two bases and one run from four carriers at the start towards the middle east, India to probe and get some early points. Then, I sat back and waited.
Finally, he appeared of northern Russia and I scrambled to take out what I could. With only a minimal force there, I wasn't able to fend off the inevitable fighter rush onto mainland Europe and the mass sub nuke of all but two of my silos. He even got a base out of it.
Once reinforcements arrived (after a bit of naval nuking) and I pushed him back, I sent everything I had south to the Indian. I knew I could beat him there and overpower whatever he had left. The only problem would be whether or not I could take out his silos with only bombers. Thankfully, He revealed his silo position with a launch at my last two in hopes of drawing out the vic timer. Heh, I was counting on him to try that which is why I stay silent most of the game. I knew if I kept most of my nuke reserve intact (minus silos of course) that I could keep the timer from starting too early and give my navy enough time to get in position for a full assault.
Once I arrived in the Indian, I began sending bombers at his silos and picked them off one by one. I ended up having to use four subs to help, then a couple more but eventually got them all. After that, it was simply picking the right cities to target and wait for the points to come back my way.
The vic timer showed up when I was moving to get in range of Tokyo with my last four full subs. Apparently I waited just a few seconds (literally) too long as the score was less than 2m kills different in the end.
Very good game. I hope I surprised skynet, as I was in the negative until somewhere around the vic timer going off and pulled within a hairs breadth of winning.
