VonNuke VS PETE

[VonNuke]

I just played my first game VS someone named PETE, I was Europe and he had SA.

This is my first non-spectating match, I just found about the game yesterday and bought it today : )

First I tried to sneak by my subs in the pacific by going north of asia, but found out that I could not pass between west of Alaska so my subs did nothing good the whole game : (

At DEFCON 3 we had a naval battle in the Atlantic, where my carriers launched bombers and fighters from behind two fleets of BattleShips, needless to say I dominated the area after that.

At DEFCON 1, I received a lot of nukes toward my base, but my two carriers fleets where by then in radar mode near my shore and thanks to that I detected the nukes soon enought for my AA guns to take them all out, maybe except one or two.

Then PETE reveated his submarines in the sea between africa and Europe, but I had two airfields nearby and my bombers sunk them for good while my AA got the few nukes they could launch. How can we get submarines in there? I tried to pass mines between Alaska and Asia to no success, then he get his in there between africa and europe? Anything I should know?

All of his silos were in the middle of SA, so Mexico was free game. Yet I observer that by placing his silos like that he was protecting his base very well, considering that my nukes had to come from north since I was in Europe.

After that followed some time with little action, where I did some sneaking raids in my bombers and atomized some muchos in mexicos, he was taunting me in chat that he had no nukes, and to finish him off. However I knew it was a faint, he didn't knew the location of most of my base yet while I scouted his with planes at the beginning during the first atlantic fight.

After a few more bomber raids I activated 4 of my 6 silos, and took out two radar and one silo, I think. But answering that was more nukes coming from him, but I still had my key AA ready for those. More of his bombers appeared at the same time, but my carriers still near my shore had by then reloaded their fighters from my air bases and there goes his bombers, down from my fighters : )

Next I activated more nukes, and this is where he disconnected

Fun game, but bad attitude from PETE.


This is my first 1vs1 game, I guess that reading the forums all days at work paid off : )

VonNuke

[bert_the_turtle]

Nice debrief, I think more of the not-top-notch players should write here. I promise to post more

About those sea routes. It is possible to get your ships to go through the bit between Alaska and Siberia(?) (called the Bering Strait):
http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... php?t=4164
That's the tutorial for getting stuff from south to north, it also works the other way round. Practice with small fleets first, it works with any size, but smaller fleets are easier.

The subs in the Mediterranean Sea is a bug that has been introduced in 1.42 and is fixed in 1.42 Linux beta and 1.43, the host has to run a fixed version:
http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... php?t=4447
The problem is not that the subs get there (in reality, the spot is well accessible), but that they can get there from any point of the globe in a straight line, ignoring land. In your case, they probably walked through the Sahara to avoid any carriers in the Atlantic. Most players consider this cheating. Of course, it is an extremely stupid place to surface your subs if you want to hit Europe.

[VonNuke]

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Thanks! This explains a lot and open new possibilities.
I consider the Mediterranean sea trick to be a bug (subs in the sahara? right) so I won't do that, but the Bering Strait will be used.

See you online

[Montyphy]

About those sea routes. It is possible to get your ships to go through the bit between Alaska and Siberia(?) (called the Bering Strait):
http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... php?t=4164
That's the tutorial for getting stuff from south to north, it also works the other way round. Practice with small fleets first, it works with any size, but smaller fleets are easier.

Somewhat better tutorials can be found here.

[Radiant Caligula]

erm, mine wasn't exactly meant to be a tutorial. hint/joke would be a more fitting description.

[bert_the_turtle]

Well, yeah, I sort of noticed it's meant to be humorous, but it is correct, too