i know i know i tend to be writing some big debriefs and in numbers of late but i'm enjoying writing debriefs 
even the ones i lose.
Setting Up.
So my partner has been quite kind and given me time to play
, hehe, maybe because she knows i have to live with her family for 2 weeks starting tomorrow 
so i was looking for games, but go figure, no one is around 
wanted to spectate Peace and Love in her game against a demo player, but i didn't want to synch for that many in game hours . Played 2 demos who both dropped 
. Played and beat MVPE again and then tried to play 'Sailormoon' but something happened to my server in defcon 4 and i had to drop (kept a screenshot), Xocrates was spectating and followed me into my next server. Persuaded him to participate and not just spectate as there was no one joining 
Defcon 5/4.
Xocrates - NA
Hyperion - EU
I didn't like this set up
, i was thinking i'd get destroyed with such close waters and myself not being able to navigate HOWEVER, i took initiative and divided my forces...Defence/Offence/Stealth. I placed subs along the coast of SA in the reach of cities, put subs above New York, sent subs over NA to hit his silos and kept some back to nuke his fleet if he rushed my coast.
I sent my offensive force of 8 carriers (2x4) down between Africa/SA to make horizontal bomber runs over SA and up on NA
he never noticed these until it was too late and threw bombers at them...at carriers full of fighters
Defcon 3/2.
Scouting from Xocrates
my battleships took care of most 
. I emptied all bases of bombers just behind my battleships but it was too late , he was already rushing my coastline towards the end of Defcon 3. He saturated the skies with fighters and hit most of my base bombers but at the expense of his battleships 
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Thinking he'd rush me and scout me i set all silos in deep territory and left UK empty of units but 1 base.
I set off my SA bomber waves waiting for defcon 1.
Defcon 1.
He started nuking my battleships with some success
i retaliated by hitting every bomber i could find and with a bit of ocean nuking of my own. Using my subs behind my fleet also.
I emptied my 3 furthest silos to distract his AA fire from my SA coastline subs and SA land based bombers heading upwards...i lost almost all of those bombers
and those coastline subs but it was worth it...i determined the position of his silos and with my stealth subs moving steadily above NA...i was prepared
Losing all my base bombers hit me hard
...limiting my ability to nuke in mass, most of my carrier bombers gone also...i had to rely on the few bombers i had left, my stealth subs above NA and my 3 silos remaining...i placed all my carriers around E.U to extend radar range and filled them with fighters. Sure enough he launched 3 dense bomber waves from different angles simultaneously, i lost my Iceland radar/airbase but i turned those bombers into sunken wreckage god bless my fighters.
Feeling confident he had no bombers left i launched all bombers over Greenland ready to rain down hell from above and decided to call his bluff...i opened my remaining front 3 silos and let 3 nukes out each and prepared for incoming bombers (none arrived, they were ALL gone, hehe
)...he then did what i was waiting for...opened ALL 6 silos...my 3 subs above NA all fired and destroyed 5 of 6 silos (id used the game speed advantage, he was on setting 3 so i hit back to 3 and didn't give him chance to hit my subs ...he didn't, they survived up there the whole game 
), i put my silos back on AA mode as soon as his opened and he scored limited points, i lost 1 or 2 silos.
All his nuclear forces depleted i reopened my silos and finished the game
then he went for dinner. Fried fish.
A fun, tight and fast game.
