Achille's Heel

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Achille's Heel

Postby Feud » Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:39 am

With the end of my vacation just a day away and with my brother out on a date I decided once again to take advantage of his internet and play Defcon online.

This game was against Achilles, he was Asia while I was Russia. I set up my silos around Moscow, I knew it would expose them but I felt it necessary to try and protect myself since Russia is so open to Asian attacks. I put a diversionary fleet in the pacific and managed to sink a couple carriers with it, and I also placed all my subs into the pacific. My carriers went into groups of four (tighter bomber launches) above Russia.

I couldn't see any of his silos, but my recon aircraft over India met a hail of SAM missiles so I figured he had put all his eggs into one basket. I launched all of my bombers (minus those needed to hit forward radar) in one big bunch and decided to hit India from a North-North East direction. I hit his radars and then sent in the rest of my bombers, aiming their nukes at the ocean well beyond India since I would have to scout the target first, meanwhile a sub group hit from the pacific to draw his attention. By this time he was pounding my silos with subs and bombers, but I figured that there wasn't much I could do about that and focused on my attack.

As I approached India and began to take fire I launched about seven or eight nukes at some distant targets and quickly told those planes not to turn around. His SAMs then ignored my bombers, focusing on the missiles, allowing my to get within scouting and striking distance. While his SAMs were distracted I located his silos, he had decided to use an upside down pyramid shape (three along the top, then two, then one). I launched my nukes and turned back, managing to take out three silos and heavily damaging two more, as well as destroying two airfields. As soon as the bombers were reloaded I finished off the last three silos, and was happy to see that his initial attack had only taken out two of my own silos while damaging one.

It was a good game, had he put a radar on the leading edge of his silos he probably would have wiped out the attack before I could get close enough to hit him. But since I could launch all of the missiles from virtually on top of his silos the game quickly turned to my favor.

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Now I'm off to clean my gun...
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Postby torig » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:51 pm

Seems like this was a fun game Feud.
Nearly killed his entire pop off! 8)
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Postby microchip08 » Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:25 pm

Congrats.
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Postby Grandstone » Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:07 pm

Well played. I have only one criticism:

Achilles' heel or Achilles's heel (the extra "s" is usually used for normal names, not mythological ones, but I figured I'd include it for completeness), not Achille's heel. No, I have no sense of humor. :)
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Postby shinygerbil » Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:31 pm

I always thought it was just "Achilles heel", not "Achilles' heel". Like, for example, "Feud placement" as opposed to "Feud's placement."

But I could well be wrong. :P
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Postby Herald of Achilles » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:21 pm

I am Achilles.

I'd like a rematch!
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Postby Feud » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:28 pm

Herald of Achilles wrote:I am Achilles.

I'd like a rematch!


Okey dokey. When and where?
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Postby rus|Mike » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:34 pm

I'll be next, Feud, ok?
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Postby Feud » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:38 pm

Sure, though my time may be running out. I only have a few more days of vacation left, and I don't know what hte internet status at my new place will be.
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Postby rus|Mike » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:40 pm

"Few more days" is enough to get a game played I guess :D I'm GMT+3 and basically can all the day round except for may be 11 PM - 5 AM GMT.
I could have played now, but waiting for Pox to play a ladder match.
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Postby Feud » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:42 pm

I think that I'm GMT -7, I can play most days at any time (except Sunday).
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Postby rus|Mike » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:51 pm

Let's aim for Monday then :) Contact me via PM.
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Postby Herald of Achilles » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:40 am

I'm on for the rest of the evening.

How about A dedicated Game of Chess, I or II?
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Postby Feud » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:41 am

Can't tonight, other plans already.
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Postby Herald of Achilles » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:44 am

PM me when you can, then.
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