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My 2cents

Postby Rob-1981 » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:30 pm

Here's the tactics I've been using to win a fair portion of my games (and by a substancial margin)

If you can grab Asia do so and try to forge alliances with Russia and Africa, plonk your subs in the Pacific and send them over to eastern US as soon as they are deployed create balanced fleets with what you have left and put about a third of them in the south china sea, the rest in the pacific (there's ALWAYS a massive naval exchange in the pacific), deploy two silos in Japan, one between Beijing and Seol and dot the rest around the populated areas (I tend to ignore tehran when I do this as its too far out of the way to warrant its own silo), site radars around the coasts and one in the middle, airbases I tend to balance between the east coast and as close to europe as possible.

Once Defcon 3 hits there will probably be two huge fleets having it out in the pacific, the objective here is not to destroy the enemy fleet (but it does help) just tie them up long enough for the subs to slip through the carriers which will be busy fighting your navy allowing them to sidle up to LA and sanfrancisco & still be within striking distance of chicago and surrounding cities. Send fighters to recon Europe.

at Defcon 1 leave your subs where they are for now, concentrate on sending one battery of nukes over to the major western US cities (New York, Chigago and Washington) and one over to the larger eastern US cities (like the eastern seabord and north mexico). Send bombers into europe to attack major cities (Rome and London are good ones) and any installations you fancy using a few fighters to confuse the AA defences, sne a few nukes over from one of your closer silos as well (NB. NEVER have more than 3 of your silos in ICBM mode at a time, they revert back to AA mode once they've all launched. By this time the nukes you sent over to the US should be nearing their destination, have your subs surface and launch everything they have at targets within the US, the timing should be that the nukes from the subs and the nukes from the silos arrive at about the same time. Now the initial silos you used should be back in AA mode after firing off their salvos, now is the time to pick on Europe, again use multiple silos and target the same things in the same order with each one (almost guarantees a hit as the AA will hopefully be overwhelmed), send any bombers from the airbases you may have left. If you have any carriers left launch bombers against targets in south america and launch off the last of your salvos at the big populaces there.

Result: Bad day in America, Bad day in Europe :P
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Postby Hegemon Hog » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:42 pm

Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good plan. It does assume you can team up with Africa and USSR though. It would be good to have a backup plan (backup sub nukes) for if you lead in points and your allies kick you from the alliance to bomb you back into the stone age.

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