Coly's Race Track Setup

[Colytic]

Gentlemen, I present to you, the Race Track Setup:



The aim is to arrange your silos in a curved formation with the outermost silos of the trajectory to your enemy placed nearer, analogous to a race track with athletes with greater distance to travel being given a head-start to compensate. The result is an excellent sync, with the nukes converging nearer the target they get. You can launch all at once or offset them by a few seconds each. It's a dab hand at defense too due to its concave style.

Now go forth and unleash this tactic on the unsuspecting players of DEFCON!

[The_Doctor]

I bow to the almighty racetrack setup.


worship it worship ittt!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ghost Division]

/me stealing ideas...very nice stup!

[tllotpfkamvpe]

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[R3D]

how did you do that? cheat???

[Colytic]

Thank you all. No R3D not cheating haha, just place the silos in a sort of curve towards your opponent! I know the screenshot isn't very clear, I can post a better one.

[VSj]

It seems I need to post something in order to be able to send a PM. So... hello everyone and not a bad sync you've got there, Colytic.

[Colytic]

Thanks and welcome to the forums.

And R3D, here's a better picture of the silos:


Note that one of them is there to pick off small cities because is was a n00b and failed to smash the American coastline properly.

[BMN]

although setups specifically designed for synch can be easy at first, I found this to be much better in terms of game play

I choose a defensive setup, like say an all purpose feud-style silo hexagon with a radar in the center, and then I calculate how long it takes for each nuke of each position in the setup to strike a target, and then from that I know the offset.

example, silo 1 takes 1m46s, silo 2 takes 1m56s, silo 3 takes 2m10s, so pace such that I launch silo 3, then 14 seconds later silo 2, then 10 seconds later silo 1.

It takes a lot more effort, to calculate the timing for each silo of each position to each approximate target location, but the end result is much better.

I got to the point where I could get all ten volleys of six silo nukes to all land on their targets within 3 second of each other, without using a placement scheme to maximise synchronization like how you've shown.

Thanks for sharing! I'm glad people are still coming up with new creative strategies for this game

[Colytic]

Thanks for the input! With a Six Pack it's possible to sync as well as this too. I just thought it was an interest strategy and worth sharing. Glad you enjoyed reading.