AceRimmer: USSR
TheWolf: Europe
CptDarkNuggets: Asia
PsychoticCharlie: Africa
UFO: S.A.
T-95: N.A.
I first thought that Ace was pokering with his units as he did not place anything before way after defcon 4. But I think he was actually AFK. His setup was simple, Silos clustered with lotsof radars and the airfields in the north central region, 4 battleships in the pacific, (why, ace, you call them bb's actually? wouldn't that be bs?) and the rest was placed in the arctic ocean, along with all subs which, stacked neatly in 2'er groups, quickly retracted to the northern border.
As soon as Defcon 3 hit, Ace attacked T-95's carriers at the NA west coast, sinking one. I think (not sure) that Europe already had dropped by that time. Either way, it seems T-95 was pretty pissed about that and his kickvote succeeded, so Ace was alone, with the triggerhappy CPU to his left side...
Unexperienced players might have thought that this meant the end of USSR hopes for anything but utter destruction, but not so if you know Ace. In these situations the fun actually begins for him.
It was NA that launched first, aiming at USSR silos. USSR reacted by firing its full silo arsenal on Europe and actually got everything (I think) off, before NA missiles and EU retaliation strike hit. Sure enough, Eurasia was pretty much a mess after that, mutant ants are to be expected soon.
I must admit, I did not focus much on the other part of the world, so I don't know about any vicious plans or private negotiations. USSR at least was now moving his carriers eastwards over siberia, harrassing Asia with Bomber runs onto it's installation.
I don't know what actually caused it, but T-95 was then kicked from the diplomacy alliance, which started some ICBM action. Ace obviously figured about a way to get back into the game (he couldn't move his fleet down into the pacific yet as it was well covered) and found a very nifty way. He joined N.A. as ally, and before he gave an answer to USA's "radar?" inquiry, he was back into the diplomacy alliance. I don't know who talked with whom here, but it must have been fun.
Anyway, the rest of the story is told rather quickly; with Asias support Ace was able to move his fleet into the Pacific and bring his subs into position beneath Mexico. SA/NA launched at each other, but for some reason SA also attacked installations in Africa (while still allied). Africa fired back, but not only on installations but also on cities -- in the end he collected 36m colletaral damage for it. Eventually Africa left the Alliance and joined N.A. in an hopeless effort to prevent oncoming doom.
USSR, with support from Asian subs and S.A. nuking material then masslaunched his sub nukes at NA, eradicating the USA and leaving T-95 with 0 points. Due to well calculated (?) shots on Cairo and EU targets, Ace actually managed to finish in third place, giving the diplomacy alliance a clear win. Great game, guys, this really was fun to watch. If I missed anything or got anything wrong, feel free to correct me
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