Which territory is best to play as?

[Phrage]

All in the title people.

[xyzyxx]

Obvious answer.

ANYTHING BUT AMERICA

[Phrage]

is that just north america or the whole of the americas? Just for clarification...

[manni]

My answer is Asia. You only have one coast to protect and can send nukes above Russia right into Europe and Russia's big cities. You ca nalso reach most Territories with bombers from there

[ARRG]

Africa. At first I tought it was misplaced, but it's in fact very powerful. Then I'd say Russia.

S. America is the worst, followed by Asia imho.

[arcadedave]

Hi all

Playing as Europe, I've beaten the A.I in each continent.






EXCEPT South America. Seriously, those guys are set up.

[Supremacy Games Follower]

Hello folks,

Europe is probably best because just 2 defensive silo's will cover every European city easily and all 5 of the defensive silo's fire is alot more concentrated for intercepting and destroying any incoming warheads.


Supremacy Games Follower.
"Adapt or die trying."
"Win some, lose some and hopefully you've learned some."

[martin]

hehe, guess what I answered as

[wildstoo]

The tagline for this game should be:

"Everybody Dies - Except Europe"

The game IS unbalanced in Europe's favour, because the ability to shoot down nukes relies primarily on the concentration of silos on the ground near your cities, and Europe is very compact. Europe can have all its silos very close to one another and still cover all of its cities.

Other continents are forced to spread their silos out or leave large areas of land undefended. All Europe has to do is keep its forces close and fend off attacks, then when the other continents have used up most of their nukes Europe will still have minimal casualties and they can attack.

Keeping silos together also means that nukes launched at the same from those silos will generally land at the same time, assuming they're targetting a small area. If you spread your silos out you have to be very careful if you want a coordinated attack. Europe can just fire and know that its nukes will be relatively close together.

So yeah, Europe every time.

Introversion must be aware of this imbalance. The "Random Territories" option description is something like "Useful for settling arguments over who gets to be Europe."

I'm not saying it's impossible to beat Europe, I'm just saying it's harder than it should be.

[Coltzero]

Definatly europe first. then comes asia, since it only has 1 coastline and its pretty thin. Russia is good for 3rd, since you can keep all your silos to the west, since all major cities are there.

[ARRG]

In theory I'd also say Europe... but in all the games I've played, Europe rarely won.

[Useful Dave]

Fortress Europe, when your going to Launch you have a Problem picking which to use though.