wow...nice job. I think europe has it easy...it's so small. :p That's great, though...you must've managed to wipe out their sub fleet before they launched, eh?

Yeha, the idiot AI early on decided to surface them right next to my fleet of battleships. That weren't all of his subs but still...bad move.

He had one silo within radar range up North near Cairo which my bombers easily dispatched of before he could launch any missiles. I had destroyed most of his bombers beforehand (and the subs were gone too like I said) so when his attack came it was 'just' 5 silos firing with a few bombers. A swift counterattack with bombers and subs plus a short salvo from my silos wiped out all his silos while their guard was down. He focused on my radars and silos and got a few radars and hit two of my silos, but that was all the damage he did. So, after that, it was just a full-blow massacre with tons of nukes I had left...I even wiped out almost all of his infrastructure on top of killing over 90% of his population. 'twas quite glorious, if I may say so myself.

Oh and most of his fleet was annihilated early on as well...I waited for them near the coast with a huge fleet and air assistance from airports in Spain.

Anyway...only the AI could be this stupid. But still. I agree that Europe is easy to play, but in a game with more than 4 people it's probably a bitch: you're an easy accessible target for pretty much everyone on the map, especially Russia and Africa. In a one on one game it's great though. I like playing Russia too...if you ignore a minor city or two towards the East you can pretty much defend it like you could defend Europe...it's not as centralized and its vastness allows for various tactical manoeuvres. The only drawback is that their fleet has to start back North.

The America's and Asia are really hard to defend, but are a bit 'out of the way' and have either great starting positions for their fleet (America's) or a good position (Asia).

It's been awhile, but I'm resurrecting this thread. :p

I still think this game is awesome and just noticed it's available for $9.99 on Steam. Still $20 from the publisher's website, though. I don't know if this is a sale or not...doubt it since there's no indication, but who knows. It sure is tempting, though. It's like my standby game when I'm using my laptop.

Heh, I hear that. It's brilliant in its simplicity. I love the tension from the build-up, when you move from one Defcon stage to the next. And then, thermonuclear war breaks out completely. It's a glorious sight.

There's nothing like watching your nukes decimate millions upon millions of enemies...even getting your ass kicked feels kind of ok.

It's so incredibly cool. We should do a MP game sometime.

yea, I agree. The full version allows more than 2 players, too... my main draw to actually buying it. I could totally see Shiny and I playing as north and south america, nuking the piss out of europe.

Alternatively, I can hope you guys have a fallout (eh? eh? Geddit? ) and start nuking each other, leaving me open to send my arsenal spread over the entire American continent.

While some AI enemy nukes the crap out of me behind my back, I'm sure.

Man, the AI makes it too easy granted, 30 million losses isn't exactly my idea of total victory, but in the greater scheme of things (ie total world domination) it's ok. Kinda.

hehe....not bad. I played a game with my vs the rest of the world and didn't do so well. I think I played Europe too, but I placed second and was pretty thoroughly damaged.

Defcon just strike your fancy or something? Or you getting bored of your myriad other games?

Oh no, not getting bored. It's a combination of Defcon mood hitting me and circumstances...my desktop with cool ass sound system is upstairs and since I live together with other people I got to be careful when they hit the sack. They all went to sleep early (22.30) so I went downstairs to watch TV, fired up the laptop in the meantime and played some Defcon.

It's an awesome game regardless. That moment when the MAD chain reaction is set off is simply glorious.

I could have done a lot better if I didn't use 70% of my silos at once, or had them fire less nukes...but the bastards pretty much all fired their junk at me once I put in the big assault.

I'm sure I'll catch you online some time when playing defcon. yesterday you were playing TF2 but it was late and I had to go to bed so...next time.