barry 63. I'm naming my next nuke barry 64.Lady Aragosta wrote:
DAY TWENTY-FIVEI'm sending an interceptor to check for anti-air along my proposed nukey path.
Fig. 86 If there are any I will be angry as hell.
I may also want to bomb those grounded planes on my way back. They're bombers, not interceptors, but I don't feel like having them attack me if I can do anything to prevent it.
I've lost a few core provinces for the first time all game, but that's easily fixed.
...nope, no anti-air to speak of. Ground Zero decided.
Spain has gone inactive, damn them, so I've suggested to Germany that we kick them and invite Australia instead. The Pacifists coalition has been dissolved, so that doesn't have to be an object. Argentina is more powerful, but there's no relations between them and me, and none between them and Germany that I know of, so Australia is more likely to actually accept.
Fig. 87 Damnit I'm getting impatient.
I've also just realised that I'm approaching eligibility for another nuclear achievement. Think about that for a minute before you pigeonhole this as a waste of an uber-powerful unit.
Fig. 88 Pictured: unsuspecting target, fleeing submarine
Germany's made it back to the top of the 'dreaded' list, much to my chagrin. I hope to amend that shortly.
Fig. 89 On the approach
And now, to reveal the name of my first nuclear unit:
Fig. 90 Barry 63
(If you don't get it, have a read through r/okmatewanker. You soon will.)
This is the first game I've played in a while where I survived to the nuclear stage, so I don't know when this change was implemented, but: why don't the newspapers devote entire articles to nuclear strikes anymore? Those were awesome.
Germany's nuke, incidentally, was known rather uncreatively as 'GERMAN EMPIRE'.
Hours later: Folks, you can all be glad I'm not in charge of whatever country you live in, because as the war with Russia unfolds I'm noticing a disturbing increase of immediate reactions to setbacks being 'nuke it'. Heavy tank creeping out of that pocket I was certain was unoccupied rebel states? Nuke it! Perfectly good artillery unit stuck in unwinnable melee? Nuke it! Three-stack of tanks headed for my border when the only unit I have in the area is militia three mountainous provinces away and on 0.4 hitpoints? Nuke it! For goodness' sake I only have one nuke in commission.
...oh no.
Something is very wrong.
...
Argentina has usurped my long-held second place and I only just noticed. This must change. It will change. He only has Canada left to invade. I have Russia, Tibet, Bhutan, British India, and Australia if I feel like backstabbing.
This is in fact significant; I'm in a coalition with someone who only let me in after I'd trounced a fellow coalition member of theirs, and if I'm going to win a game in tandem with an obvious fair-weather ally I need to earn my keep. If Argentina starts looking like a more valuable teammate than I am, I'm in serious trouble, particularly when my border eventually hits Germany's.
2 Sept 2023, 13:32
"たわごと" - Last words from the Japanese 9th Artillery Regiment before being pounded into oblivion by Manchu Battleship "Zhèngxiāngbái"
