FG: Nuclear War XXXIII - Virtually assured destruction

[Ljube]

Your preference brings an additional element of luck to this game already dominated by luck.

[Chaunk]

Day Eleventytwo

Snoopy sat his sim down and loaded up the programme.

>>>Select Order<<<
1. Stockpile Nukes
2. Build bunker
3. Train spy
4. Build city
5. Use bunker
6. Use spy (You will be allowed to perform an additional action if you wish.)
7. Launch nukes at...
8. Be UDWOTed

6.

Please select target:
1. Hercules
2. Jonny
3. Ljube
4. Spaced Cowboy
5. Skanky Burns

3.

Do you wish to choose another order?
1. Yes
2. No

1.

Select Order:
1. Stockpile Nukes
2. Build bunker
3. Train spy
4. Build city
5. Use bunker
6. Use spy (You will be allowed to perform an additional action if you wish.)
7. Launch nukes at...
8. Be UDWOTed

7.

Please select target:
1. Hercules
2. Jonny
3. Ljube
4. Spaced Cowboy
5. Skanky Burns

3.

Please select number of nukes:
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
(Note you will only be able to send 3 or 4 nukes if you have stockpiled previously.)

2.

You have chosen to send 2 nukes to Ljube. Please confirm.
1. Yes
2. No

1.

Snoopy gained 600 aspiration points for launching a nuke!

Snoopy gained 600 aspiration points for sending a spy!

Snoopy went for a shower, and mused about the repetetiveness of the updates and the sheer boringness of the sims.

In the shower, snoopy got a message: Your spy has stopped Ljube from building the city of Mount Planet!

He then got a second message. Ljube has sent a sneaky spy to your cities and has stopped you from launching nukes. They were not sent.

Snoopy spent the next hour crying into his toaster.

And yet Snoopy's crying was destined to get worse.

Skanky had too selected option 7.4.2, and his two nukes were laying waste to Snoopy's cities. They destroyed Princess Mononoke and Kik's Delivery Service.

Snoopy spent the rest of the day trying to take his toaster to the bath. He failed. Sims can't move stuff. He cried some more.

Spaced watched all this, and laughed. He wasn't going to say what else he did though.

Jonny and Hercules, on the other hand, both decided to do nothing. At all. For the third time. They lost two cities each. Jonny lost Muon and Tau, Hercules lost recycler and solar.

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Snoopy sent 2 nukes and a spy to Ljube.
Ljube sent a spy to Snoopy and built a new city, Mount Planet.
Skanky sent 2 nukes to Snoopy, who loses Pincess Mononoke and Kiki's Delivery Service
Hercules and Jonny were UDWOTed.
Spaced was secretly secret.

Skanky Burns	Frigate	Cruiser	Battleship	Industrial	Mining Barge
Spaced Cowboy
Jonny	Proton	Neutron	Electron
snoopy369	Porco Rosso	Spirited Away	Nausicaä of the Valley Wind
Hercules	Cargo	Probe	Colony ship
Ljube	energy	xenofungus

24 hours.

[Ljube]

I don't see how Spaced Cowboy can lose this one.

[civman2000]

Snoopy spent the rest of the day trying to take his toaster to the bath. He failed. Sims can't move stuff. He cried some more.

[Ljube]

By the way, orders sent.

[Hercules]

By the way, orders sent.2

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Ljube
I don't see how Spaced Cowboy can lose this one.

That is funny, cuz I can.

[Jonny]

D'Oh! Sent.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Ljube
Your preference brings an additional element of luck to this game already dominated by luck.

That would have to be explained further for me to believe it, sir. My preference, in my mind, is the more strategic option.

It allows for the use of a spy not only to cancel an opponent's orders, but to cancel a spy used towards you as well. Spies are precious and valuable in NW, thus they are not to be used frivolously; it's not like you automatically are going to send one with every order.

Allowing my preference (spy cancels spy) both adds a strategic option (and therefore depth) to the game, and in my mind takes away the "randomness" caused by a situation just like this - where all you needed was a couple of spies to allow you to survive quite a long time, even with my surprise attack and full set of specials.

[Ljube]

And what about my full set of specials and the fact I was not in the least surprised by your attack? Down the river with them, eh?

[snoopy369]

You would have had full ability to retaliate in kind, of course. Such is Nuclear War...

However, you couldn't possibly have had a (completely) full set of specials. I attacked you on the first turn after having finished my last special, and you're only one city short of having built the same nonsecret items as me; but you attacked several times.

[Ljube]

We'll see about that.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by snoopy369
it's not like you automatically are going to send one with every order.

And what did you do for the last 3 rounds?

[snoopy369]

I was manually sending one with every order Never claimed to be a great NW player...

[Chaunk]

Aspiration points for one, but not all.

Day 13

Intrige!

Suspense!

Drama!

Or not.

Snoopy! Sent 3! nukes to Ljube! His aspiration? Destroy a civilization!

His fear?

Get fat.

His other fear?

Nukes hit bunker.

Alas for poor snoopy, his three nukes struck firmly against Ljube's impenetrable bunker.

Ljube's aspiration?

Survive another day. +3000!

He fights on, and gets into platinum mood!

But that wasn't all the nukes flying today!

Spaced! Sent 2 nukes to... Snoopy! +1500 aspiration for a sneak attack!

Snoopy lost the cities of Spirited Away and Nausicaä of the Valley Wind.

He consoled himself with some ice cream. And got fat. It really wasn't his day.

Jonny and Hercules were attempting to repent of their UDWOTtery, and rebuilt Muon and Solar respectively. +1200 each!

Skanky? He stayed quiet. He's more of a softly softly catchly monkley kind of personly. He did gain +100 aspiration for buying a bush though.

---

Snoopy sent 3 nukes to Ljube.
Ljube bunkered.
Spaced sent 2 nukes to Snoopy, who loses Spirited Away and Nausicaä of the Valley Wind.
Hercules and Jonny rebuilt Solar and Muon respectively.
Skanky was secretly secret.

Skanky Burns	Frigate	Cruiser	Battleship	Industrial	Mining Barge
Spaced Cowboy
Jonny	Proton	Neutron	Electron	Muon
snoopy369	Porco Rosso
Hercules	Cargo	Probe	Colony ship	Solar
Ljube	energy	xenofungus

Apologies for the late update. It's been a bit hectic over here.