Efram, they are SMACs nukes.
As for my best ever game
part 1
First of all a word about my playing style. I'm most definately a builder and I like to win by either transcendance or diplomacy. I like to tech up & keep small ground forces protected by a large air-force. Because of this getting to Doctrine: Air Power is one of my game priorities. Having needlejets when no-one else does is a *huge* advantage and if you can build Cloudbase Academy you assume a dominant position.
In my game I was the UN and Planet was divided into 2 large continents, North and South (henceforth NC & SC) The Hive very quickly wiped out the other 3 factions and assumed dominance of the North (don't they always). In the South was the UN, gaians & Spartans. The Spartans tried attacking me but I gave them a good kicking and they were left with 2 cities in the SE with tiny populations & signed a pact of submission. I was pact brothers with the Gaians and through tech sharing I rapidly climbed the tech ladder, soon leaving them behind. The had the Northern strip of SC and I had the rest and there was very little space left for me to expand into apart from a barren patch in the NE part of SC. On a little peninsula sticking out to the north there were just enough resources to justify establishing a city there which I did, leaving it slowly grow and pretty much forgetting about it.
Anyway one year I get a seismic event type message. Turns out that my little penisula had just become joined to the NC by the thinnest strip of land. My city was very isolated and there were no roads there yet so reinforcing the tiny garrison (which being a size 3 city had taken forever) would take forever. Then one day I suddenly notice Hive units coming down that thin strip of land from the North - an invasion force I say invasion force, it was the SMAC equivalent of the Golden Horde There were literally dozens & dozens of Hive units stacked into those few squares My tiny garrison would stand no chance and there was no hope of reinforcement. The UNAF was my only hope.
Operating at maximum range from my own & Gaian cities, my needlejets could just reach the advancing hive army. A crash production program of attach jets was ordered, but for now my small AF of about a dozen units would have to do. Round the clock bombing operations were ordered and turn after turn my planes poured death and destruction upon the Hive army. When my needlejets were down to 50% efficiency I would ground them for a turn for repair & replenishment and they were sorely missed whenever I did so. Several times my City came under bombardment as hive artillery came within range and once or twice advance Hive scouts got to the city borders but they were always beaten back by my Air Force in the nick of time.
It was my very own Battle of Britain, constantly hanging in the balance, would my few be enough to hold back the enemy hordes?
To be continued...
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Originally Posted by [b
I remember seeing a post where some of the Apolyton vets were trying to track down the author, to no avail 
Its such a shame as what we have is sooo brilliant.
, I've actually never played the x-pansion pack. Which is riDICulous.
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