I believe I may be playing the "funnest" game of 2020 I have ever played solo. I started as the U.S.A. and played for 4 or 5 years, liberated Cuba and Mexico early on. At the start of the 5th year, I noticed Russia was really on the ropes, fighting on all fronts, he was reeling. With the enemy at the gates, the treasury in the red, and no hope of holding out, I tagged into Russia to try and save him.
After some very tense months I was able to get some sort of semblance of an OOB to Russian forces and get their build queue set. I was forced to more or less ignore Siberia and Asia. Even as the red horde and the Indians pushed into my lands, I knew supply would limit them to a slow pace, so I ignored them for now.
Moscow was in danger, our only hope was to martial everything I could West, North and South of Moscow, creating a defensive ring. Our fighters were out classed but they were hard to hit as they were the MIG-25P Foxbat A, a HIGH flying airframe with a very limited range. I used them to clear as much as possible and to run interference for the Foxbat-B's whom I threw into the fray time and time again attempting to slow the hostile forces. Russian MIG-25RB Foxbat-B fighter bombers were not top of the line, but they were numerous, barely. They flew sortie after sortie in defense of the motherland, striving to stem the flow of Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish and other forces. It was a constant orchestra of allowing them to repair as soon as they touched down, but flinging them aloft as required. They never seemed to get fully repaired, many entering combat on a wing and a prayer. At times, even the interceptors, poor as they me be at it, were pressed into ground attacks.. carnage everywhere.
I was micromanaging to the nth degree, even to the point of pulling individual aircraft off the line during an attack.
Eventually, the smoke cleared, the hordes slowed, at least in Western Russia. Finally, I could breathe again and Russian forces started the slow process of modernization they so badly needed. Fast forward to 2030, Russia is the master of Asia having absorbed everything down to Indonesia. Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines still stood, other than the aforementioned Indonesia, nothing else existed. Russian forces were massed along the Indian border in the east and a sturdy defensive line in the west held the Euros at bay, for now.
Proud Mother Russia, #1 in Tech, by a long shot, #1 in population now, richest nation in the world, no longer using petroleum or coal as a power source, our scientists had unlocked COLD FUSION to power our industries, businesses and homes.
But, I was getting that feeling.... we all know it, it is just a matter of time now, there were few left in the world that could stand up to Russia. The U.S.A., certainly, but they had been a peaceful nation for the last 5 years and showed no inclination to change, still at DEFCON 5. Western Europe, Germany, France, BENELUX, Spain, still at peace with Russia, they might pose a combined threat, who knows.
At any rate, Russia was a well oiled machine. I released all restrictions on the ministers and units, saved the game and logged in as the UK. The UK was in a sorry state, I scrambled to set things right, as the Russian AI launched a massive attack along its borders from India to Germany. I knew time was running out, there was no way the UK could withstand a Russian attack as things stood at the moment. The UK was still at peace with Russia, but I knew that would change as nation after nation fell to the Soviet onslaught. I recalled all units from Diego Garcia, The Falklands, The Cayman Islands, and all far flung possessions. And built infrastructure as fast as possible, churning out units which were far inferior to what Russia could field but were the best the UK could manage.
I watched with morbid fascination and trepidation as the beast I had created rolled on through Europe. Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, fell. I was biting my nails, France falls, Spain is on the ropes, Portugal is reeling, Rome is besieged.
BAM, Russia declares war on the UK. I was already making plans to take over the U.S.A or Japan if England falls. If push came to shove I could always hunker down in the Caribbean and try to rebuild.
This is where I am right now, What I missed in all this action was Russian forces have already starting taking over S America and the couple of Caribbean islands they enherited when France and the Netherlands collapsed. Now I am surrounded by hostile forces all over the oceans and I had stupidly recalled all forces from S. America and the Caribbean, gah.
Thanks BG, I think
