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Yes and once you cap most of their oil assets, I am sure you will be making a huge surplus of oil sales. Don't forget that if costs get bad, you can always drop tech research for the duration of the war.

Im not doing tech research.but your right if i was ,id drop it when money got short.Just tech level, which is a palty 40 mil or so .

Ive bought almost every tech on the market, and turned and sold them for circa 10+ times what ive paid for them.And i still have a bunch i havent sold yet.

I paid circa 20Bil for the techs in the above trade, and made circa 15bil in profit on one sale
I sold those same techs to an additional circa 40+ nations,and got anywhere from 5bil to 20 billion per nation for them.

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Ive lost an additional 11 f-15ks to 2 anti air units,2 f-112s and 1 battleship --- didnt even know they were attacking :(
There were out of visual range, and the only sign was the explosions among my air units

Hheheheh sent out a massive 170 f-15k raid that swept across the area removing enemy
anti-air and enemy ships.That front should be quiet for a while now LOL

Cuba is now the number 1 oil producer-11million a day, and 113 more oil/gas fabs being built.U.S. is now number 2 with 8million,and has to import another 8 million a day.


My units lost are now at circa 25. NOT happy about this.

I can see one mistake ive made already.I didnt make enough strat bombers or long range facility missiles.I have just changed my builds to correct this.

I havent been able to go on a base slaughtering spree like i normally do, and this is resulting in much higher losses than i normally experience.

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Chuckle TM

More loses.

1 - f15k to a bad choice of pathing on my part.
1 -tank during raid on enemy military base and anti-air
2- mech infantry during same raid
2-unknown- i suspect one was a recon air unit -probably lost to those damn enemy F-112s.
5 tanks during raid to destroy military base and group of 8 ant-air- which resulted in a large enemy counter attack including over 20 aircraft and 14 ground units-which cut off and destroyed most of a stack of my tanks before my air arrived to crush it.
Im at circa 36 units lost now.

The U.S. is again aproaching the broke mark,they are at 36bil and fallling fast.This is their third time down this far, i suspect massive gifts are keeping them afloat.
I am now at a positive cash flow, thanks mostly to $4.5+bil a day in oil.

I have started a push up the east coast.I am just outside Wilmington N.C. now.Moorehead is just above me,i expcet more than a few ships.Cant get a good recon, as enemy F-112s are protecting the area.






I REALLY miss just taking out all the enemies bases BEFORE i advance

But now its deffinately just a matter of time and body count.Cuba grows stronger every day now.More money, more units,more resources (circa 30mil barrels a day in oil now, and growing).
The U.S. has already lost over 2k units

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Chuckle TM

Interesting read. I am currently playing as Venezuela and have taken all of South America and am now moving northward into Central America with the US in my sights. I am taking notes!!!

Tony

Why not "Huskies"....ok, sorry, that University of Washington.

Have now advanced to just south of Norfolk Va.
In addition,I have now assembled 3 full stacks of Chinese WS-Bs,which are slowly pounding away at the units there.

Have lost no more units, but probably will lose some during this.

Cuba now raking in $7.5to $8.6bil a day in oil sales alone.Producing circa 48mil barrels a day.

U.S. has recieved two more of what appears to have been gifts of circa $50bil.On their way to needing another soon.Be interesting to see it they ever exaust the sources of these gifts.

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Chuckle TM

The attack on Norfolk begins in earnest.



Subs launch Trident twos on my forces as we overrun Norfolk, but they are apparently duds
There were at least 4 launched that i saw, took me a few to figure out just what those huge missiles were and where they were coming from





Right after this the enemy attacked with circa 10 F-22bs and some F-112s , as well as about 14 ground units ranging from tanks to mortars and 3 ships inluding 1 battleship.

Losses include:
1WS-b art
2 mech infantry
1 F-15K- that i gave the wrong order to by mistake

My total losses are now at 40 i think.

My strat bomber force is starting to accumulate,and enemy anti air units are paying the price for showing themselves.

Norfolk has fallen and been scrapped,as well as Fort A.P.Hill to the north of it.

My strat bomber force is removing enemy anti-air nicely and has made 5 bombing runs unopposed.They are now bombing enemy units in and around Washington D.C.
They are joined in this now by almost 5 full stacks of WS-Bs supported by 707s,so their fire rate is fairly good

U.S. MAR is at 1% and DAR at finally starting to fall (its at 26% down from 36%)

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Chuckle TM

On a humorous side, i moved my buzzsaws (1mech infantry,escorted by 40+ F-15ks),three of them, into direct bombing range of Washington D.C., and the U.S.'s DAR which had been falling (from 36% to 24%) started to climb back up.Its now at 25% and climbing

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Chuckle TM

The assualt on Washington D.C. was going perfect, til a Nimitz Carrier came a calling and kicked the hell out of some of my fighter-bombers,killing 2 units and kiccking the heck out of a bunch more.
Ahhh took me a bit to spot them but the Nimitz had the help of 3 F-112s hiding just out of sight on the coast.

#^*%*$#@! Lost another unit due to a damn garrison spawn grrrrrrrrrrrr
Hmmm.... i catn seem to remember...have i ever said how much i dislike that effect of teh defection system

We took the capital today, than immediately withdrew.It was more a raid to see how much force they reacted with, than an attempt at holding it.
Only about 3 F-22bs and a line of about 6 Pattons came down to play,which the buzzsaws prompt chewed up and spit out.




One more unknown unts lost, no idea what it was.Total losses now at 43.

Oddly Los Angeles became the new U.S. capital.......
And so the scrapping of Washington D.C. began

Another unknown loss,there must be some enemy units working my frontline just out of sight..(44)

I have assembeled and sent on the way 3 buzzsaws to help Los Angeles celebrate its promotion

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Chuckle TM

It finally happened,the 1 mech infantry unit of a buzzsaw was lost to enemy air units who missiled it to death in spectacular fashion (not as nice as one of my missile barrages mind you, but damn impressive for the AI )

Arrghhhh, made a huge mistake,didnt check the pathing of a stream of 20+ F-15ks.resulting in one lost and 8+ sent into reppair.

Three more F-15ks were lost due to fuel when an air field they were heading to was lost.Damn rebasing.(46)

Three more units were lost, its unknown what they were.Fighting was VERY heavy in L.A. though,so its likely they were F-15s lost there.

Los Angeles fell to us , and the new Captial for the U.S. was named as New York.

U.S. losses are approaching 4k units now.

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Chuckle TM

I took a military base in the area of L.A. and the U.S. fell.



Their military approval had been at 0% for sometime now, and at 1% for even longer.
Their DAR was at about 20%,they had about $50b in cash.



I had circa just under 1k units,600 of them aircraft,just under 400 of them ground units, and 5 ships.
When the U.S. surrendered it had over 5k units still.

They were defeated in just under 3years of war, and just under 8 years of total game time.

I could have done better.I should have build more cruise missiles to take out faciilties(like i normally do) and almost no anti-ground unit missiles.
I also should have build more strat bombers early on.

Both of these mistakes made me have to slug it out more than i should have.
But fortunately ,my buzzsaws were more than up to the task

I had to pause very often, even during the 5 year run up.In fact, I probably paused more to arrange diplo trades than i did for war

Due to those continuing trades, this is how my new neighbors feel about me.




And this is after i declared war on their ally,the U.S., with only roughly about a 25% belli.

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Chuckle TM