Let's Play: SuperPower

[Bob The Mercenary]

By request:

Infosheet of our new line of weaponry.

As for the nukes, I'm not entirely sure what our long term plan is. I'm just following your recommendations. The placement of the silos doesn't depend as much on who will feel threatened as it does on what regions will be invaded once you piss someone off enough and you have no occupied-but-not-annexed regions left to be liberated.

Even then, if your own silos are occupied by another country, they can still be fired. What I'm trying to say is that we could easily just place them anywhere we want. Then it would just be a matter of dispersion, how many do we want at each site. For now I think about sixty in Venezuela to take out any armies we see gearing up to invade us and negate missile defense systems with quantity. A lot more, I'd say a couple hundred, in Mauritania and maybe a few in the middle of Saudi Arabia to keep that area defended to the north, as the south is completely under U.S. control. And just for good measure, sprinkle a few in the Netherlands mainland as a Plan B.

[Geminex]

Ah, right. I assumed it'd be best to have missiles close to their intended targets, to minimize flight time.
Nice arsenal... though why the hell does that fighter cost so much? That's almost a billion. 15 times as much as the attack aircraft. And what's up with our lacking force of bombers?

[Bob The Mercenary]

Oh we have bombers and plenty of other goodies, but I only posted the ones that are named after forumites and have been built already. Not sure why the fighter costs that much, I'd have to check.

[Ravashak]

Take some time to rebuild the army, annex territories (where possible without pissing too many off), and get the newly annexed areas into decent working order.

ps. And get a navy that won't be sunk immediately, mobility is too good a thing not to have.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Some day in 2047 (I'm lazy tonight)

Our nuclear ambitions have proceeded without incident, but in the meantime there has been some excitement in northern South America.

North Korea broke the peace by declaring war on Venezuela (why does everyone have a burning hatred towards that place?). They moved right in and took over the coast that the U.S. had just liberated from Japan. In obvious response, the U.S. sent in their troops to retake it. They succeeded, then NK sent the rest of their #9 ranked army in and demolished the Americans, taking the coast again. Then for three years after that, the U.S. sent wave after wave trying to dislodge them, but to no avail. They remain at war with them to this day, but seem hesitant to risk anymore troops. I can't imagine nukes being their next option, seeing as I'm right next door, and there is such thing as collateral damage from nuclear strikes (as Japan, I have been hit by radiation from attacks on Korea).

There was one minor glitch, though. A unit of our's occupied the remaining free region in Venezuela. When I saw NK order there troops to move to our exact location, I had my hand on the war order...




...well, hey guys. How's the weather? *gulp*

Their occupation, much to my chagrin, went without a fight from us. So our troops were just left there in a staredown. Their entire force made the coast their temporary home, so I chose to stay out of that fight for now. Poor Venezuela. They've been a warzone for decades, host to Japan, the U.S., North Korea, and for several years offshore bombardments from China. And despite that and a government that has descended into anarchy, they maintain a population of 15 million.

So...what else happened?

-India opened a weapons trade with Taiwan and started ordering massive amounts of 150mm air defense cannons. I'm not sure yet how China's going to take this.

-Japan (occupied by us) allied with South Korea. Then South Korea allied with Russia, making Japan indirectly allied with them as well. I'm trying to decide whether or not to start sweating.

-The UAE is up to its antics again. They declared war on Mali, but after a short naval battle with Spain off the coast of Portugal they withdrew.

We rebuilt our military to almost three times its original size, spending over $110 billion doing so...because we can (go oil money!). Right now we hold the #5 ranked military in the world, behind Russia, UK, France, and the US (believe it or not).



I transfered almost all funds going into military research and dropped them into the strategic sector to get our missiles going. We have two designs: the Geminex-I (level 5 precision, distance, and damage) and the Monday Morning (level 3 everything except distance, something we can put together in a pinch). Our original plan called for about 800 missiles, but I found that would take almost 23 years to build. So I settled for 80 of our most high powered bombs. They should only take about three years to complete.



And last but not least, I did some research into our next points of attack in Africa. The situation isn't good. In the time we have been building our massive military, the smaller nations have spent time forging alliances with everyone and everything. When looking at the alliance groups, most of the continent looks like this:



The blue countries are allied with the green. The entire march south will take us through groups of three or four allied nations. It's doable, and with our army and nukes we could pretty much take anyone down, but once we start we'll pretty much be committed.

And our meager 80 nukes will only help so much. Now I have to figure out a proper way to spread those things out over our empire.

[Wigmund]

Hold off on attacking southern Africa for right now, let's look at targets in Central Asia.

Specifically Mongolia and the 'stans. A nice country that lets us have an ass shot on both China and Russia if it ever came to that. Besides, the most successful land invasions of those two powers came from Mongolia...hehehe

[Solid Snake]

Aside from the sheer logistical problems of trying to transport land forces into Mongolia -- a landlocked country -- the Mongolian nation also has very few natural resources, is bitterly cold in winter, has virtually no infrastructure or assets, and really wouldn't advantage us in an invasion of China or Russia as much as one might think. (Unless we placed a hugely disproportionate number of troops there, thus weakening ourselves elsewhere, China or Russia would simply take Mongolia before we could retaliate.)

I'm liking the idea of potentially expanding into South America more than I used to, though. It may be time to consider setting up a strong front where we can place some nukes and scare the U.S.A. And South American nations have plenty of resources to exploit, and better infrastructural capabilities than virtually every African third-world nation. If we invaded Brazil or Argentina or Colombia, for example, we'd have much to gain.

[Flarecobra]

Hmmm...what's the chances of getting North Korea blamed for some Terrorism?

[Wigmund]

:p I want some damn Mongolians in our military.

Besides, it'd be little more than a distraction for both China and Russia who'd most likely amass military forces along the Mongolian borders, which would pull forces away from other areas. Them attacking Mongolia would mean there's fewer troops going after the Homeland or any other holdings. And if we're really lucky, it'd open a hole in Russia's northern frontiers that we could convince the US to send an invasion force into while we sit back and watch.

Going after more of South America sounds like a good idea too. Let's take the Andes and strip mine it to sea level. Colombia would let us control a good portion of the world's drug trade I'd imagine.

[Bob The Mercenary]

July 9, 2053

I'm proud to announce the first wave of our Flarecobra class SSBMs have been released, putting us at the #3 spot in the military rankings. I promptly fired our chief finance officer after it was found that the original design of the Flarecobra would cost $60 billion per unit to build and $300 billion a year in upkeep. Instead, I opted for a design similar to that of the Americans' Ohio Class subs. We manufactured ten of the beasts and put five of them to sea off the coast of Nigeria. The distance of the onboard missiles should put the entire continent within range.



I held back another five near our mainland. I found that to be a more effective deterrent than placing our entire stockpile of ICBMs there. As for the Geminex missiles, I placed a silo of 80 in the middle of Venezuela (don't ask me to remember the name of the town) where they would be least susceptible to attack. Their range should cover all of South America. I also annexed Japan. While giving us 100 million new citizens, they also gave us an interesting location for a missile field. I produced 80 more nukes (Geminex-IIs, slightly more advanced) and placed them on an island halfway between Japan and South Korea. I marked the silos with red dots.




South America could get a little dicey. Colombia is our best bet to start the invasion, as its only ally is Chile. But, that's where the simple fights will end. Chile is a member of an African alliance that is indirectly linked to Russia (hence the nukes in Japan). If they get pissed, who knows how many other countries could get involved. Once we grab Colombia and probably Chile, we'll be forced to go through a myriad of alliances to take over the rest of the continent, whether we go for Africa or South America.