Part 16

I think that depends. The AI bonus that the game gets, on hardest, is enough to wreck you when you first start the game and everyone has a large and stable territory; I mean, the AI can buy three heavy battletanks right off the bat every turn and that can make or break things that early on. The problem is that, as you see here, once you get by those first 3 or 4 turns which are genuinely hard (even longer if you're the EU), then it's game over for the AI opponents who have lost their armies and now cannot replace them.

If I ever do another let's play of this game, I might consider cheating.

Let's say, giving myself an entire army right at the start and then never helping myself again; but in return, giving the AI a bonus of maybe 250k per territory they control (which means for every land they have they get an extra $250000). That way at least there will be full on fights each round instead of the last few updates. It's fairly hard to make a battle in which you slowly move your troops across the map and shoot a hummer every other turn, seem interesting through screenshots when it's no longer interesting to play through.

It's a shame the MIRV nuke, while the most useful evil power of any faction, isn't as pretty as the THERMONUCLEAR WAR power:

This next update was one of those battles I just described. Here are the highlights. Know anyone who lives in Kansas City?



Or how about Saint Louis? Notice the arch that accidentally got targeted by my B2.















There's even fallout, which kills anything that walks into it.



And just in case someone's upset I always burn these large cities to the ground, don't worry, if I have nothing better to do I'll burn farms and small villages as well.





Edit: Since, even if I do another let's play of this, it'll be as the good guys and no other faction, at this stage, has a chance of pulling one off on me (except the EU - but it's playing nice, not evil), here's a picture from some website with the thermonuclear war power.