What was going to happen at Kettering? I'm not sure if the commando plan would have worked; I might have just killed your random cavalry with my infantry up there, and I certainly would have done something if I had realized what you were up to, but whether I would have I cannot say. If I didn't, I'm not sure whether you would have taken the city - it had one unit in it last turn, but units had been constantly moving through it to get south. Anyway, hard to say; might have worked. As for going on the offensive, I still had capacity to draft to the hilt for many more turns as well as produce units conventionally; if happiness became a problem I had no problem running the slider, which I had never had to do yet - and I still had 20 units in the south I could bring up to form the core of a new defensive army. I had actually been preparing for a deep strike by your cavalry stack into my north, between Wild West and Hydranauts, so I would have had stuff on hand as well as whippable. The point, though, is that my invasion failed (as you'll find in my thread I predicted as soon as I saw your defences), leaving us at the status quo - you lost Halifax and Forest Green (and Kettering? hence my question), your military pump and a trash city, and I lost Aquanauts and Vitcos, my military pump (yes) and a trash city. Our armies were also vaguely the same size (still). In this situation, your superior economic capacity would have secured you the victory, as you had basically caught up in tech, albeit along a different path, and were poised to race ahead of me, and could far outproduce me militarily through Police State. The reason I launched this war was because I knew you would win if I didn't, though even if I did victory was by no means assured. Anyway, you'll find many more thoughts in my thread; I've already read all yours and commented a bit in mine. Good game and well-played.
[Spoilers] Old Harry's Game
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