'The War Is Not Over'

The North American population centers are gone. For all practical purposes, the war game is over. Of course, there is still the question of who dies first. But maybe the most important part of America to a lot of folks, the actual human beings who live there, are gone now. Blackjacker had to waste the cities, but I have a feeling Blackjacker is about to lose some Russian cities.

DaveC wrote:

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We thought that about the Europeans and there wars.“Let them fight it out, it’s not our problem”. We felt even more of the same about what the Asians were doing to one another. When Russia and Germany invaded Poland, many communist and socialist in this country went on strike and refused to work for companies making arms for England because it was a capitalist country. The Chinese government was corrupt and the Japanese were imperialist. We had every reason to be isolationist, but in the end we were bombed into action. It was a lesson learned and used by every US administration since. We can’t run and we can’t hide and as long as world events will involve us, we will try to shape them.

I don't disagree, but would say that we recognized the latter a bit sooner:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_great_white_...

I know its coming. My air profile is to destroy all carrier task groups with Tu-22 marine units sporting long-range nuclear cruise missiles. I put all of the '95s in the air. I put up all of the '160s. It will be hours before the 95s are there.

Aurora lost all of the cities. That fast. Shows what nuclear combat is all about, quick and astounding losses. Fifty largest North American population centers are still on fire, the rubble, that is.

I don't think I will take that lying down. Sure, I have now lost 65 percent of the North American human population, and in the next twenty days another ten percent will die from radiation injuries.

I think I will take some Cossacks with me. I have eight, count 'em, eight subs in each ocean, sixteen subs in all. Let's do the boring math, sixteen boats times 24 missile tubes times 10 warheads per tube. Is that 3,840 one-megaton warheads? I believe that is exactly 3,840. So I am going to take out the 3,840 largest cities in Russia. This is just retaliatory, no strategic advantage here.

Really know how to hurt a guy, eh, A-head? That is just an obscene number of SLBMs you got. Oh, well, the cities are lost to both of us. Now I guess the real question is whose military will survive. Time to try to wipe each other's C and C out.

I got my bombers heading your way, Aurora.

THERMONUCLEAR WAR GAMES

MASTA the huge defence computer in NORAD has developed a super BUG and is
playing world war III
Only you and Doctor Norton, MASTA's creator know this and can stop total
disaster.
Your task is to get inside NORAD, find Doctor Norton's PODULE and enter
the code to stop world War III.
Due to the Doctor's bad memory, he used this ditty to recall the code.

Days of hurried Meals and office Doors.
Important Meetings and numbered Floors.
Of sickly Doctors and missing Keys.
Tripods, Tridendts and groups of Threes.

Days of hurried Meals and office Doors.
Important Meetings and numbered Floors.
Of sickly Doctors and missing Keys.
Tripods, Tridendts and groups of Threes.

Special Commands
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`I' list contents of pack.
`G' lists obvious exits from sites.
`l' lists items at sites.
`SAVE' saves game.
`QUIT' ends game session.
`N,S,E,W' direction.

Dictionary
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| Verbs | Nouns |
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| look, light, go, insert,| nameplate, draw, bed, pillow, panel, wires,|
| get, drop, open, tie,| wardrobe, elevator, button, table, chairs, sign,|
| remove, join, jump, undo| gasmask, podule, key, idcard, mouse, terminal,|
| break, climb, turn, help| cooler, weapons, hole, tree, cable, spanner,|
| wear, cut, read, push...| screwdriver, pipes, pole, bar, torch, garage,|
|| mountains, guard, gate, forest, fence, toolbox,|
|| rack, grill, slot, people, airduct, door, hut,|
|| machinery, bin, nut, plate, rungs, lock, wheel,|
|| uniform, gloves, scissors, bread, note, palm,|
|| door, desk, sign, panel.....|
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Days of hurried Meals and office Doors.
Important Meetings and numbered Floors.
Of sickly Doctors and missing Keys.
Tripods, Tridendts and groups of Threes

Part 1

S, E
OPEN TOOLBOX
LOOK TOOLBOX (see spanner)
GET SPANNER
LOOK TOOLBOX (see screwdriver)
GET SCREWDRIVER
GET CABLE
LOOK RACKS (see pipes)
GET PIPES
[LOOK PIPES (the end is grooved)]
JOIN PIPES (you now have a long pole)
W, S (gates to Norad)
GO FOREST (by security fence)
JUMP FENCE (using the long pole... you are inside the Norad compound)
LOOK AIRDUCT (fitted with a grill)
REMOVE GRILL (using screwdriver)
TIE CABLE (where?)
TREE (one end goes down the duct)
CLIMB CABLE (bottom of duct)
GET BAR
CLIMB CABLE
E (by camouflage hut)
BREAK LOCK (using bar)
DROP BAR
OPEN DOOR
E (machinery shed)
LOOK MACHINERY (see bin)
LOOK MACHINERY (again - see wheel)
TURN WHEEL (a light flashes)
LOOK BIN (secured with a big nut)
UNDO NUT (using spanner)
DROP SPANNER
LOOK BIN (see torch)
GET TORCH
W, W, CLIMB CABLE (bottom of duct)
LOOK HOLE (see rungs)
CLIMB RUNGS (down a vertical shaft)

A-head: You should be drummed out of the international community for even fielding 3,840 one-megaton hydrogen fusion warheads on your sixteen Ohio-class boomer subs.

Obscene number of warheads! Mass-murderer!

Part 2

(you are in a very dark place)
LIGHT TORCH (on metal rungs)
CLIMB RUNGS (guards are everywhere - you are taken to the sickbay)
S (see desk)
OPEN DRAWER
LOOK DRAWER (see gloves)
GET GLOVES
WEAR GLOVES
READ NAMEPLATE (Dr Colic)
S
REMOVE PANEL (using screwdriver)
DROP SCREWDRIVER
REMOVE PILLOW (see scissors)
GET SCISSORS
LOOK PANEL (see wires)
CUT WIRES (using scissors - hear a noise)
DROP SCISSORS
S
OPEN WARDROBE
LOOK WARDROBE (see uniform)
[LOOK UNIFORM (nurses)]
GET UNIFORM
WEAR UNIFORM
N, N, N,
N (corridor), E, N (canteen)
LOOK TABLE (see bread)
GET BREAD
S
PUSH BUTTON
GO ELEVATOR
[READ SIGN (local bingo results)]
PUSH BUTTON (stops on floor 270)

Part 3

(corridor, door number is 014)
DROP GLOVES
DROP TORCH
S
OPEN DOOR
E (mouse)
DROP BREAD (mouse eats it, drops something)
GET KEY
READ KEY (Janis)
OPEN DRAWER
LOOK DRAWER (nothing)
LOOK DRAWER (again - idcard)
GET IDCARD
LOOK DRAWER (again - gasmask)
GET GASMASK
W
OPEN DOOR (with key)
W (arsenal)
REMOVE GRILL
W (duct)
GET PODULE (slips away)
WEAR GASMASK
S (gas!)
GET PODULE
N,E,E
WEAR IDCARD
S (need to wear IDCARD and UNIFORM to bypass guard)
GO TERMINAL
INSERT PODULE
PUSH BUTTON
014JAN270COL

Indeed, American retaliatory nuclear strikes with the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines will be the largest act of mass murder extant in the history of the world, thus far.

Now all that is left is command-and-control. Since Blackjacker launched first, he has the best chance of destroying A-Head's C and C.

Blackjacker wrote:

A-head: You should be drummed out of the international community for even fielding 3,840 one-megaton hydrogen fusion warheads on your sixteen Ohio-class boomer subs.
Obscene number of warheads! Mass-murderer!

Days of hurried Meals and office Doors.
Important Meetings and numbered Floors.
Of sickly Doctors and missing Keys.
Tripods, Tridendts and groups of Threes

Aurorahead wrote:

I don't think I will take that lying down. Sure, I have now lost 65 percent of the North American human population, and in the next twenty days another ten percent will die from radiation injuries.
I think I will take some Cossacks with me. I have eight, count 'em, eight subs in each ocean, sixteen subs in all. Let's do the boring math, sixteen boats times 24 missile tubes times 10 warheads per tube. Is that 3,840 one-megaton warheads? I believe that is exactly 3,840. So I am going to take out the 3,840 largest cities in Russia. This is just retaliatory, no strategic advantage here.

Days of hurried Meals and office Doors.
Important Meetings and numbered Floors.
Of sickly Doctors and missing Keys.
Tripods, Tridendts and groups of Threes

XOcom wrote:

Aurora lost all of the cities. That fast. Shows what nuclear combat is all about, quick and astounding losses. Fifty largest North American population centers are still on fire, the rubble, that is.

Days of hurried Meals and office Doors.
Important Meetings and numbered Floors.
Of sickly Doctors and missing Keys.
Tripods, Tridendts and groups of Threes

XO, in Big-D tonight. I know TJese is keeping time, but is there a chance for A-head? The Bears and Blackjacks are inbound, we have to figure those first land-based Topol-Ms, at least some of them, were routed to Cheyenne Mountain, just outside of Colorado Springs and the Air Force Academy, and Cheyenne is a mess. Likely some more Topol-Ms were detonated right over Omaha, but with SAC command 500 feet below the surface of the earth, SAC and A-head are still there.