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Old 01-15-2013, 03:57 PM
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And the game itself has a huge case of Munchkinism as you call it, where the US somehow has its whole fleet destroyed, its whole air force apparently as well except in the RDF and can't even stop an Russian invasion of Alaska before nuclear weapons are used, let alone the deux ex machina of the drought that specifically targets the US
In part, the Soviet capabilities were based on what the writers thought we knew of their force strength at the time, when they were perceived as a much more serious global threat. Hindsight is 20/20.

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