'My First Game' has started to take a good ten minutes to compute industrial increments and not much shorter during any increment above the several-minute-zone, and since I had yet to see aliens or any combat at all, I decided to orchestrate a multi-faction Sol start. To my surprise, one faction violated the same-system truce after just a few months, and thanks to me stationing my fighters on Earth instead of taking them far out on a carrier like the enemy, I got good first-strike capabilities. However, in my first wave of attacks, I essentially destroyed their ground forces after just a single bomber sortie, which got me to thinking about how quickly a Ground Unit can get obliterated if they have no PDCs to shelter in or antifighter craft to cover them. . . the enemy had neither. I also thought about how monstrous Aurora fighters must seem to present-day ones.
Anyways, the above popped out of me a few hours after the hostilities had essentially been ended. I have to do something with this forum account, right? ???