#Defcon everybody dies plus

There is also a separate 'Office Mode' that plays the game in a window, eliminates sound and allows people to quickly eliminate the window if the non-cool boss decides to look at your monitor :-P Other modes include Diplomacy where everyone starts as a member of the green alliance, then as things progress the players can break the alliance and try to attack other members. While you can set up games against AI opponents, DEFCON was clearly made for LAN and online play for up to six players. ICBMs, submarine MRBMs, and bomber SRBMs are available - +30 minutes This is the final stage before nuclear weapons are available - +20 minutesĭEFCON 1: The use of nuclear weapons is authorized. Units and fleets can no longer be placed - +12 minutesĭEFCON 2: The game's documentation says that 'more aggressive hostile actions,' are possible.

You may continue to place units and fleets and move units into international waters - +6 minutesĭEFCON 3: Conventional naval and airborne combat is authorized.

Radar coverage will provide information on units within range. Game start! - 0 minutesĭEFCON 4: No hostile action. Once the nukes start flying, DEFCON turns into a struggle to balance your defenses with your offenses.ĭEFCON 5: No hostile action - you may place units and fleets and units can move into international waters. As the timer inevitably counts down, the stakes are raised. Sure, you can slow it down to a minimum of real time, or speed it up quite a bit, but you can never stop it. Needless to say, the clock is running, and it never stops. For instance, ordering a missile silo to switch from offensive launches to missile defense will leave it inoperative while it switches. Most units have several operating modes for different functions, and require several minutes to switch modes. If you right click on a unit, you'll get the possibilities of what it can do - for example, airbases and carriers have the 'fighter launch' and 'bomber launch' options and carriers also have 'antisubmarine' and so forth. You click on a single ship in a fleet to pick the whole fleet, and right click to tell it where to go.

#Defcon everybody dies plus

Carriers are equipped with anti-submarine sonar and depth charges to counter the underwater menace, plus they can launch fighters and bombers - however, they're vulnerable to attack from battleships. Submarines can get within close proximity of an enemy territory without being detected, where they can sit and bombard cites with nuclear warheads. Finally, you also have to deploy naval fleets that you can create from three units. You also have to set up radar stations to monitor enemy troop movements in your territory. The first thing you must do is build some nuclear missile silos/air defense (toggle) and Air bases - they can launch either short range fighters or long range bomber that can carry nuclear bombs. The game is divided into phases, represented by DEFCON levels* (the game counts down from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON ), where you have a limited timeframe to place your buildings and units. The winner of a game is the player who manages to inflict the most casualties without losing too much of his own population. The battlefield consists of a world map covered with cities that serve as targets. DEFCON is a top-down real time strategy game.