It's not looking good. My contruction yard un-deploys and retreats to prevent it being captured.
	In the words of the great Dave 'It's all gone tits up'. My defence has been greatly reduced and my tanks are in retreat in the bottom left. My helicopters take off and begin retreat.
	My forces are heading straight back to defend my vulnerable base. Note my green men on the left, these guys can deploy to create radiation, damaging all friendly and enemy units in a large radius.
	It's the thing I could do. Off they go, killing the remnants of Nova's army (with the exception of the flying units). Only 3 of Nova's weak Lasher tanks make it through to face my powerful Apocalpyse Tanks. Unfortunately, it does not seem like I can do much to get his floating disks, which are headed right for me.
	In a moment of sheer stupidty, Nova tries to send his Floating Disks over the sea to attack my base from its rear. He fails to realise my anti-air ships. Down they go.
	A moment of almost certain defeat is turned into a triumph. As Nova's disks die, so does his hopes of winning in the next, um, five minutes.
	The Home Guard. 3 harvesters with pitiful machine guns about as powerful as pea shooters. Oh and there's a soldier there too. Compare this to my glorious defence line from earlier. Tut-tut-tut.
	Quite a while later: Nova's gay armyTM. He's building up the one unit that he knows he can beat me with. What you can't see here is that I've rebuilt my defence. I now have not just 1 line, but 3 lines of defence, and my base has been fortified with bunkers and anti air.
	He claims he 'has' to go, and quits. I win! Dave's forces are triumphant again, although the game did not end in glorious battle, this is good enough for me.
	Triumph: The score screen. After a 1 hour 49 minute game (pretty short for me and Nova) I get 619 kills and 239 loses, Nova has 223 kills and 1310 losses. I've built far less units than him and won.

Well that was that battle. If anyone cares, we were playing 'Command and Conquer Red Alert 2' with the 'Yuri's Revenge' add-on pack. The level was 'Big Game Hunters', which Nova made by copying the well known Starcraft map.

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