weird long game without superweapons or nukes

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I sat down and watch this hour+ game twice yesterday, and I'm a bit fascinated by how it got turned around. The short version is that south over-extended. Slightly more nuanced is that north profited a great deal from controlling the wreckage fields, the south donated 3 paladins to their counters, and suddenly the armies were roughly equal while north had a metal edge. Probably every single original factory in the north was destroyed, but there were a lot of builders around.

Also: yes it was a weird game. Not so much as a bertha, north team I think didn't build so much as a middle-class static cannon. This was going to be resolved by combat.