from Patrick McKenzie | by Patrick McKenzie

Terra Invicta may be one of the best strategy games, and certainly best grand strategy with a sci-fi theme, to ever be released. I want to tell you go in cold because the plot is part of the fun but it then the game systems will crush you so maybe YouTube it first.

I’m sorry, beloved nation who I am intentionally not naming to avoid misperception that this tweet is IRL. I had to root your executive branch and ruin your economy to launch more rockets. Humanity’s future depended on 2025 launch capacity and China loved me not.

I learned that something was seriously wrong in Whitehall when the U.K. joined too-true-to-life conflict *on Russia’s side.* I was too busy to react due to a spoiler spoiler spoiler in downtown Tehran needing me to orchestrate an immediate humanitarian response courtesy of IDF.

You wouldn’t think Israeli tanks in Tehran spells humanitarian mission but they are very literally that in the context of the spoiler spoiler spoiler.