haha sorry. I was playing too ambitiously - if I would have just teched out at 13k land, I could've challenged oldman. But I made retals on non-GDI countries and weirdos and they all came at me for my low defense, despite the 75k warfare tech and 250 turns on hand. I end up getting in wars or whatever probably more often than not now but this one was a little sad since tech had so much potential