According to the Warlight wiki the record for the fastest win on the insane level to date has been 24 turns. I'm surprised and pleased to report I've bested it by one now. If someone can tell me how to post single-player games here I'd gladly do so. It goes without saying that I was extremely lucky - this was my third try at trying to beat Insane at all and I wasn't even aware of the record during the game. I essentially followed Diabolicus's strategy outlined here: http://warlight.net/Forum/Thread.aspx?ThreadID=136&Offset=121. Somehow the AI got to Svalbard S much later than it usually does (didn't have to abandon there till move 13, and the AI never even tried to break it down) and it let me send a band of guerillas into the south very early on. Plus I was also able to break through into Canada S by move 12 which sealed the deal.

i saw a guy who beated it in one turn

sasha, i saw auy who did it 3 weeks before getting to know that warlights existed, and even when he got to know about this, he decided that he didnt wanted to play this

well chuck norris did it in zero turns

he just stared at the game until it told him he won

Well done on beating it Aziridine. Unfortunately I don't think you can post the game because I don't think single-player games are saved.

Nope, you can't post it. But you can use the history and play through the whole match, record that, and put that on Youtube as proof.

single player games are not postable, however your profile records that you have completed it...
Congratulations..!!

@Moros as proof? his profiles says 23 turns thats proof enough for me :-)

Nice one Aziridine

I believe Mor and The Impaller held the previous record. You have written yourself into Warlight lore! :P

as proof? his profiles says 23 turns thats proof enough for me :-)

While it's pretty much impossible to cheat on multi player (as in, every army you deploy you earned, every order executed is valid; you can of course cheat by having an alt account be a member of the opposing team) because you only send orders to the server (and the server then decides what actually happens), it is (or, at the very least, was) possible to cheat on single player. Sasha's comment wasn't irony, there are people who are listed as having completed the single player levels in one turn.

@Aziridine:
Please understand I'm not accusing you of cheating your way to this victory, merely pointing out a technicality to General Mac; my apologies for doing it on "your" thread.

RvW, I thought the only people with rediculously low scores got them on kongregate.

To assuage all doubts, I have posted a playthrough with commentary: http://youtu.be/-IN5PLzE10Y. Clearly my play wasn't perfect so I have no doubt 22 or fewer is possible. Don't worry, I won't be trying again!

I did notice there's another video on Youtube where someone also does it in 23 turns, but saving/reloading seems to have been used extensively to make sure all the 3v2s go through and so on. Here it should be pretty obvious that this was done free of any shenanigans!

YAY AZIRIDINE!!!!! GO USA WEST!!!!

Azirdine, Congrats. I can't even complete Level 3. :p

I can´t complete the Crazy challenge. Every time I have lower income than the enemy, no matter where I start.

There are other threads in the forum about the Crazy challenge but iirc I beat it by starting in Central America. Definitely some luck is required - you have to hope the two teams are pretty even when you first meet them.
Can't beat level 3? Hmm, I suggest eating more fresh fruits and vegetables :)

Player LongGrass did it in 14 turns (?!?!)... is it possible?

Nope, he hacked.

Poor hacker then. :P