Total loss

Out of morbid curiosity, having played out the loss of a key battle 
tonight in my current campaign - the PCs semi-deliberately lost the 
uranium mine and bomb factory, which loses the world unless the quality 
of strategic thinking takes a dramatic upturn over the next few 
sessions... and looking at having to narrate the end as artistically as 
I can, and hoping people still want to play my future campaigns...

I'll ask: has anyone here ever played out that sort of lost campaign? If 
so, how did it go?

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