DEC 2013 TS forum game archive

[BanzaiCat]

Horrywood?!?

[Staggerwing]

We could play the test-ban card for 4 points.

[Staggerwing]

Damn strange... err, straight!

[undercovergeek]

We could play the test-ban card for 4 points.

reading on the net one of the most powerful USSR cards at this point in the game is Castro - and we own it!! But ive read you can dumop cards into space race to make the effects not to uncomfortable

if were going to attempt coups, which lowers Defcon, should we wait til Defcon is in a low position first, maybe use red scare for the 4 points?

[bob48]

Agreed.

[bob48]

Or, since we are not going to do too much in Asia, what will be the effect of dumping the Vietnam revolts card - it will remove a Sov card from play?

[skeptical.platypus]

we're planning!!!!

that and imperial dog 1 - Staggerwing is on the other side of the sea and in bed, dog 2 - Bob is old and confused and has forgotten, and dog 3 - me, i have a job where i can plan all day and scheme your downfall - im currently reading Captain Zogs guide to winning Twilight on just the first move (tm) - and then you may as well put your furry hat away

Actually, Stagger and I had in-depth discussion about it on Steam last night, and we both agree that we will not make any moves that can't subsequently be blamed on you if they go wrong.

Lol, if that's not a good representation of intergovernmental relations, I don't know what is.

[skeptical.platypus]

(psssttt Brant... can anyone else read this stuff or are we being crazy just fer our own amusement?)

You're definitely being crazy for my amusement, and thank you for it.

So far, narrow lead for soviets in guffaws:

LOLs, Thanks to Team Eagle:

1) Staggerwing & Bob's plausible deniability plan for UndercoverGeek




LOLs, Thanks to the Team Bear:

1) Comrade Barthheartovich (hilarious name)

2) Banzai's wool suit already fitted for UndercoverGeek

[Staggerwing]

reading on the net one of the most powerful USSR cards at this point in the game is Castro - and we own it!! But ive read you can dumop cards into space race to make the effects not to uncomfortable

If that is how it works then we need to shoot Fidel into Space ASAP!

[undercovergeek]

so next move then - aggressive influence expanding or a coup attempt or russian card discarding - attempting a coup brings the defcon down a level - which to some extent means if its low it limits russias ability to do it to us

[GJK]

Comrades, has Team USSR reached a consensus on their card play for Round 1?  If so, please let me know which card you have chosen and whether you will be playing it for the Event or the Operational Points value.  If it is an Event that requires you to take some action, could you describe what actions you would be taking in accordance with that Event or if it is OPs that you have to spend, what you will be spending it on and where in detail please.
Thank you Comrades!  All Seeing Eye out.....

[GJK]

As posted on Team USSR's forum - when choosing a card for the Action Rounds,  please let me know which card you have chosen and whether you will be playing it for the Event or the Operational Points value.  If it is an Event that requires you to take some action, could you describe what actions you would be taking in accordance with that Event or if it is OPs that you have to spend, what you will be spending them on and where and in as much detail as I need.

Thank you gents!

[BanzaiCat]

Okay comrades...

As the rules state we can only hold one card over at the completion of all Action Rounds...

The Asia scoring card should obviously not be played this Phase. However, since we cannot hold scoring cards from turn to turn, we'll have to play it this turn sometime. I suggest we hold off on that until one of the latter Action Rounds for this Turn. (If I'm reading this right, we have Domination in Asia right now, as we Control North Korea and the puny US have presences in but do not Control Japan or the Philippines, so technically we would get seven VPs +1 for having Control of a battleground state (NK) for a total of 8 VPs. That would surely give the Americans some serious palpitations!)

The China Card would be a great card to play just before the Asia Scoring card, if we use all of its OPS points in Asia (doing so will give us +1 OPS for a total of five). We'll need to build our influence appropriately over the next few Action Rounds to take advantage of that. So, I think we should hold off until later this Turn.

Of the remaining cards, Blockade is a pretty powerful way of getting the USA to dump a 3+ OPS Card or losing all influence in West Germany.

De-Stalinization, I don't like the Event. I like where our influence is right now and don't want to move anything around. So, we could play that one for its 3 OPS only.

The remaining cards we have are all pro-USA...

Five-Year Plan - ugh. I don't like this card. However, it's worth 3 OPS. I think this is Space Race track fodder.

Containment - No. +1 OPS to the US for the rest of the turn? It's worth 3 OPS, though, so it's another Space Race fodder card.

NATO - Since Marshall Plan or Warsaw Pact have not been played, it's moot. It's worth 4 OPS, so we could either play it for its OPS or place it on the Space Race track.

CIA Created - This is our only real Achilles' heel this Turn. It's only worth 1 OPS, so we can't sluff it off on the Space Race track. It only gives the Western swine a free 1 OPS point to play with, but it also reveals our hand. I'm thinking this one should be held over to the next Turn, or played later in this Turn so there's less cards.

What's our best bet right now? Play NATO for 4 OPS and run a coup in Iran. This would up the Required Military Operations track marker for us to 4 (for the 4 OPS the card is worth), and since we're at DEFCON 5 (for now, heh-heh), we're going to be close to making our Military Ops requirement for this Turn.

Since Iran has a Stability of 2 (bear with me here, I'm doing this just to think it through), that number would be doubled to 4. We'd have a die roll and add +4 for our 4 OPS NATO card, giving us a range of 5-10. So, the coup would be successful no matter what; it would only be a matter of reaping the Influence rewards. If we rolled a 6, for example, that modifies our roll to an 10, which is well over the 4 point target...over by 6, actually. So, we'd remove the US's puny 1 point of Influence and replace it with 5 strong, virile Soviet Influence, and immediately gain Control of the People's Soviet Socialist Republic of Persia. If we rolled a 1, we'd get a 5, which is only 1 over, and that would remove the US's influence...but would give us no Influence ourselves. Which is not that big of a deal, but not much of an advantage, either. Let's hope for better than a 1.

Also, DEFCON will escalate by 1 since this is a battleground state, but oh well, that's the way things go. :)

If there's any flaws in my logic or understanding of the rules, please call me out on it.

[BanzaiCat]

I would also strongly petition our next Action Round to be a Space Race play, using either Containment or Five-Year Plan. We can discuss that in the next thread; I just want to throw it out there.

[GJK]

Our outside fan base grows to one!  :)

Glad that you're enjoying following along platy.