DEC 2013 TS forum game archive

[Staggerwing]

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5 red cards. Ouch!

[Ubercat]

Thanks GJK. It looks like the map hasn't yet been updated for turn 2.

[BanzaiCat]

Thanks, GJK.

Does the COMECON event fire for us?

[Ubercat]

No, they space raced it.

[BanzaiCat]

D'oh, forgot that. Thanks.

[BanzaiCat]

Turn 2, Action Round 1 discussion and play.

[BanzaiCat]

Here's a repost of our current hand for discussion this round:

[Ubercat]

I'm nervous about Defectors since we haven't seen it come out, yet. I think that there's roughly a 50% chance that they drew it. We want to play a headline event that will help us, but not a massive amazing one in case they play Defectors and cancel it.

I say that we play Indo-Pakistani War as our headline. At best, we get 2 Milops and 2 VP.  It doesn't matter who invades who; the board wont change since they have no Influence in either. If the die roll fails, we still get the Milops. If they make it defect, we aren't out as much as if we played Suez Crisis.

It's a mixed blessing that we have both remaining score cards. In our favor, we decide when they get played. Against us is the fact that playing a score card basically wastes a turn. If we're lucky, we get VP out of it, but we aren't doing anything to advance our board position. I toyed with the idea of headlining a score card. Wouldn't it be funny if THEY cancelled ME scoring after all their obsessive activity in the ME? I decided against it, though. We still have opportunities to gain ground in Europe and the ME. Who knows WHAT cards the Americans are holding? They may have to help us out with more events! There are several that would be a big help in Europe if the enemy has them.

What say you, Comrades? My vote is Indo-Pakistani War

[Ubercat]

I'd say that we could do a hell of a lot worse than to lead off with Suez Crisis. We take away 2 IP from Israel and 2 from the UK. They lose control of 2 important countries in one go. They'd have to burn a 4 Op card to replace the points. If they don't, they're in a position of having to play catchup on at least one continent.

[BanzaiCat]

At first glance, this looks like a great hand, but most of these cards are going to require a little build-up to be most effective, and there's little we can do in the way of doing everything we want.

For Europe Scoring and Middle East Scoring, at least we know both of those are in our hands this Turn and not in our enemy's.

I see what you're saying for Suez Crisis, Comrade Ubercat. I was thinking Nasser would be a good first AR play this Turn, but it's probably not crucial. While they might react to our playing Nasser, they will definitely be put on the defensive right away if we play Suez Crisis.

[undercovergeek]

fk me thats a bad hand - although the marshall plan looks nice!!!

[bob48]

Very Tricky. Any idea's chaps?

[undercovergeek]

well warsaws going to space

i think the defectors card is invalid but we can use the ops points

we have no score cards - i think whichever region the russians make a play for in the next turn will tell us they have a score card for that area

[bob48]

In space, no one can hear you fart.

[bob48]

How about Defectors?