DEC 2013 TS forum game archive

[bob48]

Makes sense. Two is a quorum then.

[undercovergeek]

lets go east germany, poland, yugoslavia - i think theyre the only 3 anyway

[Staggerwing]

Just got home from work. I approve the plan and I also approve the 2 is a quorum principle since it's pretty obvious I'll be late to the party on any week day due to both me working late and you lot being 5 hours ahead of me.  :)

[undercovergeek]

its cool - we can do this with a bit of planning - with the plan in mind, do you mind posting your musings on turn 2's strategy and card then - or shall we wait for the olympic roll first?

[Staggerwing]

Let's wait for the roll. It'll give me time to figure out how to sound like I know what I'm talking about...

[undercovergeek]

Let's wait for the roll. It'll give me time to figure out how to sound like I know what I'm talking about...

lmao - im right with you

[GJK]

So will these be the three then gentlemen?

east germany, poland, yugoslavia

If so, I'll run that up tonight and conclude the Olympic games rolls as well.  First, time for dinner.  :)

[Staggerwing]

Go!

[GJK]

Team USA headlined with "East European Unrest" (OPs value of 3).  Team USSR headlined with "Olympic Games" (OPs value of 2).  Therefore, "East European Unrest" will headline first.

East European Unrest: Early or Mid War: Remove 1 USSR Influence from 3 countries in Eastern Europe. Late War: Remove 2 USSR Influence from 3 countries in Eastern Europe.

For the three Eastern European countries, Team USA has chosen:

EAST GERMANY, POLAND, YUGOSLAVIA

One (1) Influence Point will be removed from each of those.

Team USSR headlined with "Olympic Games".  This left Team USA with a decision; either boycott the games or attend them.  Team USA has chosen to attend the games.

Olympic Games: This player sponsors the Olympics. The opponent must either participate or boycott. If the opponent participates, each player rolls a die and the sponsor adds 2 to their roll. The player with the highest modified die roll receives 2 VP (reroll ties). If the opponent boycotts, degrade the DEFCON level by 1 and the sponsor may conduct Operations as if they played a 4 Ops card.

So, a die roll will be made for each team.  Team USSR will have a +2 die roll modifier. 

These were the results...



This is the situation in Europe after the Headline Phase:



The link to the full size map can be seen here: http://www.garykrockover.com/TS/Game_Map_Post_Headline.jpg

This concludes the Turn 1 HEADLINE PHASE.  Team USSR is first tasked with chosing a card for play in Action Round 1 of Turn 1.  That will be followed by Team USA.

Good luck in Round 1 Teams.

[Ubercat]

Crap, they participated in the Olympics. It's great that we got 2 VP's out of it, but I REALLY wanted to use the 4 IP's for our Iran coup. That would probably have benefited us by more than 2 VP's in the longer run. Now we'll have to use up our first round card play to achieve the same thing. Well, we're up first. Shall we go ahead and play NATO for our Iranian coup?

[undercovergeek]

ok, i dont think that was too bad - VPs yeah but we'll catch up

So, first things first lets sort out our strategy - looking at the 2 'how to win as the US' posts in the other thread it seems the consensus there and anywhere else i look is to try and strengthen our position in either Middle East and/or one of the americas and coup now on those areas we want to cause harm to the Russians

We need to pick the best card for this which i think means using a high ops point card and using it for ops as opposed to an event?

all thoughts welcome

[undercovergeek]

pfffft - steroid taking, mustache growing east german cheats

[Barthheart]

Da! Our crack suicide tea stands at the ready to take out the Imperialist Dogs puppet and install our own puppet.... err ... Fellow Soviet follower.

[BanzaiCat]

Bah. Sounds like some in the West have sour grapes over the fact that the game has not escalated to Defcon 1 yet.

[Staggerwing]

Yee-Hah!!!