DEC 2013 TS forum game archive

BanzaiCat · December 14, 2013, 06:28:07 PM

Undercovergeek was snippy earlier but it wasn't mean-spirited, it was totally in character, so I'm hoping we hosed them good.

GJK · December 14, 2013, 06:39:48 PM

They are just waiting to hear from Bob to confirm the play that they've selected for the W. Germany situation and for their next Action Round. I gather that some from their team are on one side of the pond from one another so that is making coordinating things a bit of a challenge. Next game (if/when?) we need to group teams by timezones and/or online availability.

BanzaiCat · December 14, 2013, 08:18:20 PM

Huh. Thought I saw Bawb on earlier today...ah well.

undercovergeek · December 15, 2013, 07:36:36 AM

good luck with the filming

so we toss the Norad card and immediately play the test ban one? i think we agree

play it as ops and put 4 influence in the middle east - just need to pick the grounds

undercovergeek · December 16, 2013, 07:41:01 AM

are we stuck - is it our go?

Staggerwing · December 16, 2013, 07:17:51 PM

Guys, what are your recommendations as to the ideal M.E. recipients of our precious points?

undercovergeek · December 16, 2013, 07:45:28 PM

Quote from: Staggerwing on December 16, 2013, 07:17:51 PM
Guys, what are your recommendations as to the ideal M.E. recipients of our precious points?

we dont need to strengthen anything 'behind' us - egypt and lebanon? theres no lines to connect them to what russia has so somewhere more front line? im concerned israel only has 1 on it too

GJK · December 16, 2013, 09:20:27 PM

Sorry folks but I've been under the weather the past couple of days. I'll try and update the game some time tomorrow if I have the energy. Sorry for the delay.

BanzaiCat · December 16, 2013, 10:05:56 PM

No problem, Gary. We've been having fun pretending that the Westerners are scared of us Russkies. ;D

Staggerwing · December 16, 2013, 10:09:46 PM

*rude gesture* "Yeah, I gotcha proletariat revolution right here, Baby!"

BanzaiCat · December 16, 2013, 10:18:15 PM

undercovergeek · December 17, 2013, 08:14:18 AM

Quote from: GJK on December 16, 2013, 09:20:27 PM
Sorry folks but I've been under the weather the past couple of days. I'll try and update the game some time tomorrow if I have the energy. Sorry for the delay.

no worries - get well soon GJK

GJK · December 17, 2013, 10:37:54 PM

Guys, again, sorry for the delay. Team USA will be throwing out the NORAD card in response to your Blockade card.

Team USA is on the clock for play in the next round.

Barthheart · December 18, 2013, 12:28:53 AM

So..... China card in Asia this round in prep for Asia Scoring next round?

BanzaiCat · December 18, 2013, 07:48:25 AM

NORAD was a throw-away event card for them, since DEFCON is nowhere near 2 right now, nor will it get there this turn. I'm assuming though that the card gets reshuffled into the deck. No matter. They gave up 3 OPS which wasn't the ideal ending to our hoped-for People's German Democratic Soviet Socialist Republic. So too ends my dream of a new dacha in the Obersalzburg. At least, for now. 8)

Not sure how this will affect their card play except now they're out 3 OPS for whatever decadent plans they had in mind. Let's see what they do next before committing to the China Card, but as Comrade Ubercat had indicated before, this still looks like a good plan to follow until they throw us an inferior capitalist wrench:

QuoteRound 4: The China card. 5 Ops in Asia. We grab Pakistan, Malaysia, and Laos/Cambodia. That will increase our scoring by another VP, and also grab us 2 more SE Asian countries. They won't help us in this scoring, but when SE Asia scoring card comes out later, we'll be looking good.

Round 5: Asia scoring. Mop up some nice VP!

Round 6: Five Year Plan for 3 Ops. We can figure out later what to do with these points. The important thing is, the event will make us discard one of THEIR cards. All we'll have left are CIA created and Containment. The event will fire but who cares? They'll either get 1 extra Op for their final card (assuming they play it for Ops) or they'll get to see our (almost empty) hand and use 1 Op. Their (wimpy) event will fire so the card will leave the game and we won't have to worry about it coming back when it may do more damage to us.

Their reaction in Round 4 after our playing the China Card will most likely be to put Influence in Asia, but I don't think that will be a big deal compared to our revolutionary might! They won't be able to dent our VP scoring too much, I don't think.

For the Five Year Plan OPS, I'm thinking of reinforcing our presence in either Eastern Europe or the Middle East. If they haven't played a ME Scoring Card by that point, shoring ourselves up there might be a wise course of action.