Homeland PBF recruitment and game 1

So we enter round 5. The lead player deck is shuffled. Play order this round:

  • Chewy77
  • RossM
  • DJCT
  • Assussanni

Analyse threats

Political Splinter Group / Capture & Turn Military Officer

Case lead: Assussanni

Intel:

  • Sniper Team Insertion (4)
  • Sniper Team Insertion (4)
  • Cooked Intel (-3)
  • Anonymous Tip (1)
  • Embed Operatives (3)
  • 3 Agents

Sophistication 2 + Complexity 8 = target 10
Intel card values (-3, 1, 3, 4, 4, 3) = intel 12

This threat is neutralised. Impact 3 gives 3 points to the Agency, and 3 Rep to Assussanni; also 1 Clout and 1 Soldier.

Sectarian Insurgents / Military Base Attack

Case lead: Chewy77

Intel:

  • Anonymous Tip (1)
  • Harsh Interrogation (3)
  • Intercepted Intel (3)
  • High Value Target Sanction (4)
  • 1 Agent

Sophistication 1 + Complexity 6 = target 7
Intel card values (1, 3, 3, 4, 1) = intel 12
Impact 1

Agency gets 1 point, Chewy77 gets 1 Rep and 1 Agent.

Public information

Agency score: 4/12
Terrorist score: 3/12

Assussanni:

Face-down intel: 3
Face-down asset: 1
Agents: 1
Clout: 2
Rep: 6
Soldiers: 1

DJCT:

Face-down intel: 3
Face-down asset: 1
Agents: 1
Clout: 3
Rep: 0
Soldiers: 2

RossM:

Face-down intel: 3
Face-up asset:

  • David Estes / Agency Director / 3 VP / When you Recruit an Agent, take an extra Agent / Drone Strike
  • Carrie Mathison / Agency Analyst / 3 VP / +1 to all your Cases / When you Deploy an Agent to a Threat, you may also look at all the Intel Cards of that Threat
  • Lynne Reed / Personal Escort / 4 VP / Take 1 Rep per Abu Nazir Threat Neutralized / Burn during Threat Analysis to add 4 to the red or blue total of a Threat

Agents: 0
Clout: 0
Rep: 4
Soldiers: 0

Chewy77:

Face-down intel: 3
Face-up asset:

  • Senator Richard Halsted / Chair of Armed Services Committee / 3 VP / When any Plot Succeeds, take a Soldier / Drone Strike

Agents: 1
Clout: 4
Rep: 2
Soldiers: 1

1 2 3 4 5 6
Imminent Radicalized Local Militia / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 2 Intel / Lead RossM / Intel cards 6 / 0 soldier/s, 1 agent/s Militant Separatists / Soph 2 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Agent, 1 Rep / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 4 / 1 soldier/s, 0 agent/s General Danesh Akbari / Soph 3 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Soldier, 1 Agent / Lead DJCT / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Religious Extremists / Soph 3 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Asset / Lead Assussanni / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 1 agent/s Lone Wolf / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Intel / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Majid Javadi / Soph 3 / Impact 2 / Adv 2 Agent / Lead DJCT / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Severe Militant Separatists / Soph 2 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Agent, 1 Rep / Lead Assussanni / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Political Splinter Group / Soph 2 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Soldier, 1 Clout / Lead RossM / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Radicalized Local Militia / Soph 0 / Impact 2 / Adv 2 Intel / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Elevated Guerrilla Dissidents / Soph 1 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Soldier / Lead RossM / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Guarded Lone Wolf / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Intel / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Sectarian Insurgents / Soph 1 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Agent / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Low Political Splinter Group / Soph 2 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Clout, 1 Soldier / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s

@Chewy77 to play.

Well, that is annoying going first, it does not give us much time to launch drone strikes, and my cards are sh…

I claim Radicalize Local Militia, place one of my cards under it,

I place a rubbish card under militant Separatists and a soldier (don’t bother showing me the new cards, they will be wasted, and I use David Estes to blow that mission away.

I recruit a new asset card paying 3 clout and discarding discard Agent Roster Leak / (-3) . Does that give me its rep and clout when I buy an asset with it? I assume it doesn’t.

That should be me done.

I think technically I activate David to blow him away, But I can do that!

Which Militant Separatists? Bearing in mind that at least one of the cases you play to must belong to someone other than you.

Discarding an intel card gives you tokens, some of which you can then use to buy an asset (or save them for your score at the end of the game). So I’ll need to know which tokens you are spending - you have 4 clout and 2 rep at start of turn, and discarding Agent Roster Leak will give you one more of each.

I may have a drone strike capable Asset up my sleeve, if that changes anything.

Yes, using an asset’s abilities usually happens on the turn of the owner of that asset. (There are some exceptions, like Carrie’s “+1 to all your cases”.)

Dang, I keep forgetting that I have to use one case that is not mine…

I was putting a really bad card there to get rid of it, anything else we can blow up before @RossM release the drones? If not I will put it under the lowest row “Political Splinter Group” so we have time to counter it

I will discard Agent Roster Leak to get 1 clout and 1 rep, then, and wait to see what happens next turn (if we get to it).

Sorry for messing up the rules again.

Bearing in mind each intel card has to go to a claimed case, sorry…

I should be sorry*

Ok, it is a -2 card, and I cannot put it in my case as it may fail, I promise to put a soldier later to blow it RossM, but I will put it under Guerrilla dissidents so we have time to neutralise it

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Makes sense.

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Right, with the blessing of RossM, I place that putrid card there, and recruit a soldier.

Now that’s me done. Thanks for your patience.

Public information

Agency score: 4/12
Terrorist score: 3/12

Assussanni:

Face-down intel: 3
Face-down asset: 1
Agents: 1
Clout: 2
Rep: 6
Soldiers: 1

RossM:

Face-down intel: 3
Face-up asset:

  • David Estes / Agency Director / 3 VP / When you Recruit an Agent, take an extra Agent / Drone Strike
  • Carrie Mathison / Agency Analyst / 3 VP / +1 to all your Cases / When you Deploy an Agent to a Threat, you may also look at all the Intel Cards of that Threat
  • Lynne Reed / Personal Escort / 4 VP / Take 1 Rep per Abu Nazir Threat Neutralized / Burn during Threat Analysis to add 4 to the red or blue total of a Threat

Agents: 0
Clout: 0
Rep: 4
Soldiers: 0

Chewy77:

Face-up asset:

  • Senator Richard Halsted / Chair of Armed Services Committee / 3 VP / When any Plot Succeeds, take a Soldier / Drone Strike

Agents: 1
Clout: 5
Rep: 3
Soldiers: 2

DJCT:

Face-down intel: 3
Face-down asset: 1
Agents: 1
Clout: 3
Rep: 0
Soldiers: 2

Threat board

1 2 3 4 5 6
Imminent Radicalized Local Militia / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 2 Intel / Lead RossM / Intel cards 6 / 0 soldier/s, 1 agent/s Militant Separatists / Soph 2 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Agent, 1 Rep / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 4 / 1 soldier/s, 0 agent/s General Danesh Akbari / Soph 3 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Soldier, 1 Agent / Lead DJCT / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Religious Extremists / Soph 3 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Asset / Lead Assussanni / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 1 agent/s Lone Wolf / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Intel / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Majid Javadi / Soph 3 / Impact 2 / Adv 2 Agent / Lead DJCT / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Severe Militant Separatists / Soph 2 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Agent, 1 Rep / Lead Assussanni / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Political Splinter Group / Soph 2 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Clout, 1 Soldier / Lead RossM / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Radicalized Local Militia / Soph 0 / Impact 2 / Adv 2 Intel / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Elevated Guerrilla Dissidents / Soph 1 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Soldier / Lead RossM / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Guarded Lone Wolf / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Intel / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Sectarian Insurgents / Soph 1 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Agent / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Low Political Splinter Group / Soph 2 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Clout, 1 Soldier / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s

@RossM to play.

Sorry, could I have placed more than one soldier this turn? If I did I would put another soldier down on Militant Separatists, sorry.

You can place multiple soldiers but only to the same case.

Which is where I had placed a soldier before…

…not in this turn just done I think?

claim Severe-3 Radicalized Local Militia
play intel to Severe-3 Radicalized Local Militia
play intel to Elevated-1 Guerrilla Dissidents
discard Agent Roster Leak for tokens
recruit a soldier

I had to change the card, but I had put a soldier

OK, that makes the Imminent-2 drone-strikable.

1 2 3 4 5 6
Imminent Radicalized Local Militia / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 2 Intel / Lead RossM / Intel cards 6 / 0 soldier/s, 1 agent/s Militant Separatists / Soph 2 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Rep, 1 Agent / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 4 / 2 soldier/s, 0 agent/s General Danesh Akbari / Soph 3 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Soldier, 1 Agent / Lead DJCT / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Religious Extremists / Soph 3 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Asset / Lead Assussanni / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 1 agent/s Lone Wolf / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Intel / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Majid Javadi / Soph 3 / Impact 2 / Adv 2 Agent / Lead DJCT / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Severe Militant Separatists / Soph 2 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Rep, 1 Agent / Lead Assussanni / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Political Splinter Group / Soph 2 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Clout, 1 Soldier / Lead RossM / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Radicalized Local Militia / Soph 0 / Impact 2 / Adv 2 Intel / Lead Chewy77 / Intel cards 2 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Elevated Guerrilla Dissidents / Soph 1 / Impact 2 / Adv 1 Soldier / Lead RossM / Intel cards 3 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Guarded Lone Wolf / Soph 0 / Impact 1 / Adv 1 Intel / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s Sectarian Insurgents / Soph 1 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Agent / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s
Low Political Splinter Group / Soph 2 / Impact 3 / Adv 1 Soldier, 1 Clout / Lead UNCLAIMED / Intel cards 1 / 0 soldier/s, 0 agent/s

@RossM FYI I’m happy to drone strike Imminent-2 on my turn with my mystery hidden Asset, if that is the plan to deal with that threat. My hand of Intel is awful, so if there is still a place to bury red cards on my turn it would help me out.

The obvious place for that would be Guerrilla Dissidents, I owe Ross a soldier there and a drone attack