Welcome to the club @COMaestro
I AM the club!
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@chrislear Beat me.
I think my astronauts were afraid of heights and really didn’t want to leave the safety of earth.
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Whereas the cosmonauts made a space station in turn 9, which was amazing but I can’t claim a great deal of credit for rolling such low numbers all the time.
Somewhat related, all the winners have been ussr (I think) . Maybe in later rounds the sides should be picked for us in the draw, rather than being random, to attempt to even out the possible imbalance that would occur if someone just gets a string of US games. My personal stats favour USSR at 2 influence bid, which is why I mention it.
Another win for the Soviets. I managed to defeat @Whistle_Pig.
She had all of my good cards, which while annoying meant that her hand was terrible.
An Italy coup followed by an op play into France combined with Europe scoring twice by turn 4 was very helpful. The US was very strong in Asian battlegrounds and was a bit unlucky with the scoring. If Asia had scored twice and not Europe I’d have been in trouble because my turn 6 hand was awful.
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I would have space raced nearly all of my cards if I could have!
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I think there’s only one game left outstanding?
Yes, I’ll give @Chewy77 a heads up. It’s the mentality of those lazy capitalists in the USA that makes them think they can take a few days off! (note: I’m the comrads of the Soviet Union)
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Sorry, been away camping a long weekend with nearly zero reception. Will have a go this afternoon.
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My Soviet ambassador is frantically trying to find out if “been away camping a long weekend with zero reception” is code for the launch of nuclear missiles.
Doesn’t matter, “Boris, prepare to launch ours! It’s better to be first than sorry!”
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Did you go full nuclear @qwertysoldier ?
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My assistant lost the launch codes. He has, of course, been fired since then.
Better news is that the Asian continent is looking considerably redder by the day!
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It seems firing a nuclear weapon is more complicated than I imagined.
Which is probably a good thing.
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At last, the Soviet Union is victorious. The capitalist disaster called the United States have been annihilated.
That means Round 1 is finally done (my apologies that our game took so long. It certainly wasn’t because at one point I thought it was @Chewy77 's turn for multiple days, before realising it was actually my turn)
I will update the score at Site verification and post the fixtures for round 2!
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Round 2 matches:
@lalunaverde vs @DJCT (David first match in this tournament, after getting the coveted bye. But now it’s time to say bye-bye to the easy points!)
@COMaestro vs @Chewy77
@Whistle_Pig vs @jraven90
@Benkyo vs @chrislear
@Captbnut vs Qwertysoldier.
@RossM gets the fully deserved rest after dealing with Benkyo in Round 1.
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Here we go - the losing commences …
Also apologies this may be covered elsewhere, but who decides who is US and who is SOV?
Yes, there were a couple of long gaps there, first my camping. Managed to get to Turn 5, but that first coup in Iran I could never recover from, trying to minimise losses in Asia soon took its toll in the rest of the map. Well deserved win, @qwertysoldier
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I was going to say that if you last played one faction switch to the other, but I am not sure if that still will work out, on occasion both players would have had the same faction last game… 
I just made it a random setup. Let the fates decide.
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Yes, that was what I had in mind, but I realised that I hadn’t put it into the rules. And because the first round resulted in 5 (?) wins for the soviets, I don’t think it would be even possible to do it otherwise.
With the +2 bonus for the US, in the long run it should even out between the soviets and the US.
Side note: if one of the two in a match-up really doesn’t want to play either soviet or US, you can always arrange that among each other. It wouldn’t affect the tournament in a meaningful way and, besides, everybody having fun is more important.
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