We just did randomised sides.
In chess tournaments using the Swiss system, this is part of the setup and is a constraint on the match assignments: you shouldn’t play with the same colour more than twice in a row, and overall the difference between games as white and games as black shouldn’t be more than one.
In practice right now it really makes no difference, because USSR won all the games, and score has higher priority than colour. So the only pairing that might be affected is @lalunaverde vs @DJCT where @lalunaverde would be given US according to the standard Swiss pairing system for chess.
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Im keen on playing as the US!
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Ok no problem - do you want to set up?
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Game is set up
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Looks like I am going to break the Soviet winning streak. Luckily had to take a break !
I’m beginning to suspect @Captbnut has rigged the dice…
Have a look at my Pathfinder and D&D rolls!
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And the streak continues for now! @Captbnut beat me handily with a T3 AR1 scoring of Middle East, getting the VP-tracker to -21 (or +21, either way, he won).
I’m extremely annoyed by this, because I actually think I played this game quite well. I got beaten by @Captbnut making very effective use of his high ops hands in T1&2, a powerful China card play to take early domination in Asia, and some truly amazing war cards for him. He got 4 VP from them.
That combined with the fact that ME-scoring came up twice in the early war, whereas Europe Scoring hasn’t been played (@Captbnut had it in his hand but, very selfishly, decided to score ME instead) once, my failed Indian-Pakistani war (on the same ops as his Korean war, bugger!), and not having the time to space a card for some much needed VPs, killed me.
Just shows the power of the early war soviet steamroller. If the cards are right, the dice are rigged and the soviet-player knows how to use his strengths, there isn’t much you can do!
Certainly think I would’ve managed quite well in the mid-war, with destal out of the deck, Africa looking good, the Americas not totally lost, and a pretty good situation in Europe and not a tied one in Asia. But I won’t get to experience the sixties, sadly!
Here is the final state of the board. It doesn’t ‘feel’ -21 VP!
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I’m classing this as a giant killing, I’ve never beaten @qwertysoldier before, must be the pressure of the tournament!!
I thought I was in trouble, his setup threw me and some early card play looked very promising for the US. I was lucky to get Asia scored quickly and heavily in Turn 1, he had to dump ME scoring for big points in Turn 2. He was playing a really interesting game with clever use of bad cards.
My Turn 3 hand was awful. I had a decision to play Nazi Scientists for 2 influence in SE Asia at the end of turn 2, but American overcontrol of Thailand made that pointless. I played it for the event, grabbed 2 points and was able to score ME again to win.
I think if I hadn’t got over the hump when I did it would have ended with a US win.
Fact-check: Captbnut hás beaten me before, after I accidentally started a nuclear war because I wasn’t paying attention.
And while his T3 hand was pretty bad (two scorings isn’t exactly ideal normally), he had the chance to deny Europe scoring via Five year plan. That nazi scientist was a pretty important one, because I wanted to steal that VP that same AR…
Speaking of being thrown by set up and early cards: I was confronted with an Turn 1 headline of Decolonization. How’s that for a bold opening move!
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The Trump defence!
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Most important though: @Captbnut is now all alone at the top of the standings!
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Well, haven’t we all done that…
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Stop The Count
Sorry to inform you that you are indeed a captain, not a count.
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What’s RossM got to do with this?
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I am joining the list of defeats with the USSR… I can lose with any faction, actually… Congrats to COMaestro. He managed to dodge me all the way till his Africa score half way through the game turned it into a slow death for me. And under the influence of strong painkillers. Hats off.
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No, just OTC painkillers. 