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I normally would have pitched BW to Ask Not in that spot with Flower Power active. Were you hoping to hold it through the reshuffle?

Opposite side th-cam.com/video/_kYkaku1u-k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=J5-7tqeevy4VIeCt I think you could play T8 in a completely different way, maybe trying to take Japan (with USJ in hand) with China card, or playing USJ then CC if you want to space something else ; after my big blunder in HL. But maybe this blunder made you misplay ?...

t3 ar6 should go Sahara state

Why not just coup and use arm races and win in T6 AR2? You was at 18vps

Wow, these realigns on T4...

gg

Hey Harry, thanks for uploading. at 52:55 I was thinking, since South America Scoring and Allende are coming next turn, it would be nice to get 2 into Peru, that way, if opponent draws both of those cards, you won't have to worry as much about being realigned out of Chile. So I was thinking with Flower Power I would go 1 Egypt, 2 Peru, and 1 Chile. Italy is a concern but who knows when Europe scoring will show up.

with defectors in hand, I think you wanna headline decolonization on T3. If opponent hadn't headlined Duck, then opponent could have entered Angola after the coup, and since they did headline duck, you would have been able to take Algeria outright, and would have had the option of cheeply flipping indonesia.

Congrats for staying calm as it was an incredibly frustrating game for the soviets. Very few things went your way. You probably do need to train to play in 45 min, but in this situation and with this bad luck, no difference 😂

What an insanely frustrating yet fascinating t4. You both played it very well. I got very anxious for your time somewhere around there though. You didn't seem fazed by it...?

Thanks for sharing. It was a tough, well fought game.

one thing I can do better I always said “something is gone.” Should say “discard and removed”

What game is this?

The highlight of this game is using 5YP to defect De Gaulle, right? :p 13:41 US T2-AR5: Since you have spaced Blockade, which is a good move, I thought you would play the China card into N. Korea followed by US/J into Asia in AR6, and hold SocGov and Destal over the turn.

Gunman so close to being safe... missile envy was his only way to lower defcon in headline, right? And even then he can't be sure to get a blue card.

What a finish! Two things of note: Nixon was free after he plays china. I don't know if it's worth it to hold for your last play but something to consider (knowing he would play it). Also... My math might be off here, but suez threatens presenceless Middle east... if you remove two in isreal and two in france, he has to place into israel/iraq to prevent the break (and gives one more vp from france). Then his china can break one of cuba/poland but not both.

Watching the game from your POV was painful

but i manage this hand badly. wasting four ops on Iraq coup was unforgivable.

now THAT is an opening hand, swap Degaul for Destal and it's practically perfect

Surprised they played Containment before EEU

Thanks for sharing your game. around 17:30 you play Comecon for ops while Warsaw Pact is in your hand, I would play Warsaw pact before Comecon. In my opinion the soviet player can use Warsaw influence more flexibly after Comecon is evented, as opposed to before. I'm writing this comment prior to seeing the rest of the game, but I assume you will also play Warsaw later in turn 3. I'd be very interested if you have any thoughts on the matter, perhaps there is something I'm overlooking.

10:20 US T2-AR1: I like your move taking Angola and breaking Asia balance. Instead of Pakistan, N. Korea is also a good choice. It is almost sure that USSR would event K. war for Milops this turn, and if he wins, we temporerily lose access to N. Korea. Also, Pakistan is constantly under threat from China card flip and Brush and IP-war. N. Korea is more expensive but safer to be contested.

Thx for sharing the game! Really nice moves and tactics. 0:02 USSR T1-HL: ME, EU scoring and Defectors unseen, Italy is over-protected, would Nasser be a safer HL? After we have seen US purged us in HL, I would consider eventing our red cards (namely SocGov, De Gaulle, Fidel). Then I might use US/J (coup Iran or Libya +2, S. Korea +1) in AR1. In later rounds, I might event SocGov (W. Germany -1, UK -2) to try to get a free SpecRel. Whenever US takes France, I would event De Gaulle and gain access to Algeria (for T2). AR6 play is definitely Containment and hold card 5YP.

1:09 USSR T1-HL+AR1: we have a rare Decol+D&C+Asia combo. AR1 Asia scoring is solid, but I prefer Decol (Algeria +1, S. Africa +1, Thailand +1, Indonesia +1) in HL and D&C coup Iran in AR1. If the Iran coup succeeds, we threaten ME, Asia and EU at the same time! Defcon=3, so we can secure Thailand. If US dares to drop Defcon to 2, we can take Angola and Lebanon, else he suffers from -2/3 VP from Milops.

15:32 US T1: very unusual T1 with Defcon 5, but really well played, especially the coup and realignment in SEA. 29:41 US T2-AR6: eventing SocGov is an empty AR. Since EU must be scored next turn, I would like to hold SocGov and space K-war. 32:27 US T3-HL: HL D&C is a 3VP gain. If USSR HL De Gaulle and takes France, we can event Marshall in AR1 and score EU with -1 VP in AR2. But if USSR could not redraw De Gaulle, we could still score EU with +5 VP and use Marshall as ops later. Hence I think HL D&C would maximize our average VP gain. 49:33 US T5-HL: theoretically, we could win this turn. HL submit +2VP, event Kitchen Debate +2VP and space +2VP. Finally IP-war with 1/3 chance to get +2 VP. In particular, we have a rare situation where we have +3 modifier on Submit, also if we win, we can set Defcon to 2 and protect Africa.

28:26 US T3-AR3: Would the move (S. Africa +2, Botswana +2) or (Tunisia +2, Sahara states +1, Botswana +1) lure USSR to coup? Then we can event both AI-war and K-war and have in total of 6 ops, while USSR “wasted” 2 ops to gain Milops. 31:51 US T4-HL: CMC is a cool HL protecting African BGs in AR1 and SA BGs after we event Puppet, also a punishment of USSR spending Fidel on SEA last turn. Grain Sales can be used later in the turn, especially after we event Ussuri and USSR is forced to play all his hands. 48:58 US T5-AR2: I would attack Asia with VoA (S. Korea -2, N. Korea -2). From Missile Envy, we know that USSR has no 4-ops cards, so he cannot overprotect both Korea again. Next turn we attack the unprotected Korea with the China card and we will have Asia domination thanks to Shuttle Diplomacy. If USSR repairs, we attack again with AfP. We will have tried our best and next round we just score Asia. We event OAS and Special later this turn and our hold cards this turn are of course OPEC and Destal. 1:00:51 US T6-AR1: I know Cultural is unseen, but VoA (Brazil -1, Iran -2, Iraq -1) seems to be a stronger play. 1:07:25 US T6-AR5: Fatal! We should take W. Germany with Submit first. Note that if USSR has Ops, he could take W. Germany and we would lose by EU control.

27:54 USSR T3-AR1: Olympic (realign S. Africa) seems to be viable.

On t6, did you consider just letting him score africa and trying to realign venezuela right away? Even if he scores africa he still has to score SA for 10 for you, and you have double OPEC for the 20. I just feel like How I Learned was too slow (although obviously it feels like that when your coup failed). Great game. Says something about Mr Sazer he held on so long after your amazing early war...

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Soviet T1 AR1: Italy, not Iran, would have been the correct target. The Soviet will get other shots at Iran and has Nasser, AIW, and setup influence in Syria and Iraq. The AR1 coup might be your only shot at Italy. The American Europe Scoring HL shows lack of confidence (for a good reason; that HL was correct) and is a signal to push Europe: ignore Iran, coup Italy, and pressure France. Achieving Soviet European domination even is worth a T1 American Middle East score (which, as players noted in the video, clearly isn't happening anyway or the American would have HL Middle East Scoring for +4 VP). The T1 DeStal into France, the appearance of De Gaulle on AR6, and the fact that the Soviet never put Italy (or France) in play after rejecting the T1 AR1 Italy coup for Iran, plus the outcome, all support this case. More straightforwardly, to HL SG to hit Italy and then coup Iran is just inconsistent.

T5 AR1: Why not coup Saharan States with CHE (after event) and fight for Africa control?

gg i had a T1 hand similar to this recently & i incorrectly headlined NORAD - the way you did it was smarter - unlucky that the domination didn't get scored

what a wild & complicated game! on T7AR1 i should've put both ops into Panama - i realized too late that it was impossible for you to have ME scoring - i was card tracking so i knew all of your cards - but for some reason i made a mistake & got scared that ME would score while i had no presence. i had a lot of tough decisions in this game & i feel like i made more mistakes besides just T7AR1. i thought my T3 headline & T3AR1 play was pretty clever though gg

Pf. I hope you will crush him for that. If you want to be a champion, you had to play for the win and not win with cheese moves

Checked his video. T8 no scoring on his hand. But with terrorism. So maybe he can win this with defcon.

Too bad this wasn't your ITSL match, Harry!

you definitely had me beat on board. my remaining cards were aldrich and ladc; certainly not enough to grab a win. Well played!

Rough rolls. T7 should've been UN-SG and space lib. Just a tiny thing <3

I reported USA final scoring win. But the staff counted this as USSR Time win lol.

Spoiler: That's 100% a forfeit. Saying I'm going to sleep and you report then going offline is a concession. Fortunately with the video any tournament organiser worth their salt should have the same point of view.

SPOILER: he said to report it, that's the same thing as conceding, this should count as a win for blue

Thanks for sharing the video! Just curious: what's the logic behind your decision in T1 to space Formosan instead of Defectors?

Where are we going?

Congrats! Close game!

great come back! well done!

GG

Wow gg. Another big win

Gg. Nice win

Thanks for the game. Currently watching it. T1AR1 you lose 1 extra VP by not HL duck before couping Irn ;-)

Wow nice victory.