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Big brain play to realign YOURSELF out of Cuba to prevent DEFCON suicide! Incredible, I've never seen that!

The Panama realigns at the end had me on the edge of my seat. Good game

At 17:15 you spaced fidel to stop the double space but you can always respond to the first space attempt with a space attempt of your own to stop that; you weren't that pressured to space. Donzo ends up taking algeria but you could have just taken it yourself first. Great game though, I was rooting for the realigns at the end.

Any thought to eventing Nassar then coup Egypt to drop defcon to 2 and prevent an AR1 Asia coup Turn 2?

I know this is super late, but turn 5 @42:00 what do you think about using Suez to fill Chile, then after he takes you down to 4 in France, use Truman to take France?

I think Im getting bored of this game. It took me about 12 years, but it happened

He returns!

Glad to see a new game up! Like to watch/listen to your games while I work.

why so many of US players don't want to trigger Korean war to get a stable South Korea even when the US influence in South Korea is just 1? It leads high blood pressure of me.

Don’t like t3 headline destal. If It was defected, your lost will be much more than this Asia 6vp. My play would be give up Asia, headline Fidel, if defected, ar1 coup or repair Asia(more likely to coup, coup worth 4vp, Asia dom was 6vp), ar2 destal into Panama vene Chile Angola.

I thought you were going to get him for a while. Great job getting a draw anyways.

A couple of comments for your opponent. I don’t know if you drew CIA turn 2 or Turn 3 but in either case CIA has to be played on AR1. On turn 2 this was important because if you have CIA turn 2 you have to get rid of it in order to 5YP Asia with IP war failing. If you didn’t have it turn 2 FYP has to be the AR6 play. In any case, holding CIA on Turn 3 it has to be played on AR1. Most of your hand is known at that point anyways, and it makes you less vulnerable to grain sales in the late war costing a defcon win.

Thanks for the vid! I was skeptical about the HIL HL because of North Korea, but it ended up working out marvelously!

So whatd you think of the Super Bowl? Were you happy with the outcome?

My favorite TS couple is back!

You had lousy hands all game and lousy rolls and he had good rolls all game, and yet this still was a final scoring. You actually had plus 4 in final scoring, so if he hadn’t drawn Asia there, there was still a chance you could have won. Of course if he hadn’t he would have played Chernobyl into Africa instead. I don’t think Europe was the right plan in that situation since he already had dom, and it would take a lot of ops for control while ignoring the rest of the board.

Those were some of the most consistently terrible hands I can remember seeing

Could you please explain why on Turn 10 Headline you elected not to make a coup in Europe? Your headline occurs before the reformer, but you said the reformer "crews that up". Love all of your videos, thank you!

Not that it mattered much in the end, but the ussr play into europe in T3 is soo gross. Playing duck for 3VPS and then china is waay to expensive to stop domination imo, plus he has to hold CIA into mid war

Oh no, your opponent didn't break UK with Special! NATO active no less!

Since you got Suez'd, I might consider placing 1 in Iraq before scoring Asia or playing Nazi's on T1

I couldn't find anything in the rulebook about not being able to realign somewhere where your opponent has no influence.

hahaha that syria realign at 10:30 i was hoping that would happen in my mind

Hey, watched some of your games. I think you have a tendency to play a bit fast and make some mistakes in the opening. For example, the decision to use Olympic games to play into Syria and over protect Thailand was unnecessary. You even yourself immediately said they could just tap Syria, Thailand you had the China card plus Asia was scored, so gave you nothing. Instead you gave them a free coup (I was surprised they took it in Iraq). You should have used Olympic games to coup Iran or Panama, even if unsuccessful it means next turn you get a shot at Iran which could flip ME in ur favor, without them counter couping Just some thoughts, fun to watch but would like to see you win more

It wasnt a certain win, oppo missed the chance to try to realign themselves out of cuba. Good win though.

In my opinion a few early blunders: 1, with the ops you had, Asia points were never happening. Instead of Malaysia, which opens up a risk, just play Asia scoring 2, not use Marshall into Canada for NORAD 3, put so much into Italy when you had socgov. Instead 3 in Iran

I'm kicking myself for not playing my last 4 OPs into Canada. When will I ever get that chance again?

The Malaysia coup is becoming more common! I'm surprised you haven't seen it before. Its a very strong USSR response to the classic USA spread. You should give it a go sometime!

Turn 4 you had an easy dom of Africa and didn’t take it and scored it for mere presence. If you take both Saharan states and Cameroon, with Che already gone he can’t coup both and then you would have scored. To me though the biggest mistake was never playing into Canada. He gave you NORAD turn 1 and quagmire was never evented but you got Zero ops from NORAD. And when special gave you a chance to take canada and maybe do something with it holding quagmire which is easily spaced, you put the ops into west Germany which of course was easily repairable. In your defense you had lousy hands early and your opponent had a lot of ops. That turn 1 suez headline caused problems all game. I think it was a mistake for your opponent to give you NORAD and space NATO, but he redrew nato and got more ops out of it so what do I know?

Enjoy watching your games! Question. On game 1 , turn 4, why didn't you ABM Algeria to try to get control of Africa before scoring?

(and then spread into SE Asia after the counter-coup, that was my point :)

I think T1 was misplayed, you had the potential to get both dominations and you didn’t get either - I was hoping for Nasser HL and NTB into Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan. I agree holding FYP would have been better going into T3 to toss one of the bad scorings especially since we know Europe is coming

Turn 2 I would have played blockade and held FYP. You knew he didn’t have Europe which means there is a 50/50 chance you draw it, and then of course you can easily pitch it. That being said, with as many 4 op cards as he was drawing, it may have been a moot point anyways.

Great game. On turn 9 I think given the volatility of Africa you should have headlined Yuri and Samantha instead of Willy. If you did that I think you would have won.

At 1:01:00 I would have loved to see you tap Italy. Then you would force the opponent to choose between protecting it and getting mil ops.

The Mideast is the world region. The Midwest is the U.S. region.

It seems contradictory to hope for a Soviet snowball in game 2, and then headline a score for 0 when you get 8 clean ops in two plays out of your hand. Building up an early game lead involves early scores and battlegrounds. Also, couldn't you have protected France from realigns in the headline with a random BG coup to keep Defcon from going back up to 5 instead of playing to Algeria?

anyways, thnx for the games and hope you enjoyed the evening!

in T1 with both Suez and DeG I would probably give up France. By playing Suez your way you have traded good position in ME (possible dom) for France.

I'm wondering, what is the reasoning for placing influence in Italy with the initial placements? Thanks for making these vids!!

Ouch. If funky played just a bit better, i think game is a tie. They juat gave away a VP T1AR1 through D&C event after the coup, and i think i saw some vps they could have taken here and there. Good game though!

That was certainly a game of TS! Fantastically instructive game though, should be required viewing.

T4 HL: You hold CA Scoring. Consider HL PG and put 1 in Costa Rica at least. Save ABM for a counter coup of Panama. Your stranglehold on The China Card easily enables you to fill Cuba and Mexico. (FD: lost track of Fidel, not sure who has it).

The squeaky toy in T1AR6 is brilliant. I want that for my games.

5 1op cards in T4. That is rough.

Sorry I missed this one, your opponent is my friend Albert I've known for over 20 years. :) I wish this was from his perspective so I could give him grief, but you'll have to do: - T1/T2: With some minor quibbles, I think these two turns are mostly fine. Only thing I might've done differently is space Marshall T1. - T3: After Albert went Iran/Pakistan/Angola, I think 4 ops into Thailand is way overdoing it. If you put 2-3, he still needs to roll big to get Thailand. You taking the choice away from him just gives him an AR to move into India/Zaire. Alternately, you could've just played Decol at defcon 4 into all African countries and put the pressure on him to decide whether he's giving up the coup. If he goes into Thailand, all of a sudden you've got 4 African countries at defcon 4, he coups 1, then you either flip Thailand or coup back Africa and he's got no presence, or coup Panama and (probably) get him out. Long story short, I think 4 ops is too much in Thailand., and the way you played it allowed him to get a foothold in Africa while also keeping presence in CA. - T4: Oh look, you got Asia scoring to justify your Thailand play. :) Really though, this is an awful hand, only so much you can do, although I think not putting a 3rd into Cuba when you had the chance was a mistake. Not sure about the choice to take 2 out of Cuba without having a 3rd there is backup. You got very lucky on Albert's bad realigns + failed Brush War. Also disagree with ending with Allende--Allende should've been 2nd to last play, last AR should've been 3rd into Chile to establish SA presence and protect against VOA. - T5: Oh look, you got lucky again and drew Junta so you weren't punished as much by the VoA. Also way to roll a 6 on Panama. This is the part of the game where Albert's soul begins to leave his body. Anyway you played this turn well, lucky or not. - T6: Choice to hold FYP was the right one, I'm just sitting here laughing thinking about how mad Albert is going to be. Destal+D&C is good combo. - T7: No sympathy for you on this Africa redraw. Against Grain and knowing UN got played last turn, I think WWBY was the right headline here. Timing of playing Nixon was bad, but you got lucky. Also got very lucky that Albert waited too long on South America. Are you noticing a trend yet?!?! - T8: Failing trap is very bad, you managed ok. Terrorism was the correct card to hold. - T9: ABM for influence is good, don't like the followup coup on Pakistan. Would take that opportunity to either space (to hopefully stop Star Wars) or event Terrorism. - T10: Did what you could, pretty over unless he has a nightmare draw, which he didn't. GG, thanks for uploading!

Ok Crow, I'm here to ruin the good vibes: -T1 I think is fine for the most part. No, really! I would've couped Panama rather than Iran on your second coup, but that's about it. - T2 I don't love using Marshall to try and get Asia dom when it's easy for your opponent to fight on country count, but it ended up working out so don't listen to me. - T3 leaving Algeria uncontrolled when you had a chance to fill it AR2 was criminal, but you got lucky. I also don't love filling South Africa while Angola can be flipped or VOA'ed out. - T4 worked out well (although I think you should've filled Iran after the ABM fail, as that's an extra VP for your scoring, a potential extra VP for OPEC, and protection against OMIT being evented). I think your opponent made a big mistake not going into Tunisia with CRG. Also not sure I would've played China, prefer triggering FYP on Panama and going for realigns on Venezuela. - T5 is the beginning of the part in every game where Crow does weird things. Overprotecting India after Asia's been scored? Sure, why not? Putting 1 into an overprotected Angola hoping the opponent doesn't notice the setup for PEC? Fuck it, let's go. - T6 Bear Trap is tough, only mistake I think is filling Zaire at defcon 3. If you event SAU instead, opponent then has 2 countries to fill and is forced between filling and couping. If he coups Angola, you take Zaire; if he takes Angola and Zaire, you coup. - T7 Your Junta play is good after CMC, but there's no urgency to use your ops to fill Cuba when you have Nicaragua + you're going to FYP CA scoring anyway (edit: uhhhh, guess not). I would have instead flipped Angola with Suez AR1. You have multiple 3 ops and you have the advantage of knowing your opponent has two scoring cards--use that advantage! Also I hate the FYP coup of Uruguay. - T8 meh. - T9 you really needed to coup with Star Wars, unnecessary risk not to do so. Otherwise you played the turn fine. - T10 overprotecting Argentina over taking back E Germany was a mistake, otherwise you played the turn fine. tldr, I think this game was in reach, but a tie is always fun, thanks for recording!

Woo! TIme for more popcorn! (You were right, it's actually wine)

Other than the turn 10, the bad hands you got in early mid war is where you lost. That said, some points before that you gave up some tempo by piling a bit too much into random over protects.

A nice hour and a half! Should be a good one :D