Twilight Struggle


Setup
Turn 1
sh: Socialist Governments
ah: Mideast Scoring	
s1: 4ops, Italy 1/4*
a1: 3ops (1inf to Pakistan...)
s2: China Card for 5ops coup of Pakistan, 0/5*
a2: 2ops, Iran 2*/0, Afganistan 2*/0
s3: Coup Iran, 0/0
a3: 4ops
s4: Coup Iran to no effect
a4: Space Decolonization, rocket burn
s5: Space Special Relationship, good launch
a5: 1ops, UN Intervention (may have Blockade...)
s6: Blockade, discard De-Stalinization
a6: 4ops

Space  [ -2][ -2]
MO     [ -2][ -4]



			
Turn 2
sh: Romanian Abdication
ah: Duck and Cover

s5: NORAD not spaced, Soviets take Saudi Arabia, 0/3*
a6: 4ops, all into Italy, 3/4

Duck and Cover   [  3][ -1]
Europe Scoring   [ -6][ -7]
Defectors        [  1][ -6]


			
Turn 3
sh: Asia Scoring
ah: Truman Doctrine

s6: CIA.  USA 1inf to Columbia.  USSR reveals they will hold Fidel.
a6: 4ops: Venezulea 2*/0, Panama 2*/0, Nicaragua 1*/0

Asia Scoring    [  0][ -6]
			
Turn 4
sh: South African Unrest
ah: Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for you…
    .. Liberation Theology
    .. Flower Power
    .. Socialist Governments
    
Africa Scoring     [  5][ -1]  
Camp David Accords [  1][  0]  
MO                 [ -1][ -1]
			
Turn 5
sh: Brezhnev Doctrine
ah: Junta

Central America Scoring    [ -1][ -2]
Nixon Plays the China Card [  2][  0]
U2 Incident                [ -1][ -1]
OPEC                       [ -2][ -3]
			
Turn 6
sh: Lone Gunman (did not coup)
ah: Bear Trap

s1: escape with The Voice of America
a1: We Will Bury You
a2: UN Intervention (Quagmire)

Alliance For Progress  [  3][  0]
			
Turn 7
sh: Central America Scoring
ah: Southeast Asia Scoring

s1: 3ops Coup Venezuala, dr=3, Venezuala 2/2
    NORAD: Venezuala 3/2
a1: Flower Power for 4ops, Venezuala 4*/2 and Chile 7/6
    .. got lucky, never saw a war card henceforth
s2: South America Scoring
a2: Europe Scoring
s3: Brush War takes Iran
a3: Ussuri River Skirmish Event
s4: 3ops to clean up the Skirmish
----- USA Begins Mideast War ----
a4: 2ops for 1inf in Saudi Arabia, 1/3
s5: 2ops to Saudi, 1/5*
a5: 3ops for 2inf in Iraq, 3/4
s6: 2ops Iraq, 3/6*
a6: 2ops for 1inf in Iraq, 4/6
s7: Mideast Scoring
a7: Coup Haiti for MO and Cuba scare


Southeast Asia Scoring   [  8][  8]
Central America Scoring  [ -1][  7]
South America Scoring    [  6][ 13]
Europe Scoring           [ -5][  8]
Brush War                [ -1][  7]
Willy Brandt             [ -1][  6]
Mideast Scoring          [  3][  9]

			
Turn 8
sh: Quagmire
ah: Red Scare/Purge
( A tough fight the past 7 turns, and though USA will 
  spend 2 turns in Quagmire, from the Soviet play of 
  his now 1ops cards this turn, seems Red Purge kinda 
  broke the Soviet will (along with maybe last turns fights)).
  
a7:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying as event, will net 5VP

MO                      [  5][ 14]



















Turn 9
sh: Aldrich Ames Remix
ah: Africa Scoring

Africa Scoring         [  6][ 20]
 
 
			

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