2013-06-20T06:37:03Z SMF Twilight Strategy Forum

For instance, whenever you're deciding whether to go into Egypt, think about Nasser and Sadat.

Whenever you're thinking about moving into France, think about De Gaulle and Suez.

For most cards, you'll sometimes want to look through the discard pile to see whether they've been played. That doesn't necessarily mean that you have to track them. The ones that you need to track are the cards that you should be thinking about all of the time.

That's why for me, very few cards actually make the cut. They're the ones you always have to be worried about and thinking about:
Scoring Cards
Blockade
Decolonization (in the early war)
Destalinization
Defectors
CIA created
Truman Doctrine

Thanks to budzo for pointing out Truman. There are so many shenanigans the US can pull with it.

Learning which cards are DEFCON-relevant is also important, though. Forgetting about one card that can affect a region won't kill you (usually), but headlining Missile Envy as USSR, and having the US headline Grain Sales and then hand you WWBY is not a fun way to lose ]]>

1 MarlesChartel http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/index.php?action=profile;u=55 2013-06-20T06:36:43Z 2013-06-20T06:36:43Z http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/index.php?topic=209.msg1398#msg1398 http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/Themes/core/images/icons/xx.gif

obvious decol and destal - the thing with them is that u dont need to track if they were played. U should keep them as us if u have them on hand at all cost.

blockade - obvious thing, blockade/rsp is deadly (dont play blockade event as ussr on turn 3 if u know he has destal)

De Gaulle - dont put ops in France if u expect De Gaulle headline on turn 2/3 (unless u keep defectors wchich u probably dont) - i personally hate this card. This is the reason why France is in 70% cases ussr controlled. If u wanna be safe in france u have to put 5 ops there wchich i cant imagine how can be worth it.

indo-pakistani war - less obvious but important. If u really want to expand into pakistan-india never put more than 1 op if this card can be in opponents hand or if u have adjacent control wchich u probably dont.

Korean War - dont play op there as us if it isnt gone unless u have taiwan and japan wchich u probably dont.

CIA - play it as USSR if u dont have inf in any mid war regions battleground

Five year plan - play ur decol/destal quick if u fear it and remember u can lose if us player attacks u with it while ur holding cia

Norad - if it was played try to minimize countries with inf of both countries

Warsaw Pact - dont even put ops in eastern Europe if it isnt out

Truman - on the other hand - do u really wanna go for an ops war if us player has it on hand?

Defectors - obvious reasons, dont headline sth important like rs/p or good scoring card if u expect defectors.

Even Nasser - for ussr it is good when nasser is played after sadat.

Scoring Cards - especially europe and asia in early war.

RSP - well as us dont headline blockade if u expect that. Last game i did that.

And it is only early war.

I think it would be easier to point out wchich cards dont need to be tracked.
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1 budzo http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/index.php?action=profile;u=130 2013-06-19T21:46:52Z 2013-06-19T21:46:52Z http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/index.php?topic=209.msg1397#msg1397 http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/Themes/core/images/icons/xx.gif

No, I'll come to it later, but before I forget: You mention a couple times during T1 you were guessing USSR was holding to Middle East scoring and you acted accordingly.
Er... You headlined CIA. You were supposed to check and know your opponents hand.

Although I didn't read the whole post, I searched for CIA in the thread and no one else seemed to notice this. They were too upset because you didn't play it for ops ]]>

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1 sspiker http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/index.php?action=profile;u=87 2013-06-17T13:20:16Z 2013-06-17T13:20:16Z http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/index.php?topic=209.msg1394#msg1394 http://forum.twilightstrategy.com/Themes/core/images/icons/xx.gif