Are you good enough at Twilight Struggle to enter a tournament?

Grunden vs Infested_terran has started

with a wonderful roll of ‘1’ for the opening Iran coup :(

@DoggieMon’s shady and dirty socialist business collapsed under Left_Empty’s weight of freedom!

I seriously thought I was done for in the early game, as my opponent was taking over the world in a catatrosphic prelude. Then… weird things happened! Through my opponent’s mistakes and my own, suddenly, over half of the game became about our weird war for South America, realignments and coup a-plenty! The rest of the world was almost left to rot. After a Grain Sales to Soviet opening on Turn 10 which crushingly drew Tear Down This Wall (is there a better draw, really?), in the end, as was fitting, the Evil Empire decided to pull the plug twice, setting Defcon to an unprecedented 0.

A very fun game!

@Left_Empty can you please report the result clearly and in bold?

I won!

Syzygy - I’m back, go ahead and send invite (I’m not sure if your handle is formally Syzygy or something else).

Happy to do Turn Zero w/ all the cards - just leave out Alternate Space Race please :-)

Brian

greatatlantic defeats tgb at the start of Turn 5. He totally dominated the board and I could never get any traction.

Well played.

Greatatlantic over @tgb123 in Turn 5 on Points.

TGB played an aggressive game from the start (putting 3 influence in each of EG, Pol, and Cze, and headlining Decol on Turn 1), where as I played a more conservative game (empty West Germany setup). While I like aggressive play, Tgb unfortunately left himself open to US events. De-Col was canceled by Defectors, Eastern European Unrest stripped away presence in Europe, forcing tgb to spend tempo to get back. An early key to the game was tgb spending the China Card to flip Japan red, giving him domination in Asia. However, I was still holding US Japanese Defense Pact, which I immediately played for the event, giving me Japan back and domination. Tgb was forced to play Asia scoring on his last turn giving me something like 7 VP. That combined with a better Midwar presence (I held De-Stal) meant there was a heavy hill to climb to get back. Any chance of that happening probably ended with some bad coup rolls in Central America, tgb missed an opportunity to play that for Domination.

Good game!

I did miss the domination opportunity, but I still consider myself a rank amateur and am learning. Good game, though.

Is your game with @ForzaA game now underway?

Is your game with @SadleyBradley now underway?

@jeromeymartin and @CraigM is your game underway?

Yes, game is underway. Started just last night, due to my schedule being pure hell lately. But should progress apace.

@TheRockSal and @Otthegreat is your game now underway?

@tcgamer and @Borges have you been able to get your game underway yet?

Invite accepted!

Yes @ForzaA (Soviet Union) vs @dstone112 (United States) is entering turn 3.

Oh sorry, I had the .exe issue and then forgot.

I’ve already had trouble keeping up with the tournament and will have even less time soon, so I think I’ll have to drop out. Sorry again! I’ve had fun.

Yep, our game is underway!

SadleyBradley (US) wins by points in Turn 5 headline over @tylertoo. Tylertoo had some pretty bad luck with draws and was forced to play a lot of US events, and I managed to mitigate pretty much all of the Soviet events I came across.

It was a good game, and I wish good luck to tylertoo in the next round!

Sadly, you are correct. Its all luck’s fault!

Seriously, you played flawlessly. Good luck in the next round.