also just realized that i have been breaking this rule the whole time: "up to three ISF counters can stack in a map zone at the end of their movement" 🤦🏾‍♂️

youtu.be/P-8zA_rujtA?...

youtu.be/BChZxWl_8Hg?...

"It’s really coming full circle, like the most silly thing meeting the most serious thing in this synthetic environment. It all makes perfect sense at the end of the day, but when you step back a bit, it’s hilarious."

"Fight Club is a fantastic way to soft launch into the field and get practical experience before that all important first hire."

phew! lesson of the day: take the easy win and move on... no matter how "under-climatic" it feels. that hard dunk might be tempting but it's not worth the risk of an upset at the very last second! 🏀

fortunately, the USSR then played the summit card which worked out in my favor! 💪🏾

i was actually lucky to have escaped with a draw on that scoring! my 19 VP lead could have reduced if i hadn't been so strong in that region before all my influence in two battleground countries (iraq and saudi arabia) was removed 😱

i thought i had my super satisfying win in the bag... but then it got neutralized out of the blue when the USSR headlined muslim revolution! 🤯

middle east scoring had no chance of a nasty defcon surprise and more importantly, i could score 23 VP instead of just 20 VP with camp david accords or even 22 VP with duck & cover (if it somehow didn't get sabotaged). it was perfect... this was the hard dunk I was looking for 😌

camp david accords could have given me the one VP i needed without any possibility of defcon drama but it didn't really feel satisfying enough for the climax that i felt i deserved after all the times that this USSR bot had beaten me on this handicap level 🤔

duck & cover felt too risky to headline. The USSR (which always has the initiative) could play a headline card that reduced the defcon level to 2 before my duck & cover got activated, resulting in a defcon own goal for me. this has happened to me before, would've crushed me ☢️