by DeDaan
I also think that the game is balanced, even without giving the US extra IP, optional cards or Chinese Civil War. Of course there are loads of statistics trying to point out a USSR advantage, but as the writer of this thread already said, he thinks the US is way stronger. So, all results have more to do with the players' skills (or their lack of it) and the power of their opponents. Looking at the results of the ETSL, it's stunning how easily the best players win versus their less skilled opponent, even if their die rolls and hands are unlucky. I don't think any variant will really change this. That's why I don't believe in the balance statistics. The only way to know which side is stronger is when two exactly evenly skilled players play eachother about thousand times without making any strategic mistakes and with exactly the same amount of successful or unsuccessful die rolls, etc. Alas, impossible. So that's why I don't care about the variant I play. I always let my opponent choose, since in my opinion skill is the key in playing Twilight Struggle, not the variant or the extra IP at the start...↧