by HeyJoe
The irregularity comes from not making a coup in AR1, leaving the defcon at 5. The US player has the opportunity to do something sneaky then, such as playing De Gaulle and using the ops to immediately realign France. ;)That's true. I'm not a chess expert by any means, I was just using it as an analogy to show that "USSR AR1 Coup Iran" seems to have become the standard opening in TS and it's more rare to see deviations from it than otherwise.