by zosete
I'm intending to play it the usual way, but I don't haveMy mind made up about Iron Lady. It would have been a lot easier wording 6.1.1 "You can't place influence through two consecutive countries" or a more proper English sentence, you get It.
I actually think that was the real spirit of the rule. It sure wasn't designed as an exception for the only card in the game whose event gives influence points to the opponent.
The way most of us play is "come on, it makes no sense that you get wiped out of an isolated country with a Voice of America, Sadat, a coup with Lone Gunman/CIA, etc. and then place influence there just because it was there at the beginning of the AR". But then it's "no, no, we gotta be strict with 6.1.1 for the Iron Lady because it's too good for the USSR for an US event".
I totally agree that you should have influence after the event for placement possibilities, but we're inferring that because it isn't written in the rules. And on the other hand we're nitpicking and holding to the strict wording of the rule for just one precise card. It makes no sense. Or else we're adding a made up requisite for influence placement. I don't know if I'm making my point or being too confuse, sorry.