by Omahavice
StuDecay wrote:
I assume by turns we mean rounds - there only being 10 turns in the game :)
I had one guy in quagmire for 2 entire turns - first turn he was under redscare as well- he played his one 3ops and then sat the rest out... then next turn he played 2 2 ops cards and failed each time..then he had a pile of 1 ops - both cia and lone gunman, panama canal etc last round he had to dump a scoring card... he finally got out in his first round of the third turn..
even I was willing him to get out of it! and fair play he took it on the chin...the game was too far gone for him by then though..
I had one guy in quagmire for 2 entire turns - first turn he was under redscare as well- he played his one 3ops and then sat the rest out... then next turn he played 2 2 ops cards and failed each time..then he had a pile of 1 ops - both cia and lone gunman, panama canal etc last round he had to dump a scoring card... he finally got out in his first round of the third turn..
even I was willing him to get out of it! and fair play he took it on the chin...the game was too far gone for him by then though..
Just out of curiousity and because I had it happen for the first time in a TS game the other night, how often do people forfeit in this game? I was the USSR and had 15vp at the start of Turn 10. I also had Domination in Europe, Middle East, Central America, and we were tied in Asia. South American and Africa were also about even. We drew the cards for Turn 10 and my opponent looked at his cards and said "do you mind if I forfeit, there is no way I can win". I was going to play Central America scoring as my Headline which would have given me 4 more vp, taking me to 19vp. I had a pretty mixed hand of USSR and USA cards. He said he had a terrible hand and there was no way he could make a comeback. He showed me his hand and it contained 6 USSR cards, so it was pretty bad. I did not mind the Forfeit Win but we hardly ever have a game to Final Scoring at the end of Round 10 and I was looking forward to it. I suppose he saved us another 20 minutes of game time and for him there truly was no point in continuing.