We've lost 5 games in a row now (mid May) and here's the problem. going forward there is no reasonable way to win. We have opened up North and South America, but not Africa nor the middle east. We need to achieve 3 of the following 4 goals in one game
1) connect 2 new cities - impossible until we recon a new area - all cities are connected.
2) locate a new Haven - so far as I can tell impossible. We don't know where they even might be - we have the one outside of Los Angeles, and that's it
3) explore two areas - there are 9 unexplored areas (scratchers) left on 7 f 50+ cards. It's entirely reasonable to get none of those in a game.
4) Recon a new area - this is made increasingly difficult by all the cities we have connected cluttering up the deck. it's not even possible to explore from Cairo until you get Moscow.
So right now we have to open up Africa or the Middle east, but having lost 5 games in a row our deck is cluttered with 10 garbage "rationed event" cards - supposedly helpful, but in reality they just keep us from getting the actual cards we need to do recon. Furthermore since we kept connecting cities to try to win the game our deck is also full of even more garbage. we could try to go to cities to get rid of all the garbage player cards, but that means intentionally not trying to win the game just so maybe we can win in the next couple of games. We need to go places that are pointless to get rid of cards that are pointless.
Multiple losses make the game increasingly harder and at this point winning has nothing to do with anything other than luck based on ridiculous odds. No thanks.
1) connect 2 new cities - impossible until we recon a new area - all cities are connected.
2) locate a new Haven - so far as I can tell impossible. We don't know where they even might be - we have the one outside of Los Angeles, and that's it
3) explore two areas - there are 9 unexplored areas (scratchers) left on 7 f 50+ cards. It's entirely reasonable to get none of those in a game.
4) Recon a new area - this is made increasingly difficult by all the cities we have connected cluttering up the deck. it's not even possible to explore from Cairo until you get Moscow.
So right now we have to open up Africa or the Middle east, but having lost 5 games in a row our deck is cluttered with 10 garbage "rationed event" cards - supposedly helpful, but in reality they just keep us from getting the actual cards we need to do recon. Furthermore since we kept connecting cities to try to win the game our deck is also full of even more garbage. we could try to go to cities to get rid of all the garbage player cards, but that means intentionally not trying to win the game just so maybe we can win in the next couple of games. We need to go places that are pointless to get rid of cards that are pointless.
Multiple losses make the game increasingly harder and at this point winning has nothing to do with anything other than luck based on ridiculous odds. No thanks.
