Yeah, the list order worked hard against the fascists IMO. All the 75% of the fascists were clumped together towards the end, and the one fascist who was early in the presidential order (Remus) got fluke-scanned on the first turn, so his administration was skipped. So when RMC passed me FL, I really didn't *want* to enact a fascist policy, but we were at 1-1 at the time with two liberal presidents coming up (Scoop & Moliere). There being no reason to skip either, if I enacted a liberal policy, either the Scoop or Moliere administrations would result in at least one fascist policy (either by nominating a fascist chancellor or drawing FFF), in which case the liberals would still control the second scan but with one more liberal policy in place, OR we would get two liberal policies, a bigger 'trusted' liberal network, and (most importantly) be down 4-1 in policies.stessier wrote:Yeah, totally.Remus West wrote:Yeah, that was a bit frustrating as all of the odds suggested you were lying as did the outcomes of your actions. In fact, I have a PM from someone who shall remain nameless but whose name rhymes with Tarazhud ( ) saying he believed me and that I got robbed.Vorret wrote:You know I'm somewhat surprised people sort of believed me, they shot both Remus and El Guapo all based on my initial scan and RMC's scan. Especially since I kept enacting F policies.
In a way, we got very lucky that I was actually a Liberal.
Really spent most of the game wishing that El Guapo had not passed that second F policy as we needed dissenting scan "results" to make things less clear. His F policy choice made it he and I against V and R rather than the big mess that may have occurred had someone else "scanned" vorret and claimed him Fascist. If that happens then RMC doesn't know where to stand given that he was passed FF. Or, if someone else "scans" vorret and claims to have found him Liberal - that someone else being a Fascist.
Both games both scans were conducted by Liberals. I think folks underestimated the power of those scans and claims based off of them.
It also stinks to be at the end of the list. There's really not much chance of getting to play. The game would be a lot different if Fascists were 2 or 3 of the first 4 slots.
That seemed utterly unworkable, so I gritted my teeth and enacted a fascist policy. FWIW I thought my story (that I was a perfect patsy for a fascist RMC because I lied and enacted a fascist policy as chancellor last game) was a pretty good one, as it had the virtue of being true (aside from RMC being fascist).
I'm also interested in Hitler play. Last game Vorret was good but waited too long to make his heel turn, this game stessier was also good but was too aggressive too early, which tanked his chances of getting elected chancellor. Gotta be tough to find the perfect middle.