With the Europe scoring card out in the first turn, we expect a hard struggle for Asia (USSR controlled) and Middle East (US control).
Headlines went out as US played defectors to null Nasser avoiding Russian infiltration in Egypt.
USSR reallocated some influence by playing De-Stalinization and moves into Iraq (2/0) and Syria (2/0). Feeling a hard fight in Middle East, US put all his efforts to control Arabia (0/3).
Russian went hard in his next card and tried a coup in Iran to stop US domination. With only a 3 in the dr, USSR succeeded to remove Iran from US control but did not go into the country. US continued to menace into the Middle East and expended the China card to regain Iran (0/2), control Egypt (0/2) and entering in Pakistan (0/2). Now Russian must react because is not longer dominating Asia and is leaded in Europe and Middle East.
Insisting in his previous strategy, Russian tried another coup in Iran, this time by playing UN Intervention and avoiding US associated event (Duck and Cover). With a dr of 2 the overall result is the same: one less point of American influence but no Russian markers in Iran. In the mean time, US scientists crashed their first attempt to launch a satellite.
After his bad luck in Iran and the failing of Nasser, USRR is happy with the actual situation and allows scoring in Middle East for a net loss of 1 VP. Us pursuits his penetration in Asia by India and Philippines (0/1).
USSR takes control of Laos (1/0) and US, taking advantage of the equilibrium in Asia, played Asia Scoring card for no VP. Romanian Abdication gave control of Romania to USSR (3/0) and US last play is the India/Pakistani War. Even if there is no Russian influence in any of the countries, so American can not win influence there, it still has the opportunity to win the war, adding 2Vp, and with the 2 Mil Ops it is his only way to fulfill the MO requirement as no coups are allowed with defcon at 2. Unfortunately, dr is just 1 and no VP are awarded.
End of Turn 2: +4VP (US), defcon at 2. Enough Mil Ops for both Powers. Europe continues to be dominated by American whereas Middle East and Asia are shared.
Analysis: Both players had Scoring cards for the continents dominated by the opponent. We have seen that both tried to remove rival domination instead of reinforcing his own control. In this fight Russian was really unlucky with two poor coups at Iran and the null effect of Nasser.
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