>>4104
It's not hard. The US player can't play Lone Gunman at DEFCON 2. If he does, the USSR will just coup a battleground, which drops DEFCON to 1 during the US' turn. This means automatic USSR victory. The USSR can't play CIA Created for the same reason. In one game I read about, the US forced the USSR to discard during the last turn of the game, which forced the USSR to play CIA Created at DEFCON 2.