By the way, Jim, this was also my gift to you for what happened in the second Witches' Coven.
Thanks, bro. I was really excited about this game, but I couldn't keep up with four games, one of which had four different miniature mafia games inside it, and maths at the same time, so I had to replace out else I would have gone crazy.
The end game strategy LNCP alluded to was the following: Ultimately, the success of the Russian team depended on everyone not knowing what the hell was really going on until it was too late. This was always going to be a losing battle, since everyone was going to became extremely curious when a spy flipped that wasn't on their team. So early on, I started thinking about how I would deal with it when I was discovered.
The lie would go something like this: That I am a superspy, and that I'm a German double agent on behalf of the Allies in addition to being an embedded spy in every single team. The reason that we were all out here is that secrets were being leaked to the Germans from each of our teams, and that after making the Allies aware of this, their heavy-handed response to the intelligence leaks was to send everyone involved on a suicide mission. I would try to sell that on each team there was a German double agent, and that if we could discover the identities of the double agents and eliminate them, we could get the artifact or whatever and escape with our lives. To lend credence to what I was saying, I would have brought up
Where Eagles Dare, for its emphasis on secret agents and double agents and super secret double agents, and said that this game was sort of that movie but in the extreme. I also would have immediately bussed IronyOwl for not being on any team.
I have no idea if it would have worked or not, but that's what my plan was. By posing as a sort of friendly quadruple agent instead of a hostile one, I think my chances of successfully not dying might have been higher in the short term, but after a certain point I think I would have been on the chopping block anyway.
Regardless, fun game.