Also, I will be unpleasantly surprised if bombers made from aluminium will not take at least 3 ore because of size
They'd still be able to armour it with 1 Ore. If we get really unlucky and they get it all for 2 Ore, our incendiaries do nothing, we might have to rely on inaccurate AP, and the bombers would actually be more manoeuvrable than our fighter. Hopefully the amount of cars we'll get next turn will be enough to replace the many that'll be destroyed by Moskurg's bombers.
As for whether we should go with a sniper rifle or an LMG, I'm voting sniper rifle. We can match their LMGs with cheap assault rifles but we can't match their sniper rifle with anything but another sniper rifle.
Glory to Arstotzka.
Huh. Now it's seeming like we shouldn't have let them take one of our most valuable pieces of technology in order to do something that makes the US hate us more.
You are result oriented here. If rolls fell different way we would have another result. If we went for counter and rolls would be same, it would likely fail because we rolled low spying.
Concerning the U-boat, it was our spy vs their spy. If we won in counter-intelligence, they wouldn't have stolen our tech and we'd have killed a spy. If we lost, they stole our tech. If we won in the mission, we would've gotten a design and the US would hate us. If we lost, the US would hate us and we'd lose our spy. The rolls were equally tricky so the
only thing to compare were the possible results.