New player, am I unlucky or just not getting it?

[theunpaidBill]

Hey everyone, I just picked this up. I bought version 1 back about 20 years ago from Talonsoft, but got busy raising kids and didn't get to play it a lot.

Anyway, I loaded up a new game with the "Tutorial" scenario (Korea). On turn 4 the UN nuked China, and it's been all downhill from there. The Chinese and Russians have joined the fight, and it's now Turn 14 and they have me pinned down at Pusan and I am not seeing a way out of this. My reinforcements have barely kept up with the additional troops they are getting, and I have managed to keep my toehold, but it's been a very tenuous stasis for the last 5 turns.

So is the nuke just bad luck, or does that happen to everyone? Am I just failing to understand how to break out? The Communist unit stacks are 3 deep completely surrounding my beachhead. I figured out they are doing Reserves, so any time I push out they get reinforced.

[FellingerXZ]

That is very rare Lol, did the US president die

[theunpaidBill]

So I'm just unlucky. I don't remember seeing a notice that the president died. I was frankly a little stunned when the nuke dropped in turn 4. I guess I can go weapon's free with my nukes if I want.

Is there a different scenario that would be a better one to learn the game? The "tutorial" has zero tutorial features.

[Curtis Lemay]

I always recommend my thread I did in detail on the first turn of my France 1944 scenario here:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 5#p1451315

[theunpaidBill]

I always recommend my thread I did in detail on the first turn of my France 1944 scenario here:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 5#p1451315

Thanks, that's kind of my area of knowledge anyway.