Today's Actions

The proxy mine did Spada's work for us and took out Mire. It was a close call, but great job bumpkin on getting it done!

If only I could have forseen, I would have asked Spada to hit Jake or Sky instead.

But no matter! There's always the possibility that Mire would not have hit the only member of our team with a mine on him, and getting the last hitter out of the game was top priority because..

We now dominate the day and night cycle.

I issued the following ultimatum to Sky:
I discussed it with my team, and personally, they think that you are a more palatable target then Jake.

First, we don't know the extent of your medical tech, so for all we know you could be safe from night hits. Jake's safety was tied to his bodyguard, who was taken out.

Second, since you are not providing nuke shelters for very obvious reasons to the EU, then keeping you around only serves to protect the last Russian standing.
I am inclined to agree. The only real viable interest in keeping you around another cycle is the benefit of having you vote with us, instead of myself or my team members.

If we don't see your vote for Jake by 10PM est this evening, my group has been instructed to go ahead and vote for you. If, however, you are voting for Jake, then we will vote with you.
I could have extended this offer to Jake, who has more voting power than you and is possibly easier to kill, but then I actually do want to see if the bought time will let you do anything epic before this game winds down.

Mainly, I think Sky is more willing to play ball with us on this, because his need for self preservation in-game trumps his reasoning to do what is best for his team. Plus, he's more active and interactive than Jake has been in this game.

Russia and USA uniting is the only hope they have of taking down anyone in the EU for this cycle. Here's hoping my offer destroys this possibility. I'm also hoping that my push for him to vote /now/ triggers Jake to vote for Sky. If he's smart enough to vote for us, and we get hacked, then we've got big problems.

a vote like this:

Jake - 6
count. - 2

can easily become:

Jake - 3
count. - 5

Then nukes fall, taking out Spada and no night hits remain. D:
This is the worst case scenario. I'm hoping that Sky takes the bait and Jake can be baited as well.

As long as none of us are up on the chopping block, we're a solid victory today.