- Deluxe Edition
- Relive the cold war and change history
- Quick-playing, low-complexity
- 2 players
- Ages 14+
In 1945, unlikely allies toppled Hitler's war machine,
while humanity's most devastating weapons forced the Japanese Empire to its
knees in a storm of fire. Where once there stood many great powers, there then
stood only two. The world had scant months to sigh its collective relief
before a new conflict threatened. Unlike the titanic struggles of the
preceding decades, this conflict would be waged not primarily by soldiers and
tanks, but by spies and politicians, scientists and intellectuals, artists and
traitors. Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-five
year dance of intrigue, prestige, and occasional flares of warfare between the
Soviet Union and the United States. The entire world is the stage on which
these two titans fight to make the world safe for their own ideologies and
ways of life. The game begins amidst the ruins of Europe as the two new
"superpowers" scramble over the wreckage of the Second World War, and ends in
1989, when only the United States remained standing. Twilight Struggle inherits its fundamental systems from the card-driven
classics We the People and Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage. It is a quick-playing,
low-complexity game in that tradition. The game map is a world map of the
period, whereon players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain
allies and control for their superpower. As with GMT's other card-driven
games, decision-making is a challenge; how to best use one's cards and units
given consistently limited resources? Twilight Struggle's Event cards add detail and flavour to the game. They cover
a vast array of historical happenings, from the Arab- Israeli conflicts of
1948 and 1967, to Vietnam and the U.S. peace movement, to the Cuban Missile
Crisis and other such incidents that brought the world to the brink of nuclear
annihilation. Subsystems capture the prestige-laden Space Race as well as
nuclear tensions, with the possibility of game-ending nuclear war. A deluxe edition, published in 2009 includes the following changes from the
basic game:• Mounted map with revised graphics• Two double-thick counter
sheets with 260 counters• Deck of 110 event cards (increased from 104)•
Revised rules and player aid cards Box Contains Two counter sheets - 9.16inch
sizeMounted Deluxe 22x34 Inch Map110 Event CardsRules BookletTwo Player Aid
cardsTwo 6-sided dice
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