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Twilight Struggle (Deluxe Edition)

Twilight Struggle (Deluxe Edition)

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Twilight Struggle: Now the trumpet summons us again, not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battlke, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle. - John F. Kennedy

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 flavor 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.

Can you, as the U.S. President or Soviet Premier, lead your forces to victory? Play Twilight Struggle and find out.

This deluxe edition, first 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

Condition: Previously owned, still in original shrink wrap

Condition: New

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Game Details

Suggested Ages: 14 and up
Number of Players:
2
Playing Time:
2 to 3 hours

Designer: Gupta, Ananda and Jason Matthews
Illustrator:
Mark Simonitch
Publisher: GMT Games

Mechanics

wargame, modern warfare, political, area control, area influence, campaign, battle card driven, dice rolling, hand management, Twilight Struggle

Awards & Honors

2012 Ludoteca Ideale Winner
2012 Gra Roku Game of the Year Nominee
2011 Lucca Games Best Boardgame for Experts
2006 International Gamers Awards - Historical Simulation
2006 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players
2006 Golden Geek Best Wargame Winner
2006 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Winner
2005 James F. Dunnigan Award Winner
2005 Charles S. Roberts Best Modern Era Boardgame Winner

Contents

2 counter sheets (9/16' size), mounted deluxe 22' x 34' map, 110 Event cards, 2 Player Aid cards, 2 6-sided dice, rules booklet