Twilight Struggle

We are currently selling the 4th English edition of Twilight Struggle.

For late January 2011/ early February UGG plans the release of The German and French Edition.

The listed data is subject to change

 

Game Description

"Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need, not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle..." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech, January 1961

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.

228 full color counters

Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-fiveyear 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.

110 Event cards

 

Twilight Struggle inherits its fundamental systems from the carddriven 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?

One Deluxe 22x34 full-color cardboardmap

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.

Components
1 Countersheet
110 Playing Cards
Deluxe 22 x 34" cardboard map
16 Page Rulebook
2 Player Aid Cards
By Jason Matthews and Ananda Gupta

Example of Play

Order the English edition:

Retail Price:
49,00 €
Max. Discount Price:
39,20 €
Preis inkl. MwSt, zzgl. Porto in Abhängigkeit von Bestellmenge und Versandadresse.
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Preorder the German edition

Retail Price:
49,00 €
Max. Discount Price:
36,75 € (P500)
Preis inkl. MwSt, zzgl. Porto in Abhängigkeit von Bestellmenge und Versandadresse.
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Preorder the French edition

Retail Price:
49,00 €
Max. Discount Price:
36,75 € (P500)
Preis inkl. MwSt, zzgl. Porto in Abhängigkeit von Bestellmenge und Versandadresse.
(This sentence must be here for reasons of german bureaucracy.)