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(More customer reviews)Twilight Struggle. Wow. What a game.
Let me say that again. What a game.
There are many reviews out there. Some of the best are posted on the boardgamegeek website. I encourage you to check them out.
If you are a gamer, you will love this game. It is pure addiction.
A casual coffee-table game it is not. As Booker noted, it will take several plays to get a sense of what's going on in terms of the deeper strategy. A skilled veteran player will destroy new players and non-gamers. So you will need to find someone who is willing to invest the same amount of time that you are.
The reason is that knowledge of every card in the deck is an absolute must to be able to play this game well. Your spirits may crumble after spending several precious rounds building influence in an area only to have a single card wipe it all away. Players who know the cards will have a better sense of where to invest and when.
But fear not--the first few plays are very enjoyable, if also played with a newbie. The experience of learning the game with someone new is really good.
After playing this game, you will be reading strategy articles on the Internet, reading the cards, looking at the board, thinking about strategy, talking with others about the game, etc. It's just that fun and engrossing.
And wow, the theme is great. Every card represents a major event that happened during the Cold War, complete with actual representative photograph from the period. The events and the pictures that represent them will draw you into the game's theme. The game booklet even contains historic descriptions of the events, so you'll learn something to boot!
Make sure that you get the latest version. As of 5/25/10, that would be the Deluxe Edition. You can read online what the differences are, but there are major revisions. It's not like buying the "collector's edition" of a game that is usually unnecessary because the regular version still contains the whole game. That's NOT the case with this game. Not only does the new version come with better components, but there have been several important changes in the game, including balance changes, and there are also new and important cards.
Happy playing!
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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 In 1945 unlikely allies toppled Hitlers war machine while humanitys 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. The game begins amidst the ruins of Europe...
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