Twilight Struggle (Deluxe Edition 8. Edition)

"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

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.

Components:

• 2 Counter sheets - thicker with rounded corners
• 110 Playing Cards - 6 new cards
• Mounted 22 x 34 inch cardboard map - redesigned graphically
• 24 Page Rulebook
• 2 Player Aid Cards
• 2 six-sided dice

By Jason Matthews and Ananda Gupta