Twilight Struggle Deluxe Edition 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

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. Features: - 228 Full colour counters - 22 inch x34 inch Full colour map - 103 Event cards - 2 Six-sided dice - 1 24-page rulebook - 2 Full colour player aid cards - Components (2009 deluxe edition and after) - 260 Full colour counters - 22 inch x34 inch Mounted map with revised graphics - 110 Event cards - 2 Six-sided dice - 1 24-page rulebook - 2 Full colour player aid cards - Time scale: Approximately 3-5 years per turn - Map scale: Point-to-Point system - Unit scale: influence markers - Number of players: 1 - 2