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Gleichgewicht des Schreckens (2005)

1 - 2 persone 120 - 180 min 13+
Artisti: Viktor Csete, Rodger B. MacGowan, Chechu Nieto, Guillaume Ries, Mark Simonitch
Editori: GMT Games, Asterion Press, Bard Centrum Gier, Chrononauts Games, Devir, DiceTree Games, GaGa Games, MINDOK, PHALANX, Pixie Games, Udo Grebe Gamedesign, Wargames Club Publishing
Riconoscimenti: 2005 Charles S. Roberts Best Modern Era Boardgame Nominee, 2005 Charles S. Roberts Best Modern Era Boardgame Winner, 2005 James F. Dunnigan Award Nominee, 2005 James F. Dunnigan Award Winner, 2006 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee, 2006 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Winner, 2006 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee, 2006 Golden Geek Best Wargame Winner, 2006 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players, 2006 International Gamers Awards - Historical Simulation, 2011 Lucca Games Best Boardgame for Experts, 2012 Gra Roku Game of the Year Nominee, 2012 Ludoteca Ideale Winner
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Descrizione: "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 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.

Components (original edition):


228 full colour counters
22"x34" 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"x34" mounted map with revised graphics
110 event cards
2 six-sided dice
1 24-page rulebook
2 full colour player aid cards


TIME SCALE: approx. 3-5 years per turn
MAP SCALE: Point-to-point system
UNIT SCALE: Influence markers
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2

DESIGNER: Ananda Gupta & Jason Matthews
MAP, CARD, & COUNTER ART: Mark Simonitch


A deluxe edition, 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 103)
Revised rules and player aid cards
Revised at start setup and text change for card #98 Aldrich Ames


Upgrade kit for the owners of the previous version includes the following:

Mounted Map with revised graphics
New card decks
Updated Rules & Charts


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