Twilight Struggle

In 1945, unlikely allies brought down Hitler's war machine, while humanity's most devastating weapons forced the Japanese Empire to its knees in a firestorm. Where once there were many great powers, there were only two. The world had scant months to sigh its collective relief before a new conflict threatened. Unlike the titanic struggles of previous decades, this conflict would not be fought primarily by soldiers and tanks, but by spies and politicians, scientists and intellectuals, artists and traitors. MY GAME is a two-player game that simulates the dance of forty-five years of intrigue, prestige and occasional outbreaks of war 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" struggle amidst the wreckage of World War II, and ends in 1989, when only the United States remained standing.MYGAME inherits its fundamental systems from the card classics "We the People" and "Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage". It is a fast-paced, low-complexity game in that tradition. The game map is a period world map, on which players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain allies and control for their superpower. As in GMT's other card games, decision making is a challenge; how best to use one's cards and units if resources are always limited...MYGAME Event cards add detail and flavor to the game. They cover a wide range of historical events, from the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli conflicts, to Vietnam and the U.S. peace movement, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and similar incidents that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Subsystems capture the prestigious space race as well as nuclear tensions, with the possibility of end-game nuclear war.