(en) France, Alternative Libertair #222 - Game: Struggles in the shade (fr)

Can represent an ideological conflict in a game is both historically accurate while 
leaving the elbow to players and players to diversify parties. This was attempted to 
Ananda Gupta and Jason Matthews who give us here one of the best games dealing with the 
Cold War. Wargames specialist, publisher GMT abandon its warlike theme to deliver a set of 
territorial domination without a fight. The war severely punished even as the first player 
to trigger hostilities leading to nuclear holocaust automatically loses the game. -- In 
Twilight Struggle, both players embody one of the two superpowers of the time, the United 
States and the USSR, 1945-1989. The goal: to impose its ideology and use all means to 
switch the rest of the world in your camp. But even for the two giants, it was not 
possible to deal with the whole world all the time.

A smart card system, taking historical events, forcing players to focus on certain parts 
of the world at key moments in history. If all goes well, the Warsaw Pact should take 
place before the missile crisis and Nasser before Thatcher. These events are the salt of 
the game because they put the two participants facing complex choices at almost every turn.

Rich and well documented, Twilight Struggle is a concentrate of history. It may, however, 
blamed some Anglo-centrism in the vision with historical shortcuts sometimes a little 
faster. By immersing the player in the heart of 40 years of twisted maneuvers and 
disinformation where all shots were allowed, the game designers remind us that if one 
ideology finally won, the victory was marred by too much violence to the Winners can enjoy 
long in flavor.

Nico (Paris North East)

Twilight Struggle - Jason Mathews & Ananda Gupta - ed GMT games - Play Rule EN FR 
available - approx 60 euros