2 Players (though there is a very viable solo variant available), 120 – 180 Minutes playing time, Ages 13 and up. Twilight Struggle is two-player game simulating the forty-five-year dance between the Soviet Union and the United States. Manufacturer: GMT Games. Categories: Modern Warfare, Political, and Wargame. Game Mechanics: Action/Event, Advantage Token, Area Majority / Influence, Campaign / Battle Card Driven, Dice Rolling, Events, Hand Management, Simulation, Simultaneous Action Selection, Sudden Death Ending, and Tug of War.
Twilight Struggle (Deluxe Edition). This Deluxe Edition of Twilight Struggle seeks to capture the feeling of that earlier era. 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.
Twilight Struggle recreates the conflict between the most powerful nation states the world has ever known. The scope of the game covers the entire world as it was found in 1945. Players move units and exert influence in attempts to gain allies and control for their superpower.
“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
