Twilight Struggle (French)

 

"Today the bugle calls us again. This is not a call to take up arms, although we need weapons. It is not a call to battle, though we are engaged in battle, but it is a call to bear the burden of a long, twilight struggle.

 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 1961

 

 

In 1945, improbable allies defeated the Nazi beast, while the most devastating weapons of mankind brought the proud Japanese empire to its knees in a fire storm. Where there were several great powers, there are only two left. The world barely had time to catch its breath. Contrary to the titanic clashes of previous decades, it was essentially not led by soldiers and tanks, but by spies and politicians, scientists and intellectuals, artists and traitors.

Twilight Struggle is a two-player game that simulates forty-five years of intrigue, prestige, and occasional outbreaks of violence between the Soviet Union and the United States. The whole world is the theatre on which these two titans fight to bring the world into line with their own ideals and way of life. The game begins among the ruins of Europe when the two new "superpowers" clashed on the debris of World War II, and ends in 1989, when only the United States remained standing.

 

The basis of the Twilight Struggle system inherits classic Card Drivens such as We the People and Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage. It's just as fast and not complex. The Event Cards cover a wide range of historical events, from the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli conflicts in Vietnam and the US peaceful movement, to the Cuban missile crisis and other incidents of this kind that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Internal mechanisms simulate the prestigious space race as well as nuclear tensions, with the possibility that nuclear war could end the game.