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Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon

2023-08-17T18:17:46-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 0.00

Designer	Jason Carr Jason Matthews
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	75-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	383492/twilight-struggle-south-asian-monsoon http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/383492/twilight-struggle-south-asian-monsoon/forums/63

“I have spoken here today about India's race with Red China. We want India to win that race. We want India to be a free and thriving leader of a free and thriving Asia. But if our interest appears to be purely selfish, anti-Communist and part of the Cold War – if it appears to the Indian people that our motives are purely political – then we shall play into the hands of Communist and neutralist propagandists, cruelly distort America's image abroad, and undo much of the psychological effect that we expect from our generosity.” -- Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1959

The year is 1959. The next decade will unleash a cascading series of events that will catapult the Cold War into a new, farther-flung region of the world. Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon is the latest stand-alone two player game in the Twilight Struggle series. This game covers the era from the Tibetan Insurrection in China to the normalization of relations between the People’s Republic and the United States. It is a four turn game, longer than Twilight Struggle: Red Sea, but much shorter than a full game of Twilight Struggle.

Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon is intended to provide experienced players of Twilight Struggle with a new, more nuanced challenge. The nations represented in this game – in South Asia, the Indian Ocean and along China’s Asian periphery - are more remote and independent minded. All of the countries represented joined the Non-Aligned Movement. Unlike other parts of the globe, the United States and the Soviet Union can only project military force into the region with difficulty. In short, this is the region of the Cold War where nations felt emboldened to assert their independence and resist the bi-polar world that the superpowers had created elsewhere.

Twilight Struggle players will be asked to contend with newly independent countries, the relationship between the Non-Aligned Movement and increased tensions along the DEFCON track. The game incorporates a new system called “Engagement Actions” and players must plan with the future of China after Mao. The ability of players to master these new factors will be the key to victory in Twilight Struggle: South Asian Monsoon.

The game also highlights the history of many giants of the Cold War era that receive less attention in other parts of the Twilight Struggle system: Nehru, Mao, the Dali Lama, Zhou Enlai, Indira Gandhi, Khrushchev and more all make their presence felt in this pivotal region of the globe.

This is your chance to answer Chairman Mao’s call and “Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.”

The game will feature backward and forward compatibility. Cards from South Asian Monsoon will be usable in Twilight Struggle, and cards from Twilight Struggle will be usable in South Asian Monsoon.

-description from designer

Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa

2022-12-27T10:51:06-05:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 38.95

Designer	Jason Matthews
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	35-75 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	300192/twilight-struggle-red-sea-conflict-horn-africa http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300192/twilight-struggle-red-sea-conflict-horn-africa/forums/63

Part of GMT's Lunchtime Series, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea – Conflict in the Horn of Africa is a two-player card driven game that builds on the award winning Twilight Struggle.

The year is 1974, and the Soviet Union and the United States have been locked in a life-or-death struggle across the globe. As so often happened during the Cold War, a relatively obscure region of the globe suddenly took center stage. Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, a bedrock U.S. ally in Africa, had grown old and increasingly dictatorial. When he was overthrown in 1974, a Marxist coalition took the reins of power. This new revolutionary leadership initiated a chain of events that upset the regional balance of power and unleashed all the familiar elements of Cold War competition in the Horn of Africa.

With a more limited scope and much shorter playtime, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea is the perfect way to introduce new players to the Twilight Struggle system, while maintaining all the tension, decision making, and theme of the original classic. The cards from Twilight Struggle can be used in TS: Red Sea and vice versa.

Imperial Struggle (Second Printing)

2021-04-14T02:35:28-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 58.95

Designers	Ananda Gupta Jason Matthews
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playing Time	120-240 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2020 International Gamers Award - General Strategy Nominee
Additional Info	206480/imperial-struggle http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206480/imperial-struggle/forums/63

Note on 2nd Printing :This printing will be identical to the 1st Printing, except that all known errata will be corrected.

In 1697 the Sun King, Louis XIV, emerged from a decade of war with his Continental ambitions still unsatisfied. Meanwhile, King William III of England sat easier on his new throne than he ever had before. With the Spanish succession crisis unresolved and looming, there were no illusions that the new century would be a quiet one. But neither France nor England could have anticipated the tumult of the years to come: a Second Hundred Years' War, during which these two tenacious adversaries would compete fiercely and proudly along every axis of human achievement. On battlefields from India to Canada to the Caribbean Sea their armies and fleets would clash; in the salons of Paris and the coffee-houses of London the modern world’s politics and economics would be born; and finally a revolution would rock the foundations of society – a revolution that could have ended not in blood and terror but in a triumph of democracy and liberty that might have transformed the world beyond imagining.

Imperial Struggle is a two-player game depicting the 18th-century rivalry between France and Britain. It begins in 1697, as the two realms wait warily for the King of Spain to name an heir, and ends in 1789, when a new order brought down the Bastille. The game is not merely about war: both France and Britain must build the foundations of colonial wealth, deal with the other nations of Europe, and compete for glory across the span of human endeavor.

Imperial Struggle covers almost 100 years of history and four major wars. Yet it remains a low-complexity game, playable in a short evening. It aims to honor its spiritual ancestor, Twilight Struggle, by pushing further in the direction of simple rules and playable systems, while maintaining global scope and historical sweep in the scope of a single evening. In peace turns, players build their economic interests and alliances, and take advantage of historical events represented by Event cards. They must choose their investments wisely, but also with an eye to denying these opportunities to their opponent. In war turns, each theater can bring great rewards of conquest and prestige, but territorial gains can disappear at the treaty table. At the end of the century, will the British rule an empire on which the sun never sets? Or will France light the way for the world, as the superpower of the Sun King's dreams or the republic of Lafayette's?

—description from the publisher

Imperial Struggle (First Edition)

2020-04-22T22:26:20-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 56.95

Designers	Ananda Gupta Jason Matthews
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playing Time	120-240 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	206480/imperial-struggle http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206480/imperial-struggle/forums/63

In 1697 the Sun King, Louis XIV, emerged from a decade of war with his Continental ambitions still unsatisfied. Meanwhile, King William III of England sat easier on his new throne than he ever had before. With the Spanish succession crisis unresolved and looming, there were no illusions that the new century would be a quiet one. But neither France nor England could have anticipated the tumult of the years to come: a Second Hundred Years' War, during which these two tenacious adversaries would compete fiercely and proudly along every axis of human achievement. On battlefields from India to Canada to the Caribbean Sea their armies and fleets would clash; in the salons of Paris and the coffee-houses of London the modern world’s politics and economics would be born; and finally a revolution would rock the foundations of society – a revolution that could have ended not in blood and terror but in a triumph of democracy and liberty that might have transformed the world beyond imagining.

Imperial Struggle is a two-player game depicting the 18th-century rivalry between France and Britain. It begins in 1697, as the two realms wait warily for the King of Spain to name an heir, and ends in 1789, when a new order brought down the Bastille. The game is not merely about war: both France and Britain must build the foundations of colonial wealth, deal with the other nations of Europe, and compete for glory across the span of human endeavor.

Imperial Struggle covers almost 100 years of history and four major wars. Yet it remains a low-complexity game, playable in a short evening. It aims to honor its spiritual ancestor, Twilight Struggle, by pushing further in the direction of simple rules and playable systems, while maintaining global scope and historical sweep in the scope of a single evening. In peace turns, players build their economic interests and alliances, and take advantage of historical events represented by Event cards. They must choose their investments wisely, but also with an eye to denying these opportunities to their opponent. In war turns, each theater can bring great rewards of conquest and prestige, but territorial gains can disappear at the treaty table. At the end of the century, will the British rule an empire on which the sun never sets? Or will France light the way for the world, as the superpower of the Sun King's dreams or the republic of Lafayette's?

—description from the publisher

1989: Dawn of Freedom (2nd Printing)

2020-04-22T22:23:29-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designers	Jason Matthews Ted Torgerson
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	150 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2012 Charles S. Roberts Best Post-WW2 Era Board Wargame Nominee 2012 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee 2012 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
Additional Info	26997/1989-dawn-of-freedom http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/7406/1989-dawn-of-freedom/reviews

"History punishes those who come too late." - Mikhail Gorbachev

1989: Dawn of Freedom is an exciting, fast paced game simulating the end of the Cold War in 1989. During this amazing year, a series of democratic revolutions ended the 40 year Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. 1989 simulates the political, social and economic aspects of these revolutions using a card-driven system similar to Twilight Struggle.

"No man is so old he cannot live one more year." - Leszek Kolakowski

One player plays the Communist. At the start of the game he holds unquestioned power across the six nations of the Warsaw Pact. But there are ominous clouds on the horizon. The new leader in Moscow has declared no more will Soviet tanks prop up tottering Communist governments. The economies, after decades of central planning and stagnation, have reached various stages of crisis. Inside the churches and among the students and their professors there are dissident movements that have been emboldened. From crushing dissent to offering concessions, the Communist player will have to use a variety of strategies in a struggle to hold on to his empire.

"A bad regime is never in so great danger as when it tries to improve." - Alexis de Tocqueville

The other player plays the Democrat. At the dawn of 1989, behind the iron curtain, no one considers revolution possible. The goal of dissidents is to create a civil society outside the control of the Communist regimes. On their side are students who are fascinated with the style and pop culture of the west, and the Church. Against them is the vast apparatus of the Communist state. Their challenge is to persuade the workers, who are the bulk of society, to join their cause.

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan

1960: The Making of the President (2nd Printing)

2020-04-22T22:23:28-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 84.95

Designers	Christian Leonhard Jason Matthews
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	90-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2007 Jogo do Ano Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee 2008 Golden Geek Best Gamer's Board Game Nominee 2008 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Two-players
Additional Info	27708/1960-making-president https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27708/1960-making-president/forums/63

Identical to the 1st GMT Printing, except that any known errata will be corrected.
— note from the publisher

From the author:

"Sometimes the history of a nation can be defined by the relationship between two individuals. The Election of 1960 is the story of two men, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. One is the scion of a wealthy, politically powerful family from New England. The other is the son of a Quaker grocer in Whittier, California. While they belong to opposing political parties, they start out as friends. The complex development of that friendship, however, would shape a pivotal presidential election and cast a long shadow over American history for the remainder of the 20th century.

"In 1960: The Making of the President, you take on the role of one of these great protagonists vying for the right to lead his country into the heart of the Cold War. However, it is not just foreign policy that poses a challenge to American leadership; this is also an era of great social turmoil and progress. As the United States continues to build upon the promise of its founding, candidates must contend with the question of civil rights and balance their positions on social justice against the need for valuable Southern electoral votes. Of course, the ever-present issue of the economy also rears its ugly head, and both Nixon and Kennedy will compete to be the candidate with the voters' pocket books in mind.

"The contest is fought out on an electoral map of the United States as it stood in 1960—a map where Louisiana and Florida share the same number of electoral votes, as do California and Pennsylvania. Using a card-driven game system, all the major events which shaped the campaign are represented: Nixon’s lazy shave, President Eisenhower’s late endorsement, and the 'Catholic question' are all included as specific event cards. The famous televised debates and final election day push are each handled with their own subsystems. Candidates vie to capture each state’s electoral votes using campaign points in the four different regions of the country. At the same time, they must build momentum by dominating the issues of the day and attempt to gain control of the airwaves.

"As with any election campaign, the challenge is to adapt your game plan as the ground shifts out from under you. There are never enough resources or time to do everything, but you need to make the tough calls to propel yourself into the White House. This fast-playing strategy game for two players challenges you to run for the most powerful elective office in the world, at one of its most unique crossroads. Will you recreate history, or rewrite it? 1960: The Making of the President provides you the opportunity to do both."

Twilight Struggle: Turn Zero

2019-07-22T12:09:46-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Ananda Gupta Jason Matthews
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	180 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion for	Twilight Struggle
Additional Info	163247/twilight-struggle-turn-zero http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163247/twilight-struggle-turn-zero/forums/63

Twilight Struggle: Turn Zero is a new mini-expansion that lets players explore alternate starting situations for the two superpowers. What if Chiang's forces had held on in southern China? What if Churchill's Tories had won re-election in 1945? And what if the Western Allies had crossed the bridge too far, and reached Berlin first? These and other possibilities that alter the opening setup in Twilight Struggle are now open to players. Both seasoned veterans and new arrivals will enjoy the many new plays and dilemmas introduced here for the first time. This expansion includes the following:

One (1) Turn Zero Rules sheet

Taiwan [3] country counter
Turn marker (backside is blue and states - US First)
Defcon 1 Blocked counter
Suez Crisis - No Effect (blue) counter
Socialist Governments - No Effect Turns 1-2 (blue) counter
-2 UK Influence (blue) counter

Six (6) large Crisis cards, with new setup instructions per die roll:
Yalta and Potsdam
Chinese Civil War
1945 UK Election
Israel
VE Day
VJ Day

Ten (10) Statecraft Cards:
Soviet cards: Andropov, Khrushchev, Molotov, Beria, KGB (Dummy Card)
US cards: Kennan, Acheson, Marshall, Dulles, OSS (Dummy card)

Two (2) Modified Event Cards
Europe Scoring (Allied Berlin) - Early War
Nationalist China 2 (US) Early War

Two (2) Card Description sheets (with Optional Space Race Track instructions on reverse)
(Note: The cards described are the cards included in the Promo Deck #1 and Promo Deck #2)

Sola Fide: The Reformation

2016-10-23T08:08:00-04:00

Vendor: Stronghold Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Christian Leonhard, Jason Matthews
Publisher	Stronghold Games
Players	2
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	200834/sola-fide-reformation https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200834/sola-fide-reformation/forums/63

Despite earlier attempts, Martin Luther started the Reformation in 1517 with his "Ninety-Five Theses". Luther criticized the selling of indulgences and stated that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel. The "Protestants" soon incorporated doctrinal changes such as Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) and Sola Fide (faith alone). These changes turned out to be not only theological, but also influential in the Reformation in other ways: the rise of nationalism, the Western Schism that eroded people's faith in the Papacy, the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia, the impact of humanism, and the new learning of the Renaissance that questioned much of traditional thought. The Roman Catholic church responded with a counter-reformation initiated by the Council of Trent.

In the two-player game Sola Fide: The Reformation, by the renown design team of Jason Mathews and Christian Leonhard, players attempt to install Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire or try to prevent it, battling the Holy Roman Empire's Imperial Circles.

Founding Fathers

2013-11-13T21:50:00-05:00

Vendor: Jolly Roger Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	Christian Leonhard Jason Matthews
Publisher	Jolly Roger Games
Players	3-5
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up

Newest game from the pair that made 1960: The Making of the President. The goal here is to be the founding father with the most renown at the end of the game, which consists of the making of the US constitution.

Each round, an article of the constitution is put up for consideration, which is either a Federalist, Anti-Federalist, Big State, or Small State issue. Players have a hand of three delegate cards that represent their respective states and also have a special ability. Players may use these cards' special abilities, use the cards to vote for or against the issue under consideration, or to try and claim tokens in each of the four types of issues. When a round ends, the issue either passes, or is flipped to its opposite side (Federalist/Anti or Big/Small).

Players score points for having voted with the majority, and also for having tokens matching the issue types that are voted into the constitution.

Twilight Struggle (Deluxe Edition) (8th Printing)

2013-11-07T12:45:00-05:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designers	Ananda Gupta Jason Matthews
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	120-180 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion	Twilight Struggle: Turn Zero
Honors	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
Accessories	Meeple Realty - Twilight Bunker (compatible with TWILIGHT STRUGGLE™) Twilight Struggle - Bakelite Counters
Additional Info	12333/twilight-struggle http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/2562/twilight-struggle/reviews

On November 9th of 2009, the world marked the 20th Anniversary of the conclusion of the Cold War. That was the day that the Cold War's most tangible symbol -- the Berlin Wall -- was relegated to the ash heap of history. Unlike the 20th Century's other great conflict, the Cold War did not end in an explosion of neutrons, but rather, an explosion of human freedom and optimism. We had avoided what many thought inevitable -- the destruction of mankind through armed conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Overnight, the face of Europe had changed. Suddenly, all things were possible.

That was now 23 years ago. Sadly, we all learned that the end of the Cold War was not "the end of history." Mankind would find new ways to divide itself. While the threat of nuclear holocaust disappeared, newer and more sinister forms of conflict would take its place. Where once superpowers bestrode the globe, decentralized networks and even individuals now command the world's attention.

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. Using the card-driven game mechanics pioneered in such award winning games as We the People and Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage, 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. 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 cover a vast array of historical happenings, from the Berlin Airlift, to the Vietnam War and the U.S. peace movement, to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This Deluxe Edition of Twilight Struggle marries world-class components, with the sort of world-class game play for which GMT is already known. We cannot think of a better way to commemorate this vital piece of world history. We invite you to relieve an era with the words uttered by one of its most iconic statesmen:

"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

Note on 8th Printing: This version of the game will be identical to the previous printing, with any known errata corrected.

COMPONENTS:

228 full color counters
One Deluxe 22"x34" full-color mounted map
110 Event Cards
Two six-sided dice
2 full color Player Aid cards
Revised rules