Reply: Twilight Struggle:: General:: Re: Is this the ultimate Board Game?
by spartax You could probably get near-unanimity if you asked, "Is TS better than Monopoly?"Beyond that, good luck getting unanimity on anything. However, many people on BGG think that TS is a very...
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by Pulinskileroy43 wrote:It's my favourite game, but that would be true even if it were ranked #10 or #100 or whatever. +1Just ordered 1989 in the GMT Sale. Scratch that itch again :)
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by thdizzy You can't really define what the "best" game is because it will be something different for every player. The reason this is number one is that it appeals to a wide variety of players....
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by TGCRequiemahmedhadzi wrote:TS is not my favorite board game per se, but it is the game that I played the most. I would say that the main reason it is placed number 1 in BGG is that many people...
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by doughboyca I would have to agree with the overall sentiment that TS is a great game and one of my favourites, but it all depends on what one is after in a game. The downsides are it is only for 2...
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by Bruiser419 I missed that. Thanks for catching.
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by FuManchu I think a major factor it TS's high ranking is how well it invokes the feeling of the era.During one game, at the start of a turn I thought to myself (The Africa scoring card should be...
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by vidra I think the secret of Twilight Struggle's success is in its unadulterated awesomeness. As a result, many people are left awestruck after playing it and rate it almost invariably high (myself...
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by mkieftebestlem wrote:There is a mention albeit in a negative wayWe have working demos now of our Nightfighter game for Windows. Based on what we've learned about how long it takes to get to final...
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by bestlemmkiefte wrote:Cripes. Do you know how easy it would be to compose a fully functional, fully automated game of Nightfighter based on the VASSAL core? All it would take would be a small set of...
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Thread: Twilight Struggle:: Strategy:: Seeking some advice - shut out of the...
by ELPsteel I was playing TS for the first time in a good while the other day - I taught my friend how to play and we began, with him as USSR. I do not remember our first headline events.For USSR AR1,...
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by Ziilch I usually race in from north Africa if I get kicked out of Iran and Israel.You can also just force your way in by using 2 ops for 1 influence. It's expensive, but then it forces the USSR...
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by Rodger MacGowanTwilight Struggle – Space Race Track – 1945-1989 – GMT Games LLC
View ArticleReply: Twilight Struggle:: Strategy:: Re: Seeking some advice - shut out of...
by rubendario5 Through Algeria or Turkey. If he controls both, which I suppose is unlikely, you have some cards to help out: Sadat, Colonial rear guards and AWACS sales are some.
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by Riku Riekkinen Put one in Tu at the start
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by spartax His play could have been even nastier; if he'd headlined Arab-Israeli War (or Suez Crisis), then couped Iran on round 1, you'd be almost guaranteed to be locked out. As it was, he gave one...
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by monkeyhandzMoved from General Gaming to Twilight Struggle
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by msangryduck Yea.. When the chit values get too large we usually just remove them from the board and substitute smaller values of the same difference.. Is this not ok? :)
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by bdegrootcptwacky wrote:Someone please make Electronic Twilight Struggle so I do not have to electrocute myself making my own... This will...
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by committed hero This won a game for me as the Soviets. My headline was ABM Treaty, but US headlined Red Scare so that went first. I had a nice safe DefCon and 3 Ops used to coup Egypt ... which gave...
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