Twilight Struggle

Spanning forty-five years of Cold War geopolitics from 1945 to 1989, Twilight Struggle is a landmark two-player card-driven strategy game pitting the United States against the Soviet Union across a mounted world map. Every card in your hand features both operations points—used to place influence markers, attempt realignment rolls, or stage coups that raise the DEFCON track—and a historical event from the era. The brilliant twist is that playing a card aligned with your rival superpower for its operations points still triggers their historical event.