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Twilight Struggle: Turn Zero

Name: Twilight Struggle: Turn Zero
Brand: GMT Games
SKU: GMT1915
Price: 18.95 CAD
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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)

Arrived Quickly

Everything arrived quickly and in good order.

Kelp: fun but a bit lopsided

My partner and I have played this a couple times from both roles and while it’s fun, it definitely feels like the odds are stacked perhaps a little too heavily against the shark. Because of this, it can be tough to convince people to play as it sort of feels like you already know who is going to win by which character you get. That said, I will still continue to play it for the challenge of trying to win with the shark…it will likely just not feature very heavily in my two player game rotation.

Tous ceux avec qui j'ai joué l'ont adoré!

Pour moi j'ai acheté les boitiers rouge et violet afin de jouer avec plus de personnes et ensuite j'ai acheté le coffret Deluxe pour l'offrir en cadeau.

Great game!

A great shedding game where you play poker hands and power cards.

Nightfall Lite but Not Nightfall 2.0

If you liked Nightfall, but thought individual creature combat was too tedious? You'll probably like this.

If you liked Nightfall but thought the game was too slow to ramp up, or too long to finish/hand out all wounds, you'll like this.

If you thought Nightfall's "Private Archive" claims ended to overpower the game based on luck of the draw, you'll like Unchained's 3x3 market grid.
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As far as deck builders go, I like Unchained. It will take awhile to really know the card power combos. The symbols look overwhelming at first, but are kind of intuitive once you're used to how the cards work. Combat is total offense vs total defense and result is one fatigue (wound). So no MTG-ish "creature 1 attacks player B and creature 2 takes 3 wounds against player C." It does speed up and simplify the game a lot. The 3x3 card market is brilliant. You can get cards you want and/or clear out cards you don't want your opponents to get. Much more variety of cards to cycle through than 8+2 archives = 10 cards to choose from per game.

Solid 4/5 all around. I'd give 5/5 if there was a happy medium in combat between Nightfall and Unchained. Not as super simplified as Unchained, but not like Nightfall's individual cards combat. Maybe a power on some cards "stays in play after combat" so there's a larger chance of different strategies than "I punch you, you punch me, repeat"

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