Twilight struggle

You need to at least play this game. If you don't want it, you should play it without a doubt: 100 %. So that's the latest retros look at Twilight

My boyfriend got the game for his birthday. We love complex games (Spirit Island and Twilight Struggle are some of our favorite), but this one seems over complicated and just too difficult to start playing if none of the players know the rules already.

I was once losing badly, and my husband played this card, so I ran round the garden arguing that if he couldn’t poke me he couldn’t score the points. In general, the best bit about twilight struggle for me is the history and realism behind each card, it’s such a well thought out game and I’m gutted that it’s fallen out of the top 10 on bgg.

My flatmate and I had our 6th game of Twilight Struggle this week. The game is so perfectly tense and thought-provoking that we end up discussing it for about an hour afterwards. The theming is also incredibly well done, I doubt the two of us will find a more perfect fit of a game for us.

It's interesting to see how low he rates some well-loved games here, including **Twilight Struggle**, **Brass**, **PR**, **El Grande**, **TI3**, and **War of the Ring**. But he does love **Dominion**, **Ra**, **Pandemic**, **T&E**, **6 Nimmt!

However, I managed to gain an alliance with the Bene Gesserit for 1 point, during my reveal I had enough persuasion to buy a "The Spice Must Flow" card for another point, and after we threw as many troops as we could into the conflict (she had an intrigue card that let her push ALL her troops in her garrison into the conflict), I managed to use two combat cards during combat which gave me enough strength to win the conflict and get the two points that gets awarded to the victor for that conflict which gave me the win. As a kind of final insult to injury, one of the combat cards I used to get me that win was one that I stole from hear ealier in the game. She had her fitbit on during the game and her heart rate rocketed up during that final round. **Twilight Struggle** (2p).