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Eiserner Vorhang

Confrontation of ideologies

 

Conflict of ideologies, USA vs Ussr, NATO vs Warsaw Pact; who can convince the world of their ideology?

18 strategy cards, ten of them for the USA and eight for the Ussr, show the flag of their faction, markings for commanding influence markers, ideology bonus for control of a region and an icon for the affiliation to one of six regions - Europe, South America, Central America, Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Europe as the 10th card is the starting card placed at the beginning and equipped with one influence marker per faction.

You begin with five cards for Round I and players alternate to play four cards open-faced and orthogonally adjacent to another card already on display, if possible into it’s region; when this results in all cards of a region being placed, the region is complete and is scored for ideology points - for controlled countries and for region control. Then you command influence markers as requited - on cards with your own influence marker or on cards adjacent to such card; for the placement on an influence marker on a country dominated by the opponent you need to command two markers - or trigger events on loyal cards by discarding of ideology points. With two influence markers more than your opponent on a country, you dominate the country. The 5th card of the round is set aside face-down for aftereffects. If your marker reaches your flag on the ideology track, you win instantly, or else with most points Round II  and after a final scoring of regions and aftereffects.

As all micro games, Eiserner Vorhang is an intense, short game, featuring tactic, strategy and a clear reference to Twilight Struggle!

 

Players: 2

Age:10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Daniel Skjold Pedesen, Asger Harding Granerud

Artist: atelier198

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Frosted Games 2018

Web: www.frostedgames.de

Genre: Conflict, cards, history

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de en es

In-game text: yes

 

Comments:

Lots of tactic, bit of strategy

Minimal components

Rather rare topic

 

Compares to:

Micro Games, Twilight Struggle (topic)

 

Other editions:

Ultra Pro (en), Ludonova (es)

 

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0