Note on 8th Printing: This version of the game is identical to the previous printing, with any known errata corrected.

"Now the trumpet summons us again, not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are – but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle..."
– John F. Kennedy

Twilight Struggle is a two-player game simulating the forty-five-year dance of intrigue, prestige, and occasional flares of warfare between the Soviet Union and the United States. The entire world is the stage on which these two titans fight to make the world safe for their own ideologies and ways of life. The game begins amidst the ruins of Europe as the two new ''superpowers'' scramble over the wreckage of the Second World War and ends in 1989 when only the United States remained standing.

Twilight Struggle: Deluxe Edition includes the following changes from the basic game:

• Mounted map with revised graphics
• Two double-thick counter sheets with 260 counters
• Deck of 110 event cards (increased from 104)
• Revised rules and player-aid cards

Contents:

• 228 full-colour counters
• One Deluxe 22"x34" full-color cardboard map
• 110 Event Cards
• Two six-sided dice
• 24-page Rule book
• 2 full-colour Player Aid cards