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War on Terror - The Boardgame
You’re either with them or against them... or sometimes you’re both!

It’s got suicide bombers, political kidnaps and intercontinental war. It’s got filthy propaganda, rampant paranoia and secret treaties...

.. and the Axis of Evil is a spinner in the middle of the board. You can fight terrorism, you can fund terrorism, you can even be the terrorists. The only thing that matters is global domination - err, liberation.

Everyone starts with the best intentions. Then things start to get cramped. Then you notice your neighbour has more oil than you. Before long, war is waged, nukes are dropped, revolutions are fought and terrorists are doing your dirty work, before turning on you...

This is War on Terror, the boardgame: A quality boardgame for 2 - 6 players, lovingly illustrated and politically correct (in a very literal sense). Playing it will bring out the nastiest, greediest, darkest, most paranoid aspects of your character. It's all great family fun.

War on Terror, the boardgame is published by TerrorBull Games, a new independent UK games publishing company that tackles the nastier things in life via the medium of board games. Launched in 2006 to both widespread condemnation and praise from international media, it has been banned from Essen, Nuremberg, London and New York toy fairs with little or no explanation. But the game has found an unusually willing audience in the US military with serving GIs requesting the game in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Will the perpetrators of this game end up in the popular US holiday camp, Guantanamo Bay? Or will the game that Playboy called 'one of the most thought provoking games seen in years' be accepted here as welcome satire that highlights what many in power do not want us to say.

Namely, that the ‘War on Terror’ is just a game. And a ridiculous one at that.

Contents:
-75 x 50 cm 'World Map' Board
-'Evil' Balaclava
-Axis of Evil Spinner
-Rules of Engagement
-Card Appendix
-65 Empire Cards
-47 Terrorist Cards
-6 Reference Cards
-60 Oil Counters
-15 Radiation Counters
-300 Empire Counters
-100 Terrorist Counters
-2 Oil Dice
-1 Action Die
-Secret Message Pad
-Lots of Money

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