War on Terror, the board game is more relevant. All players start as empires, doing the boring work of all empires, expansion and resource grabbing. Eventually someone will go terrorist. Maybe the Finger of Suspicion on the Axis of Evil spinner lands on them, or having a couple of nukes lying around is just too tempting. Before you know it, you're sending out suicide bombers and the world has gone to hell. Included are 15 radiation counters, 2 oil dice, 47 terrorist cards, and lots 'o money in bank notes from the World Bank of Capitalism. If you play as a terrorist, you can don a fashionable balaclava with "EVIL" emblazoned across the forehead in large red letters.
The object is to domina...ahem, liberate the world. The game has upset some folks with its realism, which is not contained to donning balaclavas to imitate stereotypical terrorists. I can't say why, I've never played it (and at $50 I'm not inclined to.) Apparently it's highly satirical and way too accurate, with empires funding terrorists who then turn on them, or empires randomly declared terrorist by the Axis of Evil spinner. Or Empires saying "f*ck it" and going terrorist, then realizing they aren't doing anything differently except wearing a silly balaclava.
When Police raided a protest camp in the U.K. and seized a "weapons cache", the official photo included...you guessed it...War on Terror, the board game. Art imitates life.
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So, I guess this means you won't be bringing this to game night?
I was getting all excited until I learned that you were not going to fork out $50 and bring it to Cheryl's.
Wow. The last paragraph is almost sad. But who are we to say that terrorists can't have game night too? :D
Even sadder...the photo section has a picture of U.S. soldiers (one wearing the Balaclava of Evil) playing the game. Text from the caption:
Specialist Boken sent us this picture, taken at Patrol Base Carter in Baghdad, showing Sappers in Dirty Platoon enjoying a respite from the violent streets of Baghdad by playing 'War on Terror'. That the 'War on Terror' board game would be played by those actively involved in the 'War on Terror' is really confusing for us, but also very amusing. We can't help but wonder which version they find fits closest to reality.
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