Re: Defcon: Most horrifying game ever?

On 1/7/2025 7:32 PM, Justisaur wrote:

On 1/2/2025 11:11 AM, JAB wrote:

Well something popped up on my feed about this recently and I thought yeh it's horrific. So the basic game, almost twenty years old now, is all out nuclear war but what takes it above that, at least for me, is the way it's presented. It is a strategy game but everything is quite abstract and minimalist from its Wargames (the film) graphics, to its haunting sounds and basic units of fighters, bombers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, battleships, radar units, SAM sites, airfields and of course ICBM silos which can also serve to shot down incoming nukes. No research, no resource gathering just you all get the same units to deploy as you wish.

 Sounds almost like an expanded version of the 1965 card game Nuclear War.  We used to play that back in the 80's on occasion.  Typically everyone is wiped out and loses, but I remember one time someone survived.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(card_game)
 

I used to play that.  Pretty sure I still have the cards, somewhere. Things get... strange when you have 3 decks of the original and two of each of the expansions all together.
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