The War on Terror |  | Brand: Terrorbull
Category: Toy
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $36.00
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Seller: ziemke4
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 39586
Fragile: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 16 x 3.5 x 10
MPN: WOTO01
Model: WOTO01
EAN: 5060121010161
ASIN: B000YQW2MY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 2-6 players, ages 14 and up, 120 minutes | | • | 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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Product Description
Enter a world of political kidnappings, suicide bombers, filthy propaganda, and intercontinental war in the War on Terror Board Game! Fight terrorism when it threatens your empire. Fund terrorism when you don't want to get your hands dirty. Fight the terrorists you just funded. You can even be the terrorists. All you need is 2-6 players and an unfaltering desire to liberate the planet! Global liberation has never been so much fun
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 11
Spin the Axis of Evil! December 23, 2007
Kevin Calman (Austin, TX USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
After having seen this game mentioned on the Web many months ago, I finally obtained a copy when a US distributor got on board. Don't listen to the hype about this game sympathizing with political Terrorists, it does so no more than Risk encourages military hegemony or Monopoly causes the real estate bubble. It plays very much like those games, and like Anti-Monopoly with the added aspect of an NPC player: the Terrorists.
In their turn, real players can support Terrorist forces to their advantage, but doing so risks a backlash as well. In addition, if real players are defeated playing as Empires of their own, they're not out of the game, they can continue by joining forces with the Terrorists. Empire players can even play both sides by supporting State terrorism, becoming an Evil Empire and donning the evil balaclava. Game conditions are influenced by Empire and Terrorist cards, representing situations from today's headlines. The rules even include templates for you to add your own cards to the game.
The game has multiple outcomes: one player's Empire can win by dominating the others, the Terrorists can defeat all the Empires giving victory to however many of the players are Terrorist, or Terrorists can be eliminated leaving World Peace and a tie for the real players.
While the game's tone and content are certainly satirical and political in nature, no particular regime is lambasted so it is accessible to all ideological persuasions and all ages 10 and up. So don't drop twice the price for the battery-gobbling "Electronic Banking" version of some perennial consumerist chestnut, invest in hours of mind-opening social interaction with your family and friends with the War On Terror!
Truth, Justice, and a Healthy Slice Of Oil-Rich Land: How WOT Can Help YOU! December 11, 2007
A. Valkanas
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The game is a well-designed product which has elements from many popular games, so picking it up is no challenge for anyone familiar with 19th Century World Domination Game, 20th Century Real Estate Robber Baron Game, Abstract German Island Game, any game involving the reading of cards, and the general concepts of lying, cheating, backstabbing, brown-nosing, bulldozing, pyromania, monomania, paranoia, politics, and pushing your superior agenda onto the rest of the world.
It can save your sanity, save your job, save your family, save your wallet, save your soul, slice, dice, mince and puree. It is great for treating obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high engine temperature, high pitched whines, low blood sugar, low tire pressue, low minimum checking, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, superthyroidism, no-thyroidism, priapism, headaches, backaches, pancakes, seasonal affective disorder, disordered thoughts, distressed muscles, distended ligaments, decomposing vermin, deep vein thrombosis, oily skin, oil fires, fiery heartburn, and sudden onset spontaneous combustion.
There are people out there who are angered by this game's content. These are obviously people who've never looked inside the box, as the material there is so blatantly satiric it's hard for me, a guy who has just the right shade of skin to freak out airport security, to find offense. Nothing in the box explicitly targets any one politician, or any country, or any form of terrorist organization. (Terrorists depicted range from turbaned men to folk in beekeeper suits to crazy white guy survivalists nutjobs to..)
This game has been out a year, and in that year I've yet to find anyone who didn't like this game. Hell, I've had Irish Catholics and Protestants around a game, making odd alliances and going terrorist together. My favorite was a mini game between several young sons of Isaac and a few followers of Mohammad, and they were laughing at each other rather than fighting.
Maybe if this game were introduced to the West Bank, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, there would be less violence and more laughter.. Then again, there are soldiers in at least Iraq and Afghanistan who actually *do* play this game.
While this game is suggested for 2-6 players, the more the merrier. (I ran a few 6-man games a month ago, and the game play was wild.)
I taught the game to new players in ten minutes flat. Easy to learn, easy to play, and you get the fun of launching the occasional nuke and deploying WMDs against your enemies.
War has never been so much fun! December 11, 2007
Mr. S. A. POTZ-RAYNER (Hampshire, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Be a superpower! Be a terrorist! Start as one, become the other! Wear an itchy balaclava with EVIL written on it! Laugh a lot!
This game's great. Essentially, it's sort of like Risk - but not - with a bit of Cluedo thrown in - but not - and there's all sorts of other stuff going on as well. There's something like Monopoly money in there - but not - and the whole thing is laced with the joys - or not - of global terrorism! It's all about the oil when it boils down, because that's what makes the SUVs of the world go round, interspersed with the concepts of Empire, the Axis of Evil, and the amalgam of the two, the Evil Empire. There's even the option of World Peace.....whatever will they think of next?
In brief: a good fun board game for adults with an IQ above room temperature. Recommended.
The best way to spend Boxing Day (and many other days off) December 28, 2007
Jacqueline Van Oosterwijk (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We now play the War on Terror about a year (we had one of the first certified editions) and it's fun, thought provoking and very entertaining. We spent boxing day playing it with our best friends and their children. One of them is not even close to 13 years, but the parents believed there was NO HARM at all in giving some balance against the all surrounding propaganda. And we cannot do anything but agree.
Fun game of death and destruction September 6, 2008
T. S. Rockwell (Prison City, USA)
This game is awesome. It plays as easily as Frisk and Monotony with a dose of irreverent humor. If the name of the game or cover of the box doesnt entice you chances are the whole concept is lost on you and prolly over your head anyways.
I found the game incredibly ironic. I can easily imagine a board room filled with the worlds movers n' shakers, with their lap dogs, puppets, and yes-men in tow, treating the fate of the world like it was a high-stakes board game. hey kinda sounds like the Bildeberg Group.....
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