LEADERS: The Combined Strategy Game
2013
A Cold War strategy game for 2–6 players, combining diplomacy, research, espionage, missions, and military conquest with a required app.
180
minutes
2 - 6
player(s)
13+
Medium
About this board game
LEADERS: The Combined Strategy Game is a Cold War strategy game for 2–6 players, with play lasting around 180 minutes. Each player strives to attain world domination through diplomacy, technological research, espionage, international missions, and military power.
The game combines classic board game elements with the possibilities offered by modern smart devices. A required video game or app supports a complex economy, involved research threads, and clandestine interactions between players.
Success depends on choosing how to develop your position and how to respond to your opponents. You can use skillful diplomacy to forge powerful alliances, research groundbreaking technologies for a decisive edge, or dispatch secret agents to obtain classified information.
- Diplomacy: Build powerful alliances with other players.
- Research: Pursue technologies that can provide a decisive advantage.
- Espionage: Send secret agents to procure classified information.
- International missions: Participate in missions on behalf of the international community.
- Military conquest: Demonstrate your military power and conquer new areas.
The smart-device integration gives LEADERS: The Combined Strategy Game room for interconnected economic, research, and clandestine systems. Espionage and sabotage create opportunities for hidden interaction, while alliances and missions add diplomatic and international dimensions to the struggle.
Designed for up to six players, this lengthy strategy experience revisits the Cold War era and challenges each participant to combine political skill, technological progress, secret operations, and military strength. The LEADERS video game/app is required for play.