Game Journal No. 56 Twilight of the Edo Shogunate

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Product Description Game Journal is a specialized journal of board simulation games by gamers for gamers.
An appendix to No. 56 is "Twilight of the Edo Shogunate : Twilight of Shogun."
The game is "Twilight of Shogun."
It depicts the battle between the supporting and anti-shogunate forces at the end of the Edo period with the famous "Twilight Struggle" system.
Each player increases the influence of his own camp on the powerful domains and powerful domains which are divided throughout the country, and by controlling each domain,
By accumulating the points acquired by the control of each region, the future course of Japan will be determined.
The game proceeds by the so-called "card-driven" system, but the characteristic point is that there are almost no units that represent troops, and
By playing cards, you can change the markers that show influence on each domain.
There are two types of event cards : "Sakoku" event in which players can play from Yamafuda, and "Kaikoku" event in which players join the deck when the game advances to "Kaikoku" stage.
Sakoku event includes "Ansei no Taigoku" and "Sakurada Kadoke no Hen" which are related to the Tairo (chief minister) Naosuke Ii who influences the movement of each domain in the first half of the game.
In "Kaikoku" event includes "Kaientai" and "Satsuma-Choshu Alliance" which depict the activities of Ryoma Sakamoto in the second half of the game.
In "Kaikoku" event includes "Kiheitai" by Fusaku Takasugi which depicts the activities of Ryoma SAKAMOTO in the second half of the game.
Further events at the end of the Edo period such as "Kanrin-Maru Navigation", "Teradaya Incident", "Hamaguri-mon Gate no Hen" and "Coup of August 18."
Can you overcome the turbulent end of the Edo period and bring a new era to Japan?
■ Game overview ■
Number of players : 2
Play time : 1-3 hours
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