Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation
BGG rank
BGG #22,007
BGG rating
5.8

Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation

1979

Rules assistance for Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 240 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 3.1/5

Rules assistant for Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation

For 2 players

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Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation is a board game released in 1979 for 2 players, 240 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by J. Michael Hemphill and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling and Hexagon Grid.

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About the game

"A game of Nuclear Confrontation". One player plays the Soviet Union and the other the United States. Each player invests in nuclear weapons technology, world "crisis" regions, and nuclear and anti-nuclear weapons (Missiles, Bombers, SSBNs, Interceptors, and ABMs). Units are deployed on the board, leaving some vulnerable to "first strike" nuclear attacks. Crisis areas are won by allocating factors to them and causing a confrontation in which each player picks a warfare type (Tac-Nuc, Conventional, Guerrilla, Political/Social, or Economic). Players may decide to launch a direct nuclear attack on the the other player, attempting to destroy the enemy cities with missiles or bombers while defending his own with ABMs and interceptors. Victory is determined partly by how much population a player has left after a nuclear war, and partly by how much enemy population has been destroyed and/or crisis regions won.

Publishers

  • Yaquinto

Questions and answers

Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.