Gmt Games Cuba Libre Coin Series Volume 2 Game Educational Board Games

In December 1956, Paroled Rebel Fidel Castro Returned To Cuba To Launch His Revolution With Virtually No Political Base Andafter A Disastrous Initial Encounter With Government Forcesa Total Of Just 12 Men. Two Years Later, Through Masterful Propaganda And Factional Maneuver, Castro, His Brother Raul And Iconic Revolutionary Che Guevara Had United Disparate Guerrillas And Exploited Cubans Deep Opposition To Their Dictator Fulgencio Batista Y Zaldivar. Castros Takeover Of The Country Became A Model For Leftist Insurgency.  Following Up On Gmt Games Andean Abyss About Insurgency In Modern Colombia, The Next Volume In The Coin Series, Cuba Libre, Takes 1 To 4 Players Into The Cuban Revolution. Castros 26 July Movement Must Expand From Its Bases In The Sierra Maestra Mountains To Fight Its Way To Havana. Meanwhile, Anticommunist Student Groups, Urban Guerrillas And Expatriates Try To Destabilize The Batista Regime From Inside And Out, While Trying Not To Pave The Way For A New Dictatorship Under Castro. Batistas Government Must Maintain Steam To Counter The Twin Insurgency, While Managing Two Benefactors Its Fragile Us Alliance And Its Corrupting Syndicate Skim. And In The Midst Of The Turmoil, Meyer Lansky And His Syndicate Bosses Will Jockey To Keep Their Cuban Gangster Paradise Alive. Cuba Libre Provides Up To 4 Players With Contrasting Roles And Overlapping Victory Conditions For Rich Diplomatic Interaction. For 2 Or 3Player Games, Players Can Represent Alliances Of Factions, Or The Game System Can Control Nonplayer Factions . Or A Single Player As The Cuban Revolutionaries Can Attempt To Topple Batista And Seize Power For Themselves. The Nonplayer Sides Will Fight One Another As Well As The Players, But Too Much Power In The Hands Of Any One Of Them Will Mean Player Defeat.