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At GMT West, an advance copy of the game belonging to Joel Toppen. This game was played many times over the weekend.

Agnes (LilyGirl) with a fantastic strategy game by Volko. New game and new red hair! :D

My private little terrorist and the war on terror

An advanced copy of the game being played, note the mounted map, the cards and the wooden cubes / cylinders.

A dice tower for Labyrinth made of LEGO bricks

Ending board position, 2-deck solitaire of 2003 scenario at basic Ideology level. US win on final card.

Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? (2010)

Players

1–2

Best: 2

Playing time

180–180 min

Age

12+

7.56

Average rating

5,235

Ratings

3.69/5

Weight

#659

BGG rank

Top 1,000

Alternate names:Labirynt: Wojna z terroryzmem 2001 – ? +2 more

Designer:Volko Ruhnke

Artist:Rodger B. MacGowan, Mark Simonitch, Volko Ruhnke, Leland Myrick, Donal Hegarty

Publisher:GMT Games +4 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy7.0

Luck6.0

Interaction4.0

Complexity7.4

Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

PoliticalWargameModern WarfareAction PointsVariable Player PowersCampaign / Battle Card DrivenHand ManagementSimulationDice RollingPoint to Point MovementArea Majority / InfluenceSolo / Solitaire GameScenario / Mission / Campaign GameAction / EventCommand CardsEventsStat Check ResolutionSudden Death EndingTug of War

Overview

2001: The “American Century” had closed with a single Cold War superpower standing and a pause in conflict that some at the time dubbed “The End of History”. It wasn’t. In the Middle East and South Asia, an Islamic revival was underway. Resentments bred in part of US support for the regions’ anti-Soviet tyrannies soon erupted into a new struggle against the West. Wealthy Saudi fanatic Usama bin Ladin issued a declaration of holy war against America in 1996 and then fired the first shots with spectacular terrorist attacks in 1998 and 2000. By 2001, al-Qaeda had set in motion even more devastating strikes — this time within the US Homeland — that Bin Ladin hoped would light off a global Muslim uprising. Uprising or not, the Western response to those September 11th attacks would reshape international affairs from London to Jakarta and from Moscow to Dar es Salaam.

Labyrinth takes players inside the Islamist jihad and the global war on terror. With broad scope, ease of play, and a never-ending variety of event combinations similar to Twilight Struggle, Labyrinth portrays not only the US efforts to counter extremists’ use of terrorist tactics but the wider ideological struggle — guerrilla warfare, regime change, democratization, and much more.

--description from publisher