Board game and method of playing

A board game in which three to seven players:

• (i) gather materials to make their own pretend nuclear weapons, (ii) establish or maintain relationships with their allies, neutralities or enemies;
• (iii) stave off pretend nuclear attacks from other players;
• and (iv) complete their randomly chosen objectives before a doom counter reaches midnight signaling an end to the game, said board game comprising:
• a. a flat world map with up to sixteen real or fictional countries, which each player adopting one of the up to sixteen real or fictional countries for their game persona;
• b. a playing card for each of the real or fictional countries on the world map, each playing card having:
• (i) a first side with information on at least:
• that country's number of pretend nuclear warheads at a start of the game;
• that country's hit points, called “will of the people”;
• and which other countries are allies and enemies of that country or neutral thereto;
• and having (ii) a second side showing how that country may continue playing after being rendered a wasteland during play after being hit by another country's pretend nuclear warhead;
• c. a set of playing cards from which players may draw on their turn, said playing cards including:
• an action card, a resource card or an objective card, each of said players electing to either:
• (i) mine for pretend nuclear resources, (ii) negotiate with other players or (iii) launch pretend nuclear warheads at another player;
• d. a counter for simulating a movable doomsday clock to encourage player negotiations around a nuclear war scenario or preventing such a war;
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• e. a plurality of infantry, tank or warship military invasion miniatures.

A method of playing a board game in which a plurality of players:

• (i) gather materials to make their own pretend nuclear warheads, (ii) establish or maintain relationships with their allies, neutralities or enemies;
• (iii) stave off pretend nuclear attacks from other players;
• and (iv) complete their randomly chosen objectives before a counter reaches midnight signaling an end to the game, said method of playing comprising:
• (a) providing a a flat world map with up to sixteen real or fictional countries, which each player adopting one of the up to sixteen real or fictional countries for their game persona;
• (b) providing each player with a plurality of Nations Tokens (face down) from which to blindly select two Nations Tokens,
• (c) letting each player see which two Nations Tokens they selected before allowing them to pick therefrom which real or fictional country they will be adopting as their game persona;
• (d) providing each player with a two-sided card for the real or fictional county they have adopted, each playing card having:
• (i) a first side with information on at least:
• that country's number of pretend nuclear warheads at a start of the game;
• that country's hit points, called “will of the people”;
• and which other countries are allies and enemies of that country or neutral thereto;
• and having (ii) a second side showing how that country may continue playing after being rendered a wasteland during play after being hit by another country's pretend nuclear warhead;
• (e) distributing to each player their starting GDP resources as set forth on their nation's two-sided card;
• (f) shuffling a deck of Doomsday Dossier cards, placing the shuffled deck adjacent a Doomsday counter clock and setting the counter clock at 11:45 for the start of the game;
• (g) shuffling a deck of objective cards, dealing four Objective cards to each player and placing a remainder of the objective cards, face down, on a designated objective card area on the flat world map;
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• (h) shuffling a deck of action cards, allowing each player to draw two action cards which do not say “PLAY NOW”, and placing a remainder of the action cards, face down, on a designated action card area on the flat world map.