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Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation

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1979 · 2-2 players · 240min · weight 3.05 · 128 ratings

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ID
3677
Name
Ultimatum: A Game of Nuclear Confrontation
Year
1979
Rank
21163
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
240
Min playtime
240
Max playtime
240
Avg weight
3.05
Num weights
20
Bayes avg
5.51423
Average
5.78984
Users rated
128
Num owned
395
Wanting
15
Wishing
49
Num comments
83
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:41:41 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Dice RollingHexagon Grid
Categories (2)
Modern WarfareWargame
Description (924 chars)

"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.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.